BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- With an Internet population larger than that of the United States and Japan combined, China saw its online shopping maintain an annual growth of 140 percent in sales since 2004, making it a powerhouse in driving up dom

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

佣金 Commission (一) He came to China to hold a talk about the commission for his new business. 他来中国是洽谈有关生意中的佣金问题。 What about the commission? 佣金是多少? Usually a 1% commission is given to our agent.

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[1] Parts of the East Coast are preparing for a major winter storm. Forecasters say conditions could turn extremely dangerous in the mid-Atlantic region around Washington. The storm could bring 30 inches of snow to the nation's capital. [2] President

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener from Indonesia named Efendy asks why the Federal Reserve is so important and how it works. This week offered a good example. The Federal Reserve System is the United States central bank. I

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Unit 21 Changing money(2) 第21课 兑换钱(2) The foreign exchange clerk has just given the customer the exchange rate for changing Japanese yen into US dollars. 兑换外币的银行职员刚把日元兑换成美元的汇率告诉顾客。 C: Okay

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You see, you can take out one or two hub trees, 你们看,我们可以拿走一两颗中心树, but there comes a tipping point, 但这样就会达到森林承受极限了, because hub trees are not unlike rivets in an airplane. 因为森林里的

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今天我们要学的词是inherit。 Inherit是继承的意思。Sam从他叔叔那儿继承了一大笔财产就是 Sam inherited a fortune from his uncle. Jenny继承了妈妈的红头发,可以说 Jenny inherits her red hair from her mom. 法国新

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From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Thanks so much for checking in with us today. Here's a look at what's happening right Now In The News. We now know that at least six people were injured when a school bus crashed in Palmdale. Police

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Finance and Economics;The LIBOR probes; An expensive smoking gun; 财经;伦敦银行间拆放款利率调查;代价高昂的铁证; Court documents shed light on how LIBOR was allegedly manipulated; 法院公文阐明伦敦银行间拆放款利

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Interest rates in China 中国的利率 A small step forward 向前一小步 Chinas central bank has liberalised lending rates. Does it matter? 中国的央行放开了借贷利率,这有用吗? Jul 27th 2013 | SHANGHAI |From the print edition NO

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Tax reform in India 印度税制改革 The truck stops here 如鲠在喉 A fix for India's indirect-tax system is overdue but it may fall short of the ideal 由于印度未能及时对其间接税系统进行调整使得其未能达到理想状态 TR

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JEFFREY BROWN:There was good news today on the jobs front. The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added 195,000 jobs in June, well above forecasts. The unemployment rate remained at 7.6 percent, as more people came into the job market, ano

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: A new report from the American Cancer Society finds breast cancer is now as common among black women in the U.S. as it is among white women. The data published this week shows the rate of breast cancer a

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研究:人的鼻子能嗅出性别 WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The human nose can sniff out gender from body secretions even though people don't think they smell anything, Chinese researchers reported Thursday. Wen Zhou of the Chinese Academy of

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Yoga exponents are being caught out by the activity's relaxing and low impact image with more than one in four injured during sessions. 瑜珈的倡导者们被这项运动表面上轻松、低强度的特点所蒙蔽,其实在练习过程中,有超

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LOS ANGELES, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Obesity rates in the United States climbed over the past year in 16 states, and not a single state reported a decline in the proportion of excessively overweight residents, according to a report released on Thursday. T

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WELLINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's economic growth is set to accelerate from an estimated 3.1 percent in the year to the end of March this year to 3.8 percent in the following 12 months, according to a quarterly average of economic forecas

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According to the figures from the CAAC, the average on-time rate for domestic airlines was just over 65 percent between January and June, compared to over 68 percent last year. In other words, a passenger flying on a Chinese airline experiences a fli

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-New signs this morning that the housing market is heating up. Home sales are expected to show another monthly spike this morning. Good news for homeowners. Also, a growing risk that buyers could get burned. Here more with that, our financial contrib

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