Topics: Movie The Shawshank Redemption; The Pentagon; to go ahead versus straight ahead; cheesy and quirky; a few quarters short of a buck Words: redemption to be convicted sentence parole inmate tax warden diploma swamp stable Cold War mission to go

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

[00:37.90]You speak English, butt-steak? 你懂英文吗? [00:39.78]You follow this officer. 跟这位长官走 [00:53.26]I never seen such a sorry-Iooking heap of maggot shit in all my life. 我这辈子没看过这么窝囊的人渣 [00:59.26]Hey,

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President Obama's aides are hoping to draw far more Latino votes this election year than in 2008, and his appearance in central Florida today may have helped. He spoke of economic and education equality in his address to the National Association of L

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Halloween and the Law: tricks, treats--and due process. And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

This is AP News Minute. 1. Pope Francis arrives in Washington DC on Tuesday for the beginning of a six-day three-city US tour. Hell also go to New York and Philadelphia. 2. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is out of the presidential race. The Republic

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(九)月

Today's show starts with a pair of significant cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. 今天的节目首先来关注美国最高法院审理的两起重要案件。 The first involves part of a federal law that concerned immigrants to the U.S. It

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年7月

Discussing Capital Punishment Simon: Whats all that? Hilary: Its a news report about the upcoming execution of Perry Hickock. Simon: Thats barbaric. We shouldnt have capital punishment in this day and age. Hilary: This guy killed an entire family whi

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年ESL之日常生活

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

Welcome to Talking Sport! Today we meet taekwondo fighter, Rohullah Nikpai. Rohullah is from Afghanistan and in 2008 he won his country's first ever Olympic medal. Taekwondo is a martial art that first became an Olympic sport in 2000. Join Natalie in

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 伦敦谈体育

to stand on one's own two feet to throw oneself at someone's feet 在美国的成语和俗语中,有不少是围绕着

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

第28课 烹任 A:Do you know who Sammo Hung is? A:你知道洪金宝是谁吗? B:Of course. And he started out studying aerobics, singing,dancing and martial arts at age of nine,and has starred in 140 kung fu films. He has also become an indepen

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语口语宝典第一册

AS IT IS 2015-12-18 Obama Says He Is Eager to See Cuba Before U.S. President Barack Obama leaves office, he wants to visit Cuba. But only if he can meet with pro-democracy dissidents. Obama told Yahoo News on Monday that part of a deal to visit Cuba

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

今天我们要学的词是combat。 Combat, 是战斗的意思。 Australian combat troops have begun leaving Iraq, fulfilling an election promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, 澳大利亚作战部队开始撤离伊拉克,实现了澳大利亚总理

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要学的词是convict。 Convict是判定某人有罪的意思。He was convicted of Driving Under the Influence and was sentenced to six months in prison, 他醉酒驾车罪名成立,被判入狱半年。North Korea convicted two Amer

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

October 15th, 1946In Nuremburg, Germany, former Nazi Air Force Chief Hermann Goering commits suicide behind bars. Goering takes poison just hours before his scheduled execution as a convicted war criminal for his role during World War II. 1917During

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2010年

October 15th, 1946In Nuremburg, Germany, former Nazi Air Force Chief Hermann Goering commits suicide behind bars . Goering takes poison just hours before his scheduled execution as convicted war criminal for his role during War World II. 1917During W

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模仿文本:Bob Dylan singing about Rubin Carter the heavyweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder, before that we heard Sara, one of several musical portraits he made of his wife, and we start with Hollis Brown, a work of fiction, about a

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

文本: A: Holden, I told you. I can't cover for you unless I know what it is that you're doing and why it involves these baggies filled with-- H: I do Tang Soo Do. A: What? H: It's a martial art. It's Korean. I compete, and my parents don't like

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着美剧练发音

今天我们要学的词是 felon. Felon 名词,意思是重犯。Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order to restore voting rights for roughly 200,000 convicted felons. 美国弗吉尼亚州州长麦考利夫签署行政命令,恢

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A slew of high-profile acquittals of wrongly convicted defendants made headlines in 2015. And according to the judicial reform report by the Supreme People's Court, 23 wrongful verdicts have been corrected since the reform was implemented in 2013. Wh

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