This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. High food and fuel prices. Housing and credit problems. Job losses. Worries about a recession. No wonder the economy is a top issue for American voters. John McCain speaking about his economic plan in

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(四)月

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, economic worries turned from inflation. On Wednesday, central banks in nations around the world acted together to lower interest rates. The fear is that a lack of credit and falling demand

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An endowment is money from donations and investments. Colleges use endowment money for student aid and campus improvements, and for financial security. But college costs in the United States have bee

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Business 商业报道 Johnson amp; Johnson 强生公司 Out of the mire? 走出困境了吗? The Justice Department may spoil the drugmaker's fresh start 司法部可能会毁了这家药厂的新开始 FOR the past few years Johnson amp; Johnson has

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Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos continues emergency talks with Greek party leaders Monday on more spending cuts, with his finance minister warning that the country is on a knife edge (brink of disaster). The government and parliament must agree

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Hello Mr. Billionaire 你好啊,亿万富翁先生 million 百万 billion 十亿 millionaire 百万富翁 billionaire 亿万富翁 zillionaire 亿万富翁 zillion 无法计算的大数目,不计其数

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人人都在为生计奔波,不同的人属于不同的阶层,怎样定义这些阶层,我们又属于哪个阶层呢 Rob: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Rob and with me is Neil. Neil: Hello. Rob: Today were talking about class. Thi

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Business this week. 一周商业要闻 America's big banks reported earnings for the third quarter. 美国各家大型银行报告了第三季度的收入情况。 Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo posted solid profits, though the mortgage l

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Have you ever considered the possibility that the sun will eventually burn out? Don and Yael discuss that sobering thought on this Moment of Science. [OUTSIDE INSECT SOUNDS] D: Wow, what a beautiful s

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Technology IPOs: 科技公司上市潮: Betting the farm 押宝开心农场(美版) Zynga may be a good business, but the tech bubble is expanding Zynga可能是一家好企业,但是科技泡沫却正愈演愈烈 Jun 30th 2011 | from the p

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Finance and Economics;Spanish banks; False summit; 财经;西班牙银行;远未结束; Mark down loans, raise capital, repeat; 减少贷款,提高资金,重复此道; Like exhausted climbers nearing the summit only to find a higher p

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Finance and Economics;New rivers of gold;Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn; 财经;新的资金流向;意外的汇款在经济低迷时帮助贫困国家; In tapachula, a furnace of a city in southern

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Business商业报道Chinese internet firms中国互联网公司Migrating finches迁徙之雀China's online firms are flying to American stockmarkets中国互联网公司纷纷飞向美国股市迁徙之雀.jpgDICK COSTOLO, the boss of Twitter, was in

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Europe Greek taxation 欧洲 希腊税收 A national sport no more 逃漏税再也不是全民运动 Greek tax dodgers are being outed 希腊严惩逃漏税者 Greek officials used to shrug off tax evasion as a national sport. The finance ministry fo

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今天我们要学的词是prom。 Prom在美国指高中高年级学生在学年结束前的半正式舞会。High school prom,一般指高中毕业班的舞会,又称senior prom或者干脆就是prom。 Proms are a $4 billion-a-year industry, b

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Smartphones in China 中国的智能手机市场 Taking a bite out of Apple 分苹果一杯羹 Xiaomi, often described as Chinas answer to Apple, is actually quite different 有中国的苹果之称的小米实际上跟苹果很不一样。 Sep 14th

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BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The number of people in China's rural areas who lack access to safe drinking water has reduced by 221 million from 2004 to 2010, the vice minister of the country's National Development and Reform Commission said on Wednes

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Brazil will surpass Britain to become the sixth largest economy in the world this year, according to a British study published on Monday. The study, published by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR

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PARIS, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Europe's leading airline Air France-KLM announced on Thursday its plan to lay off 5,122 employees out of 49,301 staff of Air France by 2013, but not in a compulsory way. With the aim to cut the group's 2-billion-euro net de

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今天我们要学的词是tax haven。 Tax haven,避税港,指不用交税或是税率很低的国家和地区。美国总统奥巴马星期一公布了税法改革计划。The Obama administration hopes to raise $95.2 billion over the next ten

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