Italy's top court has upheld a jail sentence against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud. The Italian Supreme Court confirmed a four-year jail term and ordered a new appeal trial for a related ban on public office. Because of a 2006

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Patrons can view porn on library computers in New York City. Porn is allowed because it's an expression of free speech. The libraries cannot ban porn. That's so disgusting! said Emily, 74. They say it's 'free speech.' But there should be limits to fr

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Why is the news always so depressing? Every time I look at the news, I get sad. Its always war, death, killing, famine. Why cant news stations report happy news? They really dont have to bring us such terrible stories. I looked at the news last night

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Leadership is a word we hear a lot nowadays. Every time we turn on the news we hear about how important leadership is. Especially strong leadership. American presidents often talk about the importance of leadership. I suppose theyre right. Its import

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我们总是听闻非洲的一些负面新闻,如饥荒,疾病,冲突和贪污。但恩戈奇说,非洲国家也有另外一些事情正在发生,这些事很少被人提及,比如非洲的改革和经济增长,非洲的商机。

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:贫穷至进步

1.Authorities investigating the disappearance of Yale University student Annie Le say they seize potential evidence from the building where she was last seen Tuesday. They say they haven't determined yet if the evidence is associated with the missin

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月

This is AP news minute. 1. An Iranian researcher is headed to New York JFK airport Sunday, hours after an appeals court blocked the attempt to impose the U.S travel ban. Nima Enayati received the visa to conduct research at Stanford university but wa

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What quote illustrates some excellent advice your father or grandfather gave you? 你的爸爸或爷爷曾引用过哪些话给过你很棒的建议? 获得2.6k好评的回答@Diane Meriwether Some money is too expensive. 有些金钱的代价太过昂

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Money makes the world go round. I wonder if this famous English expression is very true. If you have money, the world goes round very gently and you are happy. If you dont have money, the world might not go round so smoothly. They also say that money

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is an interesting saying. Its very true. If you look at the world leaders with the most power, they are the most corrupt. When someone has so much power, they want more. Maybe power is like

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今天我们要学的词是broker。 Broker, 做为动词,是中介促成的意思。前埃及部长级官员因为涉嫌腐败而接受审判。 A former Egyptian housing minister was involved in a corrupt land deal which was allegedly brokered by

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China 中国Off the rails? 出轨了? High-speed trains might be forced to go a little more slowly 高铁或许会被迫放慢速度 CHINAs high-speed rail network is probably the worlds most ambitious public-works project, a 21st-century equivalen

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今天我们要学的词是downfall。 Downfall, 是垮台的意思。伊利诺伊州州长布拉戈耶维奇被捕。 Although shocking, Blagojevich's downfall is not all that surprising, 尽管很突然,但是布拉戈耶维奇的垮台并不完全

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要学的词是corrupt。 Corrupt, 是腐败、堕落的意思。A corrupt official, 是一名腐败官员。A corrupt regime, 是一个腐败的政体。 你知道世界上最腐败的国家是哪些吗?Burma and Somalia were ranked th

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BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top auditor said on Wednesday that 2.96 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) earmarked for affordable housing programs was intercepted or embezzled last year. The report was based on auditing in 66 cities and c

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是throes。 Throes, 意思是阵痛、动荡。 Greece is in the throes of an economic recession, 希腊目前正处于痛苦的经济衰退期。 The book is about a couple who went through the throes of a messy divorce, 这本

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KIEV, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- A Ukrainian court in the eastern city of Kharkiv adjourned the tax evasion and embezzlement trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for the 11th time Friday after she refused to attend court due to poor health. Judge

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

模仿句子 There's a political crisis with a corruption scandal that's been growing ever wider; there's an economic downturn; and there's the serious health problem with hundreds of babies born with abnormally small brains and thousands more cases

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模仿文本: So how can CEOs of multinational companies tackle such challenges afflicting the Indian market? With a population of more than 1.2 billion people, it is a mighty market indeed. But reports of slowing growth, corruption and political u

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Police and Communities Few institutions are more important to an urban community than its police, yet there are few subjects historians know so little about. Most of the early academic interests developed among political scientists and sociologists,

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