President Obama now says same-sex marriage should be legal. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports the White House has been under pressure to clarify the presidents position since Vice President Joe Biden expressed support for gay marriage on Sunday. The president

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Naamua Delaney.Thanks for checking in with us, and here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. President Obama will hold a news conference tonight. He's expected to discuss his efforts to shore up the econo

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2009年(三)月

07 Moving in Together GLOSSARY to go out to date someone; to be involved in a romantic relationship withsomeone, but not be married* Did you hear that Wendy and Gil started going out last month? heart-to-heart a serious and sincere conversation betwe

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Lesson 126 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Note-taking: Marriage Rules Britain: 1. illegal to ___________ _____________________ 2. an offence to ________ 3. against the law to ___ ______________________

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Unit9 Section(A) Premarital Agreements A future husband wanted to be sure that if his marriage didn't work out, he could keep his treasuredice-cream collection safely stored away in a freezer. A woman insisted on verifying who would walk thedog. One

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 新视野大学英语读写教程(3)

今天要学的一个词组: split up. Split up是分手的意思。最近呢,Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson are splitting up after nearly six years of marriage, said her publicist. Kate Hudson和丈夫结婚将近六年决定分手。哎,又一对

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Coming to Grips with Gay Marriage 同性恋行不行? Gay marriage has been hotly debated in the news lately. While several countries have some form of gay marriage on the books, the Netherlands rec

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Instead, I moved to Washington, D C., which was full of eligible men. 于是我转而去了华盛顿特区,那里尽是适合结婚的男人。 It worked. My first year out of college, I met a man who was not just eligible, but also wonderful, so I

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 向前一步

Filmmaker Doug Block learned a lot about marriage by accident. A documentarian who also works as a wedding videographer, Doug Block visited a handful of couples whose weddings he'd filmed -- anywhere from five to 20 years later -- and interviewed the

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(242) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Along with this, we see a rise of a host of beliefs: 不仅如此,各种信仰开始传播: the belief of virginity at marriage, arranged marriages -- strictly arranged marriages 坚信婚前必须保持处女身,包办婚姻(严格安排的婚

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Natalie Morales: Barash recently completed a study that defines what she calls the

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carl Kasell. Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island are holding presidential primaries today. It's a close race for Democrats between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On the Republican side, John McCain's co

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台三月

Your dream guy just got down on one knee and popped the question. You are all set for your wedding bells to ring. But do you realize how much is your life going to change? Marriage is, indeed, a very big step and were certainly not against it. Marrie

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根据例子中每句话的实际作用,巧妙的写出规范的复合句。 托福独立写作对于句子的要求,是要高于我们在国内英语课堂上所熟悉的英语写作习惯的。一般来说,中国的学生更习惯大量的运用

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress-model Jerry Hall are to get married. 媒体大亨鲁珀特默多克将与演员兼模特杰莉霍尔结婚。 They announced their engagement in the births, marriages and deaths section of the Times newspaper, w

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(325) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. An unidentified couple in South Africa. The couple's HIV status is not known. A common belief about AIDS and marriage is that husbands are more likely to infect wives than the other way around. Gen

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美国最高法院将辩论同性婚姻问题 We spend family time together. We teach the kids to do chores. We teach the kids to ride bikes. 我们一起共度家庭时光,我们教孩子做家务,骑自行车。 You know, there's no difference

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There have been many different things written and said about marriage. 已经有各种不同文字记录和讨论着关于婚姻的话题。 From the sweetly inspirational to the hilariously cynical. 从甜蜜励志的到诙谐讽刺的。 But what m

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, 同性恋权益不主要是婚姻权益, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places 而对数以百万生活在不包容 with no resources, 和缺少资源地方的人们, dignity remains elu

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