First story is about a major media business deal in the U.S. Disney plans to buy 21st Century Fox. The deal is significant partly because of its size. These companies are known worldwide and they're two of the biggest players in Hollywood. Disney own

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月

Ukrainian lawmakers are giving presidential powers to the speaker of the parliament, seemingly ousting president Viktor Yanukovych, though he has not seeded power. NPR's Nathan Rott reports the US is pledging its support to the Ukrainian people. Spea

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program: We listen to music by several bluegrass award nominees And answer three listener questions about the United States. But first, we tell about

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(九)月

英语学习笔记: cable TV 有线电视 plaster ['pl?st?r] v. 粘/涂之上 channel ['t??nl] n. 频道 contestant [k?n'test?nt] n. 参赛者 boardwalk empire 大西洋帝国 prohibition era 禁酒时期 theft [eft] n. 偷窃 enact [?n?kt] vt. 制定

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AS IT IS 2016-09-02 Bill Nye Returns with a New Show 比尔奈伊回归电视 加盟一档新节目 This is Whats Trending Today. American Bill Nye is a science educator, actor and writer. Nye is probably best known as the presenter and star of Bill

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you follow news stories about famous men behaving horribly then you've surely seen Gloria Allred. Long before the Me Too movement caught fire, Gloria Allred was talking about these issues, filing lawsuits and holding press con

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: We're going to meet one of Mexico's most popular standuperos (ph), stand-up comedians. Sofia Nino de Rivera is among those in the country giving comedy a new voice. Comedians in Mexico have long been controlled by the leading tel

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The second season of Last Chance U begins tomorrow. It's a documentary series on Netflix that follows the football team at East Mississippi Community College. It's one of the most successful junior college programs in the nation.

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the best-known depictions of autism in a major film is Dustin Hoffman's character in the Oscar-winning 1988 film Rain Man. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, RAIN MAN) DUSTIN HOFFMAN: (As Raymond) Maple syrup was supposed to be on the tabl

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'Gilmore Girls' Returns On Netflix, Just In Time For A Holiday Binge play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:52repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your F

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This is Scientific Americans , Sixty Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky. Sometimes things are very stable, and then they change a lot. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, he was talking May 5th at the republic 15 digital culture conference in Berlin. A

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今天我们要学的词是hike。 Hike, 意思是猛增,大幅度提高。加州政府预算不足,导致加州州立大学学费猛增。 The University of California system is looking at possible tuition hikes of up to 16% in the fall of 2012,

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今天我们要学的词是subscriber。 Subscriber, 订户。美国很多人都是影视租赁公司Netflix 的会员。 Netflix is in danger of losing a large number of its subscribers with its 60% price hike, Netflix大幅加价60%,结果可能会

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The financial crisis has hit Wenatchee quite hard in the past year or so. Businesses have closed, some people have lost their homes or jobs, or both. Everyone seems to be more careful about spending, and it has become normal to be frugal, or very car

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: This week, two stories about Hollywood and tech. First we start with a big hack. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, YOU'VE GOT TIME) REGINA SPEKTOR: (Singing) The animals, the animals trapped, trapped, trapped till the cage is full. ROBERT SIEG

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介绍: Today, while I was at home watching Netflix, my parents drunkenly stumbled through the door making out the whole time. I thought that the situation couldn't get worse. But then my dad asked me if I had a condom they could use. 今天,当我正

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The Internet Needs A Tune-Up So, the internet is really a network of networks that underlies CRItically so many things in our lives. But really 50 years ago it was an experiment that escaped from the lab. And it wasnt really designed to be the global

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今天我们要学的词是 cut ties with. To cut ties with 意思是切断联系,断绝关系。Netflix cut ties with Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey amid a growing number of allegations of sexual harassment against him. 奥斯卡获奖演员凯文

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今天我们要学的词是account for。Account for, 意思是所占百分比。 Labor accounts for only 5% of the cost of making an iPhone, 在产生苹果手机的成本中,人工仅占百分之五。 上星期出台的美国零售业数据令人鼓

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Unless I have something to distract myself, like binge-watching Netflix until 2 a.m., then I get bored just being by myself. Here are 8 things I've realized only people who hate to be alone do. 我很讨厌独自一人,除非我要做点什么来分散

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