Donald Trump suggested in an interview last Monday that Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. 唐纳德特朗普在上周一的一次采访中暗示,贝拉克奥巴马曾经

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Topics: Famous Americans Charles Schultz and Peanuts; The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve; to be pleased to versus to be happy to versus its (ones) pleasure to; to sit versus to seat; willy-nilly Words: cartoon freelance folks memoir to

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1. Scott McClellan, former press secretary for President Bush, says he got caught up in what he calls the Washington game instead of changing things like the president promised. McClellan has written a tell-all memoir that's critical of Bush. 2. A m

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Glad youre with us, Im Catherine Callaway at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announcing yesterday that a public option will be in the Senate bill that will allow states to o

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So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, but I want to talk to you about something very small. So small, it's a single word. The word is misfit. It's one of my favorite words, because it's so literal. I mean, it's a person who sort of mis

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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We all know the Internet can be an ugly place, but what happens when you discover you're part of the problem? Writer Sarah Hepola is going to tell us about her own social media mistake. SARAH HEPOLA, BYLINE: I wa

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In the past two decades, thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Yeonmi Park is one of them. Her father had been imprisoned, and her family didn't have enough money to survive, so she and her mother escaped across a frozen river, finally

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Sonya Lea and her husband Richard Bandy had a 23-year-old marriage filled with ups, downs and memories. In 2000, he developed a rare form of appendix cancer and had an operation in 2003 which was successful, sort of. The patient li

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JEFFREY BROWN:And next: a hard-lived life amid the sound, success and sorrow of rock 'n roll. MAN:One, two, one, two, three. JEFFREY BROWN:From the bench behind his Hammond B-3 organ, Gregg Allman has been belting out the rock 'n roll blues for more

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈娱乐系列

Writer, actor and activist Eve Ensler has spent her adult life working to support women and womens causes around the world. For years, Ensler has visited war zones -- areas of extreme violence. In 2007, she was invited to the Democratic Republic of C

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Jane Fonda at 80: men, movies my incredible life 80岁的简方达:男人,电影与我的奇迹人生 The actress, activist and icon opens up about her epic romances, her mistakes and how she's changed 这位女演员、社会活动家和偶像畅谈

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She reconciled with her father when they made 1981's On Golden Pond. Later, learning about her mom's mental illness helped her find closure. 她和父亲在1981年拍摄《金色池塘》时言归于好。后来,了解到母亲的精神疾病,帮助

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'The Ravenmaster' Is Definitely (There) For The Birds LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Christopher Skaife has one of the coolest jobs in the world. He takes care of the famous ravens that haunt the Tower of London. He's got a new memoir out about his lifew

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight: Famed musician Graham Nash has just come out with a new memoir of hislife in rock 'n' roll titled Wild Tales. In the mid-1960s, Nash had numerous number one pop hits with the British band The Hollies. He later became p

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Welcome back everyone. Imagining growing up and never knowing that you had a sister and then one day, finding out you have more than just a sister, you have an identical twin out there. This very thing happened to our next guests. And they wrote a b

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Welcome to WORDMASTER. I'm Adam Phillips, sitting in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. See if you can identify what these three sentences have in common: Found true love. Married someone else. Young, skinny: ridiculed. Old, skinny: envied. And one

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2015年即将过去,《经济学人》也在此时列出了他们的本年度推荐书单,长长的书单必然是读不完了,所以英语君为你精挑细选了几本必读之作,不要错过哦! 2015经济学人年度好书:知识改变

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Short story collections, personal essays, memoirs and historical fiction often move at a pace that allows for quiet contemplation. 短篇故事集、个人散文、回忆录和历史小说的行文总是允许读者安静沉思。 Honeydew by Edith P

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今天的节目有些不同。杨绛先生走了,我是她的忠实读者,借这期节目纪念杨先生。钱杨夫妇曾留学英国,是很早走出去的一代中国人。从他们身上,我们看到学英语、了解海外文化并非丢失

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

When he was working on the NeXT computer, he went to Baez's house in Woodside to show her how well it could produce music. 在NeXT计算机的开发阶段,乔布斯到贝兹在伍德赛德的家,向她展示NeXT强大的音乐功能。 He had it

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