AS IT IS 2015-04-14 America Remembers Abraham Lincolns Assassination This week, Americans remember an important date in history: one hundred fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was killed. Museums and historic organizations all around the coun

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AS IT IS 2016-08-25 Thailand's Tourism Industry Works to Recover from Attacks 泰国的旅游业从打击中恢复 Officials in Thailand are working to help the tourism industry in several provinces affected by deadly bombings earlier this month. Bom

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Every year the environmental research group Worldwatch Institute in Washington releases a study called State of the World. This year, the study focuses on the need to change the global culture from consumption to sustainability. Many economies around

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Chernobyl Evacuees Re-Visit Former Home In Ukraine they call them Chernobylites'. People affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in then-Soviet Ukraine. Residents evacuated after the April 26, 1986 disaster lost their homes as w

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Now we're not here for that long anyway, 虽然不管怎样我们不会在此地待多长时间, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, 但耗费大半人生迷失在思考中并因此可能变

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He did not hesitate to persecute those whom he disliked. Early in his career Owen used his influence at the Zoological Society to blackball a young man named Robert Grant whose only crime was to have shown promise as a fellow anatomist. Grant was ast

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But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. 我这里讲的尊严不是帝王将相的尊严,而是平民百姓的尊严, Thou shalt see it shining in the a

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Todd: OK, Shawn, I'm going to talk about your favorites. Shawn: SureTodd: What's your favorite color? Shawn: I say, green. Todd: Green. Shawn: Yes. Todd: OK. And what's your favorite fruit? Shawn: My favorite fruit: orange. Todd: Orange! Shawn: Orang

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early

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Sacramento, California-based artist Rora Blue, 19, asked strangers to share with her the things that they would really like to say to their first loves, if they had the chance to send a text message without repercussions. She also had them each sugge

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The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3, in Vienna was a fairly light instrument, and it was very well suited to the kind of pianism that were most conventional in Vienna at that time. Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted bigger pianos,

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Denzel Washington plays a prophet wandering a devastated landscape on a spiritual mission in a dark, but ultimately hopeful futuristic drama. He is a solitary figure walking through the wasteland. Well-armed, because he has to be in order to survive

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PARIS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande on Thursday urged Egyptians to halt violence and make every effort to refrain from slipping into a civil war. The French head of state made the remarks when he summoned Thursday morning th

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Facebook managed to put its vast treasure trove of user data to good use after Fridays tragic terror attacks in Paris: the social network customized its safety check feature to let users know whether their friends and loved ones in Paris are safe. 上周

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Michael: Alright, so Simon, do you have a favorite movie? Simon: Again, that's difficult question so I can't say one favorite movie but I can say that I really, really enjoyed The Lord of the Rings, well mainly because as a elementary school student

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1 Bronte Sisters 勃朗特三姐妹 Theyve been made into films, acted out on stage for decades, and remain some of the most popular novels of all time. The works of the Bronte sisters remain as fresh and exciting as they were when they were first wr

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Voice 1 Hello. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Marina Santee. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 Come with us Voice

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An investigation into the incident is still underway. According to Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti, one of the two pilots was killed in the air by fire from the ground. Meanwhile, a Russian marine was also killed during an operation to res

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American humour 美式幽默 Funny man 有趣的人 The talent of an American lyricist 一位富有天赋的美国抒情诗人 CALVIN TRILLIN made his reputation over four decades as the author of US Journal in the New Yorker, reporting extensively a

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Tomorrow is ANZAC Day, a day when New Zealanders and Australians remember soldiers who died in Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. See April 25th 2008 . 1915 was during the First World War. ANZAC Day, however, is a day to remember all New Zealand soldiers

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