President Obama's trying to shore up support for the war in Afghanistan following the unauthorized release of a huge cache of classified documents from the battlefield. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, Mr. Obama does not want the leaked documents to s

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

《迷魂记》(Vertigo,或译迷情记)是英国导演亚佛烈德希区考克于1958年所执导的悬疑电影。由詹姆斯史都华、金露华、芭芭拉贝儿格蒂主演。 《迷魂记》被广泛的评价为历史上最伟大的电影

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1. Libyan forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi have been striken back to protesters. Some say the government has promised a masscre.Meantime , Gaddafi is accusing al-Qaeda of fomenting rebellions. 2. US officials say the Obama administration will throw it

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The credit rating agency Standard and Poor's is putting Washington on notice. NPR's Zoe Chace reports that if Congress and the president don't agree on a long-term deficit plan by 2013, then the US may be a riskier place to invest. US government debt

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Dodging fate and a date with the slaughterhouse. From San Antonio, a reluctant bull tops our look Across Country this morning. Check out the showdown. Late last week near a local meat packing company, which is probably the big reason why the bull wou

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They say that who you hang out with says a lot about who you are. Well, the microbes that hang out on your fingers can point to exactly who you are. Because scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder have been able to identify individuals ba

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今天我们要学的词是undercover。 Undercover, 是指秘密的,暗中进行的。An undercover operation, 就是一次秘密行动。最近,美国农业部宣布回收1亿4千3百万磅牛肉。An undercover video showed that cows too sick

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

A U.S. military satellite detected a heat flash at the time a Russian jetliner crashed over the Sinai Peninsula last weekend, authorities said Tuesday, but the cause of the accident remains a mystery. Authorities have ruled out the possibility that a

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

President Obama welcomed Haitian President Rene Preval at the White House today. Preval is in the US thanking Americans for their help after Haitis devastating earthquake in January. Mr. Obama says the quake was one of the most devastating incidents

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Thousands of riot police blocked streets in Algiers today to stop anti-government protests there. Some arrests were reported. Activists are attempting to hold a pro-democracy rally. Such protests are banned by the government under a state of emergenc

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Want to convince someone to do something? A new University of Michigan study has some intriguing insights drawn from how we speak. The study, presented May 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, examines how

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By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: October 11, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with In the News, from VOA Special English. Officials are investigating who in the Bush administration identified an American intelligen

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LOS ANGELES, May 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA project managers bade farewell to the Mars rover Spirit on Wednesday after sending a final set of commands to the stranded vehicle. This marks the completion of one of the most successful missions of interplanetar

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The U.S. space probe MESSENGER is poised to enter orbit around Mercury(水银) early Friday, Universal time, capping a nearly seven-year journey to the solar systems innermost planet. Scientists with the U.S. space agency, NASA, hope the orbiting

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Business 商业报道 Multinationals in China 跨国公司在中国 Guardian warriors and golden eggs 金刚VS金蛋 The state's crackdowns on big firms are not all about bashing foreigners 中国政府制裁大公司,对象绝非仅是外国人 FO

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From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome back. Im Caty Weaver. On the show today, we look into the future of space exploration. The American space agency NASA has announced plans for a new effort to study the sun. And, NASA scientists are

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ROME, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen people were injured in an accident at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Saturday night when an ATR 72 aircraft went off the runway during landing. Two of the injured were in serious conditions, according to AGI news agency.

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英语四级真题阅读长难句分析(10) 34. Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international

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The wrongful conviction of Huugjilt is one of the most notorious cases of judicial injustice in China in the recent decades. The teenager was declared guilty of raping and then murdering a woman in a public toilet, and subsequently executed. He was p

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For even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, 因为即使当它悠闲地游过风平浪静的正午的海面, with his elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedary's in the desert; 它那耸起的背峰给太阳晒干得象沙漠上

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