It was a beautiful summer day in New York City. It was a day made for walking. John was standing at an intersection near the Brooklyn Bridge. He had driven over the bridge before. But he had never walked over the bridge. He started walking uphill on

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

BBC news with David Austin. Washington has imposed new sanctions on Iran to punish it for the recent ballistic missile test and for what the administration described as Teherans continued support for terrorism. The sanctions target 12 companies and 1

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This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I am Scott Simon. Imagine yourself in the future for a moment riding in a driverless car. You see 10 pedestrians stroll into the street just a few yards ahead of you. The car's going too fast to brake and miss t

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

I don't want any hassles with the fuzz. hassle:麻烦 fuzz:[美俚]警察 我可不想跟条子发生口角。 -Howard:Fine, what color do you want? 好吧,你想要什么颜色? -Sheldon:You know the pale blue of Luke Skywalker's Lightsa

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 生活大爆炸第二季

Most of us dont think twice about getting behind the wheel even for short hops to pick up some milk. And thats not just because cars are convenient, or because were lazy. According to Andrew Furman of Ryerson University in Toronto , its because in ma

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By Patricia Nunan More than 30 people have been injured in a bomb blast in Nepal's capital Kathmandu. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion has fallen on the countr

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点

design 指“制作某物之前深思熟虑地构思”, 如: It was he that designed the garden. 这个花园是他设计的。 invent指“通过想象、研究、劳动, 创造出前所未有的东西

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1. New York City police have spoken to the registered owner of the vehicle used as a home-made car bomb in the heart of / Times Square. Police say the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb could have sprayed shrapnel and metal parts with enough force to ki

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: what to call people who are in the United States without following immigration laws. RS: Sometimes they are called undocumented immigrants or undocumented workers or illegal alien

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May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

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May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

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May 27th, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public, connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California. For the bridges first day, only pedestrians were allowed onto the span. Louis Riogiado helped build the famous suspensi

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A Donald Duck undercover police ploy to catch law-breaking motoristssparked a row after a woman complained she was scared of the cartoon character. 一名警察装扮成唐老鸭以图抓住违规驾车的司机。一名女士因此收到惊吓后投诉

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Most of us are used to seeing traffic lights above eye level. Whether we are driving, biking, or walking, traffic signals help us know when to stop and when it is safe to proceed. 我们多数人都习惯看和我们眼睛一个高度的红绿灯。无

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says time is running out to rescue people trapped by this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people have died in the rubble and those who survived are in desperate need

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

They also have great capacity. 它们有很大的容量 For example, this system in Guangzhou 例如,这系统在广州 is moving more passengers our direction 比中国所有的地铁线路 than all subway lines in China, 能运送更多的乘客

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Fatal accidents sound alarm for China's road killers BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Dangerous roads claimed the lives of nearly 800 people in China during the eight-day holiday, leaving heart-broken memories to their families who had been planning reuni

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An intelligent system that punishes jaywalkers by spraying water at them is being trialed at a crossing in the city of Daye in central China's Hubei Province, reports Beijing News. The trial system monitors traffic in real time, and squirts water at

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Two attackers publicly identified, 18 victims still in critical condition, the numbers headline the day's developments in the London Bridge attack that killed seven people Saturday night. Malcolm Brabant is in London, and filed this report. Police we

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

In China, Designer Goods Delivered to Your Doorstep 世界奢侈品牌进军中国电商,京东推出高端专线派送服务 Source: The New York Times July 30, 2017 来源:2017年7月30日,《纽约时报》 In China, legions of delivery pers

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