Wikileaks has moved forward with a major document drop of hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports the action flies in the face of dire warnings from top US officials. The documents provide a rare glim

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

Houston is an industrial city, central to the nation's oil and gas industry, and home to one of the busiest ports in the country. It's also home to more than a dozen of the 41 superfund sites in Texas. Those are areas contaminated with toxic waste th

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈环境系列

Humanitarian Evacuations in Syria The United States welcomes the urgent and long awaited medical evacuations that took place from Eastern Ghouta in Syria between December 27 to the 29th. In a press statement released December 29th, U.S. Department Sp

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> 联合国撤出在阿富汗的工作人员 UN Withdrawing Workers from Afghanistan Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 Sep 2001 15:17 UTC The United Nations is pulling its foreign aid workers out of Afghanistan i

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Indian films and TV programmes are hugely popular in Pakistan. But as a result of growing tensions between the two south Asian neighbours, Pakistan has imposed a complete ban on TV and radio content from over the border. The authorities have raided s

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. US and South Korean troops are all on the highest alert in three years because of North Korea. That means reconnaissance operations

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Our thanks to Lydia and Yainer, whom you might remember from yesterday's program. They were helping us kick off today's show. We're gonna hear more from them in just a few minutes. I'm Carl Azuz. Let's get to today's headlines. First up, we're checki

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Thanks to those Park City High School students for helping us jump into today's headlines.I am Carl Azuz,this is cnn student news. First up.We are heading to Iraq.Authorities there are investigating a series of bombings that rocked the middle eastern

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Hi, this is Randall from Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Now today, I'd like to talk about several interesting cultural artifacts that are a part of daily lives of the Japanese, and perhap. . . perhaps other Asian countries as well. Now, for hundr

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Ancient People in South Africa Unharmed by Volcanic Eruption About 74,000 years ago, the Mount Toba volcano erupted on what is now the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The eruption caused a worldwide environmental disaster. It may have destroyed ancient

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Tornillo, Texas: A Small US Town and a Big Crisis Tornillo, Texas, is a small farming community in the southwestern United States. It sits along the Mexican border, a short drive from the city of El Paso in West Texas. A month ago, the federal govern

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Farmers Seek Emergency Disaster Aid 农民寻求紧急空难援助 Legislation introduced this week in the U.S. Congress would provide emergency relief to American farmers in the hurricane-ravaged Gul

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Screwing up is part of life. Even great geniuses make mistakes. When you do screw up, however, what's important isn't the screwup (that's history) but what you do afterward. Here's a step-by-step approach: 生活中总有时候我们会把事情搞砸,

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

AS IT IS 2016-06-18 US Diplomats Criticize Obamas Syria Policy 美国外交官批评奥巴马对叙利亚采取的政策 A group of State Department diplomats has criticized U.S. policy in Syria and called for urgent action to end the countrys civil

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Two girls I knowJeannette and Jo, And one is always moping; The other lassie, come what may, Is ever bravely hoping. 我认识的两个女孩珍妮特和乔,其中一个总是愁眉苦脸;另一个小姑娘,无论发生没什么,永远是坚强

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LAST week the state of Washington began auctioning the licences to 167 of the liquor stores it runs. By June 1st Washington will be out of the liquor business altogether, freeing private businesses to sell spirits in the state for the first time sinc

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And finally tonight: to languages around the world at risk of being lost. That's the subject of a new documentary premiering on some PBS stations this week and now streaming online. Jeffrey Brown has our look. NARRATOR: You are listeni

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Suppose that we let him have a hundred ducats and that he give us in return a written guarantee allowing us to fish all we want in all of his rivers. 如果我们借给他100元,作为回报,他给我们签署一张允许我们随意在他拥有的

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that it's still a long way from getting the Syrians together for a political solution to the crisis in the country. At his first press conference this year, Ban characterized the humanitarian situation in Syria a

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His sore shoulder made the work go slowly. It was late afternoon before Jon finished graveling the paths. 他的肩膀还在痛,也因此拖慢了工作进度,等铺完走道,天已经快黑。 He lingered on high to watch the sun go down, turn

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