Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi appears to have lost control of Libya, according to its major European ally, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome Italy has come under intense pressure from the US and Euro

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

Unit 5 Text A Pre-reading Activities 1. As you listen to the passage, write down the idioms and expressions that match each definition below. Warning: One of the definitions fits two expressions that

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 21世纪大学英语读写教程

1. cool,酷。 eg:The water was slightly cooler than a child's bath. 这水比小孩子的洗澡水稍微凉一点。 2. gadget,小机件,(小巧的)器具,小玩意儿。 eg:She likes those clever little gadgets. 她喜爱那些做得很巧妙的小

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 蒋健棠教你听英语广播

Hello, there. Good to see you. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Virginia Cha with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The Bush Administration is considering a plan B, as it were, to help Detroit's Big Three automakers after the Senate fai

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Hi there! I'm Brooke Baldwin at the CNN center in Atlanta. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A slow-starting Atlantic hurricane season is now rushing in and a few named storms are on our radar. Take a look here. Claudette came a

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2009年(八)月

Good Friday afternoon to you from CNN.com headquarters in Atlanta. Im Naamua Delaney, heres a look at whats happening NOW In The News. 6 workers bodies have been pulled from the rubble of the Dixie Crystals sugar plant near Savannah Georgia. About 1

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(二)月

SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Samsung Electronics, the world's second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones, said Monday that it launched its latest smart mobile gadget Galaxy Note in South Korea in a bid to take the lead in a new phase of the mobile ph

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

So how does a garage start-up become the most valuable company in the world? Well, Apple Computer did it by selling 93 million iPhones last year and 40 million iPads and the only reason they didn't sell more is that they can't make them fast enough.

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语万花筒

Joel: So, I know a lot of things are cheaper in Thailand, but like electronics, are they cheaper in Thailand or cheaper in Japan? Tom: That's a difficult question. I think electrical accessories are cheaper in Thailand. Do you know what I mean by tha

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This cheeky critter had other ideas when Greenpeace USA came to film a spectacular time-lapse video. 美国绿色和平组织在进行一次延时摄影时被这个捣蛋鬼搞了破坏。 Hours after environmentalists left a GoPro camera filming in

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

When many of us have a little cash to invest, we might buy a mutual fund or a stock if we dont blow it on the latest tech gadget. Not the truly wealthy, however. They often put their money in property, art, businesses and other investments that the r

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

IS this the world's first ever 'slofie'? 这是世界上第一张树懒拍吗? A man used his selfie stick for a brilliant snap with an a happy creature while trekking through the forest in South America. 一名男子在南美丛林徒步旅行时,

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在很多同学四六级写作的过程中,都会遇到各种问题,例如有学员滥用复合句,辛苦背范文,新东方在线的老师总结了四六级学员的7大写作难题,与大家齐分享,希望帮助大家摆脱写作拦路虎

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Imagine walking into a room of strangers knowing your clothes could keep you calm, or wearing a jacket that could cheer you up after a breakup. 想象一下,你走进一间屋子,里面都是陌生人,但你知道你的衣服可以让你保持冷

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

As CES, the biggest electronics trade show in the America kicks off this week in Las Vegas, US TV makers will be doing their best to convince consumers to press pause on HD television, and make room in their place for Ultra HD television. It's the la

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Shuai Yunyun, 21, from Shanghai University of Engineering Science found that her friends were all occupied with their smartphones during a high school friends meeting. 21岁的帅芸芸(音译)来自上海工程技术大学。在一次高中同学聚

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Special Thanks to Nativespeaker and jacobs613 Good afternoon from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Raggie Aqui. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. China says it's going to welcome international aid, but for now, relief workers from oth

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Business 商业报道 Wearable computing 可穿戴的计算设备 The eyes have it 眼睛将拥有谷歌眼镜 Google advances its plan to bring smart glasses to the masses 谷歌提出在普通民众中推广智能眼镜的计划 GOOGLE has an ambit

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

In todays podcast, I am going to talk about the English word up-to-date. Well, it is really three words up, to and date normally we spell it with hyphens in between but we can think of up-to-date as a single word. Up-to-date is an adjective. It means

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

本期内容: Three out of four children under-five now has access to a tablet, smartphone or computer, according to a study. Voice-recognition gadgets such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa were also said to be increasingly popular with the age g

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