The Barbie doll is one of the most successful toys in history. It was launched in 1959 by the U.S. toy manufacturer Mattel. It has since become a cultural icon. American businesswoman Ruth Handler came up with the idea of an adult doll for small girl

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 各大品牌英文介绍

[00:05.52]Why did Jerry ask us to meet him here? 为什么杰瑞要我们到这里和他见面 [00:09.28]Proud that I can introduce Stepford's brand-new candidate for state senate. 很自豪我可以向你们介绍 斯戴福全新的州参议员候选人

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 听电影学英语-复制娇妻

Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on worldwide attitudes toward African-Americans

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Fewer Kids Living in US Suburbs When you think of the American suburbs, what comes to mind? Street after street of similar houses? Shopping malls and big yards and white picket fences? All valid images, but youre forgetting something that is - or was

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(二月)

A: 欢迎大家来到这期的美语训练班! 我是杨琳! B: 我是Kat! 杨琳,赶快告诉大家咱们今天要学些什么! A: 好! 今天,咱们要接着去看看电子产品的发展走势,听听人们都有怎样的固有观念,学学

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 美语训练班

Throughout this long, tense election, everyone has focused on the presidential candidates and how they'll change America. Rightly so. But selfishly, I'm more fascinated by Michelle Obama and what she might be able to do, not just for this country, bu

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十几岁的孩子,在身体、智力、品德等各方面都在快速地成长,也会跟父母发生很多碰撞和冲突。如何把握好这个阶段的教育,对很多父母来说都是人生最大的考验。 You've lived through 2 AM feed

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And a new study from a group called Common Sense Media reports that teenagers now spend up to nine hours a day on various screen devices. That's probably more than they sleep. We're joined by Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common S

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While Mr. Ballmer, who has been at the helm of Microsoft since 2000, is known for his eccentric personality and episodes of excitable public behavior, he gives sound and structured advice to business leaders about how he approaches his work at Micros

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People start stereotyping early. Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups. The seeds of racism are planted in most everyone. Everyone, that is, except people with a rare genetic condi

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Of course, there are times in life when being risk averse is a good thing; adolescent and adult males drown in much greater numbers than adolescent and adult females. 当然,生活中规避风险有时候是好事,例如溺水的青春期男性和成

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US Reports Global Increase in Acts of Anti-Semitism The U.S. government said Wednesday that long-standing anti-Jewish prejudice , anti-Israel sentiment, and a rise in Europe's Muslim population, are c

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It will involve in hand training, oversight and accountability to Federal law enforcement really all across the country. Uh, and you know, when you look at the four questions which we are profiling, as I said, as I said and I guess things that we hav

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2014(十二)月

Iranian-American Rapper Shatters Stereotypes Azad Right is not a traditional rapper. At 24 years old, he has a political science degree and is Iranian-American. Being on stage is the best part about this, he says, being able to see these kids and the

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: By and large, women have had a rough time of it in mystery novels, mostly appearing as beautiful corpses, appendages to the detectives and cops and lawyers saving the day. But writers like Megan Abbott write female characte

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

As children there is no limit to what we believe we can become but as girls and boys, we are steered in different directions growing up. This happens because of what we call gender stereotypes. 如果被定位成孩童,我们对自己未来发展的可

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

Nikki:Here's some dancing. [pointing to a group of guys] See those guys stomping, clapping and shouting? They're practicing step dancing. Wen:It sounds cool. The rhythms look really difficult. Nikki:They basically turn their bodies into drums. There'

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 Eztalk美语会话

I was talking to my new friend Nicole about the differences between New York City and Los Angeles. Nicole just relocated from New York, where she lived all her life, and I'm a native of L.A. Dan: So, is L.A. all it's cracked up to be? Nicole: Well, t

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

SINGAPORE, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The huge market of China can be both a blessing and a curse for local information technology firms, said Lee Kai-Fu, founder of Innovation Works and former president of Google China. Speaking at the FutureChina Global Fo

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A Degree in Luxury is Being Launched攻读奢侈品牌的学位刚刚推出 In a so-called age of austerity you might not expect a university to be offering a degree in luxury. However, this autumn the International University of Monaco is launching

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