E-Education: Wave of the Future or Passing Trend?

1) Entrepreneurs are spending millions to create for-profit universities of the Internet, and the smart money is betting that by the time your middle schoolers go off to college, they may not really g

NPR 2012-06-30

Congress has cleared three major items off its to-do-list. NPRs Tamara Keith reports both the House and Senate today passed a measure combining the highway bill, a long-term flood insurance extension and another year of reduced student loan interest

英语新闻与报道—News & Reports 112

Wk 04 (27 January 1945) Nazi Death Camp At Auschwitz LiberatedThis Week in HistoryRed Army soldiers from the USSR liberate the largest Nazi concentration camp. In 1945, Red Army soldiers from the USSR freed thousands of prisoners from the Nazi regime

漫漫长路 1-Track02

MAUREEN On New Year's Eve the nursing home sent their ambulance round for him came around six, and these two young fellas wheeled him out. I couldn't cry, because then the fellas would know something was wrong; as far as they knew, I was coming to fe

Hotel California：加州旅馆 Eagles

Hotel California Eagles On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy, and my sig

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The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at th

【突破英文词汇】bi--two semi--half

1. bicentennial /ˈbaisenˈtenjəl/ -- two hundredth anniversary The bicentennial of George Washington's birth was celebrated in 1932. 乔治华盛顿200周年生日纪念于1932年举行。 2. semicircle /ˈsemɪˌsɜ:kəl/ -- half of a circle At th

托福听力短文 II-05-2

(MA) Today I want to talk to you about wasps and their nests. You'll recall that biologists divide species of wasps into two groups: solitary and social. Solitary wasps, as the name implies, do not live together with other wasps. In most species the

经济学人15:探太空难,察深海亦不易

Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Deep-sea exploration. 深海探索。 The age of Aquarius 1. 宝瓶时代1。 Inner space is almost as hard to explore as outer space. 探太空难，察深海亦不易。 JAMES CAMERON knows how to make a splash. Lit

【英音模仿秀】《索尔之子》

模仿句子：He works with the SS on the daily tasks of the gas chambers, clearing, cleaning, etc. His survival, from moment to moment, depends on the massacre of his fellows. 翻译：他替纳粹党卫军工作，每天负责毒气室的打扫和尸

PBS高端访谈:特朗普可能签署法案加强对俄罗斯的制裁

The White House said today President Trump supports the bill working its way through Congress to toughen sanctions on Russia for meddling in last year's election and for its military aggression in Syria and Ukraine. The bill, which also contains new

世界小史 第171期:仇恨人类

The Christians had often said that this world must end so that a better, purer world might take its place. 基督徒们曾常常说，这个世界必须毁灭，好让一个更好的、更纯洁的世界诞生。 Of course, you and I know that they m

打工姐妹花第一季 第208期:小礼物

Permission to enter the judge's chambers? 请求进入法官内庭 Permission granted. Excuse the tubs of blue cheese. 请求通过。别介意这些蓝起司。 They're being held as evidence in the case against eating here. 它们是我没有在这偷

冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》第255期:第十八章 赫德(1)

Eddard Stark rode through the towering bronze doors of the Red Keep sore, tired, hungry, and irritable. 艾德史塔克浑身酸痛，又累又饿， He was still ahorse, dreaming of a long hot soak, a roast fowl, 心情恶劣地骑马穿过红堡高耸

Vodafone Threatens India With Arbitration Over Tax Issue

The British mobile service Vodafone has threatened the Indian government with international arbitration over a proposal that could make it liable for billions of dollars of taxes. Pressure is mounting on India to reconsider the proposal, which foreig

英文歌曲：Hotel California 加州旅馆

on a dark desert highway, 行驶在昏黑的荒漠公路上， cool wind in my hair. 凉风吹过我的头发。 warm smell of colitas, 温馨的大麻香， rising up through the air. 弥漫在空气中。 up ahead in the distance, 抬头遥望远方，

经济学人293:关塔那摩战俘营迎来十周年纪念日

GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. So did John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. But nearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through its barbed-wired gates in January 2002, th

冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》第361期:第二十三章 艾德(3)

The king asked him if perhaps he'd like to outlaw eating, shitting, and breathing while he was at it. 结果国王问他说要不要顺便连吃饭、拉屎、呼吸也统统禁了算了。 If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got tha

Plans to Raise US Debt Ceiling Mired in Congress

Daunting hurdles remain for two legislative plans to cut U.S. government spending, raise the federal borrowing limit and avert a national debt crisis experts warn that could stall Americas fragile economic recovery and send financial shock waves arou

冰与火之歌系列之《权力的游戏》第463期:第二十六章 艾莉亚(19)

You might say as Benjen Stark is why we're talking, though. His blood ran black. Made him my brother as much as yours. 不过我赶来这儿跟他也有关系。他是黑衫军的一员，我和您一样把他当成兄弟。 It's for his sake I'm com