2017: A Year Marked by Disaster, Violence The year 2017 has been a good year for bad news. Media personality Marian Salzman called it a year of disruption, despair and dumpster fires. In other words, it has been a difficult year, marked by violence,

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(350) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

A Mix of Politics and Music at the Grammys This is What's Trending today... 这里是今日热点节目。 Politics co-starred with music at the 60th Grammy awards Sunday night in New York City. 周日晚间在纽约市举行的格莱美颁奖典礼上

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(一)月

The spread of violent extremism and terrorism pose significant challenges to Africa's security, long-term development goals, and democratic gains, said U.S Ambassador to the African Union Mary Beth Leonard. These threats to the global community, she

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Oren Yakobovich说,眼见为实。这也是他为什么会协助普通民众,用隐形摄像机来记录暴力行径、政治欺诈、职权滥用。他的机构 Videre 致力于从暗中证实和公开报道那些不为世人所知的反人权行为

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:贫穷至进步

选举 election 投票 cast a ballot 计票 count of votes 投票日 polling day 投票箱 ballot box 选举程序electoral procedures 选举大会 election meeting / electoral meeting 选举规则 election regulation 选民voter / elector 初选prim

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

精神家暴是指在家庭生活中区别于肢体暴力、性暴力的另一种家庭暴力,又称冷暴力,它因其隐蔽性和不可捉摸性往往被人们所忽视。精神家暴是家庭暴力的首位。据有关部门统计,精神暴力

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216. The Spanish Treaty of 1795. 216.与西班牙的协定(1795年) France and Great Britain were not the only countries with which there was trouble. 法国和大不列颠并不是仅有的两个与美国纠葛的国家。 The Spaniards held p

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生历史

JEFFREY BROWN:Tonight, a special PBS broadcast called After Newtown begins a national dialogue about the issues raised by that tragedy. Gwen Ifill will host this evening's collaboration of our national news and science programs. Yesterday, she sat do

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CARs Chaos Spawns Sectarian Bloodletting 混乱和暴力充斥着中非共和国 BOSSANGOA, CAR Chaos and violence have gripped the Central African Republic since March when a coup by Muslim rebels and former mercenaries installed the country's first

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Thousands of scientists have taken part in demonstrations around the world in protest against what they see as a global political assault on facts. 来自世界各地的数千名科学家都加入了一场示威游行,来抗议他们所看到的全球

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The man who stood up for a weeping mother-of-two after an American Airlines employee hit her in the head with a metal stroller while yanking it out of her hands has been identified. 一名美国航空公司的职员从一位两个孩子的母亲手里拽

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise. 但是他选择了拥抱自己的敌人,同时迫使他所在的政党去妥协 And Trudeau pushed everyone to stop thinking in tribal terms 特鲁多促使大家

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

GWEN IFILL:The Taliban carried out a brazen attack today against a military base in Southern Afghanistan. Using a truck bomb, gunmen stormed the complex and killed an American soldier. That followed an assault Friday that targeted a restaurant freque

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Philippine Political Crisis Continues 菲律宾政治危机仍在继续 Pressure continued to mount Monday for Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign over allegations of vote-rigging i

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the Syrian government and opposition should take the Geneva Two peace talks as an opportunity to start political reconciliation. The comments came after Wang Yi carried out separate meetings with represe

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German politics 德国政治 For curvy cannons and extra sleep 为了更短的枪炮和额外的睡眠 The election of a satirical party to the European Parliament speaks volumes 一个讽刺党派为了进入欧盟议会进行选举是很有意义的

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

German politics 德国政治 The Alternative's astonishing ascent 新选项党的崛起 As the large centrist parties become more alike, the radical fringe gets stronger 大部分中立派议员趋同,激进派边缘增强 SINCE reunification in 19

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As the election count was under way on Tuesday night, I visited the two places in New York where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump planned to hold their victory parties. 周二晚上美国大选还在计票时,我在纽约市走访了两个地方,就

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

心理学家 Jonathan Haidt 研究构成我们政治选择的五种道德基础。无论我们是左派、右派还是持平。在令人大开眼界的谈话中,告诉我们自由主义和保守主义在道德上的偏好。

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New York politics 纽约政治 Tarnished Silver 褪去光环的西尔弗 A prosecutor takes on New York state's culture of corruption 一个检查官呈现出纽约腐败文化 The six-million-dollar-man 拥有六百万美元的男人 CORRUPTION'S su

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