Hollywood's greatest prize The British romantic drama Atonement is leading the pack of British hopefuls for this years Oscars. The film is up for seven gongs including best picture. However, the stars of the movie Keira Knightley from Pirates of the

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

The Top Oscar-Related Google Searches This is Whats Trending Today The 90th Academy Awards are less than one week away. 距离第90届学院奖颁奖只有不到一周时间了。 The event, also known as the Oscars, will take place March 4 in Hollyw

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影片对白 Julianne: Hello, George. George: Hey, gorgeous. Having a good time? Julianne: Not particularly, but I did what I came to do . George: What? You split them up? Julianne: No, I said good-bye. George: Good girl. I'm proud of you. I'd be proude

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The countdown to the 82nd Academy Awards, Hollywood's glitziest event, has begun. This year, 10 films, instead of the usual five, are competing for Best Picture. Two of them -- The Hurt Locker and Avatar -- appear to be favorites and are in fierce co

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Women Artists 'Step Up' in Grammy Nominations The music from the film Black Panther -- and its artist Kendrick Lamar -- received more 2019 Grammy Award nominations than anyone else. But the big news is the high number of women nominees, after being l

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1. Police in Philadelphia are charging a man with a history of robbing banks with the slaying s of two armored car guards. Mustafa Ali was brought in for question yesterday and police say they believe he acted alone. 2. Video cameras were roll ing in

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LOS ANGELES, July 14 (Xinhua) -- HBO's miniseries Mildred Pierce on Thursday dominated the nomination for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards with 21 nods. Mad Men, a recurrent recipient of the industry's premiere honor, was second with 19. A five-part mi

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1. Former US Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has died. The Republican-turned-Democrat, who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, was 82. Specter died Sunday morning from complications of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. 2. Extreme athlete

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1. Crews continue to battle wildfires burning near homes in the dry foothills around Glendora, California. At least two homes burned to the ground. Fire fighters are drawing up plans for further evacuations. 3 people are under arrest in connection wi

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AS IT IS 2014-04-24 Vietnam Says No to Asian Games Hello and welcome back. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. We invite you to listen carefully to learn about the world. And you can improve your American English reading and speaking at the same time. Today

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'Spotlight' on 2016 Oscar Nominees 聚光灯2016年奥斯卡提名 The survival epic The Revenant and the science fiction tale The Martian are among the top nominees for Academy Awards this year. 传奇史诗《荒野猎人》和科幻电影《火星救

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The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be presented on January 31 in Los Angeles, California. The Zac Brown Band received three Grammy Award nominations, including Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals for its 2008 Number One debut singl

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LMFAO Tops Charts on Sophomore Album The duo LMFAO formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Its party-oriented dance hit Party Rock Anthem reached number one on the U.S. pop singles list, while also pulling a record-setting 200 million views on You

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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending Feb. 6 Were partying with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending February 6, 2016. The hit list must have made a New Years resolution to give us one new song a week. Num

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Money and happiness 金钱和快乐 Buy buy love 买来的爱 Smarter ways to spend 更明智方式消费 Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending.By Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton. 《快乐理财》:更明智消费的科学 伊丽莎白唐恩和

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Brave won the Oscar Award of Animated Feature Film Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. The animated film of Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman featured a high-spirited Scottish princess named Merida who res

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1.President Barack Obama has nominated Jack Lew to be the nation's next Treasury Secretary, it is clear that president's chief step before he met Jack a year ago with the services of White House budget director. 2.Vice-president Joe Biden says he wil

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The Oscars Hollywoods biggest night never needs introduction. People just watch it, or at least check out the winners list afterwards. The 84th Academy Awards, which ended last Sunday night, like any other previous ceremonies, has left us moments to

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LOS ANGELES, June 23 (Xinhua) -- ABC's General Hospital won its record 11th Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series here Saturday together with other four trophies, becoming the biggest winner of the night. Anthony Geary, who has been the lea

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今天我们要学的词是contender。 Contender, 是竞争者的意思。 A strong contender, 是强有力的竞争者。He is a gold medal contender in the Olympics, 他是一个很有可能在奥运会上夺取金牌的选手。 再过一个月,美

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