Trump, Democrats on Collision Course for November U.S. voters will head to the polls in two months to elect a new Congress and to render a midterm judgment on the often controversial and polarizing presidency of Donald Trump. The political stakes are

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(九月)

Mexico's Pacific coast is bracing for a direct hit from one of the most powerful and dangerous hurricanes in recorded history. Hurricane Patricia is at the top end of a category5 storm storm which sustain winds of 200 mile per hour and is on track to

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AS IT IS 2016-01-29 Trump Leads in Iowa, Bloomberg May Join the Race For nearly a year, candidates have been telling American voters that they are best qualified to become the next U.S. president. On Monday, voters will have their say in an evening o

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参议员面对伊朗核协议逐渐拿定主意 Frankly, this is not the agreement I hoped for. I also have serious concerns based on Iran's past behavior of cheating on nuclear agreements. 坦率地讲,这不是我所期望的协议。基于伊朗过

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This is AP News Minute. Hillary Clinton, who briefly took the stage after president Obama lavashed praise on her Wednesday, will accept the Democratic nomination and give the final speech of the night at the Democratic national convention. Clinton wi

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders is a documentary by movie director Mark Hopkins. It tells the story of four doctors and their volunteer work in Liberia and the Democratic Rep

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More Bombs Directed at Democrats, Trump Critics More pipe bombs targeting members of the Democratic Party and a critic of U.S. President Donald Trump were discovered Thursday. 周四又现多起针对民主党成员及批评美国总统唐纳德特朗普

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北卡罗来纳州-奥巴马连任关键州 This week, the U.S. Democratic Party holds its national convention in the southern city of Charlotte, North Carolina to officially name incumbent Barack Obama as its nominee for president in the November el

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World Freedom Day is a celebration started by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The tearing down of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of the end for communist rule in many parts of Europe. Bush

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IN THE NEWS - Germany Awaits a New Leader, and a New Day By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, October 15, 2005 I'm Doug Johnson with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The major political parties i

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Michigan Candidate Hopes to Become First Muslim American Governor Abdul El-Sayed grew up in the American state of Michigan. This year, he is hoping to be nominated as the Michigan Democratic Partys candidate for governor. But he did not always think

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今天我们要学的词是approval rating。 Approval rating是支持率的意思。Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's approval rating fell to 20%, 日本执政党自民党的民众支持率滑落到20%。 A new survey shows that President Ob

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By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 16 April 2008 Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change says 50 supporters have been arrested since Tuesday. The police say the number is fewer than 40. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

Influential Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has proposed that an independent truth commission be established to investigate alleged abuses of power under the Bush administration. President Barack Obama has reacted cautiously to the suggestion, sayin

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今天我们要学的词是outsider。 Outsider, 是局外人的意思。 The Board selected an outsider to fill the position of CEO, 董事会挑选了一个局外人担任首席执行官的职务。这次美国总统大选,由于民众对布什政府

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. U.S. President Barack Obama is urging his Democratic Party to continue fighting for its causes, despite a hostile polit

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今年是猴年,也是美国的Presidential election year, 总统大选年。全美、甚至全球人民的大事,岂能错过? 关键词: 美帝两大党: 美帝两大党 The Democratic Party: 民主党 The Republican Party: 共和党 Donkey

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本期内容: Donald Trump gained the 1,237 delegates needed for the Republican presidential nomination, as a small group of unbound delegates told the Associated Press they would support him at the partys convention in Cleveland in July. The tycoo

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Republican presidential contender John McCain picked up the endorsement of a former rival Thursday. Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton got some potential good news in her battle with Barack Obama. 争取共和党总统候选人提名的约

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今天我们要学的词是 runoff. Runoff 作为名词,有决选的意思。French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen are heading into a runoff in two weeks. 法国中间派候选人马克龙和民族主义者

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