The payroll tax cut is now extended for 2 month.Congress approved it eariler today and President Obama has signed it into law.As NPR's Brain N~ reports some 160000 Americans will continue getting a break on their taxes.And unemployment benefits will

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

1. House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that would last an entire year. 2. Tributes are appear

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Thats providing you can overcome your sexual attraction to me ha ha. If the worst comes to the worst, Ill lock you in your room at nights. Anyway, now the big one 3 As soon as youve read this, go to the student travel agency on Tottenham Court Road a

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: March 6, 2005 ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: Im Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Arthur Miller. Many theater critics believe he was one of the greatest

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

Don Carlos Sigüenza was the first Atlantis seeker to search for physical proof of the lost continent, but he was not alone in wanting to cast new light on an ancient legend. Across the ocean in 17th

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After Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, some wondered how many voters were unwilling to elect a woman for president. Now, a New York show is helping to provide some answers. It is recreating important moments from the three Trump-C

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(四)月

After Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, some wondered how many voters were unwilling to elect a woman for president. Now, a New York show is helping to provide some answers. It is recreating important moments from the three Trump-C

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Arthur Miller By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Sunday, March 06, 2005 ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special Engli

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 People in America

1. Residents of Hawaii are clean ing up from a strong earthquake and a series of aftershocks. The main quake was estimated at magnitude 6.6. No death is reported but there are several minor injuries.

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AS IT IS 2016-09-11 Table Tennis, Anyone? Hello and welcome to Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English! On this program, we explore the stories behind common expressions in American English. Today, we talk about an object found in every hom

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The British Government has pledged ?1.5 million to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese. The project will be delivered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, who have also received government funding for a tour of China. The stated aim

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

AS IT IS 2016-05-18 400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare Still Popular 莎翁逝世400年后仍然颇受欢迎 Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, about 160 kilometers from London. 1564年,莎士比亚出生于距

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释义: A phrase used to describe someone who tends to be on the quiet side, or a person who does not have much to say when they speak;这次词组用来用来形容一个比较安静的人或者当他们说话时话不多的人; 来源: This

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New fiction 新小说 The self stripped 自我剖析 A novel masquerading as a tell-all memoir 看似自传,畅所欲言;实则小说 How Should a Person Be? By Sheila Heti. 《应该如何做人?》作者:希拉海蒂。 THE confessional tal

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early

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Doctors should brush up on their Shakespeare to help improve their understanding of how the mind can affect the body, according to an unusual study. 作为英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人,欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的

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As the Chinese common saying goes, writing is borrowing, the only difference is whether you are skillful in doing that. By coincidence, the great essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic T. S. Eliot once also said that good writers

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

tragedy 悲剧 one-act play 独幕剧 opera 歌剧 farce 滑稽戏,趣剧 (stage) play 话剧 Beijing opera 京剧 historical play 历史剧 puppet show 木偶戏 (a play) in three acts and five sce

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LONDON, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The annual London Theater Critics Circle Award ceremony on Tuesday saw a top honor going to the Shakespeare Globe Theater. The awards event allows national and international theater critics the opportunity to mark the best

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Larry 和李华正在为他的朋友 Laura 担心.他们两人都觉得Laura好像有甚么心事.今天李华会学到两个常用语: clam up 和 to tank。 LL: Laura has been acting really strange lately, but every time I try to ask her what's bothering her, she just clams up. LH:

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