When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 he wasnt looking for America, he was searching for a route from Spain to China; America just got in the way. 当哥伦布于1492年在蓝色海洋上航行时,他不是寻找美洲,而是寻找从西班牙

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 旅游英语

HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEEND ANCHOR: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his vision for the social network's future in a nearly 6,000-word manifesto he posted on Thursday. Called Building Global Community, Zuckerberg called for more

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. From Asia to Europe to North America, poor air quality is making people sick and, in some cases, killing them at an early age. Air pollution causes six million premature deaths every yea

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(四)月

Quality of Life in Iraq Still Poor 伊拉克贫困依旧 Virginia-based Dr. Ali Al-Attar left his native Iraq at the onset of Iran-Iraq war. At that time, he says, most Iraqis lived a middle-class lif

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(下)--社会新闻点评

Ivory Coast Fights Child Labor on Cocoa Plantations 关注象牙海岸可可童工 ABIDJAN Seventy percent of the worlds cocoa comes from West Africa, most of it from Ivory Coast. Child labor on cocoa plantations has been well documented and persists

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The international community has pledged a total of $9.9bn (?6.5bn) in immediate and long-term aid to earthquake-hit Haiti at a UN donor conference. The $5.3bn (?3.5bn) of support over the next two years exceeds the $4bn requested by the Haitian gover

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

When you come to the sponsors' village in the centre of Torino, there's no doubt who paid the big bucks to link with the Winter Olympics. Eleven companies have paid 800 million dollars to the Internat

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2006年

Google just announced a major overhaul of its corporate structure. 谷歌刚公布了对公司结构的重大调整。 As part of the change, the company that used to be called Google is going to become a new holding company called Alphabet. 作为调整

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved 57 countries as founding members after including an extra seven, according to Chinas Finance Ministry. 中国财政部消息,加上新加入的7个国家,由中国领导的亚洲

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The newly established New Development Bank, known as the BRICS Bank, will be on top of the agenda at the BRICS summit. The bank, initialized last year at the sixth summit in Brazil, endeavors to help financing infrastructure and sustainability in the

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

TIRANA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Italian entrepreneurs from sectors such as renewable energy and infrastructure have shown interest in increasing investments in Albania. The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Tirana, in cooperation with the Italian Ministry f

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CARACAS, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela plans to develop three pristine Caribbean islands that are home to military facilities into tourist resorts, Tourism Minister Andres Izarra announced Monday. The state-run Venezuelan News Agency (AVN) quoted Iza

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China will boost the clean-up of thousands of millions of local government's debt in 2012, so to guard against possible defaults that would hurt its banks, the country's banking regulator said Thursday. The country will f

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

This is me building a prototype for six hours straight. This is slave labor to my own project. 这是我正在做一个模型,足足花了6个小时。完全是苦力活。 This is what the DIY and maker movements really look like. 这就是所谓的

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

So my moment of truth did not come all at once. In 2010, I had the chance to be considered for promotion from my job as director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department. This was my moment to lean in, to push myself forward for what are reall

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

India's new government 印度新政府 Kick-starting India 一剂强心剂 India's new government must get the economy working again. Here's how 印度新政府必须让国家经济回归正轨,来看看需要怎么做。 INDIA'S mammoth, five-week

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Finance and Economics 财经 Crossrail: The skeleton crew 穿城铁路:骨干成员 Lessons on risk management, from Europe's biggest infrastructure project. 由欧洲最大的基础设施项目带来的风险管控经验。 The eastbound platform

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

China is planning to invest up to $50bn (?32bn) in Brazil for new infrastructure projects. 中国计划为巴西新的基础设施项目提供最多500亿美元的投资。 The deal is due to be signed by banks from both countries during a visit by C

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Indonesia's anti-poverty plans 印尼反贫困计划 Full of promise 承诺满满 Cutting fuel subsidies makes space for an ambitious income top-up scheme 削减燃油补贴为雄心勃勃的收入提升计划铺路搭桥 BARACK OBAMA signed his heal

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

NOT long ago, Barack Obama was hoping that high-speed trains would provide America with the desired twofer. First, building the special tracks and locomotives would put a division or two of Americas army of unemployed back to work. Then, once built,

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合