1. The government is promising a review of airport security and the system for checking suspicious travelers after an alleged terrorist bent on destroying a jetliner came close to succeeding. Meanwhile, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab left Detroit area ho

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十二)月

ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, I'm at the Cornerstone Schools here in Detroit. There are actually three of these institutions within Detroit, one independent -- this one -- and then there are two that are part of the public scho

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(三)月

Turkish media reports are now saying at least 41 people are dead and 3 others have been wounded following an attack on a wedding ceremony in southeastern Turkey today. According to reports, assailants with bombs and automatic weapons opened fire on

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[00:03.00]Very precarious gift, easily misused. 非常不稳定的礼物,很容易被误用 [00:05.88]And when it is misused, easily lost. 当它被误用时,会很容易失去 [00:11.28]Like freedom from pompous spirits. 像那些自大的灵魂所

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 听电影学英语-美国颂歌

Dan Harris : It's been called the Oscars of the auto industry. You will find marching bands, elaborate stage shows, even a star of 'Desperate Housewives'. Eva Longoria (Actress, Desperate Housewives)

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Henry Ford Created the Ford Motor Company, and Revolutionized the Automobile Industry Others made cars; he made better cars. ANNOUNCER: PEOPLE IN AMERICA -- a program in Special English on the VOICE of America. Every week at this time, we tell the st

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

Around the year 2000, a Bangladeshi immigrant named Shaker Sadeak left New York City. 2000年左右,一位名为Shaker Sadeak的孟加拉国移民离开了纽约市。 Sadeak moved west to the American state of Michigan. He told VOA that Michigan g

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Jack Ma announced last Tuesday that Alibaba will host a two-day conference in Detroit in June to teach US businesses how to sell to the company's 443 million customers in China on the world's biggest e-commerce site. 马云于上周二表示,阿里巴

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Will Detroit Have to Sell Its Famous Art Collection?底特律必须出售著名的艺术收藏品吗? Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. On the show today, we play music from some singing nuns. We also learn a

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June 4th, 1989In Beijing, Chinese Army troops storm Tiananmen Square to clash a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging communist China's reputation in the West. 1942A turning point during World War

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June 4th, 1989In Beijing, Chinese Army troops storm Tiananmen Square to clash a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging communist China's reputation in the West. 1942A turning point during World War

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June 4th, 1989In Beijing, Chinese Army troops storm Tiananmen Square to clash a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging communist China's reputation in the West. 1942A turning point during World War

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Yemen is the poorest Arab nation. Poverty can help breed extremism -- al-Qaida is a growing concern for the Yemenis. But the government also faces an armed rebellion in the north and a separatist movement i

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年慢速英语(一)月

JUDY WOODRUFF: General Motors has named a new CEO, and she's a woman, one who worked her way up in a company once known as an old boys club. The news comes one day after the federal government sold the last of the GM shares it purchased during the bi

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - New Home for Elephants / Antarctic Volcano / Plastic Ocean Pollution By Broadcast: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Science in the News, in VOA Special English.

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(282) / 评论(0) 分类 科技之光

Automakers are gearing up to unveil their newest designs at the North American International Auto Show. Organisers say, on the media preview days falling on next Monday and Tuesday, around 45 new production vehicles and experimental concept cars will

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

APART from more money, what the city of Detroit needs most is certainty. Both are in short supply at the moment. On March 21st a state-appointed review team unanimously agreed that it is suffering a severe financial emergency. The day before, Moodys

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

今天我们要学的词是tipping point。 Tipping point, 是指变化一触即发的临界点。 Experts warned that a bankruptcy of one of Detroit's Big Three could create a 'tipping point' that will bring the entire industry to a halt, 专家警告

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

The automobile culture has been a driving force around the world for decades, but not so in China, where car ownership has only become relatively common over the past ten years. Can investing in auto events like auto racing pay off? Just looking arou

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2014年04月

Smaller is more beautiful 更小,却更美丽 Many other cities are battling problems almost as acute as Detroits 很多其他城市正在积极应对和底特律一样急迫的问题 THE five kinds of heirloom tomatoes on Joanna Lehrmans and Roxan

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