葛瑞盖斯(Gareth Gates),一个曾经患有口吃的男孩,却拥有天使般的嗓音,2002年2月9日他成为英国当红电视选秀节目Pop Idol 观众决选亚军歌手,从此一炮走红。 i've been letting you down, down 我让你

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英乐时空

The top Senate Democrat, majority leader Harry Reid made it official today there will not be a vote by the full Senate on revamping health care until after the August Congressional recess rather than before as President Obama had hoped. At a town ha

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

今天要学的词是quit。Quit就是停止,认输,说白了就是:不干了。网球大将Agassi结束了他21年的网球生涯。有人问他为什么不早一点退休。他回答说: If I wanted to quit, I would have done it a long time

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

[00:02.62]- Not now, Mr. Andrews. - There, look, 20 or so 我们在忙,安德鲁斯先生 [00:04.34]看,一艘可乘65个人的船,才坐了20个人左右? [00:05.78]in a boat built for 65, and I saw one boat with only 12-- 12! [00:08.26]Well

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. News of the American central banks interest rate cut this week was the top story in financial markets around the world. In a surprise announcement Tuesday, the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rat

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(一)月

实用英语电话用语小结 情况 (一) 打电话的人找的是你自己 打电话来的人 你 (接电话的人) Is Daisy there? (Daisy 在吗?) Speaking. 我就是。 This is she. 我就是。 (注: 男的用 This is he.) You're speaking/talki

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

I'm Carl Azuz, and today on CNN Student News, we're gonna be talking about something that won't happen until November 6th... of 2012! But we start things off down in Louisiana. Officials facing the threat of massive flooding there have opened several

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2011年(五)月

That integrity went through every aspect of his life. 这种执着渗入了他生活的每一个层面 His devotion to the products, to the work, to the ethic. 他的一生都奉献给了产品 工作 以及改变世界的理想 It permeated everythi

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 名人传记

Hi everyone from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Catherine Callaway. Thanks for checking in. Here's a look at what's happening Now In The News. A promotion is in the works for the US commander in Iraq. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced tha

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(四)月

比尔的同代人,即使是在那个年龄,都能看出他的与众不同。每年,他和朋友们都要去夏令营。比尔特别喜爱游泳运动等。他的一位在夏令营的朋友回忆道,他绝不会是个不足挂齿或无足轻重

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(420) / 评论(0) 分类 精美英文欣赏

As the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is no stranger to success. 作为这个世界上最富有的人,比尔盖茨对成功并不陌生。 So when the billionaire tech mogul and philanthropist offers insight or advice, it's smart to listen. 所

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Bill Gates has opened a personal account on the popular Chinese social media platform WeChat, greeting Chinese fans in clumsy Chinese in his first post dated. 近日,比尔盖茨开通了自己的微信账号,并在发布的第一份推文中用稍

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The tarmac delay situation at John F. Kennedy Airport turns out to be far worse than previously reported. The port authority of New York and New Jersey which owns the airport tells CNN 29 international flights suffered delays of more three hours on t

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2011年(一)月

President-elect Barack Obama told state governors today upon his swearing-in he will be willing to help them come up with ways to create jobs and deal with declining revenues. At a meeting of the National Governors Association in Philadelphia, Mr. O

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Four days after being shot in the head, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is said to be making progress. One of her doctors says the Democrat is less sedated and making small movements. Giffords was among 14 people injured Saturday, when polic

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Bill Gates topped the business category and Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie scored high marks but many Americans said they had difficulty naming a responsible leader or celebrity, according to a new poll. Most of the 1,001 Americans questioned in th

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I can not escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens -- Admiral Mike Mullen The top U.S. military officer has endorsed President

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

今天我们要学的词是flap。 Flap在口语里,有争议、危机的意思。不久前,很多人莫名其妙地收到白宫的电子邮件,宣传奥巴马的医疗保健改革。The White House decided to make changes to its e-mail sign up

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Bill Gates has revealed how he used to keep tabs on his employees by memorising all of their number plates to see when they were arriving and leaving the office. 比尔盖茨近日自曝曾把所有员工的车牌号都熟记下来,以此来监视员

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

THE old Rackspace headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers cloud-computing and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were crammed at folding tables in the hallway. They oft

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