Oliver went to Target to buy a new vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaners at Target cost $60 to $500. The expensive ones were too bulky and, of course, too expensive. He bought the cheapest one in the store: a Dirt Devil Vibe. Its label claimed that it

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

'The Hangover' Sequel Features Same Crude Humor but New Location Two years ago, a comedy film about three friends on a spree in Las Vegas became a worldwide hit despite - or perhaps because of - its crude humor. Now they're back together and this tim

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Something many people don't know about Marc Chagall - most know the late artist for modernist paintings. But he was less known for designing costumes and sets for ballets and for an opera, which are now featured in an exhibition

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The contrasting English and American patterns have some remarkable implications, particularly if we assume that man, like other animals, has a built-in need to shut himself off from others from time to time. An English student in one of my seminars

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Racial Stereotypes and Memory Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial cat

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By Katherine Cole Washington 26 June 2007 Alison Krauss began studying classical violin when she was five years old. By eight, she had discovered the sound of bluegrass, and soon was winning fiddle contests across the United States. Alison released h

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By Liu Enming New York 20 March 2007 watch Enming report Kosher foods are items made and served under proper Jewish dietary guidelines. For example, there should be no mixing of meat and milk, which symbolize death and life respectively, and the pro

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Jazz Album Features Newly-Released Collection of Miles Davis Quintet Concerts Trumpeter Miles Davis led some of the greatest bands in jazz history, including the so-called Second Great Quintet. The group soars on a newly-released collection of live c

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Virginia Museum Show Features Glass Art Pioneer Dale Chihuly Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play music from a new boy band and an old one. We also tell about the increasin

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'Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt 1' Features Long-Awaited Vampire Wedding Fans around the world are queueing up to see the latest film based on author Stephanie Meyers' Twilight novels. The final book chronicling the romance of teenager Bella and vampire

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Holiday Season Features Latest, Hottest Electronic Gadgets From tablet computers to smart cameras, the holiday season is a time when shoppers are on the lookout for the newest and coolest electronic devices on the market. When it comes to electronic

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At the movies: the strange happenings in the rainy Pacific Northwest town of Forks, Washington get even stranger for love-struck Bella and her brooding boyfriend Edward (who happens to be a vampire); but best friend Jacob also has a supernatural sec

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We have a new biography to talk about - a biography with recipes. It's the story of Paula Wolfert. Wolfert lived in Marrakesh for a time and wrote the first major American cookbook from there. It's called Couscous And Other Go

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are parades, and then there are parades. In Pyongyang today, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, in attendance, they laid on quite a show. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly was there. MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: This is Kim Il

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By Mike O'Sullivan Albuquerque, New Mexico 02 November 2006 The western US state of New Mexico has been home for thousands of years to Native Americans, including the Navajo, Pueblo tribes and others. The Spanish settled the region 400 years ago, an

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Our company hired an outside firm to set up a computer system to help us keep track of the progress on major projects. The company gave us a presentation on how the new system worked . Afterwards , the employees got a chance to ask questions. Cecelia

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 10 February 2008 Foreign book and magazine publishers are making a beeline for India, which has a growing population of affluent, English-speaking customers. Anjana Pasricha has the story from New Delhi. The sugar-candy r

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By Doug Levine Washington 05 January 2007 Bluesman Mark Hummel hasn't taken a vacation in years. He's too busy touring and making records. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, Hummel's also the founder and bandleader of the internationally acclaimed Blues

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I was mugged while I was walking home last night. This morning, I was at the police station with a sketch artist to see if we could come up with a picture of what the thief looked like. Sketch artist: Okay, you said that this was a man in his 40s. Ca

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Handsome is as handsome doesn't in The Dark Knight. Of the three male lookers who dominate it, who would have guessed that the one with his face hidden behind twisted clown makeup, whose perfect features and fair brow are not glimpsed even once, woul

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