By Jim Malone Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says President Bush has made a series of wrong choices on Iraq and he vowed to take a new direction if elected in November. Senator Kerry sai

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--美国大选

Queen Elizabeth I 3 The glorious victory An ominous threat arose from abroad. Elizabeth knew that Philip II of Spain intended to attack England, so she turned England’s minuscule navy into a fearsom

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 彭蒙惠英语

Our thanks to Lydia and Yainer, whom you might remember from yesterday's program. They were helping us kick off today's show. We're gonna hear more from them in just a few minutes. I'm Carl Azuz. Let's get to today's headlines. First up, we're checki

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2011年(八)月

Bob:Can I speak with you for a moment? 鲍勃:我能和你说几句话吗? I owe you an apology. 我要向你道歉, What I asked you to do was wrong. 我让你做的事情是不对的。 I've been with this company for 30 years. 我为这公司效

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T-Rex, by using cutting-edge technology, some of its fossilized secrets have been scientifically decoded. 霸王龙,通过前沿科技,其化石里的一些秘密已经被科学界解开了。 It had eagle-eye vision, could smell prey from 3 mile

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 侏罗纪搏击俱乐部

阿卡帕纳是最大的梯形金字塔,曾被认为是一座人工堆建的小山。阿卡帕纳金字塔是遗址中最大的建筑,塔底平面呈长方形,长180米,140米。 One thousand years before Columbus, they were pyramid builders, warriors, the architects of an empire in South America. Th

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 国外媒体新闻

In the financial crisis, Switzerland President Merz tells Forbes he is taking measures to keep Switzerland and its cities on top of business and running like clockwork. The measures(措施) that we have taken in order to renew, and to reinforce, and

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(198) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语

AS IT IS 2015-09-06 Are They Migrants or Refugees? Young and old, they walk along the highway, weary and struggling. Others lay down on the train tracks in Hungary. A small lifeless body of a boy washes up at a beach resort in Turkey. Seventy-one bod

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

AS IT IS 2016-07-14 Britains May Faces Same Challenges as Thatcher 英国新女首相或面临撒切尔式挑战 British Prime Minister Theresa May took office Wednesday, becoming the countrys second woman leader after Margaret Thatcher. May was form

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Brazilians Struggle Economically in Midst of Olympic Games RIO DE JANEIRO The images from the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have been strikingly beautiful. But underlying all that beauty is great turmoil as Brazil is in the grip of a crippling po

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So why was Appalachian the way it was? 那么,为什么阿巴拉契亚就会是这种方式呢? Because of where the original inhabitants of the region came from. 这和最初居住在这里的居民来自的地区有关系。 The so-called Ameri

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Japan's stock market retreated again Thursday, and officials from the world's leading economies agreed to meet about the effect the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis is having on the fragile global economic recovery. Investors(投资者) sen

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是weather。 Weather, 在名词里是天气的意思,也可以指坏天气,作为动词,就引伸为经受和渡过难关。Australian banks are weathering the turmoil in global credit markets relatively well, 澳大利亚

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

1. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is issuing a gloomy warning about the nation's economy. Bernanke says the recent financial turmoil means economic activity will be subdued through the rest of this year and into next year. 2. There are new de

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月

Photo: AP This file photo shows a technician walking along the perimeter of a nuclear reactor head at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, 15 Dec 2009 Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as pa

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

This past year has been the second-year of the so-called Arab Spring, with some countries, such as Egypt, seeing both moves forward and unrest. At the same time, the situation in Syria has made no noticeable progress, while the uncertainty in the Pal

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Egyptian(埃及) banks have reopened after being shut for most of last week, as Egypt struggles to revive an economy damaged by labor protests and an uprising the toppled its president earlier this month. The banks opened for business as usual Su

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Anyone in a tall building in Omaha or Des Moines, say, 要是有人比如说在奥马哈或得梅因的高楼上, who chanced to look in the right direction would see a bewildering veil of turmoil followed by instantaneous oblivion. 恰好看着那个

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My fellow citizens: 同胞们: At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the e

发表于:2019-02-27 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 名人励志英语演讲

本期内容: China appointed a new chief securities regulator. Liu Shiyu, chairman of Agricultural Bank of China and former vice-governor of the central bank, replaced Xiao Gang, who was sackedapparently blamed for months of stockmarket turmoil. T

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读