The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted yesterday to relax the government's rules concerning net neutrality. The vote was 3-2, with three Republicans voting to repeal the rules and two Democrats voting to keep them in place. The repeal won't

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月

1. The military's 18-year ban on homosexual serving openly is over. The policy known as Don't ask, Don't tell was officially repealed at midnight. Gay rights groups are planning celebrations throughout the country today. 2. An explosion in Turkey's c

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(九月)

必背句型: A:Was a law amended or repealed easily? 法律能轻易地被修改或废除吗? B:A law should be amended or repealed only by the same procedures that were used to enact it. 法律只有经与其颁布程序同样的程序,方能被修

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语就该这么说

AZUZ: In the U.S. Capitol on Friday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, quote, We are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future. A Republican plan to repeal and replace the law didn't look like it was going to get enough votes in the Ho

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年4月

AZUZ: OK. Next this Wednesday, a change in the U.S. government's immigration policy. Yesterday, President Donald Trump repealed a program created by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. It's known as DACA. And in the five years since it wa

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年9月

迷你对话: A:It is difficult for old people todo away withold ideas. 要老人们根除他们的观念是很难的。 B:She the reform cannot be carried out well. 所以改革进行得不顺利。 A:The government is making efforts to change sit

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 迷你对话学地道口语

今天我们要学的词组是overturn。 Overturn有推翻、废除的意思。美国最高法院推翻了俄勒冈州法院的一项判决, The Supreme Court overturned a nearly $80 million verdict. 地方法院判决Philip Morris烟草公司向吸

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

What will become of Barack Obamas health reforms? 奥巴马的医疗改革会带来什么? WHEN Barack Obama signed a sweeping set of health reforms into law on March 23rd 2010, he knew it was a historic momentand not just because Joe Biden, the vi

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

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发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 高中英语人教版高二

1. Aides say President Barack Obama was directly involved in discussions on how to respond to a California judge's ruling that the don't ask, don't tell policy is unconstitutional. The president has long opposed the policy but says he wants Congress

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(329) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(十月)

托福写作中涉及到很多词汇的使用,任何情况下词汇是至关重要的,那么这些经常用到的词汇,你现在完全了解了吗?经常写作,经常修改,不断地改善自己的写作水平,注意写作中不仅仅是词

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

An Obama-era regulation that tightened gun checks on mentally-ill buyers has been blocked by the US Senate and could be signed into law by the White House. 奥巴马控枪法案中检查购枪者精神疾病的这一法规已于日前被美国参议院

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

JUDY WOODRUFF: Just days ago, the EPA's new administrator, Scott Pruitt, promised an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations that had been put in place by former President Obama. The future, he said, ain't what it used to be. President Trump

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

JUDY WOODRUFF:And we return to today's Supreme Court arguments involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act with a debate of our own. Supporting the law is Ken Klukowski. He's the director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research C

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

美国参议院确认新的国土安全部长 WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Monday voted to confirm Jeh Johnson, a former top Pentagon lawyer, to be the secretary of homeland security. Johnson was approved by a vote of 78 to 16 to su

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A CPPCC member denounced on March 6 a proposal to remove English from China's college entrance exam, stressing the benefits of studying English for students who live in an increasingly open world. 3月6日,一名政协委员对废除高考英语的提

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

When a pod of dolphins swam up a river near Falmouth in Cornwall on Monday, it became one of the worst cases of mass stranding in the U.K. It's thought something may have panicked them into their fatal journey. Having first denied it, the Ministry of

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

The paper suggests that when capital punishment was an option, juries were often reluctant to convict at all. 文章表明,当罪犯有可能判死罪时,陪审团通常根本不愿意做出定罪裁决。 They may have felt it was a little rum t

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Britain 英国 The Death Penalty: Tough love 死刑:严厉的爱 Juries acquit if sentences are harsh. 陪审团宣判是否裁决过于严厉。 Though no one has been executed in Britain for over 50 years, until 1998 someone convicted of high tre

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

虚拟语气的一些例句 1. He ordered that all the books should be sent at once. 2. We propose that somebody neutral take the chair. 3. The doctor insisted that he should not eat meat. 4. We were faced with the demand that this tax should be abol

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语