EXPLORATIONS - Let the Games Begin: Winter Olympics Start Feb. 10 in TurinBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(二)月

After three weeks of relentless rain and floods, one fifth of Pakistan is under water. The BBC's Mike Wooldridge reports there are more pledges of aid from United Nations members meeting in New York. The economic impact of this disasters already beco

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Samsung rarely talks in public about its corporate strategy. 三星很少公开谈论其企业战略。 So when South Korea's biggest chaebol (conglomerate) announced with much fanfare in early August 所以8月初,当韩国最大财阀(企业集团

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

A cab company in one of Japans major cities is trialling a new feature by introducing silent taxi drivers. 日本某大城市的一家出租车公司推出沉默司机试运行活动。 Miyako Taxi, which is based in Kyoto, unveiled the new idea last

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The budget standoff in Washington is weighing on negotiators as a government shutdown draws near. Hours after meeting with Congress's GOP leadership, President Obama made an unexpected appearance at the White House daily briefing, apparently frustrat

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Father's Day in USA is celebrated with great enthusiasm and lot of fanfare on third Sunday of June. Observing the day, people reflect on the invaluable role played by fathers in building the character of children and in the development of the nation.

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PSALM 47 1Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. 2How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth! 3He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet. 4He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Ja

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January 24, 1984 1984年1月24日 On the morning that he and his teammates completed the software for the Macintosh, 和同事完成麦金塔软件的那个早晨, Andy Hertzfeld had gone home exhausted and expected to stay in bed for at least a da

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Song:Just A Dream Artist:Carrie Underwood It was two weeks after the day she turned 18 all dressed in white, going to the church that night She had his box of letters in the passenger seat, six pence in her shoe something borrowed something blue

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A new gender neutral title 'Mx' is to join the honorifics 'Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms' on driving licences and other official documents, the first change to officially recognised titles in decades. 新的中性性别称谓Mx将加入MrMrsMiss和Ms的队伍,

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By Naomi Schwarz/Prince Collins Dakar 10 September 2007 Liberian soldier celebrates with family at the graduation ceremony In Liberia, fanfare has marked the graduation of the latest batch of newly trained army soldiers. The training, which is partly

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High food prices have pushed an estimated 44 million more people into poverty in the past year, according to the World Bank. France says taming food price volatility is one of its major goals as current head of the Group of 20 leading and emerging ec

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三十而立,是开始独立思考的时候,从做一个他人期望的自己,到成为一个自我期望的自己。一些会扔掉,一些会保持。你会成为一颗独立生长的树。小编在这里给大家分享一篇关于三十岁的

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We reached for the rainbow And we followed the stars Right now at the end of the day Together we stay The four magic weapons Are finally gathered as pawn of your dark evil plan my mission's complete You're gonna be the king Everything will happen as

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Business: The internet of things: Where the smart is 商业:物联网:智能家居,路在何方 Connected homes will take longer to materialise than expected. 真正实现互联家庭仍是长路漫漫。 The fanfare has gone on for years. 有关

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The Americas 美洲 Chile: Going Nowhere 智利:无处可去 The Capital's public transport system is sputtering. 智利首都的交通系统饱受诟病。 Transantiago, the Chilean capital's public-transport system, had its tenth birthday in Febr

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Finance and Economics 财经 The Ethiopias Commodity Exchange: High-tech, low impact 埃塞俄比亚的商品交易所:高科技,低影响 A state-of-the-art commodity exchange struggles with the basics. 该国最先进的商品交易所仍在基础

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Finance ministers from the 19 Eurozone countries will meet in Brussels today to consider whether Greece has made enough progress on economic reforms to release the next round of international bailout funds. On Sunday, the Greek parliament had approve

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Here was the call of Maege Mormont's warhorn, a long low blast that rolled down the valley from the east, 这里,梅姬莫尔蒙奏出长而低沉的号角,自东侧轰然直下,炸进河谷, to tell them that the last of Jaime's riders had e

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The Labour Party's funk 工党的下坡路 Running out of road 背离大路 Labour is an increasingly unpopular party with lots of popular policies 工党政策广受称赞,自己却日益遭嫌 IF POLITICAL platforms were the sum of their parts, t

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