ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Last week in Egypt, a group of Coptic Christians were traveling to a monastery where they intended to pray. Their convoy was attacked by gunmen. More than two dozen people were killed, and a similar number were injured. The Islam

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Narrator: Exercise 4.9. Lecture 4: Interviewer: Will you please welcome Vernon Applethwaite, a lecturer in political science at Worthington University, California, who is here today to discuss the types of voting systems in existence in various democ

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今天我们要学的词是 hand off. Hand off 的愿意是橄榄球中的传球,引申下来就是交出、传递意思。 Former US President Obama claimed that he handed off a booming economy to President Trump at a recent rally for Democrats in

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Day 3 abate 减弱 augment 增加 aggregate 总共的 deduct 扣除 diminish 减小 gage 估计 maximum 最高的 minority 少数 minus 减去 majority 多数 minimum 最小的 numerous 众多的 multiply 乘 multitude 一般人 not 无 maintenance 保持 quantitative 数量的 redundan

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必背句型: A:Why do you modify the contract? 你为什么变更合同? B:A contract may be modified if the parties reach a consensus through consultation. 当事人协商一致即可变更合同。 A contract may be altered if the parties reach

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摘要:本篇短文讲述的是环境运动勇士Wilma Subra 的事迹,一直以环保为己任的她每年要在全美及世界各地进行100多场演讲。 英语听力原文: Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker. After

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In late December of last year, the Trump Administration unveiled its National Security Strategy. One of the priority actions to be undertaken by the United States as part of this new plan is the advancement and protection of religious freedom and rel

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 07 July 2007 A bombing casualty, from the village of Armili, Iraq, is treated in Kirkut hospital, 7 Jul 2007 A suicide truck bomber has set off his explosives in a rural Iraqi village, killing more than a hundred peopl

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Obama proposed new measures to lift the economy. The central bank in its latest report said there was continued growth in the past several weeks, but with widespread signs of slow

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Noodle shop owner and Yellow Shirt supporter Prasert Tangrukmuang has cut-out cartoons covering his walls mocking former PM Thaksin Shinawatra in Udon Thani,Thailand Thailand's poor rural northeast is the heartland for the Red Shirt protesters who oc

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1. The senate elects its leaders for the incoming 114th congress. Kentuckys Republican Mitch McConnell will again represent his party, this time as the majority leader, * title with Nevada Democrat Harry Reid who will serve as minority leader followi

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Libya's Minority Berbers Renew Equality Demands The Berber village of Yefren is remote, dry and dusty. It was also one of the cradles of last year's Libyan uprising, claiming one of the first anti-regime demonstrations, and several of the revolution'

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Obama: Spending Cuts Are 'Dumb,' Unnecessary Obama called the $85 billion in automatic cuts dumb and arbitrary, and he said Republicans could have stopped them. Lets be clear. None of this is necessary. It is happening because [of] a choice that Repu

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Washington Week: Focus on Filibusters Until recent years, filibustering meant holding the Senate floor and speaking non-stop to prevent a vote, as portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Backers of racial segregatio

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By Lisa Bryant Thiais, France 24 February 2008 Although U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, an African-American, is enjoying momentum from 11 straight wins in Democratic presidential nominating contests, minority politicians in Europe are still

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Rejection gave birth to the Asian American Association (AAA). During first-year orientation week in 1976,two Asian American women decided to attend a Minority Freshman Banquet sponsored by the university, but were barred from entering and were turn

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The makeup of many areas in England and Wales is changing.Almost half of people of ethnic minorities now living in areas where white British people are the minority.One of those areas is the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. People that live here are

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Muslim Artists Perform to Break Stereotypes 穆斯林艺术家的表演打破成见 LOS ANGELES For decades, Arab actors have been successful in Hollywood. Among the most successful are Omar Sharif, Tony Shalhoub, and F. Murray Abraham; the latter wo

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British Labour MP Diane Abbott, seen here in this November 30 1994, file picture, defended herself Wednesday Nov. 28, 1996 against accusations of racism after criticising the appointment of blonde, blue-eyed Finnish nurses at her local hospital. For

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华裔警察梁彼得被判误杀罪成立,引发全美大规模华人示威。白人警察射杀黑人,常逍遥法外。而华人却成了制度安抚黑人的替罪羊。今天,我们听一位华人示威者的诉求、也了解一下华人在

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