Gun control should be a really serious issue. In my country, politicians rarely talk about it. They only discuss it if someone goes nuts and shoots lots of people in a school or shopping mall. Gun crime is on the increase everywhere but the governmen

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 听一分钟英文-G

Chicago Working to Reduce Gun Violence Gun violence is an issue in Chicago, Illinois, Americas third largest city. The Chicago Tribune reported that 61 people were shot in the city during the long Christmas holiday weekend. Eleven of those shot died,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Gun control should be a really serious issue. In my country, politicians rarely talk about it. They only discuss it if someone goes nuts and shoots lots of people in a school or shopping mall. Gun crime is on the increase everywhere but the governmen

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Facing powerful opposition to new gun laws, President Barack Obama is considering(1) 19 steps that he could take through executive action(2). The steps could include punishing(3) people who lie on gun sale background checks(4), getting more complete

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

Jerry watched gangster movies. He loved gangster movies. Gangsters were cool. They were rich. They had pretty girlfriends. They drove fast cars. They had guns. They shot enemies with their guns. They shot police with their guns. They shot each other

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

Gun store owners say they are selling fewer guns since the 2016 presidential election. Some are calling the drop a Trump slump. Sales of guns slowed after Donald Trump was elected president, ending fears that a Democratic president would strengthen g

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Take my breath away《壮志凌云Top Gun》主题曲 Take my breath away(让我无法呼吸) 这首歌是一九八六年的空战电影《壮志凌云Top Gun》的主题曲之一,当时随着电影的卖座而红透半边天,演唱的柏林合唱团

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AS IT IS 2016-06-15 Push for Gun Control After Orlando Shooting The day after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, U.S. President Barack Obama called on the nation to make it harder for people who might be a threat to get guns -- just as

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(六)月

AS IT IS 2016-06-14 Mental Health Not Primary Cause of Gun-Related Violence The order of events is almost always the same after a mass shooting in the United States. People go to the place where the shooting happened. The mourners cry or stand silent

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(六)月

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) MONTAGNE: These past few days saw changes to our gun regulations on both the national and the local level. In Florida, Governor Rick Scott signed a package of new gun regula

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The man with a laser gun lived two floors above the duck with one wing. I stood outside his door and woofed three times. Quiet, let me sleep, came a gruff voice from within. The Good Cat meowed. I realized how much my talking friend the Parrot used t

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Todd: So you said somebody pulled a gun on you once. Aaraon: Yeah, well, what happened was that I was working the side door with a friend, good old Brent, the loose cannon as it were, and someone said, Oh, my God, Oh, my God and we were scared so we

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: palindromes aplenty. RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, anot

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

WHITE HOUSE A gun violence task force, created by President Barack Obama and headed by Vice President Joe Biden, held its first meeting Thursday to begin to seek solutions to gun violence in the wake of the massacre of children and adults at an eleme

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

At least 13 people have been killed and at least 85 injured in a fierce gun battle in Gaza, emergency services say. Eyewitnesses say hundreds of Hamas fighters and policemen surrounded a mosque where followers of a radical Islamist (伊斯兰) cleric

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AS IT IS 2016-06-28 Mass Killings Bring New Demands for Gun Control in America When U.S. Congressional Democrats demanded votes on gun control measures last week, Republican leaders turned off the cameras. The action is strangely similar to what cong

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(346) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: palindromes aplenty. RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward and a

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Almost 60,000 members of the gun industry are meeting this week in the U.S. city of Las Vegas, Nevada. They are gathering for the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show or, as it is commonly called, the SHOT show. The yearly event brings together g

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月

WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) -- White House Spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday ruled out new gun control laws, saying U.S. President Barack Obama will focus on other measures to reduce gun violence. Speaking at a regular briefing, Carney said Obama sup

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

The Declaration of Independence Think I could tell you that first sentence But then Im lost I can't begin to count the theories I've had pounded in my head That I forgot I don't remember all that Spanish Or the Gettysburg address But there is one spe

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