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贝拉克侯赛因奥巴马(Barack Hussein Obama),1961年8月4日出生,美国民主党籍政治家,第44任美国总统,为美国历史上第一位非洲裔总统。1991年,奥巴马以优等生荣誉从哈佛法学院毕业,而后在著
My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to
By Paula Wolfson Washington 16 April 2006 A top Republican in the U.S. Senate says the Bush administration should hold direct talks with Iran on Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Senate Foreign Relactions C
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 January 2006 U.S. Senator John Kerry visited Pakistan's hard hit quake zone Saturday. The former Democratic presidential candidate toured a sprawling tent village in nort
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 January 2006 U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel One vocal critic of the Bush administration is a member of the president's own party. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? On May 19th, President Obama announced a new federal gas mileage standard. He wants the country's entire car and light truck fleet to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 20
By Deborah Tate Washington, DC 01 September 2006 watch Profile Senator Lugar The U.S. Congress is returning from its month-long August recess to face an ambitious legislative agenda and midterm elections in November. Several major issues such as the
By Jim Malone Washington 28 December 2006 John Edwards announces his candidacy for president in an area affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, 28 Dec 2006 Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards is the latest Democrat to formally announce
By Jim Malone Washington 30 May 2007 Former Republican Senator Fred Thompson is taking steps to join the 2008 presidential race. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has the latest from Washington. Fred Thompson Several news reports quoting anonymou
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 26 June 2007 An influential U.S. Senate Republican says President Bush's Iraq policy is not working, and he is calling for a downsizing of U.S. forces in Iraq. The comments by Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has sparked
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 28 August 2007 Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Sam Nunn, authors of U.S. legislation to reduce the post-Soviet nuclear arsenal, are in Russia in an effort to further tighten global controls on weapons of mass destruc
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: During the Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had the same litmus test for any Supreme Court nominee - overturning Citizens United. That Supreme Court ruling allowed more corporate money in campaign
By Dan Robinson Washington 09 September 2006 Rwandan soldier guard on the outskirts of Thabit, North Darfur Influential lawmakers are expressing concern about the situation in Darfur, where a massing of Sudanese government forces has raised fears of
From the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'm Nicole Lapin. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. We now have a name and a face but still no motive for the deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University. A law enforcement source identified the s
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 10 While I hate befogging my pages with scientific technicalities and even neologies, I feel constrained to say here that the most elementary perusal of the Economy of Abundance would convince any intell
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Chapter 15 Usually I'm pretty mild, in fact many of my friends are kind enough to call it Folksy, when I'm writing or speechifying. My ambition is to live by the side of the road and be a friend to man. But I ho
今天我们要讲的习惯用语都有fish这个词。大家都知道fish是鱼,但是fish可以作动词。 1. Fish or cut bait 要么全力以赴,不然就干脆放弃 Fish作动词意思是钓鱼,bait是系在钓鱼线上的鱼饵。所以这
英语中有很多跟鱼或者钓鱼相关的表达,他们会让语言更加生动。今天我们一起来学习一下吧! 1. Everybody else at the party ended up in the swimming pool. But I was a fish out of waterbecause I can't swim. 参加聚会
In a recent interview,Michelle Obama said that the secret service taught Malia how to drive. 最近的一次采访中 米歇尔奥巴马说特勤局教会了玛莉娅开车 In exchange,Malia taught the secret service how to throw a party when her p
今天学的词组是dog。Dog在英文里是狗, 作为动词,dog有紧追不放、无法摆脱的意思。比如, 这辆汽车不断出毛病 - This car has been dogged by problems. 还比如, 美国人认为,前总统克林顿的夫人希拉