A Visit to an Asian "Night Market" in Los Angeles From VOA Learning English, welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. And I'm Christopher Cruise. This week on our program we take you to a night market in Los Angeles. We a

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(六)月

The Pentagon says it's considering ways of bringing more Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq's Ambar province into the fights against the group calling itself Islamic State. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, telling the reporters to

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. As tax day approaches later this month, many American families are now finishing their tax returns. And as you do, an important debate is taking place in Washington that will affect the amount you will pay in the years a

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When eBay first came onto the scene more than a decade ago, archaeologists were petrified: easily buying and selling antiquities online might increase the looting and trafficking of archaeological treasures. Now theyre letting out a sigh of relief.

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A 32-stone man decided to turn his life around after being kicked off a ride at Alton Towers over his Obese frame. 在奥尔顿塔主题公园游玩时因肥胖而被拒绝之后,一位体重32英石的男子下定决心要彻底改变自己的人生

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We all create it, even if we usually dont like to think about it: waste. And the journal Science devotes its new issue to the subject. It delves into the problemshome garbage, plastics, metal, water, even everyones favorite, sludgeand discusses resea

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(八)月

AS IT IS 2014-07-16 Congress to Focus on US Border Crisis 国会将关注美国边境危机 Congress soon may vote on whether to approve funds requested by President Barack Obama to deal with a rise in immigrants from Central America. President Obama

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AS IT IS 2016-09-17 Campaign Launched to Pardon Edward Snowden Supporters of Edward Snowden have appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama to give him a pardon. The American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch launched a

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AS IT IS 2015-01-05 Obama, Congress Expected to Clash over Foreign Policy Some of President Barack Obamas loudest critics will have more power in 2015. They will take leadership positions in the United States Senate when the Republican Party takes co

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If asked which country has the highest population in the world, most people would say China. But if asked exactly how many people live there, even the Chinese government couldn't give a specific answer. At the last count, which took place 10 years ag

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For all the trouble they take to assemble and preserve themselves, species crumple and die remarkably routinely. 尽管物种们费了九牛二虎之力聚集起来保存自己,但它们经常崩溃和死亡。 And the more complex they get, the mo

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China's richest man, on a buying spree in Hollywood, urged U.S. filmmakers to work more closely with the Asian country as he unveiled a subsidy meant to lure productions to his multi-billion dollar studio in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. 在好莱

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Other elements of the system have been updated to tueet the challenges of a modem business environment. With business increasingly organized on an international scale, the rules for allowing losses to be used within multinational groups needed to be

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I was miffed. Phoenix is three times bigger than Seattlejust in population. In physical size 我有点恼火:凤凰城是西雅图的三倍大这仅仅是指人口。在面积上 But apparently, he interrupted me, your number wasn't up in Phoenix.

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: age and the economics of learning English. RS: Our guest is Hoyt Bleakley, an economist at the University of Chicago. He and Aimee Chin at the University of Houston have studied t

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核心句型: Such a plan could cut both ways. 这个方案有利有弊。 cut both ways 字面意思是:两面都砍,这就如同在说事物既有好的一面,也有其坏的一面;有有利的一面,也有不利的一面。这个习语的

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Free exchange 自由交换 A fare shake 车费的变动 Jacking up prices may not be the only way to balance supply and demand for taxis 提高价格可能并不是满足出租车供需平衡的唯一方法 IT IS a familiar ritual for many: after a l

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JUDY WOODRUFF: For more than two decades, doctors have been trying to pinpoint when is the right moment to start people diagnosed with HIV on antiretroviral drugs. The drugs have been extraordinarily important in extending life and keeping HIV at bay

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Gucci is shedding all signs of Frida Giannini, a process thats been sped up thanks to this epic Gucci sale happening in China. 古奇正在清理所有弗里达贾娜妮设计的款型,多亏了这次在中国具有史诗般意义的促销,清理库

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. fixed mortgage rates this week edged up for the third straight week following recently released stronger economic data, according to the Primary Mortgage Market Survey released Thursday by Freddie Mac. The mortgag

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