STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century. Homer created pictures that sh

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BP's Tony Hayward is the object of more outrage today after the Associated Press reported the CEO took today off. Instead of overseeing efforts to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Hayward watched a yachting race in England, which included hi

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1. What's wrong with you? 你怎么了? 还能这样说: What's the matter? Is anything wrong? 应用解析: no matter what 不管怎样,无论如何; what is called 所谓; what is more (插入语)加之,而且 2. I'm not feeling w

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A typical racing sailboat has many parts such as the mast, boom, hull, keel and rudder. Mainly there are five types of racing sailboat. Respectively they are: 帆船主要由船体、桅杆、稳向板或

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AS IT IS 2015-05-24 Sail, Row, Paddle, All The Way To Alaska 借助一切工具驶向阿拉斯加 We are less than three weeks away from the first-ever Race to Alaska. A large group of adventure seekers will be racing from Port Townsend, in the state

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17岁少年成孤身环球航海最年轻的人 A 17-year-old US mariner steered his battered sailboat into a Southern California harbour on Thursday to complete a gruelling 13-month voyage and become the youngest person to sail around the worl

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今天我们要学的词是ride out. Ride out的意思是经受得住,挺过难关。The sailboat rode out the storm. 帆船抵挡住了暴风雨的袭击。There are signs that a global economic slowdown is hitting U.S. companies that rode out the

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