Rob: Hello I'm Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm joined today by Finn. Hi Finn. Finn: Hello Rob. Rob: Today we're talking about men's body image - that means how men feel about their physical appearance. Finn: So it's not about fashion - the styl

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In a few short decades, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has gone from obscurity to pop-culture icon. Forever 21 and Zahra have sold clothes with her self-portraits. But a recent lawsuit to stop the sale of a Barbie doll in Frida Ka

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

The whole image She is fat. She is slim. She is bony. She is tall. She is short. She is beautiful. She is ugly.

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Do you resemble someone famous? Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 嘿,你好吗?我是孙晨。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你是不是已经发

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By Ted Landphair Big corporations use memorable slogans or symbols -- like the

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Adam: With our expansion into these new areas of business, I think we need to think seriously about changing our corporate image. Were much more than just a paper company now. Eva: I think youre right. Our brand has changed, and if we want to keep br

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa

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BBC Learning English Weekender Body image survey results Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to a report about a BBC survey of 25,000 young British people, asking about their body imag

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13 Bunces Giant Storehouse My dear Foxy! cried Badger. What in the world has happened to your tail? Dont talk about it, please, said Mr Fox. Its a painful subject. They were digging the new tunnel. They dug on in silence. Badger was a great digger an

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1 The Three Farmers Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet. Their names were Farmer Bo

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7 Well Never Let Him Go At six oclock in the evening, Bean switched off the motor of his tractor and climbed down from the drivers seat. Bunce did the same. Both men had had enough. They were tired and stiff from driving the tractors all day. They we

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: ''Revolt on the Amistad,'' silkscreen print by Jacob Lawrence And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the National Gallery of Art in W

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大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是,有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的(人或东西)”。 语源学界普遍接受的

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今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语有同样的意思。它们都用来说某一个人非常像另一个人。第一个习惯用语是:dead ringer。 Ringer原来意思就是酷似某人的人或者很像某物的东西. Ringer有时可以指冒名

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论坛热贴:孩子是父母的翻版 在LT论坛上,看到了一个人气巨旺的贴子 -- 如何译孩子是父母的翻版? 看来,大家往往对地道的中文情有独钟!但愿,LT能与您共同探讨出一个较为地道的英文表

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By Michael Bowman Washington 17 March 2008 The image of the United States has suffered as a result of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Opinion surveys show international approval of the United States at all-time lows. VOA'

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Fall Asleep: 4 Steps We live in a 24-hour society with little regard for rest or its well-known benefits. A solid nights sleep contributes to greater mental acuity and serves us in almost every aspect of life. A lack of sleep leads to poor work perfo

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CHENGMAI, Hainan, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- As China seeks to shake off its image of the world's mass-producer of cheap products and move up the value chain, Chinese companies are trying to reshape their reputations in the international market to win accept

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Why Blue Jeans Popular?牛仔裤为什么流行? Everywhere you go, you'll see people, male or female, old or young, wearing jeans. Indeed, jeans have grown more and more popular since the first pair was born. In newspapers and magazines or on TV you

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The Chinese government is accusing Japan of intentionally tarnishing China's image. The accusation comes following reports that a Chinese vessel put a radar firing lock on a Japanese naval patrol in the East China Sea this week. Chinese foreign minis

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