By Caty Weaver Broadcast: August: 22 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Environment Report. Last week millions of people in the United States and Canada suddenly found themselves in

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-环境与健康

上个礼拜我帮一个好朋友搬家,结果发现她家有好多我认为没什么用的东西,什么大学时候的笔记本啊,书啊,还有看起来她好久都没穿过的衣服。我问她这些笔记本里是不是有很多珍贵资料

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The Political Career of a Female Politician Modest and soft-spoken, Agatha Muthoni Mbogo, 24, is hardly the image of a revolutionary. Yet, six months ago, she did a most revolutionary thing: She ran for mayor of Embu, Kenya, and won. Ms. Mbogo's vict

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IN THE NEWS - New Government in Iraq By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, June 05, 2004 This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. Iraq now has leaders in place to take power tempora

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Last Monday, science journals around the world published what was called a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. Organizers at the Council of Science Editors said the project involve

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Pakistani police say the men were detained during a raid on the home of a local leader of the banned militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad. Aru Pande | Washington 10 December 2009 Nihad Awad, national executive director for the Council on American-Islamic

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今天我们要学的词是measured。 Measured, 意思是谨慎的,经过反复斟酌的。 He was quite measured in his response to the criticism, 面对批评,他做出了很有分寸的反应。 The city council has adopted a measured approac

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Turkey's foreign minister has urged the United Nations to unfreeze Libyan assets to help the North African country move forward following the uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Ahmet Davutoglu made the call Thursday in Istanbul, where di

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China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). 我国于周二宣布对朝鲜民主主义人民共和国禁运部分产品。 In terms of imports, China banned purchases of c

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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The annual(每年的) general debate in the 192-member General Assembly concluded on Wednesday after six days of discourse on topics ranging from the global economy to UN reform, from peacekeeping to nuclear n

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned that the world economic crisis is deepening, threatening developing countries and the global financial system. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly Saturday, Singh said the shoots of re

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The State Council has given the green light to a long-awaited plan to connect the Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges, further opening China's capital market. 人们期待已久的深圳证券交易所和香港联合交易所互联互通方案已获

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BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, or China's cabinet, has decided to create a food allowance for about 26 million needy students nationwide, according to a statement issued on Wednesday. Each student will receive an average of three yua

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CHINA DAILY Dolphin Dies, Swimmers Blamed Wildlife experts have criticized swimmers who posed for pictures with a dying dolphin on a South China beach, hampering the efforts of people trying to save the mammal. Photographs taken by witnesses in Sanya

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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

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China last Tuesday released a list of goods banned for export to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as the items could be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. 上周二,中国发布了一份禁止向朝鲜出口物品的清单,

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CAIRO, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The polling stations of Egypt's Shura Council (upper house of parliament) elections closed Sunday on the first day of the two-day vote with a low turnout rate of voters. In the first stage of the upper house elections, vote

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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

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In Liverpool, there is a street called Penny Lane. Why is it called Penny Lane? Perhaps the name comes from the penny coin nowdays the smallest coin used in Britain. Perhaps there were shops on Penny Lane which sold cheap things, things which cost on

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The king took a swallow of wine and glowered at Ned across the council table. 国王灌了口葡萄酒,然后从议事桌的那边狠狠地瞪着这一头的奈德。 So you would counsel me to do nothing until the dragonspawn has landed his army o

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