148 国际红十字会对乔治亚恶劣状况表示担忧 Red Cross Warns of Humanitarian Crisis in Georgia Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 Jul 2001 20:21 UTC The International Red Cross is warning that the f

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(165) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2001-国际风云(2)

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Twelve years ago, a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco, California, visited the Sabah rainforest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rainforest, he watched as an orangutan mov

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1. a horse pill 大药丸,大型丸剂 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2. a horse laugh 狂笑,讥笑,不信任的笑 At the end of the joke

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今天我们要学的词是 displaced. Displaced 颠沛流离的。U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the current refugee crisis, with over 70 million displaced people, totally uncontrollable. 联合国秘书长潘基文说,目前7000多万人

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Books and Arts; Book Review; The financial crisis; Piecing it together; 文艺;书评;金融危机:拼拼凑凑见真相; All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. 《万魔聚此:

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Experts Say 'Lost' Crops Can Fight Hunger in AfricaBy Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists around th

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - The Great Depression: Fear Takes Hold as an Economy Comes ApartBy David Jarmul Broadcast: Thursday, August 03, 2006 VOICE ONE: In 1936, Dorothea Lange photographed a woman fro

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Greece and the euro 希腊和欧元 Crisis revisited 危机重现 The euro is still vulnerable, and Greece is not the only problem 欧元仍然脆弱不堪,而希腊不是其中唯一的问题。 IT WAS almost exactly five years ago that the euro c

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在美国,每当经济不景气的时候,口红的销量就会明显上升。这是为什么呢?原来,在经济不景气的情况下,人们仍然会有强烈的消费欲望,但是实际经济能力又无法承担珠宝首饰、衣服等高

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2014 will determine course of century, says Cambridge professor. A dramatic event that will determine the course of the 21st century will take place in 2014, according to a Cambridge University academic. Professor Nicholas Boyle claims that events of

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美国英语口语俚语(2) 1.go up in smoke成为泡影 Peters vacation plans went up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office. 办公室出了问题,peter的假期泡汤了。 2.hit the road上路 We should probably hit the road. Its going to t

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潘基文关注叙利亚危机的恶化 UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Monday called for an early end to the Syrian crisis while expressing concern for the deterioration of the conflict in the passing year of

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If youre somewhere between your mid twenties and thirties, you might be experiencing a low point in your life. A trial of confused identity, misguided purpose, and hopeless transition. And, if youre anything like me, you feel lost, anxious, and panic

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SEOULNorth and South Korean officials met into the early hours of Sunday in an urgent bid to avert war on the peninsula before adjourning their marathon talks until Sunday afternoon. The high-level meeting began Saturday at the Panmunjom truce villag

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调查显示,富人更加富了

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The housing market 房市 Cool it 该降温了 Property prices are rising swiftly. The Bank of England may intervene 房价一路攀登,英格兰银行可能插手 BRITAIN'S housing market is like food in a microwave, says Spencer Dale, the chief e

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The current-account deficits in the euro zone's crisis countries were of the worrying kind. That they have shrunk or reversed is comforting. 欧元区危机国家的经常账户赤字是属于让人担心的那一种。他们的赤字已有收缩,趋

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Itay's beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to resign after parliament passed crucial economic reforms on Tuesday aimed at stabilizing Italy's economy. The growing political crisis is spreading across the 17-nation eurozone. Italy's parlia

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UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday announced that he accepted the request of Lakhdar Brahimi to step down as the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, adding that the resignation will be effective on May

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乌克兰危机必须通过对话解决 RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for dialogue between the government and the opposition, stressing that the violent political crisis in Ukraine must be resolved

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