The land was ghostly with the first signs of morning, 清晨第一缕阳光让大地变得十分诡异。 and through the grayness the giant pines rose darkly like columns in some dim underground vault. 在灰暗中,一棵棵巨松在黑暗中耸立,

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President Obama will sign the economic stimulus bill on Tuesday at a ceremony in Denver. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pointed to the legislation today in urging fellow finance ministers from the world's industrial powers to take steps to bols

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The economic stimulus package is moving toward final passage. The House voted 246 to 187 today to pass the 787-billion-dollar bill. NPR's Audie Cornish reports from the Capitol. The House passed the stimulus plan a little more than three weeks after

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For some reason or other, every now and then some man tries to jump the falls in a barrel, and at least one man has done it and lived. 不时有人以这样或那样的理由要尝试坐在桶里跳下瀑布,还真有一个人这么做了,而且还

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格罗弗克利夫兰(Stephen Grover Cleveland,1837年-1908年),美国政治家,第22和24任美国总统,是唯一分开任两届的总统,也是内战后第一个当选总统的民主党人。在他任期内,自由女神像在纽约市竖

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Willis Conover Brought Jazz, 'the Music of Freedom,' to the World Written by Dana Demange (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Im Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: Willis Conover And Im Barbara Klein with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Willis Con

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美国一项最新健康报告指出,餐馆和小食店所提供的大多数食物含盐量过高,超过推荐的人体必需摄入量,这将造成健康问题。 中老年人如果每日摄入的盐量过多,还会造成高血压等疾

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THIS IS AMERICA - Driving Cross-Country: One Family's Story By Broadcast: Monday, November 15, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith.

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Heifer International By Broadcast: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Heifer International is sixty years old. This organ

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Weekly Address: President Obama Wall Street Reform Will Bring Greater Security to Folks on Main Street 每周电视讲话:华尔街改革将为美国中产阶级带来更好的安全保障奥巴马总统 WASHINGTON In his weekly address, President

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-The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox(秋分). Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon. This day was also considered as a harvest festi

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Related Links National Portrait Gallery If you look beyond the myth, you come to understand that people from many different places, different backgrounds, different fields of endeavor and ambitions converge to recreate the American West. - Frank Good

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Hey there, thanks for joining us, I'm Virginia Cha at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The sad story there are no survivors in that deadly upstate New York plane crash last night. The flight data recorders a

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New Words: jellyfish n. 水母; buffalo n.水牛; despite prep. 尽管,不管 athletic adj. 运动的,运动员的; 01.The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years despite not having brains is great news for stupid people. 蠢也

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September 6th, 1901President William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The gunman, Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who is executed the following month. Vice President Teddy Roosevelt succeeds McKinley when he dies more

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日常生活里大家经常吃鸡腿,但在点餐时鸡腿可不能说chicken legs,今天Jenny和Adam就要来说说实用的美食英语。 鸡腿 比如去快餐店里点餐,外国人都这样称呼鸡腿: Drumsticks: 鸡腿,鼓槌 这个词

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Tender Is the Night - Book One by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 21 After three-quarters of an hour of standing around, he became suddenly involved in a human contact. It was just the sort of thing that was likely to happen to him when he was in the moo

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Tender Is the Night - Book Two by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 16 I want to go away, he told Franz. For a month or so, for as long as I can. Why not, Dick? That was our original arrangementit was you who insisted on staying. If you and Nicole I don't

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It may be bad for the waistline, but comfort food is good for the soul Comfort food may be bad for the waistline but it is good for the soul, say researchers. A study found that even thinking about mashed potato, chicken soup or chocolate pudding can

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1. Did you get down to Florida last summer? 你上个暑假有去佛罗里达吗? 英文中有一点很好玩而且跟中文很像的地方就是, 在中文里通常我们会说, 我南下高雄, 或是北上台北, 而不单纯说我去高雄或我去

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