JUDY WOODRUFF:The testimony is over, closing arguments are done, and now it's the jury's turn. Six women in Sanford, Fla., began deliberating this afternoon in the case of a neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering an unarmed teenager on Feb

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: North Korea today blamed President Obama for Sony's decision to release the controversial film The Interview, which tells the story of a fictional plot to kill North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. The recen

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The $4 Indian phone that some thought might never materialise reportedly does exist, but only because the startup producing it is making a loss on each one. 据报道,很多人以为不可能成真的4美元(约24元RMB)印度手机真的面世了

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Six More Civilians Killed by Suspected Insurgents in Iraq Nick Simeone In Iraq, at least six more Iraqi civilians have been killed by suspected insurgents, three of them when a bomb exploded outside a

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LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Ronnie Lee Gardner became the third person in Utah and the United States to have been executed by a firing squad when he was put to death by five marksmen on Friday morning, a local newspaper reported. The killer, 49,

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Tins of cooling mentholated ointment have become a currency for Chinese traveling in Egypt. 一盒盒的薄荷清凉油已经成为中国人在埃及旅行的通行货币。 Visiting the complex of ancient temples at Karnak, Chinese tourist Mr. Ye lo

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

With divorce rates steadily increasing, some newlyweds are drawing up prenuptial agreements before tying the knot. 随着离婚率的逐步攀升,一些好事将近的情侣会在喜结连理前拟定婚前协议书。 But one firm has set out to h

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I agree that language learning is cool, but I challenge the assumption that its difficult. 我认同语言学习很酷,但我不认同语言学习不容易这一说法。 Languages cannot be taught, they can only be learned. Having someone or somet

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Sitting in a dark movie theater, leaning forward with your eyes fixed on the screen and hands clenching the edge of the seat, you hear the couple behind you whisper: Is that Matt Damon? 坐在漆黑的电影院里,双眼紧紧盯着前方的屏幕,

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On Sunday night (Dec. 20), the entire internet cringed endlessly for Steve Harvey, who hosted the annual Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas. Harvey misread his notecard and accidentally announced Ariadna Gutierrez-Arvalo, Miss Colombia, as the shows

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NEW YORK, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka was fined 25,000 dollars for striking Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin in the groin during a game on Sunday, the NBA said Tuesday. Ibaka was initially whistled a level

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They werent wearing sagging pants or revealing clothing. But dressing in an orange shirt is apparently enough to get fired at one Florida law firm, where 14 workers were unceremoniously let go last Friday. 他们并没有穿宽松的裤子或是太过暴

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Test case in Africa [20] This week, MPRI expects to get government approval to go into Equatorial Guinea, an agreement that illustrates the questions some critics have with a so-called privatization o

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Chinese search giant Baidu has unveiled an AI digital assistant. 中国搜索引擎巨头百度于日前发布了一款人工智能数字助理。 Xiaoyu Zaijia - or Little Fish - responds to voice commands using a combination of pictures, text and s

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A billionaire Qatari sheikh dubbed the man who bought London was reportedly the anonymous bidder who snapped up a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that smashed the world auction sale record. 一个被冠以能买下伦敦的人称号的亿万富翁卡塔尔酋

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North Korean state media initially praised Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, but following Trump's victory a senior official expressed indifference about the incoming president. 在唐纳德特朗普先前的总统竞选活动中,朝鲜官

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Girls start to see themselves as less innately talented than boys do when they are only six years old, a group of US researchers has said. 美国一组研究人员于日前表示,女孩子在年仅六岁时就会开始认为自己天生就不如男孩

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The signing of the Articles of Agreement or the mini-constitution for the AIIB at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing wraps up six-months of intense negotiations paving the way for the bank to become operational before the end of this year. Austr

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不久前,美国《纽约时报》公布了一项《2015年度最讨厌的10大英语词汇》,其中包括Manspreading,Vape,So等。这些词汇大多是被滥用、误用的,看看哪些词汇是你经常爱使用的吧~ 1.So So the word that

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Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system. 研究人员如今相当确定,太阳系中存在着第九颗行星。 Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times th

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