1. President Barack Obama gets a first-hand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and ramped up. During a surprise visit to Afghanistan, Obama applauded US troops and Afghanistan's campaign against insurgents, but told Afghan leaders they need to d

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(三月)

Senators are voting this afternoon on whether to wrap up debate on a financial regulatory overhaul bill. There's NPR's Audie Cornish. If senators vote to limit debate, then only amendments that are key to the issue of the financial industry bill will

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1. The most common letter in English is e. 1、英语里最常见的字母是e。 2. The most common consonant in English is r, followed by t. 2、英语里最常见的辅音字母是r,接着是t。 3. Only two English words in current use end in -

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

In South Korea, anti-government protests that erupted this summer following a deal to import American beef were born on the Internet. Rumors that South Koreans were going to be served meat tainted with mad cow disease spread across chat rooms and me

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Supercommittee Failure to Rein In US Debt Threatens Global Recovery A so-called U.S. Congressional supercommittee has less than one week before a deficit-cutting deadline on November 23. Some economists say the prospects for success are poor while ot

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Let's Be Pirates! 我们当海盗吧! As the Macintosh team grew, it moved from Texaco Towers to the main Apple buildings on Bandley Drive, 随着麦金塔团队的不断扩大,它从德士古塔搬到了位于班德利大道的苹果公司主办公

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- More Chinese cities have seen month-on-month declines in the prices of both new and secondhand homes, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. The NBS said in a statement on its website that mo

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-eight Chinese companies that have obtained permission from the securities watchdog for initial public offerings (IPOs) announced Saturday evening they would postpone follow-up issue of shares due to recent fluctuati

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

英语里你不知道的几个小秘密 The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is Go. 英语里由一个单词组成的最短的完整的句子就是GO。 The oldest word in the English language is t

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

More than 53,000 couples in Beijing have applied for a second child since the city changed its birth control policy in early 2014. 自2014年年初北京实行新的二胎政策以来,已有53,000对夫妻申请生育二胎。 By the end of Septemb

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Frequent smog has made face masks and air purifiers commonplace in many households here in China. We have air purifier at home because sometimes the air quality is too bad. We didn't have face masks at home in the past, but now we have a lot. It has

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering moving the rowing and canoeing events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to South Korea in an attempt to cut soaring costs. 国际奥组委正考虑将2020年东京奥运会的赛艇及皮划艇赛事移

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A disabled lion who was reared by a double amputee zookeeper has formed an unlikely bond with a miniature sausage dog with the pair inseparable ever since the cat was a cub. 一名双腿截肢的动物园管理员抚养了一只残疾的狮子,这只

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

当别人在你旁边罗嗦个没完,你烦透了, 说You are so boring.(你真烦! )。Shut up! ( 闭嘴! ) 自然没错, 可人家受得了吗? 不如来一句Oh, come on. Give me abreak! (帮帮忙, 让我歇歇吧! )这多地道、多幽默。 要想

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What made the request all the more astonishing to Eisenstat was that it was Jobs who, just a year earlier, 更令艾森斯塔特惊讶的地方在于,就在一年前, had forced frogdesign to abandon its work on Wozniak's remote control device. 乔

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

The asymmetry in the trade war is another uncomfortable fact. 这场贸易战中的不对称是另一个让人不安的事实。 Since America buys far more from China than vice versa, America has more scope to impose tariffs. 由于美国从中国进口

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CARACAS, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Finance Minister Nelson Merentes said Sunday that his country needs to rein in the difference between the official U.S. dollar exchange rate and the unofficial street value. The parallel dollar is disruptive, h

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns was leaving for Egypt on Sunday to discuss the Arab country's return to an inclusive civilian government, the State Department said. During his three-day visit, Burns will m

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词组是rein in。Rein in,意思是控制、放慢。Trump administration officials urged China and other nations to band together to confront North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic-missile ambitions, with Vice President M

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

1. The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is Go. 英语里由一个单词组成的最短的完整的句子就是GO. 2. The oldest word in the English language is town. 英语里最有年头的一个词

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