图片1 When someone is telling you a story with a lot of little details and you want them to get to the main point, you can say cut to the chase. This expression is used with friends when you want them to cut to the most interesting part of the stor

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Oprahs secret reveal. Bianna Golodrygas back with more about this. Twenty-five years later, Oprah still knows how to get those eyeballs robbed, and it's so secret that throughout her career, Oprah Winfrey has been very private when it comes to questi

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2011年

By Ivana Kuhar Washington 26 July 2007 American factory worker A recent study (March 2007) entitled Economic Anxiety and the American Dream, finds middle class Americans look at their economic future with a combination of optimism and anxiety. The r

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(七月)

迷你对话: A:I learned of the railway accident only this morning. 我今天早上才听说火车事故的事情。 B:A really dreadful accident and many people were killed. 真是一场可怕的事故,死了很多人。 A:Is that true? 真的吗

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图片1 Have you ever found someones story a bit suspicious? Did you ever meet someone who didnt seem like they were who they said they were? You could say that this was fishy! In this episode we talk about the meaning of fishy, funny (different from

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

We of course have gone great lengths to make the point, but this is not a reflection on the Queen mom or the Queen, both of whom demonstrated their heroism as your video quite rightly demonstrates during the blitz, during the second world war, they b

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

The head of Spain's civil aviation said the Spanair plane that crashed in Madrid Wednesday must have suffered more than one kind of failure. Meanwhile, grieving relatives are continuing efforts to help identify the remains of the 153 people who were

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

Two aid workers from French charity Medecins du Monde have been kidnapped while travelling in a remote region along the border between Ethiopia and Somalia. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports a rebel group active in the area has denied resp

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C. He's also the son of a famou

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This is the day in 1954 that the Supreme Court issued its famous ruling desegregating schools, Brown versus Board of Education. Today, schools remain largely segregated, and the author Richard Rothstein argues that's because housin

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

NOEL KING, HOST: Insurance companies and data brokers are more and more often using your personal information from social media to predict your health care costs. And they are exploring ways to use that data to determine the rates that you will pay.

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European Union finance ministers meet today and Tuesday to discuss the details of a $253 billion economic stimulus proposal by the bloc's executive arm. 欧盟各国的财政部长星期一和星期二举行两天会议,讨论欧盟执行机构欧盟

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年12月

The Australian share market was in the red all days. Investors waited for the latest US job figures out tonight. The All Ordinaries Index fell 1%. The ASX 200 was led down by health and finance stocks. And the Australian dollar is buying around 70.4

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2015年

European Union finance ministers meet today and Tuesday to discuss the details of a $253 billion economic stimulus proposal by the bloc's executive arm. Lisa Bryant has more for VOA from Paris. European finance ministers, meeting in Brussels, are ex

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图片1 Jen just went on a blind date and Rick tries to find out all the details. A blind date means that Jen and Rick did not know each other before. Learn how to talk about love in this episode. Were there sparks? Was there chemistry? This episode

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

By Melinda Smith Washington 14 March 2008 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released a study estimating that one out of every four teenage girls in the United States is infected with a sexually transmitted disease. The rat

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has raised its MERS response level to serious and advised the public to avoid travelling to South Korea due to the climbing number of cases there. On average, about 5,000 people travel between Ho

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2015年

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner returned to the U.S. Congress Wednesday, a day after he announced the Obama administration's plan for continuing efforts to rescue the nation's ailing banking system. He faced lawmakers frustrated that few det

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年2月

Carl: Im sorry, say that again. I couldnt hear you over that guy at the next table shouting into his cell phone. Stephanie: That guy is so rude. Were trying to have a leisurely conversation over a cup of coffee, and we have to out shout some inconsid

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

The Next Generation 新一代 It seems that the key trend in the entertainment industry these days is the adoption of 3D. Following the success of 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, the video game business is keen to muscle in on the ac

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