As soon as the Thanksgiving holiday is over, Santa Clauses start appearing everywhere in shopping centers, supermarkets and other places. It takes more than red clothing and a white beard to be a professional Santa. In fact, many aspiring Santas atte

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Mooncakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival what mince pies are to Christmas. The seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon.

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 节日英语

今天我们学习一下关于work的几个短语! 1work your fingers to the bone 从手指到骨节都在工作,那一定是非常努力地工作的意思咯~ I worked my fingers to the bone to give my children a good life. 我为了给我的孩子们

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'A Visit From St. Nicholas' In 1822, an American professor named Clement Clarke Moore wrote a poem that redefined the image of Saint Nicholas. It was called Account of a Visit from Saint Nicholas. He did not expect it to be published. He wrote it as

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A new report from the panel overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program warns that some 3,000 small and mid-sized banks may be forced to cut back their lending because of commercial real estate loans g

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有关在美国和墨西哥爆发的猪流感的一些基本知识。 Here are a few basics about the swine flu outbreak in the U.S. and Mexico. What is swine flu? It's flu that occurs in pigs. In rare cases, humans contract swine flu from close cont

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Small Farm Is a Hit in the Big City Community supported agriculture farms, or CSAs, seek people who pay in advance for fresh vegetables and fruits. One farmer has now expanded his CSA program to a law firm in New York City. The busy lawyers there are

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How did zebras get their stripes? It's hard to get a black-and-white answer. 斑马身上的条纹是如何形成的?我们很难得到确切的答案。 Some scientists say the stripes are a form of camouflage that protects zebras from hungry lion

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清明节英文简介 Qingming Festival 清明节英语介绍 The Qingming (Pure Brightness) Festival is one of the 24 seasonal division points in China, falling on April 4-6 each year. After the festival, the temperature will rise up and rainfall in

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People who have fall allergy and asthma problems often feel worse during late summer and early autumn months. As vacations wind down and kids go back to school, you're dealing with sneezing, wheezing, and coughing once again. Fall allergies can get i

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WASHINGTON, May 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. retail and food services sales edged up 0.1 percent in April, slowing sharply after strong gains in the prior two months, official data showed on Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Commerce said Tuesday that the combi

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According to the US Department of Labor, the average employed adult spends 7.5 hours a day on the job. Over time, that adds up to a significant chunk of your life, so (as many people know from experience) an unhappy work situation can make the rest o

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Pingxiang City in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region borders with Vietnam and is home to many companies trading Vietnamese agricultural products. Chen Kangli manages a company in Pingxiang that mainly engages in trade of Vietnamese fruits

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WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up modestly in April, led by rising energy and food costs, the Labor Department reported Thursday. As a main gauge of inflation, the CPI increased 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjuste

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BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Computer sales declined in the first three months of this year for the first time since 2009 worldwide. PC sales fell 1.1 percent in the first quarter to 84.3 million worldwide, according to tech research firm Gartner

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You Can Beat Depression by William Thomas Buckley Depression has always been considered a disease of life's middle or later years, but doctors are now reporting a surprising surge in cases among younger people. Why is depression striking earlier and

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Adapting To Change Should Be Natural I noticed that the leaves on most of the trees in the woods where I often take my dogs have started to change color. Normally, they are green but during the autumn season here in eastern Canada, they start to turn

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For most of us, the purpose of the holidays is to bring peace, love,and goodwill towards all. Yet, for many, the holiday season often meansstress, fatigue, pressure, disappointment and loneliness。 对我们大多数人来说,休假的目的是为获

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The house was not the minimalist and modernist style Jobs would have designed if he had built a home from scratch. 如果这处房子是乔布斯自己从头设计的,肯定不会设计成这样,这不是他喜欢的那种极简主义和现代主义

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