From NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The Souris River is cresting in Minot, North Dakota even as thousands struggle with the impact of the surging river water. In Sawyer, North Dakota, restaurant owner Connie Arnhold says that she's doi

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are approaching a showdown this afternoon over a bill to overhaul the nation's financial regulations. NPR's David Welna reports that although talks are underway to hammer out a bipartisan compromise, the upcomi

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AS IT IS 2016-10-17 Labor Union Members Do Not Always Vote as Unions Want 工会成员们并不总是按照工会期望的投票 American politicians have long appealed to organized labor for support during election campaigns. The politicians know th

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The administrator of the 20-billion-dollar escrow fund being established to help victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf says he plans to pay legitimate claims quickly. In an interview of NPR's All Things Considered, Ken Feinberg says he hopes to pay

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Wal-Mart is hailing the Supreme Courts decision today to block a class-action lawsuit from going forward in its current form. The ruling is a big setback for more than a million women who accused the na

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. Today Judge Sonia Sotomayor described her judicial philosophy as fidelity to the law. Her opening statement capped the first day of her confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says al-Qaeda in Africa has been dealt a serious blow with the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the man accused of being the mastermind of the deadly 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The att

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1. The miners who were trapped deep underground in Chile are starting to go home. All 33 were hospitalized, following their rescue earlier this week. However, doctors say that in general they are all in good health. 2. President Barack Obama is in fu

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Robert Nardelli For Robert Nardelli, two thousand seven might seem like a bad year. After all, he resigned in January as chief of the world's largest operator of home-improvement stores. Sales and pr

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AS IT IS 2016-06-20 Why Are Americans So Divided? 为什么美国人如此分裂? Mike from Florida got right to the point. Calling into C-SPAN TV Thursday, Mike said he did not like the gun control bill supported by that mornings special guest, Rhod

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国会通过1.1万亿美元支出法案 With that vote, congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill. 国会通过1.1万亿美元支出法案。 As we end the year, I think by any objective standard, it's been a year of significant accomplishment. 年

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Conservative party leader Sauli Niinistoe has won Finland's presidential election by a landslide and will become the country's first conservative president in 30 years. Officials say Mr. Niinistoe, of the National Coalition Party, won 63 percent of t

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Tax reform in America;A simple bare necessity; 文艺;书评;美国税改;必须做的一件事; The Benefit and the Burden: Tax ReformWhy We Need It and What It Will Take. By Bruce Bartlett. 《效益与负担:

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GWEN IFILL:And now to the first in a series of conversations about a key issue making its way through Congress. We're calling it Inside Immigration Reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee took a big step last night toward providing a path to citizensh

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More people in the US have favorable views of China, according to the latest survey by the Pew Research Center. 皮尤研究中心的最新调查显示,有更多的美国人对中国抱有好感。 The survey released last Tuesday finds that 44% of

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

美国心理学会的一项研究发现,大选令一半以上的美国人感到有压力或非常有压力。有些精神健康治疗师反映,他们的病人中有四分之三提到自己有明显的与竞选相关的焦虑。来学最新的新词

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Even if the grand coalition staggers on, Mrs Merkel should not hang around for long. 即使大联盟政府摇摇欲坠,默克尔也不应该浪费太多时间。 The CDU, when it gathers in December at the congress that will now choose a new party

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If President Donald Trump were a food, what food would he be? 如果特朗普是种食物,他会是啥? If Trump were a food hed be a creampuff filled with poisoned and infectious cream filling. The gooey cream would be chock full of lead, mercur

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Croats begin voting in decisive round of presidential elections with opinion polls predicting narrow victory for left-leaning candidate Ivo Josipovic. Stefan Bos | Budapest 10 January 2010 Croatia's presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic of the Social

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

在日常生活中时常会有跟人意见不合产生摩擦的事儿。不论是亲友家人、隔壁邻居还是商场对手之间都可能发生矛盾,而且人与人之间的成见和积怨会旷日持久地延续下去。我们今天要学的三

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