AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We check in with the American Dialect Society for some notable words from the past year, including the one that the group considers least likely to succeed. RS: But we start with

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(171) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Gunaras Riabokas says driving his taxi along the streets of Vilnius every day has made him Lithuanian unofficial pollster of public opinion. Gunaras Riabokas表示,开出租车环行维尔纽斯大街小巷的他,每天都是如此。这使他不是

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Health Report - What Happens When TB Becomes Untreatable? 健康报道 - 抗药性肺结核病蔓延 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 In December, doctors in Mumbai, India, reported about

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Daily Mail reports a new mobile app has been launched to help tourists visiting Paris find areas of the French capital where their native tongue will be understood. 要去法国吗?记得带上新APP 'Yes I speak touriste' has been launched to help

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Technology Report - Scientists Develop Smartphone App for Eye Exams This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. More than two hundred eighty million people around the world have vision problems or are blind. The World Health Organization says

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Study: Heavy Facebook Users Less Happy Students at George Mason University in Virginia were asked how many friends they have on Facebook. Um, Ive never actually stopped and looked at it. Probably somewhere between 350 and 400, responded one student.

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The Obama administration has lifted the moratorium on deepwater drilling for oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico it imposed after an accident in the Gulf in April that killed 11 workers and led to the biggest oil spill in history. Reaction from

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Free Smart Phone App Helps Students With Math 费的智能手机APP可以帮助学生学习数学 WASHINGTON School children usually can count on their parents to help them check if their homework is correct. But as students get older and their assig

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Popular chat app teaches users to spot fake 100 yuan bank notes On Wednesday the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation and tech giant Tencent launched a new feature in Tencents popular instant messaging app QQ that can help people in China

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 01 December 2007 President Bush is urging Congress to pass several pieces of legislation when the lawmakers return from a long holiday recess next week. Among them, the president is pushing for funding for the wars in I

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Samantha, like many renters, is tired of renting. One reason is that her annual rent goes up like clockwork. Every year her landlord raises the rent five percent. Another reason is her neighbors. New neighbors always seem to be more inconsiderate tha

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Jude called Erica. Guess what, honey? he asked. Next month is our fourth anniversary. He had already bought her a nice card. She said yes, next month would mark the fourth year that they had known each other. 'Known' each other? Jude repeated. He cor

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Shakespeare? There's an App for That 有关莎士比亚的App NEW YORK Ross Williams is passionate about Shakespeare. He studied acting and directing and is the founder of a theater company called the New York Shakespeare Exchange. But hes well aware

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The plumping up of America's kids is a favorite topic of news magazines. Time recently published a health issue whose cover showed a chubby boy holding a gigantic, double-scoop ice-cream cone. The accompanying story was entitled, Our Super-Sized Kid

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Chinese police on Sunday launched a mobile app to encourage witnesses report the whereabouts of missing or trafficked children. According to a statement from the criminal investigation bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, more than 5,000 anti-t

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By Deepak Dobhal Washington 07 November 2007 Scientists in the United States have developed a new kind of battery that looks and feels just like a piece of paper. VOA's Deepak Dobhal reports its inventors say the battery's power and flexibility make

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今天我们要学的词是happy hour。 Happy hour, 快乐时光,是指下班后大家出去喝一杯。 One in five U.S. workers regularly attend happy hours after work, 美国有五分之一的人下班后经常会跟同事出去喝一杯。 Mos

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New App Aims to Fight Poverty A pilot project gets underway soon to test whether mobile phones can be used to help educate the poor. Its estimated three quarters of the worlds poor have access to mobile phones. More and more people are downloading ap

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I personally came up with the idea, and then we found a tech company to help us build the code. The app took 6 months to complete from September of 2016, and we launched the app last year in May. 我亲自构思了这整个方案,然后找了一家科

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 06 November 2009 Tensions between Southeast Asian neighbors Thailand and Cambodia are high after Cambodia's leader appointed a fugitive former Thai prime minister as an advisor. Both countries have withdrawn their ambassado

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)