美国大选结束了,各种拉票和选战活动也终于告一段落。就拿我们家附近的教会来说,他们现在不用再向教友推荐应该给哪个候选人投票了。 美国禁止宗教机构支持某一候选人,不过有些教会

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

C: my mp3 player is broken, so I want to change it for an mp4 player. Can you offer any advice about which brand and model to buy? J: an mp4 player? why don't you buy a new cell phone? You can find an mp4 player inside any of the latest cell phones.

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Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world. It originated from the eight-hour day movement in the nineteenth century. Labor unions called for eight hours for work, eight hours for play, and eight hours for sleep. It then became a re

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

Labour and the Greens announced a policy in April to cut power prices. If Labour and the Greens become the government in 2014, their government would buy electricity directly from the generating companies, like Mighty River Power. They say this would

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AS IT IS 2015-10-06 Beach Mat Charges Mobile Phone 黎巴嫩小伙开发能为手机充电的沙滩垫 Some people do not like being separated from their telephone, even while enjoying a restful holiday at the beach. So, a university student from Leb

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(351) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十)月

文本: Oh, my God! We have customers? What's going on? Why are there so many hipsters here? Are we selling stupid hats and telling them they're more talented than they actually are? No, that's already a store. It's called Fedorable. You've been wo

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着美剧练发音

Skilled labour技工Behind the scenes在幕后What a shortage of workers on film sets in Georgia says about America美国称,乔治亚州电影现场面临工作人员的严重短缺问题THE recent arrival of aliens and murderous youth in suburban

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

今天我们要学的词是downturn。Downturn, 是衰退和下降的意思。日本最大的汽车制造商丰田汽车公司星期二警告说,国内需求可能会出现急剧下降, Toyota warned on Tuesday that there will be a sharp downturn

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

labour law 劳工法 working day, workday 工作日 full-time employment, full-time job, full-time work 全天工作 part-time employment, part-time job, part-time work 半日工作 working hours 工作

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语

英国政府考虑把法定假日五一劳动节挪到10月,并更名为英国节或特拉法尔加节,以促进旅游业。负责旅游事务的部长官员说,新节日设在秋天,不仅能促进旅游业发展,还能让我们所有人专注

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

ROME, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Italian first division soccer league new season may face a strike if players and clubs do not reach a compromise over a new collective labour agreement. If we do not sign the new labour agreement, the first round of fixt

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Workers and labour activists have often attacked strict discipline as coercive, unfair and potentially counterproductive. 工人和劳工活动人士一直以来都在批判纪律苛刻,认为这是强迫性、不公平且可能会适得其反的东西

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

What does this mean? The books means the budget or the money that we earn and spend. If we balance the books we have enough money coming in to pay for what we spend. The same happens with our government. However, at the moment New Zealand has a very

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Two rating agencies, Standard and Poors (S P) and Fitch downgraded New Zealands credit rating from AA+ to AA. This is the first downgrade in 13 years. A credit rating gives some idea of whether the economy is stable and whether the government can pay

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Only 73% of registered voters chose to vote on Saturday. This is the lowest percentage since 1887. 3,053,705 people are registered to vote but only 2.2m people voted. Although it is too early to know all the details, it seems that young people are no

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本期内容: Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britains opposition Labour Party, said his MPs would have a free vote on the extension of air raids on Islamic State to Syria. David Cameron, the prime minister, favours bombing; Mr Corbyn opposes it, but seve

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五一劳动节快乐!希望你今天不需要劳动,可以睡个懒觉、听听节目、学点英语。今天Jenny和Adam就要告诉你英语里超有趣的劳动说法。 关键词: 劳动英语怎么说? Labor: 劳动 Labor Day:劳动节

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

Payday lending 发薪日贷款 Shark bait 海底大冒险 The Labour Party launches an attack on payday lenders. It may be too late 工党向发薪日贷款人发难,但这可能为时已晚。 IN THE real world, shoppers are moving online. But ret

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EVERYONE complains that corporate America is reluctant to hire additional workers. Far less attention has been paid to the flip side of the jobless recovery: the remarkable improvement in American productivity. How long can this continue? I see no li

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Transcript: A (Girl 1): My hero isnt very famous, but she ought to be. Shes Mary Anning, who was only 12 years old and from a poor family when she made an amazing discovery. She found the first dinosaur skeleton, that of an ichthyosaur, on the cliffs

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