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注释: landmark [5lAndmB:k] n. 标志性的事件,里程碑 run-up 事件的前奏曲,预备阶段 poll [pEul] n. 投票选举 rotating [rEu5teitiN] adj. 循环的,轮换的 International Sec
W: Excuse me? Can you tell me where the Holiday Hotel is? M: Turn left at the second light and then go straight for 2 blocks. W: Is it far? M: No. Its only a five minute walk. W: Thanks a lot. M: You are welcome. Dialogue 2. W: Can you help me out? I
The office of Italy's president says Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pledging to resign after parliament approves economic reforms to stem Italy's debt burden. President Giorgio Napolitano said he met with Berlusconi after the prime minister lost
In a landmark development within stem cell research, scientists say theyve used a cloning technique to make embryonic stem cells that match a patients DNA. The journal Nature highlights a study that shows the potential for using the technology to rep
Maybe its happened to you. You go for a walk in the woods and, after wandering around for a few hours trying to find your way back to the car, you realize that youve basically been walking in circles. Well, youre not alone. Because scientists have fo
BBC Learning English 6 Minute English Sign of the times Callum: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Callum Robertson and with me today is Kaz, hello Kaz. Kaz: Hello Callum. Callum: Now, if I say to you 'tinsel town' where am I talking about? K
President Obama is monitoring the eleventh-hour spending debate on Capitol Hill. Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on a way to extend the payroll tax cut, which expires at year's end. Speaking in Washington this morning, the president threw
Chapter Five 第五章 1、By eight o'clock the light was failing. The loud speaker in the tower of the Stoke Poges Club House began, in a more than human tenor, to announce the closing of the courses. 1、八点钟天色渐渐暗去,斯托克波吉俱
科学家称,在学了一些新东西之后小睡一会儿能够帮助大脑记忆-只要你做了梦。科学家称,有很多方法可以利用这种现象,来提高学习能力和记忆力。例如,学生在睡前努力学习,或者一段时
LAST JULY AN international tribunal made a landmark ruling against China over their historical claim to territory in the South China Sea. The worlds most populous nation claims sovereignty over the majority of the region east of Vietnam north of Mala
Hundreds gathered in front of the Supreme Court in downtown Washington D.C. to celebrate the court's landmark legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 US states. The justices split along the usual ideological lines in a 5-4 ruling which holds that
Google's data centres and the offices for its 60,000 staff will be powered entirely by renewable energy from next year, in what the company has called a landmark moment. 从明年开始,谷歌的数据中心和其6万名员工的办公室将完全使
BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The highly-anticipated stock listing reform, which will be launched in March of 2016 at the earliest according to the latest legal changes, is set to usher in a new era for China's stock market, officials and experts have
NEW DELHI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- In a landmark ruling, India's Supreme Court has rejected a plea by a death row prisoner to commute his sentence to life in jail. Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar -- on death row since 2001 for triggering a bomb blast in Sept
ABIDJAN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire on Thursday expelled(驱逐) the ambassadors from Britain and Canada, state television reported. A statement from the government of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo read in the state television said the
Prince William has written movingly of the example and continuity provided by the Queen throughout the turbulent decades of her long rein. 威廉王子动情写道,女王在其漫长的任期中经历了动荡的几十年,她立下了典范,为国
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been given permission to enforce a no-fly zone over their new country mansion in a bid to stop photographs being taken of the distinctive red-brick house. 剑桥公爵夫妇已获准在他们新的乡间府邸上空
Rain did little to dampen the excitement around President Barack Obama's landmark visit to India as thousands of troops took part in a dazzling military parade Monday where he was the guest of honor. Obama is the first U.S. president to attend India'