BBC News with Marion Marshall. The United States says its special forces have mounted a raid against leaders of the Islamic State group in Syria. The Pentagon said a unit of commandos,tasked with tracking down jihadist leaders, carried out the operat

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is can versus may. A listener named Donna says that after familiarizing herself with the definitions and usages of can and may, she still isn't sure which word to use in this sentence: May we expect you tomorrow? or C

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On TV, in film, and in Save the Date cards tacked to fridges everywhere, we are steeped in the cultural white noise of wedding voyeurism and schadenfreude. A new study threatens to change the conversation: The number of married Americans is at a reco

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President Obama is monitoring the eleventh-hour spending debate on Capitol Hill. Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on a way to extend the payroll tax cut, which expires at year's end. Speaking in Washington this morning, the president threw

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GRE写作高频话题 科技类。GRE写作历年真题一直以来是考生备考的一个热点,小编为大家搜集整理历年GRE写作真题中出现的 科技类 的GRE写作高频话题,希望对大家有所帮助。下面和小编一起来

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Now, this means the nine-to-five no longer works for anyone. 如今,这意味着朝九晚五的工作不再适合所有人。 Punch clocks are becoming obsolete, as are career ladders. 打卡和事业的阶梯已经过时了。 Whole industries are

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

From the entrance, this is nothing like a commercial cave. 从洞口看,这绝不像个商业旅游的山洞。 You're looking at Camp Two in a place called J2, not K2, but J2. 你看到的是二号营地,它搭在J2,不是K2(世界第二高峰)

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Publicity Blast 爆炸式宣传 Over the years Steve Jobs would become the grand master of product launches. 多年来,史蒂夫乔布斯已成为产品发布大师。 In the case of the Macintosh, the astonishing Ridley Scott ad was just one of th

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What is going to be the future of learning? I do have a plan, but in order for me to tell you what that plan is, I need to tell you a little story, which kind of sets the stage. I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, wher

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The old-fashioned wallet will be obsolete in the US within four years, an electronic payments company has claimed。 Scott Thompson, the president of PayPal, said: We believe that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the US from yo

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四成美国人认为结婚已过时 Almost four in ten American couples now believe that marriage is becoming obsolete, according to a new survey published yesterday. More than ever before, people in the US are coming to believe that wedding bells a

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我们学习英文表达的时候一定要知道它的使用场景,场景、语气、说话人身份都会对这个表达产生影响,千万不可死认一个理儿。 My sister is expecting. expect在这里是怀孕的意思,一定要用ing形式

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HPs grand vision 惠普的远见 Aping IBM 效仿IBM HP needs to transform itself if it is to avoid becoming obsolete 要想不被淘汰,惠普需要改变自己 Aug 27th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN the board of HP, the worlds largest comput

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To the surprise of exactly no one, Apples new generation of iPhones will not include a standard 3.5mm headphone input. The decision signals the demise of an audio port thats been used for more than 100 yearsand honestly, its about time. The death of

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According to Bloomberg, consumers won't need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly mobile data overage charges when carriers start rolling out unlimited data plans. 据彭博社报道,随着运营商纷纷开始推出无限流量套餐,未来

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1. Irony What you think it means: Something that is funny. 你认为单词的含义是:滑稽的事。 What it really means: Contrary to what you are expecting.单词的真正含义是:事与愿违的。 This is a famous one because so many peopl

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Soon you could be competing with a robot for a job. 很快,你就会和机器人竞争上岗啦! Amy Webb, a digital media futurist and founder of Webbmedia Group, predicts at least eight career fields are ripe for disruption very soon -- like in

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Adapting To Change Should Be Natural I noticed that the leaves on most of the trees in the woods where I often take my dogs have started to change color. Normally, they are green but during the autumn season here in eastern Canada, they start to turn

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Yet, concerned by mounting inequality in America, he thought that more should be done to invest in early childhood education and improve the state of schools. 然而,出于对美国不断上升的不平等的担忧,他认为,应当加大在儿童

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一些a range of ; a variety of ; aseries of ; an array of 无数innumerable ; countless 许多plenty of ; many ; much ; a great deal of ; a lotof ; ample 非常多(大)的tremendous 依序列举list in sequence 时间词 过时的outdated ; antiquat

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