A decision is expected this afternoon from a New York judge who's ruling on whether the overnight evacuation of Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park was legal. Lawyers representing the protesters went to court in an effort to try and get

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

【中英双语文本】 A 4 feet cupcake weighing a hefty 1,224 pounds has been officially recognized as the world's largest by the Guinness Book of Records. 一个身高4英尺、体重达1224磅的杯蛋糕日前被《吉尼斯世界记录》正式认

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 四六级必读美文系列

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today I want to talk to you about some important policies affecting taxpayers and homeowners this holiday season. On Thursday, the United States Senate passed a bill to fix the alternative minimum tax, or AMT. The AMT wa

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 美国总统电台演说

坚持不懈,直到成功。 我们每天的奋斗就像对参天大树的一次砍击,头几刀可能了无痕迹。每一击看似微不足道,然而,累积起来,巨树终会倒下。这恰

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 四六级词汇与结构练习

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. It sounds either really crazy, or kind of obvious. But according to new research, pick-up soccer could help homeless men avert the risk of an early dea

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十)月

Opponents of California's ban on gay marriage are celebrating a federal judge's decision to overturn the law. Mary Bernardo is an attorney with Massachusetts-based Gay Lesbian Advocates Defenders who says the argument against same-sex marriage is wea

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Emergency White House talks to try to end a budget stalemate and avert a government shutdown had ended and without agreement. A shutdown could have real effects on everyday Americans. That means that small business owners who are counting on that loa

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.Police in Newtown Connecticut are still investigating the crime scenes where 27 people died yesterday. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports the names of the victims have not yet been released. Police Lieutenant P

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak. Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel unco

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11This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord : 2Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3Tell them that this is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: 'Cursed is the ma

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 圣经旧约 耶利米书

WASHINGTON While official Washington remains preoccupied with a government shutdown, many experts are more concerned about another looming crisis. The U.S. Treasury Department says the government will run out of money to pay its bills by October 17 u

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

美债大限即至 谈判仍陷僵局 美国错过提高其16.7万亿美元债务上限截止日期的可能性昨日增加。为结束华盛顿僵局而达成协议的努力在国会不了了之。 Talks to end impasse falter The chances of the US m

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Obama calls for debt reduction in balanced manner WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United States should cut its mounting public debt in a balanced manner with a plan including both government spending cuts and revenue increases, U.S. President Bara

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Obama's Next Campaign: More Taxes for Rich Americans WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama's re-election campaign may be over, but his economic campaign continues. The president is appealing to business and labor leaders, lawmakers and the public to pre

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Greece has started a second round of talks with international creditors on its precarious financial plight, as there are new warning signs throughout Europe about the fallout from the continent's debt contagion. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos t

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

How did Greece get to this point? 希腊如何落到今天这般田地? Greece became the epicenter of Europes debt crisis after Wall Street imploded in 2008. With global financial markets still reeling, Greece announced in October 2009 that it had

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

This is what it sounds like when doves cry. By the time the Federal Reserve announced that its target interest rates would not, after all, be rising this month, it came as little surprise. But its reasoning did, and means that investors focus will mo

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CAPITOL HILL Four days before Americans face massive automatic tax increases and deep federal spending cuts, Washington is showing no signs of forging a deficit reduction agreement to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Many lawmakers are absent from W

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Some thought the brand was dead and buried. Not anymore, it seems. Your favorite pop stars are dying, but McDonald's refuses to. Like the villain at the end of an action movie, just when you think it's breathed its last it comes back up, snarly-faced

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(266) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Here we go. OK. 好的,我们来亲眼看看吧 I'm back in my truck, and we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge. 回到我刚才提到的卡车,我们把它开到布鲁克林大桥 We're coming down, and we bring that truck that you just saw somewher

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