The British pound's value reached its highest point against the US dollar in 26 years. On Tuesday, the pound was worth two United States dollars for the first time since 1992, and the dollar later slipped to its lowest point against the pound since

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语基础

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. More than half the teachers in the Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas, have earned merit pay awards this year. Marjorie Hunt-Bluford is one of them. The idea seems reasonable.

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(九)月

This is AP News Minute. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are expected back on the job on Tuesday with the government open for business. Republicans promised democrats that the Senate will soon address the plight of young immigrant DACA recipi

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(一)月

我的一个朋友正在参加社区代表的选举。过去几个月来,为了帮他拉选票,我贡献了不少自己的时间,给选民打电话,还要登门拜访,分发资料。离投票的日子越近,我就越忙。形容目前的选

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

The introduction from half way around the world,awesome! Thank you to those students , thanks for all af you who spend part of your thesday with CNN student news. First up today is the annual april deadline for america to fire their taxes.All right,h

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unit 182 不伦之恋 dialogue 英语情景对话 A:I know I'm a blabbermouth, but what do you think she Should do, John? A:我也知道自己是大嘴巴。但约翰,你觉得她应该怎么做呢? B: Honey, we're in the museum now. We're not he

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(207) / 评论(0) 分类 高频英语口语对话

模仿文本:Now the life of Aaron Swartz was short, brilliant and collaborative, having co-authored the RSS feed, a popular way of sharing online content at the age of just 14. He went on to become the co-owner of the social news website Reddit be

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

This is AP news minute. 1. At least 4 marines are dead after a gunman attacked 2 military facilities in Tennessee. The suspect identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was also killed. Officials are investigating a possible motive. 2. A

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(七)月

15. Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government's Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time-consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases. 【分析】并

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

I wonder what will happen to the postal service. When I was young, I used the post office a lot. I went to the post office every week to buy stamps and send letters. I got excited every morning when the postman came. There was usually one letter for

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【模仿句子】 But first the federal police in Brazil have arrested ten people suspected of preparing possible acts of terrorism during the Rio Olympics which start in just over two weeks. 概况:巴西司法部长亚历山大莫拉埃斯宣布,

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I wonder what will happen to the postal service. When I was young, I used the post office a lot. I went to the post office every week to buy stamps and send letters. I got excited every morning when the postman came. There was usually one letter for

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今天我们要学的词是avert。 Avert, 是避免的意思。西班牙机场工作人员威胁说,如果跟政府无法达成协议,就要在复活节期间举行罢工。不过, AENA's director said he was confident that a deal to avert the

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今天我们要学的词是 overheat. Overheat 动词,过热。New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley is worried new tax cuts could risk overheating the U.S. economy in the next few years. 纽约联储行长杜德利担心,新的减税政

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JEFFREY BROWN:And we return to the battle over emergency contraception, the so-called morning after pill. It's been more than a decade since the pill was first approved by the FDA, but legal and political controversy has swirled ever since. In 2011,

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈健康系列

GWEN IFILL:Next tonight: the debate over the role of the federal government. The issue was a central focus of last year's presidential campaign, and it is at the heart of a new book by Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general and a candidate for g

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈娱乐系列

今天我们要学的词是oversight。 Oversight, 有监督的意思。美国地铁最近事故频发。Unlike airplanes and highways, the subway system is not under federal oversight, 跟飞机和高速公路不同的是,地铁不受联邦政府监

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

据国外媒体报道,美国总统奥巴马于4月11日造访了Facebook位于加州帕洛阿尔托(Palo Alto)的总部,并主持召开了一次市政会议,就美国经济、创新和联邦政府预算赤字等问题发表了讲话。

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 名人演讲视频

今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语里都是以sit这个字作为关键的字。我们现在先来讲第一个习惯用语。Sitting pretty. 大家都知道,sit是一个动词,意思就是坐下。Sitting就是 to sit这个动词的现在进行

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天学的词组是block。Block有障碍物的意思。比如road block -- 路障,Police put up a road block to stop the demonstrators, 警察为阻止抗议者设置了路障。作为动词,block也有阻塞,拦阻的意思。比如施工造成

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 学个词