ESL Podcast 1161 Traveling by Light Rail Jean: Look out! Gordon: Dont worry. Thats just a light rail train. The new light rail system shares the road with street traffic. Jean: Phew! For a second there I thought we were going to collide with it. Gord

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年ESL之旅行交通购物

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has unveiled its new unmanned monorail, SkyRail, in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Wednesday, January 10. The unmanned train system will be officially put into operation in the second quarter

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 2018CRI中国国际广播电台

This has been a bad week so far for job losses. Yesterday, KiwiRail said that 158 staff will lose their jobs. Many of these people are engineering staff. Also Solid Energy, which owns coal mines, will close Spring Creek in Greymouth with a loss of 22

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

1.指一指,说一说 2.涂一涂,画一画 3.唱一唱,圈一圈 I want to eat a cookie. 我想吃一块饼干。 But Mom says, No! Sweetie! 但妈妈说:不行!宝贝! Then she gives me a kiwi. 然后她给我一颗奇异果。 So I am

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Conservation Group Sees Better Future for Two Kiwi Birds News about endangered species often worries people. But on December 5, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, had some good news. In publishing its yearly Red List of

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Todd: So, Mark, when people think of Americans they often think of the hot dog and when they think of Japan they think of sushi. What are the foods that people associate with New Zealand? Mark: According to a lot of the Japanese students that I know

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语访谈对话

Todd: So, Mark, what do Kiwis like to do in the summer? Mark: Yeah, I think the first thing for some people to realise is that Christmas is midsummer in New Zealand. Todd: Oh nice! Mark: So Kiwis combine Christmas holiday and New Year holiday with a

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Todd: So Kate, can you talk about growing up in New Zealand, what its like? Kate: Growing up in New Zealand is very free. Kids have a lot more freedom that kids in other countries: we can.. obviously we go to school from 5 years and until 16 years ol

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Todd: So Kate, can you talk about growing up in New Zealand, what its like? Kate: Growing up in New Zealand is very free. Kids have a lot more freedom that kids in other countries: we can.. obviously we go to school from 5 years and until 16 years ol

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Regular petrol 91 octane is now $2 a litre well, $1.99.9. Although this price is high, in July 2008 it reached $2.19. At that time, the price of a barrel of oil was higher and the kiwi dollar was lower. Now the price of oil is around $100 a barrel an

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The first high-speed rail tunnel linking the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong has been cut through. The 3,886-meter tunnel runs from Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province to the Mai Po district of Hong Kong. The Shenzhen section of the tunnel

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 2015CRI中国国际广播电台

If you live in Wellington, go to Frank Kitts Park on the waterfront to see the Kiwi bach called First Light. It will be there from today until May 24th. Four Victoria University architecture students designed this small house like a Kiwi bach for a c

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The first high-speed rail line to a border city in northeast China is set to open in Jilin Province on Sunday. The new line is to link Jilin City with Hunchun, which is at the borders of North Korea and Russia. Local residents have come to the railwa

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 2015CRI中国国际广播电台

A Chinese-developed light rail line in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, designed to reduce traffic in the city of 1.2 million people, is now active. The rapid-transit system, the first of its kind in West Africa, has been built by the China Civil Engineerin

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Ellen,there were the biggest,burlesque guys and girls, Ellen 那儿的男生和女生们都热情幽默 There they were building houses and you know going everywhere, 他们那儿建好多房子 你知道 全部都是 And you know what,you'll be surp

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 艾伦脱口秀

The Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Bollard, kept the OCR at 2.5% today. Dr Bollard said he kept it at the same rate because of financial problems in Europe. Also the slowdown in the US is a concern. In addition, the US will need to borrow more mone

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The World of Wearable Arts show is on in Wellington at the moment. It finishes Saturday 10th September. Wearable Arts means art to wear and costumes are made from many different kinds of fabric including paper, plastic, or waste materials. The Suprem

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

First listen to news about previous budgets: What is the Budget, May 19 2010 and The Budget, May 28 2009. The Minister of Finance, Bill English, read the Budget today in Parliament. Just like the last few years, there were not many surprises. We alre

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The ceremony marking the beginning of the building process was held the city of Springfield. Earlier in 2015, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority awarded a 560 million dollar contract to China Rail Rolling Stock Corp. to design and manufacture

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 2015CRI中国国际广播电台

The 26 kilometer railway linking West Kowloon to the border will plug Hong Kong into China's national high speed network. It was initially scheduled to be completed by the end of last year, but now is delayed to the third quarter of 2018. As a result

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2016CRI中国国际广播电台