1. The White House says President Barack Obama has called House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, to urge them to end the payroll tax cut standoff. Obama says he wants the House back in session to pass a two-month extension

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U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing plans to make more credit available to America's small businesses. The president is shifting the focus of the government's financial(金融) industry bailout from big businesses to small entrepreneurs and com

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I appeared before Congress to report on the state of our union. I asked members of the House and Senate from both sides of the aisle to join me in confronting the great challenges before us, so we can build a

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today I would like to talk to you about an urgent priority for our Nation: confronting the rising costs of health care. In my State of the Union Address, I invited Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work with my Ad

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Turn the TV on to one of the cable sports channels anytime and there's a pretty good chance you'll see two or four powerfully built young people grunting and yelling as they smash a rubber ball across a net. Such is the modern style of tennis, once t

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Bush: US Economy Strong and Getting Stronger Paula Wolfsons President Bush says the U.S. economy is strong and getting stronger. Mr. Bush says more job growth is in the offing . On the day the White H

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Union members and their supporters march during a Labor Day parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2007 And I'm Barbara Klein. Most of the world observes Labo

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Robots Help US Manufacturers Compete With China In what may be the beginning of a new trend in American manufacturing, Sunit Saxena recently moved his production operation from China to the United States. Just like everyone else we started in China b

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Immigrant's Success in US Creates Great Opportunities for Many What youre looking at is the 'American Dream.' Ali Saifi left Iran nearly 40 years ago to start a life in the United States. Its a most interesting country because it allows you to do wha

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我们今天还要学几个以hold这个词为主的习惯用语。To hold常用来表示用手拿住或者抓住。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是: to hold your end up。 To hold your end up的意思是:做你份内的工作。也可以说

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我们今天要学的习惯用语都有这个单词:edge。它最常用的意思是边缘,但是在今天要学的第一个习惯用语里edge这个词的意思却是刀剑的刀刃。 今天要学的第一个习惯用语是:on the cutting edge。

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公司执行总裁Dave召集董事会成员Helen和Pete开会,讨论业务外包和公司重组。 Dave: I've called this meeting to discuss a very important decision we need to make. In the interest of cost saving, it's been suggested that we outs

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公关部主任Janet Liu召集下属开会,询问中东代表团的活动安排。 Janet Liu: Good morning, Silvia. Good morning, Pete. How is my public relations team doing today? Silvia Kranson: Morning, Ms. Liu. Pete Chan: Very well, thank you.

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By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, 当读大学二年级的盖茨从哈佛大学退学,决定腾出手来创办自己的软件公司的时候, he'd been programming nonst

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So what can I say? 那我能说什么 That there's a lot in flux, and it'll be tight. 不确定因素很多,票数胶着 Okay. Thanks. 好的,谢谢 Yeah. Sure thing. 应该的 Hey, Francis, it's me. 弗朗西斯,是我 Call me back. 回我电话

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WASHINGTON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The number of Americans initially applying for unemployment aid last week rose sharply after hitting a record low since mid-May in the previous week, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday. The figure for seasonal

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今天我们要学习的两个新习惯用语和kiss这个词有关。Kiss意思是亲吻。下面来学习用kiss这个词组成的美国习惯用语:kissing cousin。 Kissing cousin这个用语的本意是:在大家庭团聚的时候,关系近到

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语所描绘的境地想必是谁都不想置身其中的,因为它们说的都是难以脱身的险境。 第一个习惯用语是: behind the eight ball。 Behind the eight ball,这个习惯用语来自台球。

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大家一定知道kill这个词意思是杀死, 大家也许觉得kill是个杀气腾腾的词,给人不祥的感觉,没想到在某些习惯用语里kill竟然跟一些令人高兴的事儿沾上边了。我们今天就来讲这样两个习惯用

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