This is AP News Minute. A gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel casino rained heavy fire down on a crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival Sunday night, turning the expanse into a killing ground, from which there was little

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月

Pre-Listening Vocabulary questionable: uncertain; disputable crossbar: the bar at the top of a net wave off: to indicate that no goal has been scored sensor: a device that measures and records things like movement or light officiator: referee New Tec

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图片1 edge n. 刀口, 利刃 vt. 使锋利,挤进,镶边,开刃 例句:Andy sharpened the edge of his knife on a grindstone. 安迪在磨石上磨快了他的刀刃。 hedge n. 树篱,障碍物 例句:Will the hedge keep the sheep out

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北京奥运28大项 参与,竞争,分享,进步 Handball 手球 SCORING 得分 英文原文 A goal is scored when the entire ball has completely crossed the goal line, provided that no violation of the rules has been committed by the thrower, a teammate or a team off

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北京奥运28大项 参与,竞争,分享,进步 Football 足球 FOULS AND MISCONDUCT 犯规及不正当行为 英文原文 A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following six offences in a manner considered by the referee to be c

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 08 December 2006 Kenya's parliament late Thursday awarded an almost three-fold basic pay increase to President Mwai Kibaki, a move heavily criticized by opposition politicians. It comes as civil servants are striking for be

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Russian-born Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both from Manchester University in Britain, won the prize for their groundbreaking experiments with graphene, a microscopic flake of carbon. The pair first extracted the super-thin flake from a piece

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Grassroots Activists Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize Grassroots environmental activists from six regions of the world were awarded with the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize in San Francisco Monday. Each year the $175,000 award recognizes individu

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This year's Nobel Prize for literature goes to a Japanese-born British writer who is best known for his 1989 novel The Remains Of The Day. The movie adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins as a deeply repressed butler who can't handle

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: To cross from Mexico into the U.S. without legal permission can mean days of walking through rivers, deserts and mountains and through places where dangerous criminals prey on migrants. Jason de Leon thinks the paths that migrant

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This year's list of U.S. Rhodes Scholars is remarkable for many reasons. Almost two-thirds are women. Nearly half are first-generation Americans or immigrants. But one scholarship recipient has specially made history this year. Jin

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By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 08 October 2007 The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology will be shared this year by three researchers, two Americans and a Briton, for their studies of embryonic stem cells in mice. Kevin Billinghurst was on the scen

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Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This EditionPresident Xi Jinping meets visiting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, pledging closer bilateral relations. G20 finance officials meet in Australia to discuss pol

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An innocent man spent 20 years in jail. He got out when he was 58. Two years later, New York City awarded him $10 million. Alan had been convicted of murdering a woman. He hadn't murdered that woman. He hadn't murdered anyone. He was innocent. A cop

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Three European scientists who discovered the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine. Lisa Bryant has more on the prestigious award for VOA from Paris. French scientists Luc Montagnier (file photo) The Nob

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By Tendai Maphosa London 22 October 2007 Former Mozambique President Joachim Chissano is the first recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African leadership. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan made the announcement in London. Tend

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今天我们要学的词是award。 Award, 做为动词,有授予的意思。 U.S. Billionaire Donald Trump was awarded an honorary degree by Robert Gordon University, 美国亿万富翁唐纳德.特朗普被罗伯特.戈登大学授予荣誉学位。

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今天我们要学的词是 lifetime. Lifetime 做为形容词,意思是终身的。He is a lifetime member of the club. 他是俱乐部的终身会员。Ellen DeGeneres has been awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the highest U.S. awa

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On Wednesday, high school students who sat scholarship exams at the end of last year, found their results on the NZQA website. By now, all students will have their results by mail too. Scholarship exams are for the top students in schools. They are e

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: I think that we haven't given enough credit to the role of our beliefs in determining our physiology, our reality. 而我觉得我们并未正视自己的信念-- 可以决定生理、现实的信念

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