Hot dogs are an All-American fare. But most likely, it was German sausage makers who first came up with the idea. In fact, there are reports of German immigrant selling them from push carts in New Yorks Bowery as far back as the 1860s. A century and

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 名人演讲视频

Also: A question from China about the Beijing Olympics. And ''The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,'' a book about dogs, family and a very smart boy. Transcript of radio broadcast: 17 July 2008 Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm B

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School Helps Dogs with Fear of Flying 学校帮助狗狗克服飞行的恐惧 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today on the show we tell you about some unusual training for some exceptional animals: service dogs. T

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Todd: Trevor, do you have a dog? Trevor, 你养狗吗? Trevor: Yeah, I do have a dog. 是的,我养。 Todd: What kind of dog? 是哪种狗呢? Trevor: My dogs a boxer. 德国斗拳狗。 Todd: A boxer. What does a boxer look like? 斗拳狗。她

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Proofread by Jana Elizabeth. Whimpering sounds.. What dismal dogs we were! Our tails were well and truly between our legs, as the pirate cat people marched us away at the points of their laser guns. They led us to a corner of their camp that seemed r

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It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather its a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism. 在一个大众文化和高消费的国度

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Tim, 11, could read the minds of the family's two cats. I know when they're happy, he told his sister Ellen. I know when they're sad. I know when they're hungry. I know when they're thirsty. Ellen, 9, said, First of all, cats aren't happy or sad. The

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今天我们要学的词是deter。 Deter, 是遏制、阻止的意思。U.N ships carrying aid to Somalia are escorted by the French navy to deter pirates, 法国海军护送联合国运往索马里的援助物资的船只,防止海盗袭击。 星期

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Do you know what centenary means? It means the 100-year anniversary of something. This week is the centenary of the arrival at the South Pole of the first British explorers , led by Captain Robert Scott. The English word Arctic means the area of the

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Todd: I usually get home from work at about 6:30 and when I get home the first thing I like to do is go jogging. Fortunately, my apartment is near a river and I go jogging on the river at night. It's really beautiful. It's really green. There's lots

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Dogs have been mans best friend for thousands of years, a source of companionship and loyalty since the Stone Age. 几千年以来,狗狗都是人类最好的朋友,从石器时代开始就是人类忠诚的陪伴。 Now scientists suspect they h

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Todd: I usually get home from work at about 6:30 and when I get home the first thing I like to do is go jogging. Fortunately, my apartment is near a river and I go jogging on the river at night. It's really beautiful. It's really green. There's lots

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For the four-legged competitors, two months of hard work-and a fair few treats-ensured they were raring to get on the racetrack.So when the big day rolled around, the only ones likely to get hot under the collar were any bystanders who spotted a Mini

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The February weather looked a tad too bracing for the Queen yesterday, who grimaced as she ventured out in a north-westerly wind and temperatures just above freezing for a service at West Newton Parish Church in Norfolk. 2月份的天气还是有些过

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祖籍葡萄牙,出生成长于加拿大,葡萄牙裔加拿大籍,拥有吉普赛血统,精通英文、葡萄 牙语,以及西班牙文的Nelly Furtado,一边轻声浅唱着,一边合着吹口哨的声音,流露一 缕淡淡的伤感。

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned down the offer of a dog as a gift from the Japanese government, according to a Japanese MP. 据一位日本议员表示,俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔普京于日前拒绝了日本政府将狗狗当做礼物

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1. General David Petraeus has formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan. Petraeus said it was important to demonstrate that al-Qaeda and its allies will not to be allowed to again establish sanctuaries in Afgha

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英语中有很多简单的单词组合在一起,意思却非常有趣,比如raining dogs and cats,明明是狗和猫,其实是倾盆大雨的意思。而今天所要学习的Big name,其实也不是大名字的意思,那究竟是什么呢?

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Lesson 47 Our Friend The Dog 第47课 狗人类的朋友 Cats usually like the house in which they live better than they like the people who live in it. They will leave a kind mistress and go back to their old homes. But if we are kind to our dogs, t

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Lesson 48 More About The Dog 第48课 关于狗的其他事情 The different kinds of dogs are so unlike each other, that it is hard to believe that they all come from the same family. What a difference there is in their coats! Dogs like the greyhoun

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