The Unforgettable Dream Games It doesn’t matter where you come from, who your family is, what you wear, or how good you are at math. All that matters is that you give it everything you’ve got. To

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2004年

US officials are still trying to confirm that a major terrorist plot coming out of Pakistan has no American component. As NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports, terrorists allegedly have been planning commando-like attacks on European civilian targets. Th

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

US officials are meeting with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this weekend, hoping to salvage the just resumed peace talks. One complication is that in two hours, a partial moratorium on new Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank will ex

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by Adam Freedman Todays topic: The Gulf oil spill--who pays? And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. In fact, we b

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

Support and defend the Constitution. I will support and defend the Constitution. Congratulations! And I think the NTSB has been frustrated throughout the duration of this investigation by the inadequacy of PGE's record-keeping. What we found out in t

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today I am signing emergency legislation to fund the Federal government for the next seven weeks. This legislation was necessary because Congress failed in its most basic responsibility: to pass the spending bills that f

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美国总统电台演说

Broadcast: Mar 15, 2003 The U.S. space agency NASA is getting ready to resume shuttle flights as early as September or October. But the return to flight depends on whether the cause of the shuttle Col

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(上)-科技先知

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. The House and the Senate have approved separate 3-trillion-dollar spending plans while calling on the next Congress to roll back President Bush's tax cuts for wealthier Americans. NPR's Brian Naylor report

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台三月

Taxation is topic A as Congress returns to Washington for a lame-duck session. At issue, should the tax cuts adopted during the Bush administration extend beyond their year's end expiration date? On NBC's Meet the Press, Senator John McCain of Arizon

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An oppressive combination of heat and humidity continues across the Northeast today. NPR's Tovia Smith reports it's setting records, stressing power grids and sending some to the hospital. Temperatures topped 100 from the nation's capital all the way

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Drones Revolutionize US Warfare It is estimated that there are 10,000 unmanned aerial vehicles in the U.S. military's arsenal, in addition to an undisclosed number operated by the CIA - including one that recently killed Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaida's

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Good afternoon, Im Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Heres a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. It is the Popes first visit to the US. And hes celebrating his 81st birthday today. Thousands gathered at the capital to catch a glimpse

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(四)月

Finance and Economics;Vegetable oil;What's cooking? 财经;植物油;发生了什么事? Edible oils are filling fuel tanks as well as bellies; 食用油填饱了肚子还要灌满油箱; Oil markets are full of uncertainty. Asian demand

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LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Ronnie Lee Gardner became the third person in Utah and the United States to have been executed by a firing squad when he was put to death by five marksmen on Friday morning, a local newspaper reported. The killer, 49,

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

US Could by 2017 Be World's Biggest Oil Producer The International Energy Agency says that by 2017 the United States is likely to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest oil producer. The Paris-based energy agency said Monday in its annual forec

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1. A new brush fire has broken out in the hills above Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley suburbs, prompting mandatory evacuations. The new fire began Monday morning, a few miles west of the 3,700-acre brush fire that has been burning since early Sunda

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(376) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十)月

10月17日,泰国进入为期30天的国丧期,期间人们需要穿着黑色服饰,这导致黑色衣服一时供不应求,价格狂飙。于是,一些志愿者在曼谷市中心开设扎染站点,为当地民众扎染黑衣。 Pop-up cl

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

模仿文本: But first, in the arguments about the pros and cons of whaling, we hear a lot from campaigners and politicians, but we rarely hear from the hunters themselves. Well, today on Outlook, we are at sea with the crew of a Norwegian whaling

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GEORGE BUSH wanted to close it. So did John McCain. And Barack Obama promised to do so within a year of taking office. But nearly three years since then, and ten years after the first inmates stepped through its barbed-wired gates in January 2002, th

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

GWEN IFILL: The two major candidates for president jostled for position in the last week, stepping into and out of political corners, and attempting to paint the other as unfit and unstable. Today, Donald Trump stuck to policy, while Hillary Clinton

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