The European Union's executive arm has proposed far-reaching financial reforms to help prevent future financial crises, like the one now pummelling Europe and the rest of the world. European officials hope to put the reforms in place next year. 欧洲联

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年5月

The Federal Reserve has just announced it's winding back its long-running stimulus program. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the Central Bank is cutting its bond-buying program by 10 billion dollars a month. The program was designed to prop

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年

From NPR news in Washington, I'm Paul Brown. Officials say the strong storms and tornadoes that killed 55 people this week in several states including Tennessee and Arkansas were the deadliest in more than two decades. Dozens of tornadoes swept acro

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Topic1-Five-star hotel not even clean When you stay at a five-star hotel, you don't expect to worry about fresh, clean sheets. You'd only expect the best services money can buy. But five international hotels in Beijing have called those standards int

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

文本: J:Jesus. S: Project HOUND. A new deliriant drug which rendered its users incredibly suggestible. They wanted to use it as an anti-personnel weapon, to totally disorientate the enemy using fear and stimulus. But they shut it down and hid it

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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Maria: So Alex, you're from Australia. What's the economical situation there at the moment? Alex: We've actually been very, very lucky in the last couple of years throughout the global financial crisis. We've been, we had a very strong, very positive

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语趣味课堂

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: terms from the recession. Dictionary editor Ben Zimmer is back with us. And it sounds like he's going to start with a popular term these days, shovel-ready. (Sound of shoveling) B

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AA: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ... just the left ones will do! This is Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away. This week on Wordmaster, you'll hear from a researcher who says humans just might have an ear for emotional words. Teow-C

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The big dream for neuroscientists is to be able to watch our brain cells in action, in real time. Well, new research has maybe found the most promising tool yeta technique to watch individual neurons light up in response to a stimulus, like flipping

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际货币基金组织(IMF)发表的最新一期《世界经济展望》报告预测,世界经济今年将收缩1.3%,为第二次世界大战以来最严重的经济衰退。明年世界经济将逐步复苏,但仅有望增长1.9%。此外,在中国和印度经济的带动下,亚洲发展中经济体仍将保持经济增长,今明两年的增长速度

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From NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. Senator John McCain says Democrats who offer a quick withdrawal from Iraq are not being honest about the consequences of defeat there. McCain spoke to a group of veterans at the National World War I Museu

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台四月

Republican presidential hopefuls debated at the Reagan Library in California yesterday and sparks flew between Mitt Romney and John McCain. Romney said McCain's positions on taxes and campaign finance show he is not a true Conservative. 'He voted tw

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台二月

Saying the United States lags behind China and other nations in dealing with a crumbling infrastructure, President Barack Obama has renewed a call for action to repair roads, bridges and airports. A new report by the Treasury Department and White Hou

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

India has taken measures intended to slow the rise in food prices, which are at an 11-year high. India's economy has been reviving in recent months, but the country is grappling with high inflation. Shoring up supplies of food is among the many steps

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

1.A fire official says a commuter plane coming in for a landing at Buffalo International Airport basically dove into the top of a house. All 48 people on board died, along with one person on the ground. The Continental connection flight originated i

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(二)月

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The United States has lost almost seven million jobs since the recession began in December of two thousand seven. The good news: the central bank says economic activity appears to be leveling out. Th

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(八)月

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last month more Americans than expected lost their jobs. Job losses had fallen every month since January. The news raised questions about the strength of progress toward economic recovery. Unemployme

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AS IT IS 2015-03-23 Will China's Continued Big Spending Lift its Economy? 中国将持续庞大政府开支提振经济? From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. Chinese officials have predicted lower economic growth again this year.

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