Canada?You cant see much of Canada in American films like in the 1953 film 'Niagara' (1953). For me, Canada is a place that starts somewhere on the other side of that enormous waterfall. Like most people I suppose, I know the USA from watching Americ

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英文杂志-Magazine

1. A three-alarm fire at the Monte Carlo Casino in Las Vegas sent flames raising across the roof, filling the sky with thick black smoke. Gamblers and guests were forced to flee. There were no major injuries. 2. With riot gear on, Egyptian forces tr

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Each night on Old Las Vegas's Fremont Street, lights and speakers create a show overhead. Paris may be the City of Light, but the city of lights is the gambling oasis of Las Vegas, in the western state of Nevada. Along a downtown casino row that's of

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For him all relationships fell into patterns. You fell into propinquity or distance. Just as, for him, the histories in Herodotus clarified all societies. He assumed he was experienced in the ways of the world he had essentially left years earlier, s

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会话急救包 1 I'd like to go dancing somewhere.我想找个地方跳舞。 2 We 'd like to buy some souvenirs.我们想买纪念品。 3 We'd like to have some local food.我们想品尝地方小吃。 4 Can you recommend anywhere?你可以推荐哪里吗? 5 Can you think of anywhere

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文本: Nicole:James,I almost didn't recognize you. Bond:I'm sorry? Have we met before? Nicole:I think once.Something in England.Nicole Hunter.My friends call me Nikki. Bond:Nicole Hunter? You're the jewelry designer? Nicole:I've been called worse

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VI. Further Listening and Speaking Task1: Horseshoes as a Sign of Good Luck Script Horseshoes are a traditional sign of good luck. Most people believe this comes from the fact that the horseshoe is shaped like the crescent moon, a period of prosperit

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Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, had more gambling revenue in 2006 than the Las Vegas Strip, making it the biggest gambling center in the world. Located on China's south coast, Macau is only ten square miles

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If you listen to April 10th 2012 you will hear about the governments plans for SkyCity casino to build a convention centre for Auckland. The government announced these plans nearly a year ago but the Green Party was concerned about whether it was fai

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1. The suspect in this morning's shooting rampage in Baton Rouge Louisiana is now behind bars. Police say 25-year-old Anthony Bell shot and killed four people at a church, then abducted and killed his

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For years, Nevada has had a near monopoly on legal sports betting in the U.S. So you might think that Las Vegas might not be so keen on the Supreme Court's decision to allow all states to legalize sports gambling. But as NPR's Le

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The Cuban dance-style Casino, known around the world as Cuban-style salsa or Salsa Cubana, is popular in nightclubs in different parts of Beijing. I love it. I think it's an amazing dance. Salsa has Cuban dance LA style and the New York style, but I

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Busted flush 好景不再 How a Sino-Lao special economic zone hit the skids 一个中国老挝边境经济特区如何走向衰落 May 26th 2011 | BOTEN, LAOS | from the print edition AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development,

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SYDNEY The Chinese authorities have formally arrested three Australian employees of the casino operator Crown Resorts who had been detained in mid-October in an investigation into the promotion of gambling in China. 悉尼中国当局已正式逮捕了

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

And when the markets in Europe closed a couple of hours ago, the London FTSE 100 was down 110 points. The Dax and Euro also down. In the US, trading comes to a close shortly. The Dow Jones is down. And the Australian dollar is worth around 87 US cent

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模仿文本: And it's presented new challenges to casino designers. As we've heard, the overwhelming majority of the customers here are from mainland China, and they are very particular about how and where they gamble. I'm outside a good example o

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英语学习笔记: casino n. 赌场,俱乐部 lens n. 镜头,镜片 ninja n. 日本武士,忍者 contact lens 隐形眼镜 roll off 从某处滚了下来,或是指叫某人滚的远远的 point out 指出,指出事实,错误。 sticky

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OK, back-trace the account, follow the money, hopefully it will lead us to whoever kidnapped Walter. 反追踪账户,追踪钱的走向,希望能指引我们找到绑架沃尔特的人 After all this time, do you think Walter might still really b

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Five U.S. boxing Olympians will make their professional debuts Friday at a casino outside Palm Springs, California. Among the five London Olympic boxers is three-time Olympian Rau'shee Warren. The group returned from Lo

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This story began six months ago and has not finished yet. In May, Leo Gao who had a petrol station in Rotorua, asked Westpac Bank to lend him $100,000 because his business was in financial trouble. A bank employee made a mistake and put $10million in

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