1. Four Americans have been fatally shot in an attack by Somali pirates. The two couples were sailing around the world after their retirement. The four are the first Americans killed in a wave of pirate attacks operating off East Africa. 2. The viole

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Russians Worried, Defiant Amid Financial Crisis WASHINGTON Despite dire predictions about Russia's economy for 2015, many Russians welcomed the New Year with cheers and hopes for a better future. With the sinking value of the ruble, some people say t

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

New unemployment claims hit the half million mark, the highest level since November. Analysts say last week's surge underscores more trouble in the jobs market with employers slashing positions as the economic recovery continues to slow. A symbolic m

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By VOA News 21 August 2006 watch Trial report Saddam Hussein gestures during first day of trial, Monday Aug. 21, 2006 The second trial of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein opened Monday in Baghdad on charges of genocide for a violent campaign again

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so there's a new Texas law that bans sanctuary cities, and it has outraged Democrats, immigrant advocates and also police chiefs. This measure overrides local laws and empowers police to ask anyone they detain if they a

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I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technologyShakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear. 我开始听很多音乐,阅读科技以外的书,例如莎士比亚、柏拉图的作品。我爱看《

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Legendary Hollywood actor Tony Curtis died on Wednesday night. He was 85. The veteran star, who was best known for his role in Some Like It Hot, died of cardiac arrest(心搏停止) at his Las Vegas home, the Los

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Celebrating her first day as an adult Sunday, 18-year-old Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai did the gift-giving a girls school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. 周日,诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉优素福扎伊(Malala Yousafzai)迎来了自

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

MOMBASA, Kenya, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Kenya is ruing her missed chances after losing out by ten runs against visiting Ireland in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Inter-continental Cup tournament in Mombasa on Monday. The host had started well bu

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One of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons told a Syrian television station late Wednesday he is in the suburbs outside Tripoli and that loyalist commanders have told him their men would fight to the death. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi vowed that he

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1. Muammar Gaddafi has issued a defiant statement after two high-profile departures from his regime, and is calling on leaders of countries attacking his forces to resign. The Libyan news agency says Gaddafi accused Western leaders of warning to crea

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(四月)

1. The search continues for 20-year-old Lauren Spierer. Police have few leads but suspect foul play in the disappearance of the Indiana University sophomore who has been missing for five days. 2. Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant in the face of the heavi

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Plotting a Coup 策划政变 Jobs was not good at taking no for an answer. 乔布斯并不习惯别人对自己说不。 He went to Sculley's office in early May 19851985年5月初,他来到斯卡利的办公室, and asked for more time to show t

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Business 商业报道 Aviation 航空运输业 Ghost at the feast 宴会上的幽灵 Airlines stand to lose heavily should the euro collapse 一旦欧元崩溃,航空公司需面临其带来的惨重损失 MEETINGS of airline bosses are rarely chee

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Theresa May has said her shoes are the greatest love of her life and that she dislikes her nose, in a revealing personal interview with a local magazine. 在当地杂志的一次个人采访中,特蕾莎?梅曾表示,鞋子是她的最爱,而她对

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Anti-Gadhafi forces in Libya are consolidating their hold on the capital and other parts of the country even as pro-Gadhafi fighters put up fierce resistance. Recent developments have given many Libyans who had fled the fighting hope that it is safe

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

After a tour of the old city of Havana, a ceremonial wreath-laying and warm handshakes, Barack Obamas historic visit to Cuba quickly shifted to the issue that has divided the two countries for most of the last six decades a sharp disagreement over po

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lisa 丽萨 Lisa Brennan, however, did not have a great childhood. 丽萨布伦南的童年就没有那么棒了。 When she was young, her father almost never came to see her. 她小时候,父亲几乎从不来看她。 I didn't want to be a fathe

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He suggested that Lasseter watch some classic buddy movies, such as The Defiant Ones and 48 Hours, 他建议拉塞特看一些经典的兄弟电影,例如《逃狱惊魂》或《48小时》, in which two characters with different attitudes are th

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

One of key suspects in the murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko the former Russian spy has told the BBC he had nothing to do with his death by poisoning 10 years ago. A British inquiry has concluded that President Putin probably approved the assa

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