A: What's going on? B: Nothing really. How about you? A: A lot, like the party I'm having on Friday. B: Well, that's cool. A: Will you be able to make it? B: I'm busy this Friday. I'm sorry. A: What do you have to do? B: I'm having dinner with my fam

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Negotiations dont always go according to plan. Disagreement is part of life. But to build lasting relationships, coping with failure is even more important than celebrating success. So in this show, well examine a deal that does not get completed. We

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A: What's up? B: Nothing much, what's going on? A: I'm having a party this Friday. B: Oh, really? That's nice. A: I wanted to see if you wanted to come. B: This Friday? Sorry, I already have plans. A: Doing what? B: I'm going to dinner with my family

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A: What's going on? B: Nothing really, you? A: I'm throwing a party next Saturday. B: Is that right? A: Yeah, are you going to come? B: I'm sorry, I can't. A: Why not? B: I don't really want to. A: Well, why don't you? B: I hate going to parties. A:

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模仿文本: But he argues that that money that is needed to prop up France's welfare programmes could be raised in other ways, for example, by increasing taxes on certain products, although that could be quite unpopular with voters. A lot of them

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a happiness meter built on word choice. We continue our conversation with Chris Danforth, a mathematician at the University of Vermont. He and his colleague Peter Dodds did a comp

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今天我们要学的词是 prop up。 Prop up的原意是指托住、支撑,以免倒塌,引申出来有帮助、鼓励、支持的意思。The US Department of Agriculture has proposed to spend US$4.7 billion to prop up farmers hurt by tariffs,

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【情景再现】 Tom在办公室时总是随随便便,乱扔垃圾、衣冠不整不说,当有人坐在他对面时,他还经常把脚跷在椅子上。一次,他的美国同事来他办公室和他讨论工作上的事情时,他依旧把脚

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Chart-topping boy band Westlife Westlife have had amazing success in the UK and around the world, but did you know that the Irish boy band have now become the most successful chart act in the UK since the Beatles? They have just clocked up their thi

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By Barry Wood Washington 18 July 2007 The House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Tuesday heard from economists who agreed the weakening dollar is likely to decline further. VOA's Barry Wood reports. Committee member Ron Paul, a conserv

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Girl Shoots Instructor, Fueling Gun Debate On August 25, an American familys vacation went terribly wrong. A man, his wife and their three children stopped at a shooting range in the southwestern state of Arizona. At a shooting range, people pay to f

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Life Expectancy Declining in Large Parts of US The obesity epidemic is not just an American health issue. New data from the World Health Organization show that more than 1 billion adults around the world are overweight, nearly a third of them obese.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci and Michele Molonye-Kitts say U.S. funding has led to advancement in global AIDS treatment James Butty | Washington, DC 24 November 2009 The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said progress

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 04 May 2006 The International Labor Organization says child labor - especially in its worst forms - is on the decline for the first time across the globe. Asia is one of the

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By Paige Kollock Washington, D.C 10 January 2006 watch Smoking report Every day, thousands of young people pick up the habit of smoking. But a new report says the number of teen smokers in the United

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By VOA News 21 November 2007 World oil prices hit a new record in Wednesday's trading, hitting $99.29 a barrel before easing downward. That is 67 cents above the previous record, which was set on November 7. Traders say the soaring prices stem from t

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今天我们要学的词是muscle。 Muscle, 大家都知道,是肌肉的意思,但除此之外,muscle还可以用来指权力、实力,比如说, military muscle, 军事实力;political muscle 政治实力。 The team signed the veteran

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Katia: Hey, Enam, I've heard that in Bangladesh there are still arranged marriages. Is that true? Enam: Yes, it is true. We still have arranged marriages but the number of arranged marriages are declining these days because students, or even you can

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Indonesia is considering leaving the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, because of the country's declining crude oil output. 印度尼西亚正在考虑退出石油输出国组织,因为它拒绝该组织提出的限制原油产量的规定

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By David Axe Aboard the USS Donald Cook 07 October 2009 In 2008, Somali pirates captured more than 100 large commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, provoking a massive international response. Today, some 40 warships patrol Soma

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