From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. CIA analysts are going through documents and other information taken from the raided compound in Pakistan where US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden. NPR's Rachel Martin says the data could

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

A Connecticut man says the state is attacking his Italian heritage. How? By telling him his kids can't work in the family pizza place. Michael Nuzzo's three children are 13, 11, and 8. And they were learning the family business on weekends making piz

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A woman has launched a lawsuit against fashion giant Zara after finding a dead rodent sewn into the hem of her dress. 日前,在购买的ZARA裙子中发现了一只死老鼠之后,一名女性将这家时尚巨头告上了法庭。 New Yorker Ca

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英语

还记得黛玉初进贾府时,曹翁寥寥几笔步步留心,时时在意,不肯轻易多说一句话,多行一步路,黛玉细心、多虑、自尊的性格特点便跃然纸上。这番描述很让人想到短语to walk on eggs,它与我

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MEGAN THOMPSON: Sisters Beatriz and Elizabeth Vergara attend public high school in a low-income, mostly Hispanic section of northern Los Angeles. The girls are aiming for college, and would be the first in the family with higher degrees. But the Verg

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈教育系列

GWEN IFILL: Next: The coast of Louisiana is crumbling into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate. Over the last 80 years, it's lost nearly 2,000 square miles. That's as big as all of Rhode Island. Now a political fight has broken out in the state le

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-Leonard: He's not lying. He does, find that fascinating. lie: 说谎【lying是现在进行时】 fascinate: 使着迷 他说真的他真觉得那玩意不错 -Penny: Okay, whatever. 好了随便了 It's not like I'm running up and down, the streets

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A chemical that has been linked to cancer cell growth is being used by millions of Americans in toothpaste every day, it has emerged. 在成千上万的美国人每天使用的牙膏中,可能存在一种导致癌细胞增长的化学物质。 The

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U.S. law enforcement sued for illegally detaining foreign nationals LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The illegal detention of foreign nationals in the United States have angered civil rights groups to file a lawsuit against the law enforcement. Six p

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The parents of a boy who killed himself in a suicide pact arranged over China`s most popular instant messaging service, QQ, are suing its owner, Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd, in Zhejiang province, Qianjiang Evening News reported over the weeke

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Uber has said claims it used self-driving technology stolen from Google were demonstrably false. 优步日前宣称,该公司所使用的自驾技术绝不是从谷歌窃取来的。 Waymo - a company spun out of Google - filed a lawsuit in Februar

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When the quiet one in the room suddenly shouts, people tend to listen. On that basis, the reserved and thoughtful Norwegians who run the countrys $850bn oil fund should get a decent hearing next time they visit Wolfsburg, having declared they will su

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BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has secured 2,500 patents from Microsoft through a patent transfer and cross-licensing deal, a Xiaomi senior executive said in Beijing on Wednesday. As part of the deal with Microsoft, the B

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As Uganda looks to eliminate malaria, the country is engaged in a debate(辩论会) over the use of chemicals such as DDT in some of the world's most malarial regions. In the district of Apac in northern Uganda, the risk of malaria is higher than any

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Croats begin voting in decisive round of presidential elections with opinion polls predicting narrow victory for left-leaning candidate Ivo Josipovic. Stefan Bos | Budapest 10 January 2010 Croatia's presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic of the Social

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A group of lawyers has filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government for failing to prevent the severe smog that has covered the north over the past week, underlining the discontent voiced by tens of millions of citizens online. 因中国政府未能阻

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A federal judge in Utah has issued a final ruling that strikes down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law in a lawsuit filed by the family that appears on the TV show Sister Wives. 美国犹他州一名联邦法官8月27日(周三)做出最终判决

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If you were going to a restaurant and wanted a healthier option, 如果你去饭店,你想吃得健康一点, which would you choose, grilled or fried chicken? 你会选择哪种食品呢,烤鸡还是炸鸡? Now most people would answer grill

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Many people believe that they will be happy once they arrive at some specific goal they set for themselves. However, more often than not, once you arrive there you will still feel dissatisfied, and move your there vision to yet another point in the f

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Television in America 美国电视产业 The bandit of broadcast 广播电视业界的强盗 The Supreme Court's decision on Aereo may affect more than the TV business 最高法院将对Aereo案件进行裁决,而其影响范围或许会超出电视产

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