Government Agency Votes to End Net Neutrality Rule A government commission has voted to end the internet policy known as net neutrality. 美国政府一家委员会投票废除了被称之为网络中立的互联网政策。 The Federal Communication

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

阿拉伯裔美国人积极参加投票 Arab-Americans make up roughly 0.5 percent of voters who will cast a ballot in the November general election in the United States. Influence is growing in Dearborn, Michigan - home to the largest Arab-American

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2012年9月

以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

ballot, ['blət] n/v 投票,抽签 【例】I balloted for him 我投他的票。 secret ballot 无记名投票 【记】ball球,lot多-好多球儿。大家见过世界杯分组抽签吗?把每个队的名字分别放在球里,再进行抽签

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 不择手段背单词

Hi, everybody.The right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of any democracy.Yet for too long, too many of our fellow citizens were denied that right, simply because of the color of their skin. 大家好!投票权是任何民主制度中最

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Harvard Faculty Votes to Censure University President 哈佛大学全体教员投票责难校长 Several months since Harvard University President Lawrence Summers made a remark he would deeply regret

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--文化教育动态

1. How does the election work? 1. 大选是怎样运作的? Britain's parliament has 650 members. Any party that wins an outright majority of 326 or more seats can form a government. 英国国会有650名成员.任何党派只要获得不少于326个席

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Vote 投票 Voting is a way of expressing a person's voice. 投票是表达人们心声的一种方式。 In democratic countries, important things are decided by people's votes. 在民主制国家里,重要的事情是由人们投票决定的。 I

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第4册

AS IT IS 2015-05-14 Free Trade Deal Fails in US Senate Test Vote 美国参议院就自由贸易协议测试投票失败 A proposed 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal has failed in its first major test in the United States Congress. The Senate voted Tue

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AS IT IS 2016-08-05 Can Hackers Break into U.S. Voting Machines? 美国投票机遭黑客入侵? Recent attacks on American computer systems have raised concerns that electronic voting machines could be future targets. 最近对美国计算机系统的

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AS IT IS 2016-09-19 Californians to Vote on Ending Death Penalty 加州将投票是否废除死刑 Californians will vote in November on whether to stop using execution as a form of punishment, or reform the legal process leading up to the death sent

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A senior military officer in Zimbabwe is quoted as calling on the country's troops to vote for President Robert Mugabe in the upcoming presidential runoff election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. With voting due to take place in less tha

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年6月

今天我们要学的词是straw poll。 Straw poll, 是指决定民意或参选人实力的非正式投票。美国保守派政治行动大会上周末在华盛顿举行。 Texas Congressman Ron Paul won the Presidential straw poll for the second ti

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

In Miami, we've commissioned and artist, a young artist named Atomico, 在迈阿密,我们委托一个艺术家,年轻的艺术家阿托米卡, to create some vivid and vibrant images for a new series of I voted stickers. 去创作栩栩如生的

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Imagine where this country would be if all the folks who in 2010 created the Tea Party had decided that, 想象一下这个国家将会怎样,如果所有2010年创建茶党的人 you know, politics is too messy, voting is too complicated. 认为政治

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It's no accident that democracy and theater emerged around the same time in ancient Athens. 无怪乎民主和剧院同时出现于古代雅典。 Both of them yank the individual out of the enclosure of her private self. 民主和戏剧都把个体从

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The Joy of Voting project isn't just about joy. It's about this passion. 选举的快乐项目并不只是关于快乐。这是激情。 It's about feeling and belief, and it isn't just our organization's work. 也是感受和信仰,不是只有我们

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Why bother? The game is rigged. My vote won't count. 为什么非要投票呢?选举被操纵了。我那一票不起作用。 The choices are terrible. Voting is for suckers. 选举的结果很糟糕。选举都是骗人的。 Perhaps you've thoug

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Her boyfriend Orlando Bloom recently attracted headlines when he was photographed paddle boarding in the nude during the couple's summer getaway. 近日,奥兰多?布鲁姆在和女友凯蒂?佩里夏日度假时被拍到光着身子划船,一度成

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Voting habits 投票习惯 Movers and voters 搬家与选票 Why moving house makes people more right-wing 为何搬家会让人更右翼 DO PEOPLE move to Conservative bastions in shires and small-town England because they tend to vote Tory? Or do t

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