A good friend of former CIA Director David Petraeus says the retired general is devastated. Retired Army Colonel Steve Boriland said on ABCs Good Morning America the revelation of the Petraeuss affair with a female biographer has been punishing for P

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(169) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

Paul: So I was on my way to work the other day, and I saw this reallyyou shouldn't laugh but it was quite funny traffic accident. I shouldn't laugh but this old lady was in her car. And bless her, she must have got confused and she put the car into r

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 百朗2013高考听力快速版

Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. You will find one phrasal verb in every 192 words of written English. They will make your English sound more natural once

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Researchers: Recycled Concrete's Time Has Come SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Recycling in the construction industry has become big business. It's easy to find new life for everything from old windows to wood beams. But until now, concrete the most widely used

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Two years ago, Christchurch was hit by a major earthquake. Listen to September 4th 2010 to hear about this earthquake. Although there was damage and liquefaction, nobody was killed. It was the February 22nd 2011 earthquake which was so devastating. M

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(208) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Lonely Planet, a popular tourist guide book, put Christchurch at number six in their list of the top 10 cities in the world for 2013. Number one is San Francisco. No other New Zealand city was on the list. Christchurch has had many big and small eart

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法国努力解决被忽略郊区问题 Market day in Clichy-sous-Bois - a time to chat and buy items from the home country. Many residents and their forefathers immigrated here from North and sub-Saharan Africa. They were looking for better opportun

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Water levels dropped quickly after the terrible floods last week, leaving thick layers of smelly mud. About 50,000 volunteers are helping to clean up. They bring spades, brooms, buckets and rubbish bags. They scrape mud off the floor with a spade or

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Stark warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of refugees forced to flee war zones provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday. According to the UN High Commission for Refu

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The Malaysian Prime Minister,?Najib Razak,?says?he has ordered the country's Navy and maritime authorities to try to find and rescue migrants stranded at sea. It comes a day after Malaysia and Indonesia agreed to provide temporary shelter to such mig

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Recession, What Recession? 衰退,什么衰退? While many of the headlines this week have been about the turmoil in the financial markets, one British artist has been bucking the trend by turning a healthy profit. In fact, Damien Hirst, a concep

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芝加哥(Chicago),位于美国中西部、密歇根湖的南部,是世界著名的国际金融中心之一。此外,芝加哥还拥有很多世界著名的高楼大厦,被誉为摩天大楼的故乡。截至2016年,芝加哥人口约为

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A large excavator arrived at the No.4 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University on Friday morning and began demolishing the buildings of the radiological department and mortuary without any advance notice. Dozens of young men wearing camouflage coa

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Topic 1-Demolishing Transformer Building Sparks Criticism on Wasting Money The main teaching building in Wuhan University which bears resemblance to a 'Transformer' has been demolished after 16 years since it was built. The controversy kicks in when

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Todd: So, Alexandra you were talking about a hurricane. What hurricane were you talking about? Alex: I was talking about Hurricane Andrew, and as I said before, it was a category 5 hurricane. I was not in the city when it came through, however I did

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Two schools have closed buildings because engineers said they would not be safe in an earthquake. Last Friday Golden Bay High School in Nelson closed one classroom block. It was built 60 years ago, before the 1973 earthquake standards for buildings.

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It is surprising that Christchurch is still having after-shocks. It is now 4 months since the 7.1 earthquake on Sept 4th. Just as Christchurch people were starting to think that after-shocks had finished, the day after Christmas gave everyone an unpl

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An insignificant quarrel between two little Greek cities led to the final conflict. For thirty years the war between Athens and Sparta continued. It ended in a terrible disaster for Athens. 一段时间里,雅典与斯巴达相安无事。可一件小

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After Saturdays earthquake in the Christchurch area, the main focus was at first on the central city area. There has been a huge amount of damage to older buildings. Many of these were beautiful 100-year old buildings which made the central city attr

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From NPR news in Washington, im Louis S. In heart hit Moll, Oklahoma today, president Obama got a first-hand look at tornado damage. NPRs Scott Horsely tells us the president met with families who were affected by the storm and pledged that the feder

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