President Obama visited a massive solar power facility in Florida today to announce a multibillion dollar push for upgrades to the nation's electric grid. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. With acres of solar cells stretching out behind him, Mr. Obama sa

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(329) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

三十六、税收(Tax) 1.An income tax deduction si allowed for bad debt. 2.Filing a false tax return is under the penalties of perjury to taxing authorities. 3.He was convicted of tax evasion. 4.It is the duty of citizens to pay taxes in accord

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语基础听说900句

Lawyer for Executed Iranian Dervish Arrested Iran has reportedly arrested another human rights lawyer the second this month. According to human rights monitors, Zeynab Taheri, defense attorney for the recently executed Sufi bus driver Mohammad Salas,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(六月)

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语跟扑克牌有关,是trump card。玩牌的人都知道,trump card是王牌的意思,也就是最大的牌,可以通吃。从19世纪初开始,trump card也被用来指最行之有效的手段。 上星

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Authorities are trying to learn more about the woman who forced US Airways flight bound to North Carolina to divert to an airport in Maine after she displayed what authorities described as suspicious behavior. The aircraft out of Paris, France, lande

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Fortunately, this case justice delayed wasn't justice denied. But it was many many sleepless nights, it was a lot of agitation, a lot of tears. God will be the final arbiter, and I think the defendant faces far more serious punishment from the Lord t

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(十一)月

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

By Adam Freedman Todays episode: can you be sued even if youre not guilty? But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your law

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

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

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

Mexico Takes First Step to Overhauling Criminal Law 墨西哥启动刑法修改第一步 The Northern Mexican State of Nuevo Leon has taken the first step toward open court criminal trials by allowing

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--社会新闻点评

The AP has learned President Bush plans to reduce American troops in Iraq by about 30, 000 next summer. Bush is expected to make the announcement in a televised address probably this week. Under a grey sky, relatives of the victims of the 9/11 attack

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2007

今天我们要讲的习惯用语的意思都是谎话。但是谎话多种多样,人们撒谎的程度也轻重不一,在英语中得用不同的词句来表达。我们今天要讲的第一个是: fib。Fib当然不是实话,然而却是无伤大

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天我们要学的词是stand trial。 Stand trial, 接受审判。 The defendant was found unfit to stand trial by the court, 法庭宣布,被告无能力受审。 Former French President Chirac became the first former French leader to stand tr

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

A: The demographic reports are in.。. From the looks of it, were going to have to re-evaluate some of the content for our promotional events in different venues. B:Why, whats the lowdown? A: According to the report, our Boston crowd is q

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Four executives of online video service Qvod who are on trial for spreading pornography for profits and who had pled innocent in a previous trial, changed their pleas to guilty last Friday in a new open trial in Beijing. 在上周五于北京举行的公

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天你的朋友圈被人贩子一律死刑刷屏了吗?暂且不管这是不是某网站的营销,我们先来看一下和拐卖儿童有关的英文,以及美国和加拿大对人贩子是如何定罪的,之后你就知道中国对于拐卖

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

AURORA, Colorado, July 23 (Xinhua) -- James Holmes, the 24-year- old suspect that killed 12 people and injured 58 others in a movie theater shooting spree in Aurora, the U.S. state of Colorado, made his first court appearance Monday. Holmes showed hi

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

I reported this trial simply for my own amusement, one idle day last week, and without expecting to publish any portion of it - but I have seen the facts in the case so distorted and misrepresented in the daily papers that I feel it my duty to come f

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

释义: do one's best 使出全力 这是最为常用的表达之一。为了具体说明全力以赴的内容,可以在 do one's best 之后接to+动词。比如 I did my best to do my homework。 例句: I'm doing my best! And she is doing he

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 老外最常用的英文短语