Rob: Hello Im Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. With me today is Finn. Hello Finn. Finn: Hello Rob. Rob: Now Finn, I'd like to start by asking you a question. Would you eat a purple coloured tomato? Finn: Purple? Well, that depends. Is it a naturally

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

The best four minutes of my entire life were those in the Olympic stadium. 我一生中最伟大的四分钟就在这奥林匹克体育馆中。 My husband is offended when I say this 我的爱人听我这么描述,觉得没有受到尊重, altho

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

The Supreme Court itself has already endorsed limits after 24 weeks, the point at which a fetus is considered to be viable outside the womb, putting it squarely alongside public opinion. 最高法院本身已赞同怀孕24周后禁止堕胎,因为此

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

PHILLIPS: She was only 15 years old. Why would she want to end her life? She said she was being bullied. And her teachers, even her parents, spoke up. But unfortunately that just wasn't enough. Now nine of her classmates stand charged for her suicide

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Hundreds of fishermen were stranded on Lake Erie today, when a huge slab of ice on which they were fishing broke away from the Ohio shoreline. The Coast Guard and others have rescued more than 100 people so far, but one person died after falling int

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1. In a speech in New York Monday, President Barack Obama says he sees new signs of the kind of high-risk business behaviour that nearly caused a financial meltdown a year ago. He's warning Wall Street there won't be another bailout. Obama also said

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(九)月

Many Incidents of Sexual Assault at US Colleges Go Unreported More than half of college students did not report incidents of sexual assault because they did not think it was serious enough. Others said they were embarrassed or thought nothing would b

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AS IT IS 2016-03-09 South Sudan Civil War Marked By Killing, Rape 南苏丹内战双方均严重侵犯人权 A human rights group has evidence of killing, rape and disappearances committed by both sides in South Sudans civil war. Human Rights Watch,

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'm Rachel Martin, and this is For The Record. When you live part of your life online through social media, you have to be prepared for everything that comes your way. The more visible someone is, the more likely a target of harassment. And on Twitter

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Indias sex ratio is getting worse. The trend can be reversed. 印度的性别比例扭曲越加严重,这个趋势能够逆转 THE news from Indias 2011 census is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;family size is stabilisi

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RAY SUAREZ:For more on all of this, we turn to Miranda Kennedy, who lived in India from 2002 to 2007 as a reporter. She's the author of Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, which looks at the lives of women in that country. Miranda, as we h

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A man and his wife have denied abducting California woman Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was a child and holding her in their home for 18 years. Phillip and Nancy Garrido denied 29 charges including kidnap, rape and false imprisonment (监禁) when th

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Taylor to testify at Hague trial Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is to take the stand for the first time at his war crimes trial in The Hague. He denies 11 charges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, including terrorism, murder,

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A Chinese teenager executed after being convicted of murder and rape 18 years ago was declared innocent by a court Monday, in a rare overturning of a wrongful conviction. 18年前因为谋杀和强奸而被判枪决的中国青年,在周一的法庭上

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You know, the perpetrators aren't these 肇事者不是 monsters who crawl out of the swamp 那些从沼泽爬出来的妖怪, and come into town and do their nasty business 来到城镇做些坏事, and then retreat into the darkness. 然后撤退

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Hundreds of majority Buddhists today protested in Myanmar over suggestions by the government that it might take back the nearly 600,000 minority Muslims who fled the country. The Rohingya, as they're known, are fleeing violence agai

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Kobe Bryant is an American All-Star basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant became famous in 1996 as the first shooting guard in basketball history to be drafted out of high school. He has helped the Lakers win three back-to-ba

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One of the most important habits in life is to feed your mind with positive mental food. Remember, you are very susceptible to the suggested influences in your environment, whether radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards or conversations

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Months after Iranian opposition leaders denounced acts of torture and rape at the infamous Kahrizak detention center, the country's parliament has released a report detailing incidents of mistreatment and suspicious deaths. Notorious former Tehran pr

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不像其他国家,英国警察是不带枪的!有人觉得这样无法保护市民,也有人认为这样可以减少英国社会的总体暴力,谈谈你的看法. Unlike other countries, police in UK does not carry guns. Some think it leaves citize

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