BP says it's making progress today on an undersea operation to install a new containment cap on its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday, the company removed a cap as part of a plan to place a tighter-fitting cover over the well that can c

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

The Republican presidential hopefuls are gathered tonight in Hanover, New Hampshire. The eight Republican GOP candidates for the nomination embarking on a wide-ranging discussion on the economy, what might be done to fix it. Mitt Romney, the current

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

05布什反对设置能源最高限价 Bush Rejects Call for Price Caps on Energy Prices Deborah Tate Los Angeles 30 May 2001 04:01 UTC President Bush has met with California's Governor Gray Davis to

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2001-国际风云(1)

1. At least four people are dead and there is damage in 19 Massachusetts communities after tornadoes ripped through Wednesday. In Springfield, police are going door to door this morning, making sure no one is trapped in rubble. Governor Deval Patrick

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(六月)

IN THE NEWS - 'Private Failings': The Rise, and Sudden Fall, of Eliot Spitzer New York's governor built his political life on fighting corruption. He resigns after being identified as a client of a prostitution business. Transcript of radio broadcas

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(三)月

AMERICAN MOSAIC - For Jenna Bush, a Texas Wedding Beats a White House Ceremony Also: A question from a listener about New York's new governor, David Paterson. And music from the group Beach House. Transcript of radio broadcast: 08 May 2008 HOST: Wel

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(五)月

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A family member of one of the Virginia Tech victims, student Daniel Alejandro Prez Cueva, after the dedication of a memorial A committee gave its findings last week about the Virginia Tech shootings

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(九)月

AS IT IS 2016-08-02 Tokyo Voters Elect Citys First Woman Governor 东京选民选出首位女性都知事 Voters in Tokyo have elected the citys first female governor. Sixty-four-year-old Yuriko Koike received the most votes in local elections on Sun

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(八)月

AS IT IS 2016-02-21 South Dakota Governor To Consider 'Bathroom' Bill The South Dakota Senate passed a bill this week that orders people in public schools to use restrooms that align with their gender at birth. Lawmakers in the midwestern American st

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AS IT IS 2015-11-09 Most US Presidential Candidates Oppose TPP 大多数美国总统候选人反对TPP More candidates running for president oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal (TPP) than support it. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham

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AS IT IS 2016-03-28 At Least 50 Dead in Pakistan Suicide Bombing 巴基斯坦自杀式袭击致至少50人死亡 Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber attacked a crowded public park in Lahore Sunday night, killing more than 50 people and wounding

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Lesson 4 Small Talk 第四课 闲聊 April 8 4月8日 What Can I Talk About? 聊什么话题? Read it! 读读看! Lucky Taylor gets to interview the governor. 幸运的泰乐得以访问州长, Taylor will ask her about education. 泰乐将会问

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 大家说英语

今天我们要学的词儿是loophole。 Loophole是漏洞的意思。美国维吉尼亚理工大学发生校园枪击事件后,Virginia governor closed a loophole that allowed the VA tech shooter to obtain guns, 维吉尼亚州州长堵住了让维

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here are some headlines NOW IN THE NEWS. We have some breaking news to tell you about Angelo, Texas right now. An appeals court has just ruled that the state did not have the right to seize children

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(五)月

HARI SREENIVASAN: They are calling him a liberal lion. Mario Cuomo began life above his father's grocery store in Queens and died yesterday as a three-time governor known for unapologetic defense of liberalism. MARIO CUOMO, (D) New York Governor-Elec

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

今天我们要学的词是blast。 Blast, 做为动词,有强烈批评的意思。 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick blasted Arizona's new immigration law, 麻萨诸塞州州长帕特里克对亚利桑那州新出炉的移民法提出强烈谴责

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

to call up to call it a day 我们曾经说过,学习英语的一个困难就是有些英文字一个字就有好几个不同的意思。就拿call这个字来说吧。在一本字典里,call这个字

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

NICOSIA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A committee of the Cypriot parliament voted on Tuesday to subpoena Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades to answer questions as to whether he had misled the parliament in relation to the mandate for a probe into the

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, May 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 2,500 people were feared dead in a landslide in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan on Friday, the provincial governor said. We estimate that more than 2,500 were missing. It is feared that mo

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lesson 10 Fashion 第十课 时尚 September 23 9月23日 What Should I Wear? 我该穿什么呢? Read it! 读读看! Susie and Alex are invited to a special lunch with the governor! 苏希和亚力克斯获邀与州长共进一场特别的午宴!

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