DAVID GREENE, HOST: If you have been monitoring the rise of populist nationalism around the world, you can now turn attention to Brazil. Brazilians will be voting for their next president on Sunday, and the candidates include Jair Bolsonaro. He's a r

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

1. A proposal to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the military is set to be introduced in Congress today. Gay rights groups are urging quick congressional approval. A vote could come as early as Thursday. 2. The prosecuti

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今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:breathe down someone's neck. Breathe是呼吸的意思;neck是脖子的意思。Breathe down someone's neck 连在一起,是对某人盯得特别紧的意思。 前不久,我朋友Jenny跟她老公Je

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Kyrgyzstan's interim government is trying to cut a deal with the country's defiant president who had fled south after last week's bloodshed in the capital. The continuing standoff has the Central Asian nation concerned about further violence. 吉尔吉

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年4月

电影词典: Aerial Shot 航拍镜头 美国俚语: From 《天罗地网》The Thomas Crown Affair Cross somebody 激怒谁,惹恼谁 to anger somebody or incur their displeasure e.g.1The gangsters AI Capone used to get rid of anyone that crossed

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迷你对话: A:You know that? Dan got a divorce. 你知道吗?Dan离婚了。 B:Really? I thought he loved his wife very much. 真的吗?我还以为她很爱他的妻子了。 A:Yeah. But his relation with Sallycome to a stichy endand was fou

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Exercise 1-48: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs Mark the intonation or indicate the long vowel on the italicized word, depending which part of speech it is. Pause the CD and mark the proper syllables. See Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

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Members of the Class of 2006, friends, faculty, parents, members of the Taliban: Thank you very much. What? What? Oh, come on. Come on. What are you going to do, bury me up to my head in the sand? Something, come on. Hey, I've been there. I've been t

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Albert has been a Crip since age 12. He is one of the first generations of the Los Angeles based Gang, a group known as the Original Baby Gangsters. His seniority puts him near the top of the Crips' national hierarchy. Here in Lebanon, he runs a crim

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This is a fire ant colony in the southeastern United States. Like all ant colonies, it's ruled by a queen and all her workers and warriors are made up completely of female offspring. Unlike other ants, fire ants seem to have almost criminal leaning s

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No Going Home for Hondurans Expelled from US They cannot go home again. For many Hondurans forced to return to their place of birth, home means a return to the violence that sent them fleeing the country in the first place. In the neighborhoods where

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Haiti's government and aid groups are struggling to respond to the housing needs of tens of thousands of people affected by last week's earthquake. Some people are trying to leave the damaged city behind. Buses stream out of the Haitian capital, pack

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Rwandas Genocide Orphans Still Struggling GIPOROSA, RWANDA The Rwandan genocide left behind an estimated 400,000 orphans. Some, now adults, found refuge in the Kigali slum Giporoso. Aid organizations raise money for Giporosos genocide survivors with

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A man convicted of writing bad checks to casinos has written a book that he predicts will become a national bestseller. Entitled A Casino Is Born Every Minute, the 250-page book details James Duncans successful and unsuccessful attempts to beat casin

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今天还是要继续讲在大选期间新闻界常用来报道竞选运动的两个习惯用语。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是:in cahoots with。不少语言专家认为cahoots这个词可能来自法语中的一个词:cahute。 Cahut

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 07 November 2007 Australia's first urban Aboriginal record label has been established in Sydney. Its founders say there is a great untapped market for Aboriginal hip-hop and rap music that deals with drugs, violence, poor health

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主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

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Todd: So Yuri, youre Italian. What do you think about all the mafia movies? What do real Italian people, people from Italy, think about all the mafia movies that are in American movies? Yuri: Well we usually watch them and enjoy them very much. They

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(202) / 评论(0) 分类 英语趣味课堂

Helen: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Helen. Chen Li: 大家好,我是陈鹂。 Helen: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Chen Li: 是的,英语是一种十分定式化

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

France says it turned away nearly 3.5 thousand people from its borders since a state of the emergency with introduced after last month attacks in Paris. The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they were refused entry because they posed a

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