Late Show host David Letterman return to work today to face an audience for the first time since revealing the extortion plot. He is literally just starting taping a show right now. And of course, you could imagine, hottest ticket in town, fans began

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2009

And tonight's federal budget will be all about jobs and spending cuts. The Government has already outlined measures to get more people off welfare and back into the workforce. It also plans to increase skilled migration. Now the Treasury is aiming fo

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Those three words were the last text message Mariah West read before the violent car crash that took her life. It was the day before my daughter's graduation from high school. She was on her way to a ball game and was getting directions, says Merry D

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(一月)

The presidential candidates are heading into their third and final debate in what's become a tight race just weeks before the election. They will spar at Lynn University in Boca Raton Florida. This time, seated across from moderator Bob Schieffer of

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Chinese state media are reporting that the two passengers killed in yesterday's plane crash in San Francisco were both Chinese high school students. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Beijing. The Chine

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Glossary abstain弃权(不投票) alleged(未经证实而)陈述的 argument论据evidence assume假想,假设soppose,persume backyard后院 ballot无记名投票制 breeding-ground某事物(通常指有害事物)的滋生地 burden负担

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Iran's electoral watchdog, the Guardian Council, says has seen no signs of fraud in 10 days of investigations, rejecting claims by three defeated presidential candidates of vote rigging. At the same time, a hardline cleric told Friday's prayer gather

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A quick-thinking stranger helped Maureen Krekian escape one of the worst fire disasters in U.S. history. Time now for StoryCoprs, a project that's traveling the country recording your stories. On this summer day in 1944, a circus in Hartford, Connec

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年NPR美国国家公共电台

M: Hello, is this apartment management? W: Can I help you? M: Yes, this is the tenant of apartment ten. I guess my kitchen sink is clogging up again, and so is the bathtub. W: Alright. I'll send someone over tomorrow. M: Um, I'd really appreciate it

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Lesson 93 The Proposal 建议 Words: external adj. 外部的,表面的 extinct adj. (动物)灭绝的;(火山)不再活跃的;熄灭的 extinction n. 消失,灭绝 extinguish v. 熄灭,消灭,扑灭 extol vt. 赞美 extort v. 勒索,强夺 extract n. 榨出物,精华;vt. 得到;榨出

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核心句型: Seeing is believing. 百闻不如一见。 Seeing is believing是一句家喻户晓的谚语,其出处现已无法考证,是代代普通民众长期积累流传下来的思想。这个谚语用一个中国的成语来对照就是:

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A study of 13 countries found that more than 5 million people were killed, most of them in Vietnam. Also, the latest estimates of the world's refugees. Transcript of radio broadcast: 20 June 2008 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A new stu

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No, FDR Did Not Know The Japanese Were Going To Bomb Pearl Harbor play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:37repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flas

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An early-morning explosion at a Baghdad vegetable market killed four people and wounded 13 in the second attack at the same market in just over two weeks. Despite Monday's bloodshed, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said that civilian deaths were down dra

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Loch Ness(尼斯湖), a beautiful but forbidding(可怕的)lake in the Scottish Highlands. The first recorded sighting of a Loch Ness monster goes all the way back to the 6th century when an Irish monk was said to have chastised(责骂) the v

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A new deadly blast occurs in Egypts capital Cairo. The countrys state television says a crude explosive device has killed at least one person and injured 15 others, near Cairos iconic Tahrir Square. This came just hours after a car bomb killed at lea

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2009 The U.N.'s Human Rights Chief is calling for an investigation into Yemeni air strikes that killed dozens of civilians. U.N. aid agencies say the humanitarian situation of the civilian population caught in the

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Latest reports from the besieged Syrian rebel-held city of Aleppo suggest that only a small number of civilians and fighters have made use of humanitarian corridors set up by Russian and Syrian forces. About 300,000 people are still in the city. Russ

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Western leaders have stepped up pressure on Russia to abandon efforts to annex Ukraine'sCrimea region or face sanctions. President Obama spoke at the White House after talks withthe interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. We will continue

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Korva Coleman. Brazilian authorities say a night-club fire killed more than 200 people early today, mostly students in the southern city of Santa Maria. The BBCs Gary Duffy reports witnesses say the fire began after a

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