The Senate will take up a Democratic plan denied to raise the debt limit high enough to get passed next year's election. NPR's David Welna reports House Republicans are proposing a rival plan that would require an increase to the debt ceiling early n

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

1. Democratic Presidential candidate XX, XX,XX answer questions in a Town Hall format Edward on Monday night. It was one of last sentence to address voters before the February first Edward quark state. 2. There were science progress says the east coa

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Jurors in the campaign finance trial of former senator John Edwards have reached a partial verdict issuing a unanimous guilt vote on the third count of illegal campaign contributions. The judge has ordered the juror back to deliberations on the other

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约翰席德尼麦凯恩三世(John Sidney McCain III,1936年8月29日-),美国政治家、共和党重量级人物,现为亚利桑那州资深联邦参议员,属于党内的温和派,曾于2008年参选过美国总统。 麦凯恩生于

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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Entomb ed by a 30-foot layer of volcanic pumice for more than 3,500 years, the city was clearly related to the ruins of Minoan Crete. Hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of its time, among the ci

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Red roses are a traditional gift on Valentine's Day Its that time of the year when couples show their love for each other by sending cards, flowers and chocolates. But Valentines Day is not only about public displays of affection , in recent years i

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North Korea is an authoritarian state led by the Kim family for more than 60 years. According to the newly released annual State Department Human Rights Report, human rights conditions in North Korea remain abysmal. The government subjects citizens t

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(三月)

Im Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is your NOW IN THE NEWS update. President Obama is now backing down from his decision to eventually close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. In a speech at the National Archive, the presid

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16.Keep it simple. There is a world of magnificence hidden in simplicity. Pick the five most important things in your life now and focus on those things. Let the other stuff go. Stop the busyness and really enjoy whats important to you. 简单化。有

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The poor man was immediately released from confinement, his accounts returned, and the mistake pointed out. 倒霉的税务官很快从监狱里释放出来,他的账目亦已返还,他的错误自然得到纠正。 During his imprisonment, which

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本期真题 1. I must congratulate you ______ the excellent design of the new bridge. A) with B) of C) at D) on 2. There is a fully ______ health center on the ground floor of the main office buildin

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In the American state of California, prisoners are usually able to get out of jail before their sentence is completed. Some prisoners win a conditional, or temporary, release from jail through acts of kindness or by doing good things. Others are appr

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Twenty-three years ago, at the age of 19, I shot and killed a man. I was a young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol. But that wasn't the end of my story. In fact, it was beginning, and the 23 years since is a story of acknowl

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Business 商业报道 Takafumi Horie's comeback 堀江贵文的回归 Up, up and away 升高,升高再升高 The controversial entrepreneur remains popular, brash and ambitious 这个有着很大争议的企业家依旧很受欢迎并且野心勃勃

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This is the BBC news. Hello, I am Jonathan Izard. A court in Norway has upheld a claim of inhumane treatment brought by the mass murderer Anesh Brawick who killed 77 people in a gun and bomb rampage five years ago. He had claimed that his detention a

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James XXII Yet it was when she had got off and I missed her on the spot that the great pinch really came. If I had counted on what it would give me to find myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that i

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(398) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

He insisted that the iridium had been deposited by volcanic action, 他坚持认为,铱是由火山活动沉积的, even while conceding in a newspaper interview that he had no actual evidence of it. 即使他在一次记者采访中承认,他拿

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Aye, aye, said Stubb, the second mate, Starbuck, there, is as careful a man as you'll find anywhere in this fishery. 不错,不错,二副斯塔布说,斯达巴克嘛,象他这么细心的人,在这个捕鱼业中是随处都找得到的。 But we sha

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