今天我们要学的词是freeze。 Freeze, 是冻结的意思。英国首相布朗星期一宣布, Britain will freeze assets of Iran's largest bank to discourage the country from developing nuclear weapons, 为了阻止伊朗发展核武器,英国

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

1. Surveillance photos were released from the mall in Omaha, Nebraska where a 19-year-old killed 8 people before taking his own life. The pictures show Robert Hawkins with his gun at the ready, walking through a department store. Police say the shoo

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This is AP News Minute. The Iraq war veteran accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding six at a crowded Florida airport baggage claim appeared in court on Monday morning. 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, Anchorage, Alaska, faces airport viole

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1. President Barack Obama is praising Health-Care workers battling Ebola in Africa. Doctor Kent Brantly who was infected while working in Liberia was among those Obama recognized Wednesday at White House. Obama says he doesn't want such workers to di

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AS IT IS 2014-09-14 Israel Accused of Forcing Asylum Seekers Back to Africa 人权组织指责以色列强迫数千寻求庇护者返乡 An international human rights group has accused Israels government of forcing thousands of African asylum seekers

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By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee 29 June 2006 As Sri Lanka threatens to slide back into all-out civil war, much talk is focused on paramilitaries - armed groups accused of carrying out attacks on civilians. Both the government and the Tamil Tiger separ

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From Npr washington, I am xxx, as rockets flew over Gaza this week and the UN security council called a cease fire in the Israely Palestania conflict as well as direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Palestinia xxx told reporters and the U

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Two men will face court in Brisbane today on terrorism-related charges. They are accused of recruiting and funding people to fight in Syria. The men were arrested during a series of raids across Brisbane yesterday. And we are talking about a broad sw

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February 18th, 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels, is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the newly formed Co

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February 18th 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the newly formed Conf

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February 18th 1885Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels is first published in the United States. 1861Months before the Civil War breaks out, Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the newly formed Conf

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今天我们要学的词是personally. Personally 亲自地。The FBI's former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe claimed his firing is not just to slander him personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals in general. 前

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China has criticised Japans latest defense white paper, accusing Japan of using the so-called 'China threat' as an excuse for its military build-up. On Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the white paper ignored facts and made g

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今天我们要学的词组是trigger。 Trigger是扳机,pull the trigger就是扣动扳机。 作为动词,trigger有激发, 引起其他事件或是连锁反应的意思。比如布什总统决定向伊拉克增兵,引发了大规模反战抗

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 12 November 2007 Israel's prime minister says more than 400 Palestinian prisoners could be released this month before an upcoming Middle East peace conference. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem bureau. Speaking b

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1.President Barack Obama toured Germanys Buchenwald concentration camp Friday. He said the camp where an estimated 56,000 people died is the ultimate rebuke to Holocaust deniers and skeptics. 2.France and Brazil are disagreeing over what has or has

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1. President Barack Obama is nominating former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him the leader our troops deserve. he also chose White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the CIA. 2. Prosecutors are layin

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1. Officials in Alabama say the negotiators still have an open line of communication with a man accused of abducting a 5-year-old boy and holding him hostage in a bunker. Jimmy Lee Dykes is accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver Tuesday and

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Pope Benedict is beginning his life, away from the public eye. He's officially ended his term as head of the Catholic Church. Hundreds of supporters gathered for a final farewell as he left the Vatican for the last time. He'll be now known as Pope Em

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The British bank Barclays has announced it's cutting more than 3,500 jobs in an effort to cut costs. Almost half of the jobs will come at its investment bank. The vast majority of cuts are in Asia. Ninety-hundred jobs will come from its European reta

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