今年情人节,大多数单身者最想要的礼物不是贺卡、鲜花和巧克力,而是一段特别的经历。尽管经济停滞不前,多数追求浪漫的人在这一天仍然不会少花钱,甚至会花得比去年更多。 一项新的

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 节日英语

Lesson 59: [00:03.40]Let's Look at Garbage!Sort It! [00:08.07]Jenny has emptied two bags of garbage onto the floor. [00:14.03]That's a lot of garbage!says Danny. [00:18.76]Can I help you sort it? [00:22.70]Yes,please,says Jenny. [00:27.38]I'm putting

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AS IT IS 2016-04-15 Most Young Arabs Reject Islamic State 大多数年轻人拒绝IS The large majority of young Arab adults say they do not support Islamic State (IS) militants. And more than 75 percent say they do not believe that the Islamic State

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Severe Drought, Wildfires Threaten Water Resources This is Valles Caldera. Actually, it's the giant mouth of a dormant super volcano that last erupted 40,000 years ago. In the millennia since then, the terrain developed high-elevation forests, of abu

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英语中的数词,形态万千,要真正掌握还真不是件容易的事。接着上一篇,学习一下数词在数学方面的运用。 一、表示编号 1. 单纯的表示编号,可在数字(用基数词表示)前加number,简写为No.。

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WASHINGTON, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday lowered its forecast for global growth in 2016 to 3.2 percent, saying that the global economy grows at a sluggish pace that leaves the world economy more exposed to ris

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Currencies in many emerging market nations have been buying less and less for more than a year. In sometimes turbulent trading, the currencies of Brazil, Russia, Chile, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other nations have fallen sharply, in some cases

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中国去年GDP增长7.7% BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's economy grew 7.7 percent year on year in 2013, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Last year, the country's gross domestic product reached 56.88 trillion yuan (9.31 trillion U

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Conservative party leader Sauli Niinistoe has won Finland's presidential election by a landslide and will become the country's first conservative president in 30 years. Officials say Mr. Niinistoe, of the National Coalition Party, won 63 percent of t

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The economy is still in a recession and for the second consecutive year, Mom is taking a hit on Mother's Day. US consumers will spend $123.89 on average on Mother's Day, down more than 10 percent from a year ago, according to a survey released on Thu

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JEFFREY BROWN:Whither the economy? That's been the question for quite a while now. Today, there was a surprising and perhaps confusing new twist. The Commerce Department reported that gross domestic product actually shrank in the last quarter of 2012

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JUDY WOODRUFF: This has been a notable week for the stock markets, particularly for the Dow Jones industrial average, the benchmark index that's closely monitored and that's reaching new milestones. But there are questions about what's behind the ral

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Stock prices just keep going up and up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high yesterday, and so did a closely watched broader index, the Samp;P 500. To help explain what's behind the latest surge on Wall Street, w

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China-ASEAN Expo closes with increasing trade volume NANNING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The 9th China-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Expo closed Tuesday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, recording incre

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英国人的中年危机提前至35岁 Britons in their late 30s and early 40s are unhappier than any other age group, suffering from loneliness and depression as work and relationship pressures take their toll, according to a survey on Wednesday. Th

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The head of the U.S. central bank says the economy is growing more slowly than expected. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Wednesday that the slower growth is due to temporary problems such as the disruptions caused by Japan's earthquake and

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Working women who thought they might live to see Britain's pay gap finally shorten will have to hold out for another 57 years, according to a research published on August 19. Forty years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, the study showed that the g

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Effective pollution controls adopted in 161 major Chinese cities have greatly improved air quality, a green organization said last Monday. 一家绿色环保组织上周一表示,中国161座主要城市采取的有效的污染防治措施使空气质

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BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Government support helped China's electric car production in October jump eightfold year on year to 50,700 vehicles, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Tuesday. Output of pure electric and plug-in

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WARSAW, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The value of the Polish construction market will shrink over 2 percent in 2013, the PMR research firm said on Tuesday. According to local media reports, the researcher predicts that 2013 will be marked by further depressi

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