US tax payers could see a savings of about 48 billion dollars over 11 years as a result of the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care reform law. The congressional budget office says the savings come through changed Medicaid requiremen

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Episode 6 Gym talk Dialog 1 Leslie and Joanne fitness enter the center to get a real work out. Leslie: Thanks for inviting me to work out with you, Joan. Joanne: Don't mention it, let's go in. Leslie: Yeah, this place looks great. Wow, look at her, s

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10A Problem with a Restaurant Check GLOSSARY to get (someones) attention to do something so that another person pays attention to oneself; to do something to get another person to look at oneselfand/or listen to what one is saying* During the footbal

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Presidential candidates in Ghana wrapped-up their campaigning Friday ahead of Sunday's run-off election to succeed out-going President John Kufuor. Ghana's opposition party candidate John Atta Mills (l) and Ruling party presidential candidate Nana A

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)

Last week Mrs Mills went to London. She does not know London very well, and she lost her way. Suddenly, she saw a man near a bus-stop. I can ask him the way. She said to herself. Excuse me, she said. Can you tell me the way to King Street please? Th

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地点:中央公园咖啡馆 人物:菲比,乔伊,莱斯利,莫妮卡,罗斯 事件:咖啡馆来了一位新歌手,是菲比曾经的搭档莱斯利,但是她后来抛弃了菲比去写广告歌。莱斯利这次来找菲比想和她重

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Hey! Lennie! Good to see you. You too. Kim's doing okay? Yeah, seems like the usual Kim. Lennie! Honey? Sir, back away now! I didn't do this. Put your hands up! Now! Wanted for murder. Suspect's name: Bryan Mills. 21, he joins the army. At 23, he joi

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In spite of the fact that land in New York City is worth more than any other land in the World, there are two big parks where city people may have a little country. 尽管纽约市的土地比世界上其他任何地方都要贵,但市内仍然有两

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Chapter 9 Yankee Land 第8章 扬基人的定居地 A pair of shoes, a hat, or an automobile we should not call New if they were a year old, 一双鞋、一顶帽子或一辆汽车,如果用了一年,我们就不该说它们是新的了, but th

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The water was getting higher and higher. The rain was coming down. It kept raining and raining. Leslie was worried. Im worried, she said to her brother. She was worried about Moo. Moo was her cow. Moo was in the field. Moo was in the rain. Leslie did

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The McCartney divorce has been big news in the UK Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills have been hitting the headlines on a daily basis recently because of their high profile divorce battle. The titles of Beatles songs have been used in newspapers t

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Amid the recent economic downturn, demand in the U.S. is rising for small wind turbines to power people's homes. The American Wind Energy Association says sales of such turbines rose 15 percent in 2009. One man in Florida is generating his own power

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we talk about applying to an American college or university. International admissions officers advise students to apply to at least three schools. You may be

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Economics Report - 'You Are Your Brand:' Using Social Media to Find a Job This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Today we share some ideas for job hunters about presenting yourself online. 今

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Rocky Mountain National Park: Wild and Wonderful Our national parks journey this week takes us to an extreme landscape in Colorado. Around us are clear lakes, aspen and fir trees, and mountain peaks that rise over 4,400 meters. Welcome to Rocky Mount

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Mystery Guest JONATHAN COULTON: This is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. I'm Jonathan Coulton here with puzzle guru Art Chung. Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Thank you, Jonathan. This week

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Leslie: This keyboard is so hard to use. I cant find where anything is! Dave: Its a standard QWERTY keyboard. The layout may be a little different, with the function keys on the right-hand side instead of on the top, but youll get used to it in no ti

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Now the divorce battle between Sir Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills is set to drag on to next week. It had been scheduled to end today, but the pair haven't been able to reach an agreement over how much of his 825 million pounds sh

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我听之我见 :这首歌尤其适合在酒吧演奏,夜色晦暗,孤独的男人和害羞的 女孩 共舞最后一曲华尔兹,Engelbert那独特的带有迷人魔力的浪漫嗓音将一个 美丽 的爱情娓娓道来。那是只有两个人的舞池,没有拥挤,没有狂热,只有安静的旋转,悠扬的 音乐 。一曲舞毕,男人爱

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1. The outer bands of Tropical Storm Leslie are pelting Bermuda with rain and gusty winds. The airport is closed and all bus and sea ferry services have been halted. Leslie isn't expected to make a direct hit. 2. Officials say the Scotts wildfire in

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