阿利斯泰尔布朗利: 英国铁人三项运动员 Hi I'm Natalie and welcome to Talking Sport. Today were hearing about Britain's best triathlete and learning the words 'pursue' and 'attempt'. A triathlon involves three sports - swimming, cycli

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 英语讨论

Section A [00:01.31]1. M: I like it very much. [00:04.10]How much do you charge? [00:06.84]W: It's 10 dollars and 20 cents. [00:09.01]Q: Which of the following is true? [00:12.75]2. M: I hate them.I'm sure I've got a low IQ. [00:17.68]W: Oh,cheer up!

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VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Franklin Roosevelt History is full of examples of leaders joining together to meet common goals. But

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(十二)月

Today were looking at something which has become very popular in Britain: speed dating. To tell us about speed dating, were going to meet a young British man called Adam, who is looking for love. Well you turn up at the venue, which is often a pub. A

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

背景导读 英国大选(general election)其实是选议员(Members of Parliament,简称MP)而非首相(Prime Minister,简称PM)。议员人数过半的政党领袖将成为新首相。如果没有政党获得半数以上席位,则由

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Churchill's Secret, a made-for-TV film released in February 2016, and The Crown, a series which made its debut on Netflix in November 2016, 电视电影《丘吉尔的秘密》发行于2016年2月,2016年11月在网飞公司首次登台亮相的电视

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Scotland's referendum endgame 苏格兰公投的收官之战 A war of attrition 消耗战 The peculiar smallness of Scotland's independence debate 关于苏格兰独立的辩论似乎太渺小了 RESEMBLING nothing so much as a pair of irritable golf

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Urban planning 城市规划 Rail ambition 铁路大设想 Cities used to think modern art could save them. Now it's railway stations 城市的救命稻草由过去的现代艺术转为地铁车站 IN JANUARY commuters voted Birmingham New Street one

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Lance. The Triad have hired a contract killer. 兰斯。三合会雇了个职业杀手 Yeah? You mean the one you put in the morgue? 是吗,你说停尸房那个 Congratulations, you're the talk of the station again. 恭喜,你又成警察局的谈

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I'm an English teacher in Japan and when I first came here I didn't really have very much money so I found things quite expensive and I went out looking for cheap bargains. I came across a shop and it called the 100 Yen shop. It's absolutely fantasti

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said here on Friday Britain would not send ground troops to Iraq, adding that the Iraqi leadership had made clear to him that Western boots on the ground were not wanted in Iraq

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British Prime Minister David Cameron says the results of a referendum on Britain's exit from the European Union will be final. 英国首相卡梅伦说,就英国是否离开欧盟举行的全民公决的结果将是最终决定。 This is a vital d

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British Queen Elizabeth II, members of the Royal Family and Prime Minister David Cameron attended a service of Remembrance with veterans, former Prisoners of War (POWs) at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in central London. We are remembering this anni

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Books and Arts;Book review;Black magic in London; 文艺;书评;伦敦巫术; Crimes of passion;The Boy in the River. By Richard Hoskins. 激情犯罪;《河里的男孩》,理查德霍斯金斯著。 In the late 1980s Richard Hoskins, youn

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Sir Jonathan Ive is an English designer whose work for Apple Inc. has made him one of the worlds gurus of industrial design. His groundbreaking and stylish work includes the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. He has won many top design awards and has twice

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European leaders took steps to deal with some of their long term financial problems at a summit in Brussels last week. But they are moving ahead without one of the continent's largest economies Britain, and they left some important problems unresolve

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Professional and business services 专业和商业服务 To the rescue 英国经济的救世主 Britain's new champions are bean-counters and PowerPoint artists 会计师和PPT艺术家们成为英国各行业中的新贵 Dress-down Friday 不用穿正

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Britain 英国 Mental Health: Out of the shadows 心理疾病:走出阴影 Mental illness is at last getting the attention, if not the money it needs. 即便不是急需的财政援助,心理疾病至少争取到了它所该有的关注。 Mental

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The weather and the British obsession with talking about it has been puzzling outsiders for decades. 英国人痴迷于谈论天气,这个问题数十年来一直让外界人士困惑不已。 Several features of Britain's geography make the weathe

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Young voters 年轻选民 Apathetic fallacy 无情的谬误 Online voting could transform Britain's electorate 网络投票改变英国选民 Fancy a snap election? 喜欢临时选举? ONE-BY-ONE they approach the lectern, explaining why they will

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