英国每日邮报:一项调查显示,很多来自贫困家庭的天才学生都与顶尖大学擦身而过了,相反,那些天资不那么的聪颖但家庭条件比较好的学生反而上了好大学. 贫困生与富二代 Daily Mail: More than 2,

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 双语趣听精彩世界

Leading our news this morning. The major banks are on a collision course with the Federal Government over plans for far-reaching financial reforms. The Murray report also shake up the superannuation and credit charge sucharges. It recommends banks ho

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

When the Labour government bought Kiwi Rail last year (see May 10 2008) the National Party said this was a big mistake. However, now the National government has to find some money to improve the trains. Today, we heard that the government will spend

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

图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A couple of years ago, analysts thought that Britain's Labour Party had sealed its doom. The party chose as its leader Jeremy Corbyn - a fringe politician considered much too far left to ever become prime minister. DAVID GREENE,

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Australia is poised to start delivering weapons to Kurdish forces to help fight Islamic State militants in Iraq. Overnight Iraqi forces captured the besieged town of Amerli where Australian forces have earlier conducted an airdrop. The Prime Minister

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

It is not just the American Presidential elections in early November. Four days after the Americans have chosen their new President, we will vote but we cannot choose our leader. We can only vote for one person in our local area, our electorate, and

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Who owns New Zealand railways, telephone services, electricity, city buses, airports, shipping ports and Air New Zealand? Some of these were owned by the government or local councils. Some were sold to private companies in the 1980s during the time o

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last Monday, Helen Clark talked to the students at Otago University and promised that the Labour government would pay all university students an allowance in the future. It would happen over the next four years. In the past, students at university re

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

After talks with John Key, the co-leaders of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples, have agreed to hold many hui (meetings) throughout New Zealand. It is likely that John Key has offered the Maori Party a chance for one or two of their mem

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

By Mil Arcega WAshington, DC 05 May 2006 watch ILO Child Labor A new report released by a United Nations agency that promotes social justice and labor rights says child labor is declining for the firs

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Chinese authorities have said that all those still serving time in labour camps will be released today. But they added that the penalties handed out before the abolition of the labour camps will still be considered legitimate. The Vice director of th

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年12月

In 2000, the Labour government decided to stop using the titles Sir and Dame for the people who receive our top honours. Instead these people were called Principal Companion or Distinguished Companion, which does not sound nearly so good. Now the Nat

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, has announced that there is going to be a review of the Holidays Act 2003 to see if any changes are needed. The review could mean that in the future, instead of taking a holiday, employees could ask for money i

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Britain may like to find out about more our voting system in elections. Our system gives smaller political parties a chance to be part of the government. We have MMP which is one kind of proportional representation. If a party gets a proportion of th

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

As expected, David Shearer of the Labour Party, won the Mt Albert by-election yesterday. He received 63% of the vote. This was 12,615 votes. Melissa Lee of the National Party received only 3,426, the Green Party candidate received 2,418 while the ACT

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Today, I have an announcement to make. I am very excited to tell all of you that A Cup Of English is available in app (or application) for the iPhone, the iPod touch, the iPad or similar devices. It is already available in iTunes. For those of you wh

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

On Thursday morning, Australians were surprised to find they had a new Prime Minister. She is Julia Gillard, Australias first woman Prime Minister. On Wednesday, Kevin Rudd was still PM of the Australian Labour government, a position he has held for

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Britain How to win elections 英国 获选方法 Baracking the voters 奥巴马式拉票 British parties want to emulate the American master 英国政党希望效仿美国总统 At ten oclock, recalls a Labour Party staffer, the sweep began. From nei

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合