By Steve Schy Turin, Italy 24 February 2006 At any Olympic Games, some of the favorites falter, while lowly-regarded athletes and teams appear to come from nowhere to end up on the medals podium. Duri

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(二月)

The drive from the Russian border to the Tapa military base in Estonia is only three hours by tank. And that concerns the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The military base once belonged to the Soviet Union. Now, it has 1,000 NATO soldiers

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Australia 澳大利亚 Australian 澳大利亚人 Austria 澳地利 Austrian 澳地利人 Canada 加拿大 Canadian 加拿大人 China 中国 Finland 芬兰 Finnish 芬兰人 India 印度 Indian 印度人 Japan 日本 Korea 韩国 Nigeria 尼日利亚

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Should men get paternity leave? 别人家的奶爸:幸福带薪休产假 Editor's note: Women get maternity leave after giving birth, so should their husbands also get time off to take care of their newborns? Should paternity and maternity leave ar

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Peace Prize winner and former Finnish President. He also won the 2008 UNESCO Peace Prize. Ahtisaari has spent much of his career in the worlds danger zones trying to bring peace to people at war. Ahtisaari started his career as a school teacher, whic

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Land of the Midnight Sun 芬兰 圣诞老人的家乡 One of the lands of the midnight sun, Finland has much more to offer than the cold nights, saunas, and skiing it is often associated with. Visitors are enchanted by charming villages alongside sop

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting comes at a time of uneasy relations between their countries. In recent years, the two sides have disagreed abou

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It is a big week for movie biographies. Opening today are fact-based films about a Supreme Court justice, two semi-famous authors, an infamous artist and a man who refused to let polio defeat him. Critic Bob Mondello says that Ho

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, Ailsa, it's Friday. It's almost the weekend. I mean, I feel like we should just turn up some music. AILSA CHANG, HOST: Yes. I am so ready for this. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GREENE: Now, this song is really important because

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Jaakko Laajava the Finnish Ambassador to Britain has admitted to having a taste for heavy metal music. Commenting on his countrys amazing victory in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday (20th May 2006), he told the BBC that there was an element of

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Leaders from around the world are extending their best New Year wishes to the Chinese people. I would like to send my best wishes to the people of China from the snowy Finland, the Home of the Santa Claus. I wish you a happy Chinese New Year, said Sa

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今天我们要学的词是corrupt。 Corrupt, 是腐败、堕落的意思。A corrupt official, 是一名腐败官员。A corrupt regime, 是一个腐败的政体。 你知道世界上最腐败的国家是哪些吗?Burma and Somalia were ranked th

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Each year, the OECD tests half a million 15-year old students in 70 countries in reading, mathematics and science. The results for 2009 were published this month. They showed students in Korea and Finland had the highest scores for reading literacy.

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