HOUSTON, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The Houston Ship Channel, one of the U.S. busiest waterways, returned to normalcy Thursday, five days after a barge collision dumped thousands of gallons of heavy oil into the water, officials said. The channel, a condui

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Some seaweeds can kill the reef-building corals around them by emitting anti-coral chemicals, a new study found. The study was published Monday in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the U.S. National Acad

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

French voters will cast their ballots on Sunday (4/22/12) in the first round of a presidential election that should ultimately see France's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades. The campaign enters it's final phase as Conservative President N

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

U.S. military officials say they have identified the four Marines seen on video urinating on the bodies of dead Afghan Taliban fighters. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, heading the main inquiry into the video, has also reportedly questioned

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Matteo Renzi is set to resign after suffering a heavy defeat in a referendum on his flagship constitutional reforms, a result that plunges Italy into political crisis and raises fears of turmoil in its banking system. 意大利总理马泰奥.伦齐(

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Chinas premier international development bank has lost one of its five vice-presidents less than nine months after opening its doors for business, according to the institutions president. 中国最看重的国际开发银行在投入运营不到9个月

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Rachel Carson 蕾切尔-卡逊 Rachel Carson was a marine biologist and a nature writer. 蕾切尔-卡逊是海洋生物学家和自然作家。 She really cared about nature and enviroment. 她很关切自然和环境。 She spent a lot of time read

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Will this futuristic design signal the wave of the future for superyachts for the super-rich? Shaped like the top half of a star, the concept vessel measures 162 feet in length and more than 60 metres in height, and has over 3,500 square metres of lu

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1. A law enforcement official says the teenager accused of attempting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon planned the details by himself, and not at the direction of any foreign terrorist organization. Mohamed Osman Mohamud

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(十二月)

1. The Environmental Protection Agency says BP has cut its use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico by nearly three quarters since May. That statement comes a day after Congressman Ed Markey released a letter, saying BP carpet bombed the oce

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Michael 和李华正坐在教室里聊天,等着上课。今天李华会学到两个常用语:out of it 和gung ho。 L: 嘿,Michael, 你今天看起来好象不太舒服...你是不是病了?

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Well, the bystander approach is trying to give people tools 好的,旁观者的方法是尝试给于人们一个工具 to interrupt that process and to speak up 来打岔这个过程和发言, and to create a peer culture climate 是创造出一个

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Hope you're having a great day. I'm Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Senator Barack Obama is now calling the war in Iraq a distraction that makes the country less safe. He says the most s

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(七)月

Good morning from the CNN Center here in Atlanta. I'm Melissa Long with some of the headlines that are NOW IN THE NEWS. A Marine wanted for the murder of his pregnant colleague has been captured in Mexico. Corporal Cesar Laurean has been a fugitive

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You thought the eurozone crisis was bad. Today, Europe faces no greater challenge than the mass exodus of refugees seeking a haven from the carnage in Syria and the turmoil in north Africa and the Sahel. It is equally clear that both the EUs response

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lesson – 7 1. I was unaware of the critical points involved , so my choice was quite __________ . A. arbitrary B. rational C. serene D. unpredictable arbitrary 主观的,武断的 empiric 主观的,

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Los Angeles is situated in Southern California on the West Coast of the U.S.A. 洛杉矶位于美国西岸南加州。 Home to 18 million people, 身为一千八百万人口的家, Los Angeles is a collection of distinct cities that rolls out from

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 欧美人文风情

金融英语考试辅导:常见保险条款英语(1) 保险条款1 (1)air transportation cargo insurance clauses. 航空运输货物保险条款 (2)air transportation cargo war risk clauses. 航空运输货物战争险条款 (3)American I

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The Germans surrender 德军投降 and Genernal Von Choltitz is taken to Leclerc's headquarters in Montparnasse train station 冯寇提兹将军被带到蒙帕那斯车站的勒克莱尔总部 Hitler has just called and asked his famous question 希特

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 二战启示录

1. Its a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you 我们很久不见了。 2. You must be tired from the long flight. Please take a rest today.长时间地搭乘飞机您一定累了,今天就请好好休息吧。。 3. Since it is hot toda

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