Two weeks ago, we reported about developments with electric planes and flying cars. That technology could bring change to commercial and personal travel. Last week, two companies, Kitty Hawk and Uber, announced their plans to bring flying cars to rea

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AS IT IS 2016-07-28 Ice Bucket Challenge Results in ALS Discovery 冰桶挑战捐款帮助发现致病基因 This is Whats Trending Today: Do you remember the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014? Just in case you do not, here is a little history. Two years

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The Venezuelan economy is in free fall, with soaring inflation and severe shortages of food, water, and medicine. Political opponents of the regime of Nicolas Maduro reportedly have been subjected to imprisonment and torture. Faced with such misery,

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President-elect Barack Obama says he is glad to see the Big Three automakers put forward more serious plans for restructuring, though he says he will withhold judgment on those plans until after auto executives appear at Congressional hearings. NPR'

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Rail opportunities: As I am sure you are aware, these are very exciting times for those of us who work on rail projects. 铁路方面的机会:我敢肯定,各位都清楚,对于我们这些以铁路项目为本行的人来说,眼下是个令人

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Good morning, happy Monday to you from the CNN Center at Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Thanks for checking in, here's what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Tens of thousands of additional job cuts were announced today by companies in a few different sectors

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A Dell is running Dell again. Michael Dell, who began Dell Inc. by building computers in his University of Texas dorm room for other students, is moving back into the position of chief executive at the company. He replaces Kevin Rollins after a year

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This is Whats Trending Today Elon Musk - head of electric carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX - is known for using creative methods to raise money for his businesses. He has successfully gotten tens of thousands of interested buyers to place

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SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday introduced a new feature to its search engine, which the company said can deliver answers and direct access to websites before users complete their query or hit the search button. The new fe

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Good morning, I am Melissa Long here at the CNN center in Atlanta. It is Friday, the 17th of July. Here's a look at some of the stories making news at this hour. Two suicide bombers have been blamed for blasts that ripped through two luxury hotels i

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Hi there, I'm Brooke Baldwin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Voters are casting the very last ballots in the long Democratic race. And soon after those polls close, we could finally learn the part

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BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Commerce announced Friday it will launch an anti-dumping probe into toluene diisocyanate (TDI 80/20) imported from the European Union. A brief statement on the MOC's website said it will begin investigati

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The British drama The King's Speech took top honors at the Academy Awards in Hollywood Sunday evening, earning the Oscar(奥斯卡金像奖) for best picture, and awards for lead actor Colin Firth and director Tom Hooper. The film was also honored fo

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(242) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Spain is getting ready to start the new year with a new round of austerity measures, hoping to contain a growing deficit. The country's new government announced $11.5 billion in fresh spending cuts Friday, saying the budget was in worse shape than th

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So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. 所以当大地充斥寒冷与死亡时,最后的英雄决定去寻找这

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Another hot issue is about medical insurance fees. There are proposals on making citizens pay more premiums, as well as letting retirees pay medical insurance. But CPPCC members haven't yet reached a consensus on that. Government's financial support

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The Chinese capital is trying to regulate the use of electric bicycles. The Beijing Traffic Management Bureau has announced that,starting April 11, non-motorized vehicles will be banned from ten of the city's major thoroughfares. The list includes a

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What a stupid thing to say.I bet I could take her if I had enought time. 说的什么蠢话 我一定能拿下他 给我点时间 A man posted a YouTube video of himself taping Mentose to his entire body, 一名男子发布了一段视频 他往自己身

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模仿句子:Two UK-listed mining giants have announced plans to slash thousands of jobs. Anglo American is one. They're cutting 6,000 positions, mostly office jobs though, not exactly at the production side. 翻译:已有两家英国上市的矿业

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

美国习惯用语第845:气数已尽,要倒霉了(音频) somebody's number is up 在美国,一到星期五,很多公司里的员工都会轮流带多纳圈到办公室,跟同事分享,我们办公室也不例外。老实说,我本人并不

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