It has been a day of bloodshed in Oslo, Norway. At mid afternoon local time, a mass explosion tore apart a government building housing the prime minister's office. At least seven people are dead there. The prime minister was not in the building at th

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

The US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to continue collecting data on US phone calls. Lawmakers rejected the amendment that would have blocked funding for the National Security Agency's program, which gathers details of every call made by

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Political protests in Egypt, the aftermath of an attack, and a music megastar who's using his fame to raise awareness about a disease. All of it is coming up in this Wednesday edition of CNN Student News. Hello, everyone. I'm Carl Azuz. The place: Wa

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Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, broadcasting from the CNN center in Atlantic, Georgia. We welcome all of our viewers around the world to the first February edition of CNN Student News. We are leading things off today in Florida with the race for the Republican pr

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Explanation: When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president of the United States, he said, the only thing we have to fear (or be afraid of) is fear itself. This phrase became very well known and gave inspiration (or hope) to millions of Americans who we

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 美国精神

Explanation: When Europeans began to live in the United States, they had a lot of work to do. They needed to make farms so that people would have enough to eat, build towns and cities, and build roads so that people could go between the towns and cit

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模仿文本: Spielberg's film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's best-selling book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and in particular his struggle in 1865 to get the 13th Amendment to the Constitution through Congress, the a

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Long before the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, law enforcement officials argued that terrorists use technology like encrypted communication tools to evade detection. FBI Director James Comey has made the case that encryp

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1. insurgent /[ɪnˈsɜ:dʒənt/ -- 1. one who rises in revolt against established authority; rebel 2. rebellious The king promised to pardon any insurgent who would lay down his arms. 国王答应宽恕任何愿意放下武器的叛乱者。 General

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1. antagonize /n'tɡənaɪz/ vt. 对立 The official antagonized the leader of his own party by accusing him of cowardice. 那位官员谴责自己党内的领导人怯懦,与他产生敌对。 2. dissent /dɪ'sent/ vi. 反对 The vote approving th

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By Adam Freedman Todays topic: Spam But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. In fact, we barely know each other

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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Happy New Year, everybody.I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us.That's because of what we've accomplished together over the past seven. 大家新年快乐!我满怀期待的心情迎接我们共同的新年。因为过去七年里我

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HARI SREENIVASAN: The White House, and House Republicans, are celebrating tonight. Today, they pushed through a bill to remake the health care system, something they failed to do back in March. The vote was 217 to 213. Lisa Desjardins begins our cove

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Betty Friedan: How She Was a Leader in the Modern Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. Written by Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Betty Frie

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THE MAKING OF A NATION #52 - James Monroe, Part 2 By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, March 04, 2004 (Theme) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English. (Theme) As we report

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The third Monday of February is known as Presidents Day in the United States. For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968. Tha

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T1 Carrier A T1 carrier is a time-division multiplexed digital transmission facility capable of supporting 24 voice channels, (each encoded as a 64 kbps PCM DS0 signal), producing an aggregate multipl

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IN THE NEWS – February 16, 2002: 'Taking the Fifth' By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In The News. The former chairman of the failed energy company Enron, Kenn

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美国财政部长敦促国会批准IMF改革方案 WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Wednesday urged the U.S. congress to ratify the much- delayed quota and governance reform package agreed by the Internationa

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