Economics Report - Business English Speakers Can Still Be Divided by a Common Language 经济报道 - 英语技能对商业人士尤为重要 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Business

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(259) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

But first, what happens when leaders from around the world get together to discuss global issues? We are going to see because its going on this week. Its the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Thats the main body of the United Nat

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Could Israel Take Out Iran's Nuclear Sites? Experts Say Perhaps, But... Israel is concerned that a window of opportunity is fast closing as Iran starts moving some of its uranium enrichment facilities to hardened underground sites. The concern has fu

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Friday Protests Continue Before Egypt's Contested Election Hundreds of mostly young men turned out for Friday's protest, chanting slogans against the country's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). The turnout fell far short of what had

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by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is style guides. It's true that when it comes to grammar there are a lot of hard and fast rules; but it's also true that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of issues that are dictated by style. I know it would be so

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By Kane Farabaugh Manchester, N.H. 07 June 2007 The U.S. presidential election is nearly a year and a half away, but voters in the northern state of New Hampshire will get their chance to help select the Republican and Democratic parties' candidates

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If you are feeling stressed out, you're not alone. This country is full of people who feel overwhelmed by too much to do and too little time to do it. Commentator Andrew Lam counts himself among the stressed of America and recently he found out that

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From NPR news, this is All Things Considered, I'm Robert Siegel. I'm Melissa Block and I'm gonna try to keep this next intro short so we can hit the post, fit in the web back, and avoid busting the segment. And you may not be able to decipher that ra

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Following Asia's lead, European markets are down Thursday due to persistent worries about the length and depth of the unfolding global recession. In Britain, yet another large central bank interest rate cut was announced to combat the downward econo

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'Messiah' Holiday Tradition Marks 44th Year The holidays are here, and with them, a crescendo of special music reserved for this season. But along with Jingle Bells, Silent Night and Santa Baby, towers the Messiah. Eighteenth century composer George

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10-4 Police Codes Losing Favor If youve ever seen an American police show on TV or in the movies, youve seen a dispatcher or an officer on patrol communicate using so-called ten-codes. These are shorthand codes that have different meanings. The most

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Thinkers from all over the world are meeting next week to argue a hypothetical case. They're lawyers. And the case concerns a traffic accident on the moon. It's the international Space Law Moot Court finals, and law students from S

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For many of us a new year means a clean start, the chance to toss out things we don't need anymore or get rid of bad habits. Well, the folks at Lake Superior State University in Michigan say we ought to start with some of the lam

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NOEL KING, HOST: Insurance companies and data brokers are more and more often using your personal information from social media to predict your health care costs. And they are exploring ways to use that data to determine the rates that you will pay.

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A: Well, that was an interesting documentary! B: For sure! I didnt really understand some of the technical jargon they used in the film when they talked about social security in the US. A: Like what? B: Well, they mentioned how people put away money

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Every week millions of Britons use computers to access the internet but how many of them actually know their ipods from their IMs? Not many it seems. A recent survey from Nielsen/ NetRatings a global internet, media and market research company - show

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Clinics Provide US Health Care Enrollment Help 美国诊所提供医疗保险注册帮助 HOUSTON The debate over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, continues. But the White House says improvements to the website have dramatically boos

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's April 1, but this is no joke. It's time for our annual Twitter poetry call out. In honor of National Poetry Month, we are inviting you to tweet us your poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. And here's a haiku to kick it off (re

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