Topics: Movies Titanic; The Ford Motor Company and the Model T; holiday versus feast versus celebration; impunity versus retaliation versus notoriety; to think of versus to think about Words: maiden voyage iceberg to sink fictional flashback architec

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Uganda Unveils its First Solar-powered Bus 乌干达首次推出太阳能汽车 KAMPALA A solar-powered bus described by its Ugandan makers as the first in Africa has made its public debut. Kiira Motors' electric bus was displayed recently at a stadi

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(七月)

So we had a lot of great ideas when we started, but what I always felt that a team of people doing something that's really believing is like ... 无论开始时有多少绝妙的主意,我一直觉得团队的合作就像是 When I was a young kid,

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Not only does it soothe the savage beast, but music also makes unruly children calmer while at the same time honing their facilities for cognitive skills and physical coordination, according to a leading expert. A mother's soft lullaby, granddad's wh

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Back when most folks relied on an icebox to cool food, a block of ice was a precious commodity. If you put hot food in the icebox, the ice might melt. 以前,当大多数人们需要倚赖冰盒来冷却食物的时候,一块冰块就是一件珍贵

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Part 1 The History of Coffee 咖啡起源 The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power. According to one story, the ef

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See the lights of your town , Slowly sink and drown , Like a ship in the storm , See the birds against the sun , Feel the weight of things to come , And everything thats been before , See the woods with no pathways , See your grandfathers last days ,

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Darren Taylor | Johannesburg 03 September 2010 Thousands of fuel and motor industry employees in South Africa have joined a national public service strike in the country, but many others continue to resist union calls for them to stay away from work.

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(九)月

备用电机或能挽救飞行员的生命 More than 550 people are killed each year,on average,in accidents involving small,mostly single-engine airplanes,according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. 美国运输部的调查显示每年有超过

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Backup Motor May Save Pilots Lives 备用电机或可挽救飞行员的生命 In case of engine failure, multi-engine aircraft often have enough power to land safely, but single-engine planes have a very small chance of avoiding a fatal crash. Now, t

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能拍摄血管内部的微型摄像头 Ahead of any surgical procedure, doctors try to learn as much as possible about the state of the organs they plan to operate on. A new camera developed in the Netherlands can now make that easier - giving surge

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Sitting down with their drinks James: My latte looks like that shoe polish we did an ad for last month. Jess: And this espresso looks like...oil! James:[Taking a sip] It still tastes fine, though. Jess: These days, I can't think of anything but motor

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America is full of vacation lodges . . . on wheels! They are known as motor homes - literally kitchens, living rooms, and beds on the move across America. There are more than 1.5 million of these self-propelled rolling dwellings in the United States.

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

研究称学会走路早长大身体好 根据《公共科学图书馆综合》(PLoS ONE)上一项对9,000名1966年生于芬兰的人的研究,在很小的时候就能在无人帮助的情况下站立行走的孩子进入青春期后,会比那

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1 General Motors 通用汽车 美国 汽车 2 Wal-Mart Stores 沃尔玛商店 美国 零售 3 Exxon Mobil 埃克森美孚 美国 炼油 4 Ford Motor 福特汽车 美国 汽车 5 DaimlerChrysler 戴姆勒克莱斯勒 德国 汽车 6 Mitsui 三井物产 日本 贸易 7 Mitsubishi 三菱商事 日本 贸易 8 Toy

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

G: Excuse me, but where's the toilet? 对不起,请问卫生间在哪里? W: Go straight, then turn left. 一直向前走,然后向左拐。 BW: Good afternoon. Can I help you? 下午好!要帮忙吗? G: Yes. Can you tell me where the clini

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大家知道,wardrobe的意思是衣橱,由此衍生出chairdrobe,是指把衣服放在或堆在椅子上面。今天要要学的词是floordrobe,指把衣服随便放在地板上,而不是放在衣橱或者挂起来,是一种慵懒的生活

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

The show that will be open to the public from January 19 to January 27 features more than 500 vehicles from over 40 famous automakers from all over the world. The media preview started with the announcement of the 2013 North American Car and North Am

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今天我们要学的词是petition. Petition 有请愿的意思。The U.S. Highway Traffic Safety Administration rejected a petition by Ford Motor Co. to delay recalling about 3 million vehicles. 美国高速公路交通安全管理局拒绝了福特汽

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