I See No Doom Down an Alley我看见的不是死胡同 By Herbert Hoover My professional training was in science and engineering. That is a training in the search for truth, and its application to the use of mankind. With a gloss of science we have a

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语励志美文精华

Growth That Starts From Thinking It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life. I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling.

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1. More than three dozen people have been killed in the terror attacks that were carried out across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect. Most of the victims died on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass. 2. The Mayor of Stamfor

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UNIT 2 Text A PRE-READING TASK Exercise 1 Before reading the passage, decide whether the statements are True or False. 1. Rock and Roll comes mainly from black African music. 2. An electric guitar is

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What is the most important day of your life? For many people the answer is your Wedding Day the day when you marry another person and promise to live together as husband and wife for the rest of your lives. Wedding celebrations differ from country to

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Christmas in 19th Century America - A Special Holiday Edition of The Making of a Nation 19世纪的美国圣诞节 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American Engli

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What 'Separation Between Church and State' Means One of the things the United States is known for is a separation between church and state. But those exact words do not appear in the U.S. Constitution. Instead, Americans point to a line in the First

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The History of Christmas in America 美国圣诞节的历史 In the first half of the 19th century, Christmas was a very different kind of holiday than it is today. People did not have a set way of celebrating. Christmas was not even an official holi

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1. Officials in Bermuda are expected to begin assessing the damage from Hurricane Igor at daybreak. The category-1 storm blew through the island overnight, bringing down trees and power lines. Igor is now forecast to veer northeast away from the Unit

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1. Officials in Texas are taking the polygamist sect case to the state's highest court. Today they file their appeal of a lower court ruling which stated officials didn't have the right to take more than 400 kids from their parents. 2. Crews in Colo

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AS IT IS 2015-03-01 Muslim Hijab: Dress Code or Discrimination? 穆斯林头巾:着装还是歧视? The U.S. Supreme Court has heard opening arguments in a workplace religious discrimination case. The justices are considering whether a clothing store

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Religious Minorities Find Sanctuary in Kurdistan At some point in life, every follower of the Yezidi faith is supposed to make a pilgrimage here. Long unfairly stigmatized as devil worshippers by their Muslim and Christian neighbors, Iraqs half-milli

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A History of Christmas in America From VOA Learning English, I'm Caty Weaver. Today, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith present a special program on Christmas traditions in the United States during the first half of the 19th century. During this period

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GWEN IFILL: Now to surprising new findings about our changing religious landscape, and how and if we believe. Jeffrey Brown has our conversation. JEFFREY BROWN: The U.S. remains an overwhelmingly Christian country. That hasn't changed, but a new surv

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One of the numerous things in heaven and earth that these philosophers didn't dream about was this (he waved his hand), 天地之间有一种哲学家们连做梦也没有想到过的存在,那就是我们,(他挥舞着一只手) us, the mode

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: how should a teacher handle controversial topics in the classroom? Rutgers University professor Barbara Lee gets asked that question all the time, as she recently did through an o

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Matt was walking on the sidewalk next to Bryant Park. A woman stopped him. Would you like a free book? she asked. Matt asked, What kind of book? It was the New Testament. Matt asked, Do I have to give you a donation? She said no. He said, I'm not ver

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壮哉我天朝如今不仅华语大片要走向国际,华语电视剧也要走向世界了!华丽丽的15分钟英文版《花千骨》片花一放出,众人齐惊呼:中国出品的奇幻虐心巨制不能让我一个人雷!誓要雷出国际

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Religion in Sierra Leone 塞拉利昂的宗教 All things happily to all men 对他们而言都是幸福的事情 Sierra Leone bucks a west African trend by celebrating its religious tolerance 塞拉利昂通过颂扬它的宗教容忍来反对西非趋

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Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure. 据我看来,坐在船尾横木上的是一个极其非凡而奇异的人物。 It turned out to be Captain Bildad who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest

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