Now it may still be pop music playing, but I’m in fact in a classical section. Excuse me, can I ask your name? Francesca. Is classical music your taste? Uh, yes, exactally. Do you have a favorite co

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 华尔街中级英语

Today is Mothers Day. Early in the morning, my mother does the housework as usual. I want to give her a surprise, so I decide to buy her some flowers. When I walk home after school, I take out my savings to go into a flower shop. The seller recommend

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 新标准初中英语七年级上(2012版)

A rainy day in parts of South Carolina not stopping primary voters today, Johnston resident Bill Mercue voted for Newt Gingrich. I like his philosophy. I like his savvy. Yet I like he makes sense. Susan Leedom of Charleston voted for Mitt Romney. Our

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

You have to chop down those two trees, said the fire control agent. Why do I have to chop down those two trees? asked Diane. Because those two trees are a fire hazard, said the fire control agent. All trees are a fire hazard, said Diane. Yes, but tho

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 超级简单英语阅读

Now that last mile, last foot, in a sense, is the first step of the infrastructure. 现在想想这最后一英里,最后一步,在某种意义上,是迈向基础设施的第一步。 The second step of the infrastructure needs to take care of

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科技篇

HONG KONG, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Two new measures to cool the property market will be introduced to reduce immediate demand, John Tsang, Financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced Friday. The ad valo

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The House Armed Services Committee is overwhelmingly supporting a 624-billion-dollar defense legislation it calls for construction of a mission defense site on the East Coast, and [to] restore ships and planes that were supposed to be retired early.

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(259) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

So how is your work? Good. How about you? I'm going to resign. A few of the new staff have already left. Obviously a lot of similar jobs pay much better salaries. But your company is huge. Cann't they afford to pay the staff decent wages? We have a p

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. An endowment is money from donations and investments. Colleges use endowment money for student aid and campus improvements, and for financial security. But college costs in the United States have bee

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(一)月

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教,但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的,

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Finance and Economics;Spanish banks; False summit; 财经;西班牙银行;远未结束; Mark down loans, raise capital, repeat; 减少贷款,提高资金,重复此道; Like exhausted climbers nearing the summit only to find a higher p

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Looking to buy a house in Beijing? It may not be as easy as you think. 想要在北京买房子?可能不像你想得那么容易啊! For three years in a row, Beijing has been at the top of the list of housing unaffordability in China. 北京已经

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

An informal street count by staff of City of Sydney council and volunteers has identified 486 homeless people sleeping rough in the inner city, the highest figure since the initiative was launched in 2010. 悉尼市议会的工作人员和志愿者进行

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Many years ago, the private car is expensive, there are not so many people can afford it. Since our country has joined WTO, the economy develops fast, more and more people have money to buy what they want, now as peoples life standard has improved in

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

今天我们要学的词是flunk。 Flunk, 不及格。 He flunked the physics exam and had to attend summer school, 他物理考试不及格,夏天必需去补习。 65 % of the 400 Malaysian driving instructors flunked a surprise driving theory e

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WASHINGTON, April 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S. fixed mortgage rates declined for a second consecutive week as housing construction data fell short of market expectation, a survey showed on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) slid to 4.27 percent i

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Currently, one in ten Chinese citizens is 65 or above. And this proportion is likely to increase to one third by the year of 2050. Meanwhile, the working population is also aging. Wang Jun, professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, says this trend would p

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

For many students in the UK today, deciding whether or not to go to university can be as much about affordability as it is about ambition and aspiration. 对于今天英国的许多学生来说,决定是不是去上大学已经不仅仅关乎抱负与

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On the river bank lived a number of maidens.One of them was very poor and could not afford a lamp.The others talked about it among themselves and wanted her to leave.When the one who could not afford a lamp was about to go,she said to the oth

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Bill Clinton Seeks Designs for a Better World NEW YORK Designing for Impact is the theme of the 8th annual Clinton Global Initiative which began Sunday in New York City. What former president Bill Clinton means by design has nothing to do with fashio

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