From NPR news in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. Missouri governor Jay Nixon says he's calling up the state's national guard to help deal with unprecedented floods. It's very clear that Missouri is in the midst of a very historic and dangerous floodin

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

John Howard's former chief of staff Tony Nutt says he didn't follow up sexual harassment against Peter Slipper in 2003, because he was told the relationship was consensual. Mr. Slipper is facing froid and sexual harass allegations and he of course ha

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Iraqi Journalists Battle to Report Freely Live from a studio at al-Baghdadia TV, Murtada Mohamed Ali is reporting on how journalists are being prevented from covering a Baghdad cultural festival. Al-Baghdadia focuses a great deal on political events,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(三月)

It's March and the madness is upon us, hello, everyone, I'm Carl Azuz. Later on today, we're going to tell you exactly how all of this came together. But we're starting today with an anniversary, it was exactly ten years ago on March 19th, 2003, that

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Habitat harmony 栖息地的融洽 Habitat n.(动、植物的)产地,栖息地 Haggle v.争论,讨价还价 Hail n.冰雹 vt.致敬,向欢呼 Hallmark n.标志,特征 Hallucination n.幻觉 ,幻想 Halt vt./n. (使)停止 Hamburger n.汉堡包 Hamper vt.妨碍,使困难 Handful n.少数,

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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Foreigner: Excuse me? Can you do me a favor, please? Gucci: It's my pleasure, what can I do for you? Foreigner: I'm from England and I'm trying to make a travel plan for today. Gucci: What brings you here? Foreigner: I'm a flight attendant and I'm he

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Toms bed-and-breakfast, which also happened to be the house in which he lived, was very large and very old. It sat on a sunny, tree-lined street a few blocks from the beach. A painted sign near the sidewalk said, THE SEA BREEZE MANOR, ESTABLISHED 191

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This is Whats Trending Today... Time Magazine has named the Silence Breakers -- those who have publicly shared their stories of sexual abuse -- as its 2017 Person of the Year. Since early October, numerous women have spoken out about sexual wrongdoin

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AS IT IS 2013-05-29 A Call for Citizen Scientists to Help Map CO2 Gas Welcome to As It Is, the daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. A music video shot in space? That is now a reality. Today, we hear how Skylab led the way f

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AS IT IS 2015-01-29 Rights Group Accuses Ethiopia of Suppressing Media 人权组织指责埃塞俄比亚打压媒体 An international rights group is accusing the government in Ethiopia of systematically suppressing media before the countrys election

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Libyan Economy in Post-Revolution Boom On a busy road on the outskirts of town, a vegetable stand run by Ibrahim Jiuma Garguti has doubled in size since the revolution. Garguti says people have more money to spend and officials don't bother him anymo

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Uzbek refugees who fled from Kyrgyzstan live in a refugee camp on the border at the Uzbek village of Erkishlok, 15 Jun 2010 There are no exact figures on the scale of ethnic unrest that has hit southern Kyrgyzstan. They are lost in the chaos of what

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Indian administered Kashmir became part of the international aviation map on Saturday with an Air India flight connecting the summer capital Srinagar with Dubai. Kashmir officials hope the flights boost Kashmir's tourism and trade which is strugglin

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In Africa, New Technologies Help Teach Women to Read 在非洲,新技术帮助教女人阅读 More Africans are communicating via text, social media and email. In Senegal, literacy experts are using the new technologies to motivate and teach women

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This past week, one of the last remaining secrets from the Watergate scandal was finally revealed. It's a report that prosecutors sent to Congress 44 years ago. Experts say the document could offer a precedent for how the R

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

Later, Jess and Ann sit down at their desks Jess: [Checking her e-mail] Did Bean send these dirty jokes to you, too? Look! Ann: What a creep! Phony good luck e-mails are one thing, but sexual harassment is crossing the line. Jess: No wonder he asked

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By Paul Sisco Washington 02 May 2007 Americans are celebrating a new arrival to Washington D.C. -- one that is 500 years old. VOA's Paul Sisco explains. America's birth certificate on display at the U.S. Library of Congress Across from the U.S. Capit

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(五月)

大家肯定看到过那种喜欢吹口哨的人。为什么他们要吹口哨呢? 这恐怕个人情况不同。有的人心里高兴的时候就会吹口哨,但是,也有的人心里害怕的时候

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Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 15, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- curse words in American English. RS: We can't say them on the air, but a listener in Sokoto, Nigeria, Paul Ezeani, would like us to tal

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)