Message from Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the Occasion of International Womens Day 联合国教科文组织总干事伊琳娜博科娃女士在国际妇女节的致辞 8 March 2017 2017年3月8日 The story of womens struggle for

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

Hurricane Irene has been lashing North Carolinas coast. High winds and rainfall were in sheets that windshield wipers can barely keep up with. Irene is maintaining category 1 winds of 85 miles an hour. Its creating storm surges in coastal towns. And

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Two high-ranking military officers were shot dead today inside a government ministry in Kabul. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports the attack was believed to be connected to five days of anti-US riots after US soldiers accidentally burned copies of the Quran

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On Rattlesnake Ridge in Washingtons Cascade Mountains, King County sheriffs believe they have found the dead body of Peter Keller. The survivalist had not been seen since last weekends killings of Kellers wife and daughter, for which hed been charged

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The Political Career of a Female Politician Modest and soft-spoken, Agatha Muthoni Mbogo, 24, is hardly the image of a revolutionary. Yet, six months ago, she did a most revolutionary thing: She ran for mayor of Embu, Kenya, and won. Ms. Mbogo's vict

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From the CNN Center in Atlanta, hello to you Im Stacey Elgin. Here are some of the headlines NOW IN THE NEWS. State-run radio says over 22,000 people are dead in Myanmar after a monster cyclone struck over the weekend. Tens of thousands more are now

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(五)月

Russias ruling party won only half of the votes in elections on Sunday. But opponents say even that poor showing was boosted by widespread fraud. Now they are protesting. Protests against Sundays Duma elections are spreading across Russia. On Tuesday

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The Queen, Margaret Thatcher and J.K. Rowling have been celebrated in a list of the top 40 women who changed the world. 在全球40位改变世界的女性榜单中,英女王、前首相撒切尔夫人和作家JK罗琳等均在榜单之列。 The l

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Business 商业报道 Apple in China 苹果在中国 Better days ahead 明天会更好 The tech giant can rebound from its recent misfortunes in China 科技巨头将从最近在中国遇到的霉运中走出 THINGS have not gone well for Apple in Ch

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叙逾600平民撤离霍姆斯战区 DAMASCUS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A total of 611 civilians were evacuated from the rebel-held old city of Homs in central Syria on Sunday, as part of a recently concluded deal between the UN and the Syrian government,

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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, activist and lecturer.She was the first American deaf and blind person to graduate from college.From an early age she decided to communicate with the world, despite her barriers to communication.She became a

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Shirin Ebadi, born in 1947, is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. She is most famous for winning the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. The panel of judges praised her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women

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Cesar Chavez was a Mexican-American labour leader and civil rights activist. He was a farm worker who co-founded the biggest farm workers union in the USA and improved the working conditions of thousands of farm labourers. Many see him as one of Amer

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REED VREELAND: I found out I was HIV-positive when I was 7 years old. I was told by my dad. He actually took me out to a really, very scenic location. I remember a picnic bench and a lot of grass around. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The scene stood in sharp

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Technology and civil liberties 技术与公民自由 Dont shoot 不要拍摄! Police may not like being filmed, but they had better get used to it 警察可能不喜欢被人拍摄,不过他们最好习惯之 WHAT is the most striking image to em

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本期内容: Myanmars first freely chosen parliament in more than 50 years elected the countrys new president. Htin Kyaw is a writer, computer scientist and long-time confidante of Aung San Suu Kyi, the countrys famed democracy activist, who has p

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Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston with the BBC news. The British Prime Minister David Cameron is to brief Parliament on the details of his proposals to renegotiate Britain's membership of the European Union. The European Parliament in Strasburg is also debat

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Hello, I'm Sue Montgomery with the BBC News. The United States, supported by China, has introduced a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council, designed to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea, following its latest nuclear test and m

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Open-plan offices are particularly bad at providing an environment for calm, creative work, they argue. So library rules are imposed at Basecamp. 尤其是敞开式的办公室,更难为创造性工作提供一个安静的环境,他们争论到。因

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From NPR news in Washington, I am Nora Raum. Last minute talks for a deal to avert tax hikes for everyone and addressed spending cuts in the New Year. Appeared to have stalled in the Senate. NPRs David Welna reports that Senate Republican leader is l

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