He ended up not needing to. 不过,他最终根本无须出这一半的钱。 The agency was able to sell off the thirty-second time slot, 广告公司把30秒的广告时段卖掉了, but in an act of passive defiance it didn't sell the longer o

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

HARI SREENIVASAN: Now a story about trash. As the nation produces more and more, one city is trying to eliminate all of it. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports. SPENCER MICHELS: Each year, Americans throw away about 250 million tons of gar

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Yesterday, we told you that the National Labor Relations Board filed formal complaints against McDonald's and some of its franchisees. To unpack this story further, we're joined now by Steven Greenhouse. Until this past week, he was

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JUDY WOODRUFF: The scandal, and the fallout, over Volkswagen's cheating of emissions standards grew today. Just last week, the EPA alleged there was deceitful software in half-a-million cars. Today, Volkswagen raised that number significantly and tri

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Shanghai middle school teachers are among the world's most qualified, according to a survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 据世界经合组织发布的一项调查结果显示,上海中学教师位居全球最优

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Oxbridge is a composite of the two most renowned universities in Britain,the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, 牛桥,是英国最著名的两所大学牛津大学和剑桥大学的合称。 which was founded by scholars fleeing

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BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- The first official trailer for Baz Lurhman's much anticipated new adaptation of The Great Gatsby is finally out. Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the drama focuses on the mysterious man of wealth Jay Gatsby an

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. State Department(美国国务院) spokesman Mark Toner said on Thursday that the potential inter-Korean military(军事的) talks are a welcome and positive sign. Mark told reporters that the Democratic of

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Airhead空脑壳、没脑子的人 egghead学究、书呆子 scatterbrain糊里糊涂的人大家好,欢迎来到小强英语。汉语中,我们常用跟头和脑有关的词来表示智力和记忆力等,比如说没头没脑、榆木脑袋等等

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俄罗斯莫斯科的一位生物能量学教授近日宣布,他已研制出一种能够有效延缓衰老的不老药,并有望于几年内上架销售。这位科学家用40年的时间研制出一种抗氧化剂,能够有效抑制氧分子对人

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在娱乐圈有时尚劳模之称的维多利-亚贝克汉姆无论何时何地现身,衣着得体的衣着总是能够引领时尚风潮,不仅如此,尽管时光流逝,曼妙的曲线与轻盈的身姿丝毫不显走样的趋势,而要维持

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Google has launched a new site wdyl.com, a search service standing for what do you love and integrating a variety of Google's search products on one page. According to a report by technology blog TechCrunch, wdyl.co

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LONDON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina believes striker Luis Suarez has been crucified over his racism charge, English website sportinglife.com said. The Uruguay international was given an eight-match ban by the Football Associat

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差一点?我不要。既然参与,就要全力以赴。奔跑吧,智商巅峰的高三党! Put your best foot forward and you will succeed. 只要全力以赴,你一定会成功。 We will spare no pains to support you. 我们将竭尽所能

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Beijing's traffic may now be the worst in the world, but natives have long known the capital's streets aren't as hard to navigate as its housing. 北京的交通可能是世界上最糟糕的,但北京人长期以来就知道,北京的街道还不像

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BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Liu Yunshan on Monday praised a recently deceased fighter jet production director as a most beautiful Chinese. Luo Yang, head of production for China's new J-15 fighter jet,

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Pregnancy, then, does indeed do things to a womans brain. 那么怀孕确实对母亲的大脑有影响。 But what exactly those things mean is hard to tease out. 但是具体对大脑有什么影响很难弄清。 Neuroscientists do not really unde

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BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Wong Kar Wai's martial arts biopic The Grandmasters is set for release on December 18, Sina Entertainment reports. The movie is based on the life story of Wing Chun grandmaster Yip Man, the legendary martial arts mast

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(397) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Asia and the West;Never the twain 东西方;欢喜冤家 The intellectual roots of Asian anti-Westernism 亚洲知识分子反西化的学术根源 From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the W

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I missed my stop. 我坐过站了。 It was a near miss. 那次差点出事。 You can't miss it. 你绝对不会错过的。 We missed the target by a mile. 我们跟目标相差得很远。 You're missing out on all the fun. 你错过了所有的乐趣

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