AS IT IS 2016-01-27 US Communities Clean Up After Major Snow Storm 美国社区清理暴风雪 Clean-up efforts continue in the eastern United States after a major winter storm left recording-setting snowfall and coastal flooding. But more than 2 ? d

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The North Pacific gyre is our next stop. It`s a giant clockwise rotating current between Asia and North America, and it`s home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This has been characterized as an ocean of plastic. It`s the largest accumulation of ga

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Americas most expensive home is for sale in Los Angeles, California for $250 million. The new 12,000-square-meter home has 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms. The home also has three kitchens, a 25-meter swimming pool, a 40-seat movie theater, spa and bowl

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College presidents on average earn $377,261 annually, or more than twice the average pay for CEOs, who take home about $176,840 on average each year, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. 根据克利夫兰联邦储备银

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All four of the leading men from The Big Bang Theory are the highest-paid actors on television in 2016. 2016年,《生活大爆炸》的四位男主都荣登电视剧演员收入榜。 Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon in the hit series, comes out in

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AS IT IS 2015-06-09 Idea to Reduce Wildlife Trafficking Can Win $500,000 50万美元征集减少偷猎野生动物建议 The U.S. Agency for International Development is launching a competition to fight wildlife poaching and trafficking. USAID is ask

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FPA will be good enough. 平安险就可以了。 There are not delicate goods that can be damaged on the voyage. So? 船上没有精密的货物,不会在航海时受损。 所以怎样? FPA will be good enough. 平安险就可以了。 Please i

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今天我们要学的词是 cleanup. Cleanup名词,意思是清理。The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 21 sites that need immediate and intense cleanup. 美国环境保护署公布了一份名单,名单上的21个地点需要立

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While Alibaba's Jack Ma is one of the most admired entrepreneurs in China and numbers among the richest men in the world, not many think of him when it comes to art. 虽然阿里巴巴的马云是中国最受推崇的企业家,也是世界上最富有

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called upon the country's best and brightest to make more breakthroughs in science and technology, with billions of yuan being pumped into higher education. 中国国家主席习近平号召中国最杰出的优秀人才

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Hilcorp, a private oil and natural gas exploration and production company based in Texas, is in the news for its uNPRecedented generosity towards employees. To celebrate an excellent year, CEO Jeff Hildebrand gave the entire company staff huge bonuse

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The low-key Dougan is being paid $17.9 million for his work in 2009, a reward for returning the company to profitability. That makes him the world's second-highest paid banker this year, according to Deal Journal's calculations. The world's biggest b

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Never underestimate the true value of a handful of pocket change. 永远不要小看一把零钱的价值。 Rick Snyder, a 69-year-old resident of Manatee County, Florida, refused to sit still after he retired. Instead, he tended to one of his passi

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Chinese businessman Li Sheng is looking for a $900,000, four-bedroom home in Australia, where he hopes his two children will someday attend college. At this point, neither child has finished grade school -- one is still in diapers -- but Mr. Li hopes

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Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei last Saturday launched an Innovation and Experience (Iamp;E) center in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub with an investment of six million US dollars. 中国电信设备巨头华为上周六在尼日利亚的经济中

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Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies. 中国警方近日破获了一起非法鉴定胎儿性别的大案,逮捕了和该犯罪网络有关的75名犯罪嫌

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Berlin police said thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum and made off with a massive 100 kg gold coin worth millions. 德国首都柏林的警方日前表示,窃贼闯入了该市的博德博物馆,偷走了一枚重达100公斤、价

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Perot to the Rescue 救星佩罗 In late 1986 Jobs sent out a proposal to venture capital firms offering a 10% stake in NeXT for $3 million. 1986年底,乔布斯向风投公司发出了招股说明书,300万美元可购买NeXT公司10%的股份。

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A small town in rural South Dakota is now for sale at $400,000. 南达科他州边远的一座小镇现挂牌出售,标价40万美元。 The unincorporated hamlet called Swett comes with a bar, workshop, three trailers and single house all on 6.16

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Donald Trumps presidential campaign said it and the Republican National Committee had generated a bumper $64m in donations in July despite deepening controversy over the billionaire candidates conduct. 唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的竞选团队表

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