The world this week - Politics 本周政治要闻 Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, who have taken Mosul, Iraq's second city, swept on southwards, 伊拉克和叙利亚的伊斯兰国家的逊尼派圣战者已经占领了

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人要闻

This is Whats Trending Today There is a saying in America that every vote counts. On Tuesday, in the U.S. state of Virginia, the saying appeared to come true. There were 23,215 votes cast in the city of Newport News on Election Day last month. Voters

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

In response to a very public embarrassment for the Pentagon, the Navy has stripped a senior officer of his command of the USS Enterprise. A disgraced captain, Owen Honors, was removed from his post this afternoon several years after he produced and s

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MADRID, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish Congress on Tuesday voted against a proposal to allow an independence referendum in the Catalan region in the north-east of the country. The proposal, which had been presented by the Catalan Regional Parliament

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

11. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row,and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. 【分析】简单句。主语是Zysman;and连接两个并列的谓语gets和is asked;posed by those in

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The trouble with half and half这一半与那一半之间的苦恼 The plan to fix Californias budget has run into problems 解决加州预算的方案陷入困境 JERRY BROWN was being forced to contemplate plans B and C to save his governorship as

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IN THE NEWS - South Korea's Ban Seen as Sure to Become Next U.N. Secretary GeneralBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, October 07, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. South Korean Foreig

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Katie Couric:...want you to meet someone a lot closer to home, Michael Sessions. He is a high school senior, but his biggest headache isn't the prom or even math class, although recently for him , lif

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录

Now score it Lionel Messi 5, Cristiano Ronaldo 3. 目前所获金球奖数:梅西五个,C罗三个。 Messi won the Ballon d'Or trophy in Zurich on Monday as the world's best player in 2015, ending Cristiano Ronaldo's two-year hold on soccer's to

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今天我们要学的词是deadline。 Deadline, 是最后期限的意思。4月15号是美国人交纳所得税的最后期限。April 15th is the income tax filing deadline, 民主党总统提名的宾夕法尼亚州党内初选下星期二举行。

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French voters will cast their ballots on Sunday (4/22/12) in the first round of a presidential election that should ultimately see France's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades. The campaign enters it's final phase as Conservative President N

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一个词变成一个句 著名翻译家奈达说,翻译就是翻译意思。言外之意,翻译一句话不能逐一翻译一串个别的单词,也不是翻译某种句子结构。初学翻译的人之所以译得不好,就是因为摆脱不了

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1. The Illinois Supreme Court will hear Rahm Emanuel's appeal of a decision throwing him off the ballot for Chicago mayor. Already, the High Court said printing of the ballots must continue with Emanuel's name. 2. Michael Jackson's doctor pleads not

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1. North Carolina is voting Tuesday on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman. More than 500,000 voters have already cast early ballots. 2. A showdown vote looms in the Senate as lawmakers go on record about

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Americans Give Obama More Time LOS ANGELES President Barack Obama has won election to a second term in the White House after a hard-fought campaign against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama, a Democrat, won support in the key battleground stat

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Voter turnout is being described as heavy across much of Lebanon as citizens turn out to vote for a new parliament. Local television stations are reporting few incidents of violence in a country marred by a history of sectarian conflict. 黎巴嫩公民

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I visited St. Louis lately, and on my way West, after changing cars at Terre Haute, Indiana, a mild, benevolent-looking gentleman of about forty-five, or maybe fifty, came in at one of the way-stations and sat down beside me. We talked together pleas

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Scottish finance 苏格兰财政 A case of the jitters 人心惶惶 As the Scottish referendum nears, capital takes fright 苏独公投逼进惊扰资金流动 BEFORE this week many investors and money managers had dismissed the possibility that Scot

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Thailand 泰国 Everything is broken 支离破碎 Long in crisis, Thailand is close to the brink. Without compromises on both sides, it may well collapse 深陷危机,泰国局势急转直下。对峙双方若互不让步,该国局势可能即将崩

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NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with the desired twofer. First, building the special tracks and locomotives would put a division or two of Americas army of unemployed back to work. Then, once built,

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