10 The Marathon Twenty-six miles, 385 yards is rather odd distance for a foot race.Most other running races are measured in lengths of even numbers. The marathon,however,has an ancient history, going back to the early Greek Olympics. The

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INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., Robbie Stewart is in the kitchen with Alexandra Pappas. She is teaching him to make stuffed grape leaves, a traditional Greek dish. They are getting ready to go on a picnic with some friends, and t

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What Is Your Achilles' Heel? 词汇典故:什么是你的致命弱点? Hello! And welcome to Words and Their Stories, a VOA Learning English program about American expressions. The Greek poet Homer has given us many phrases. A famous one is Achilles

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Kate: Can you recognize that woman, Millie? Millie: I think I can, Kate. It must be Karen Marsh, the actress. Kate: I thought so. Who’s that beside her? Millie: That must be Conrad Reeves. Kate: Con

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And Greece's credit rating has been downgraded to below junk status.Rating agency,StandardPoor's has classified Greek debt as being in selective default.The European Central Bank says Greek bonds can no longer be used as collateral for loans to comme

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Lesson Thirteen TRAVELLING (II) Part B Macro-Listening (Tapescripts, Notes, Exercises with Key) Dialogue Mr Harris in Egypt Tapescript Woman Here we are, Mr Harris. This is Hotel Cleopatra. Man What a lovely place! This is one of the most beautiful h

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AS IT IS 2015-07-01 Greece Offers a Proposal as Time Limit Runs Out 临近期限希腊给出解决建议 Greece has made a proposal shortly before it was about to default on a loan payment and European leaders agreed to consider it in an emergency co

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战略考量影响希腊危机 When Greek and other European leaders came to the 17th hour of their all-night talks that culminated in an agreement Monday morning, their immediate concerns were economic. But experts say there were also serious strate

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Where did your weekend take you? Our DreamTrippers canoed in Phuket, Thailand, sailed around the Greek islands, visited the Grand-Place in Brussels, Belgium and embarked on a safari in South Africa. Which of these weekend adventures suits you best? 你

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迷你对话: A:You married Joe, didn't you? 你和Joe结婚了吧? B:Joe? I don't know what you mean. Joe? 我不知道你在说什么。 A:I remember you are in love. 我记得你们在谈恋爱。 B:Oh, I took a shine to him when we met for th

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I wasn't paying attention to my own expression, but something in it made him grow somber. 我没太注意自己的表情,但这让他阴沉起来。 His hand dropped to his side and he stood very still, his eyes intent on my face. The silence lengt

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EDUCATION REPORT – June 13, 2002: Latin Language Teaching By Jerilyn Watson Orange High School Latin Club, Pepper Pike, Ohio. (Picture -ohiojcl.org) This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

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BBC Learning English Weekender Greek Easter Jackie: Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton, welcome to weekender. Now most of us in Britain celebrated Easter last weekend the 15th and 16th of April. We had bank holidays when most people didn't go to work. Many ga

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Greek government has begun the transfer of some 800-million US dollars in debt interest it owes to the International Monetary Fund. The transfer comes just hours before the repayment was due. This comes as the finance ministers from 19 countries in t

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Now then, think what a job it must have been to decipher all that Egyptian writing when people became interested in hieroglyphs again, 200 years ago. 那么现在想一想,当人们在200年前重新对象形文字产生兴趣,要读懂所有的古

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Ajax was a man of giant stature,daring but slow.When the Trojan War was about to break out he led his forces from Salamis to join the Greek army at Aulis.As one of the trustiest champions of the Greek cause,he was given the job of guarding on

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Ben Cooper is more than just a musician: hes a storyteller, and a good one at that. Cooper, who previously was one-half of Electric President, brings his voice to the table as Radical Face and has now completed the second installation of his musical

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Greece has become the first advanced economy ever to go into arrears with the International Monetary Fund. Its failed to pay back 1.6 billion Euros to the IMF and its international bailout agreement has also expired. From Brussels, Chris Morris. 希腊

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It's now been confirmed that at least 30 of the 38 people shot dead at a Tunisian beach resort were British nationals. The gunmen has been identified as a student linked to the Islamic State militant group. Mark Lowen reports. 现已证实在突尼斯海

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Ben Cooper is more than just a musician: hes a storyteller, and a good one at that. Cooper, who previously was one-half of Electric President, brings his voice to the table as Radical Face and has now completed the second installation of his musical

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