On average, every hour of every day more than 40 people drown around the world. Thats 372,000 fatalities annually. Drownings are one of the top 10 killers of kids and young adults, with the highest rate of drowning deaths among children under five ye

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

US Will Add 15,000 Temporary Work Visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will make an additional 15,000 H-2B visas available for American companies to hire low-wage foreign workers. In a written statement on Monday, DHS Secretary John Kelly

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2005年全球760万人死于癌症,世界卫生组织周五的会议上呼吁,如果不采取有效措施,这个人类的头号杀手在未来10年内,还要至少夺取8400万人的生命……

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AS IT IS 2015-11-16 Beer Poses as Soda to Get into Saudi Arabia 男子将近5万听啤酒伪装成可乐企图运进沙特 It seemed like a routine transport of soft drinks: 48,000 cans of Pepsi cola. 运送48,000罐百事可乐软饮料,这看起来

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AS IT IS 2016-09-11 Fifteen Million Americans Work for Themselves 1500万美国人自主工作 About 15 million people in the United States work for themselves. That finding comes from the Pew Research Center, a not-for-profit research group. The cen

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AS IT IS 2016-03-17 Brazilians Demand President's Ouster 300万巴西人要求总统下台 Brazilian police said 3 million people protested Sunday, asking for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff. 巴西警方表示,13日有3百万名民众游行示

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美国7月份增2.15万就业岗位 Yet more signs of an improving job market. The U.S. Labor Department says employers added 215,000 jobs last month. Thats the third consecutive month of job gains above 200,000 following weaker than expected job gro

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BBC News. Hillary Clinton has made an early exit from a ceremony in New York marking the 9.11 attacks, after feeling unwell. Footage posted on the Internet shows her buckling as she's helped into a car. A short time later, the Democratic Party's pres

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A 17-year-old student attending the Wuhan Britain-China School, has been accepted to study at the prestigious New York University, Abu Dhabi, regarded as one of the most selective undergraduate universities in the world. 武外英中一名17岁的女生

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欧洲青少年的体重在过去15年里一直呈不断增加的趋势。目前,专家们将注意力集中在了由肥胖而引起的大量健康问题。 Around half a million children in Europe are suffering classic health problems of the middl

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Struggling under the weight of packed bags from luxury stores including Prada and Louis Vuitton, Amy Jiang pauses for breath. Theglittering mall is doing a brisk trade, with queues thronging the popular shops and the most sought-after fashion items s

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A stunning 1960s home that has more windows than walls has been put on the market for ?1.4million. 英国一幢上世纪60年代建造的豪宅挂牌出售,要价140万英镑(近1300万人民币)。这幢豪宅的特别之处在于,建筑表面

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Millions of Gmail users are being advised to change their passwords after a database with usernames and passwords was hacked and exposed on an internet site. 谷歌邮箱遭黑客攻击,上百万谷歌账户的用户名和密码被泄露。目前谷歌

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An employee in the public relations department at Tencent Holdings, operator of a live-broadcast app through which a man received online payments of more than 250,000 yuan ($36,400) from a 13-year-old girl for his singing talent, said the girl might

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讲解 TODAYs key word is Terrifying Terrifying 吓人的,恐怖的 If something is terrifying, it makes you very frightened(害怕的). Here is an example. What a terrifying experience! 多么可怕的经历啊! 今天我们就来探索一个恐怖

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Furthermore, this native boatman claimed that during a stay in Vanikoro six years earlier, 这个印第安人又说,六年前,他在万尼科罗岛住下来的时候,曾看见过两个欧洲人, he had seen two Europeans belonging to ships th

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While cruising along only a few cable lengths from the underpinning of Reao Island, I marveled at the gigantic piece of work accomplished by these microscopic laborers. 沿着克列蒙端尼岛的悬崖仅仅走了几百米,我对于这些微生物中

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When the Nautilus returned to the surface of the ocean, I could take in Reao Island over its whole flat, wooded expanse. 当诺第留斯号回到海面上来的时候,我可以望见这个低洼的和多树的克列蒙瑞尼岛发展的全部过程。

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That day it was yuletide, and it struck me that Ned Land badly missed celebrating Christmas, 这一天是圣诞节,尼德兰似乎很后悔不能过节, that genuine family holiday where Protestants are such zealots. 因为圣诞节是基督教徒所

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Questioning the natives, Captain Dumont d'Urville also learned that after La Perouse's two ships had miscarried on the island's reefs, 杜蒙?居维尔详细询问土人,知道拉?白鲁斯在岛附近暗礁上损失了他的两只船后,又造了一

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