Each summer, as children, my brother and I spent most of August at the cottage Grandpa Rodham had built in 1921 about twenty miles northwest of Scranton in the Pocono Mountains overlooking Lake Winola. The rustic cabin had no heat except for the cas

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 希拉里有声自传

Bring something warm, even sunny days can be really cold up here. We are over 11,000 feet above sea level. The air is thin, anything can happen on the Jungfraujoch. People are skiing in August, I saw

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Global Masses Become Infatuated With Gadgets 迷恋于智能设备的现代人 High-tech gadget shows draw throngs of excited consumers each year in the United States, Japan, Europe and the Arabian peninsula. Though many people are already surrounded

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The Golden Globe goes to, Slumdog Millionaire. Slumdog Millionaire, about an orphan who goes on Indias version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire won 4 for 4, winning best picture drama, plus score, screen play and directing honors. The Globes just giv

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And now cute music. You know anywhere brings small all of us who grow upon this peanuts specials and we have something else smile by this morning. Charlie Brown, snoopy in the whole peanuts are coming back to the big screen. And here is has the scope

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Alice Brock, made famous in Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant, believes in improvisation. And it's a good thing, too she knew nothing about running a restaurant when she opened her now legendary business. Welcome to This I Believe, an NPR series pre

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Perhaps youve seen the famous TED talk about so-called power poses. It encouraged viewers to change the course of their lives by assuming what are thought of as dominant postures. So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space. You're b

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: politics in the classroom. What an English teacher in the American South has learned from her international students. RS: Yvette Drew was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has

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Lesson 32 Music Can Motivate 音乐的激励作用 Words: catastrophe n. 异常的灾祸 catching adj. 传染性的;有感染力的 categorical adj. 无条件的,绝对的;明确的,直截了当的 categorize vt. 分类;标示。。。的特点;为。。。取名描述 category n. 种类,类目;范

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4.The Moment of Pride 4.荣耀的时刻 Today's ceremonies and tonight's banquet have been mighty and memorable events. Nobody who has shared in them will ever forget them, but for the laureates these celebrations have had a unique importance. Each o

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We are sorry for the delay in posting this episode. This episode is for you if you love cars, plan on driving around Canada, or are curious about more vocabulary related to these topics. In Canada the seasons change quite a bit, which makes for a var

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Pixar Animation Studios is the worlds most successful CGI animation film studio. It was started by Star Wars producer George Lucas, before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs bought it in 1986. Disney then bought the studios in 2006. Pixar has been responsib

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[00:02.43]Playing a Violin with Three Strings断弦的小提琴 [00:06.70]On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. [00:14.00] If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, [00:16.93]you know that getting on stage is n

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One of Walt Disney's most memorable characters is Jiminy Cricket from the studio's 1940 animated feature film Pinocchio. The tiny, talking cricket nearly steals every scene, especially when he sings When You Wish Upon A Star. Performed by vaudeville

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As South Africa prepares to host the football (soccer) World Cup, organizers have recruited thousands of volunteers to help the hundreds of thousands of fans who will be attending. Some 2,000 World Cup volunteers gathered at a convention hall in Joha

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow. There's a good chance the movie Get Out will be the first horror film to be nominated for best picture in nearly 30 years. The Silence Of The Lambs won back in 1992. As NPR's Neda

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Taylor bounces off Yi-jun and into the grill Yi-jun:[To Taylor] I'm so sorry, Taylor. Are you alright? You hit the grill pretty hard. [Taylor moans] Holly: [To Taylor] Are you sitting on a piece of coal? Your shorts are smoking! Yi-jun:[Taylor yells]

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Mike: In all of the traveling that you've done around the world, what is the best travel experience you have had? What's the most memorable travel experience you had in your adventures around the world? Jeff: Well, that's a tough question Mike. That'

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By Tony Budny Washington, D.C. 26 November 2007 Retired major league baseball player, Cal Ripken Jr, is well-known to many Americans for his 21-year career as infielder for the Baltimore Orioles. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in July f

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1. Democratic leaders are decrying President Bush's plan to indefinitely halt troop withdrawals from Iraq after July. The president says he agrees with his top commanders that the troops are needed to maintain success on the ground. Democrats say th

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