The end of nearly a century of BHS and finale was depressing. Bash shelves and empty spaces, all thats left of what was once a high-street giant. Well, Im here in the last branch which is due to closed stores in the next few hours for good. And now y

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

1. Egypt's military ruler says the arm forces are prepared to hold a referendum on an immediate transfer of power to a civilian authority if people demand it. In a televised address, Egyptians were also told that president elections would be held bef

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(十一月)

From NPR news in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama is praising Senate Democrats for what he called a big victory for the American people a vote to advance legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. NPR's Scott Horsley repor

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From NPR news in Washington I am Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is on Capitol Hill attending a democratic pipe rally of sorts ahead of tomorrows land mark health care vote in the House. This debate has been a difficult debate. This process has been a

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Broadcast: Jan 19, 2003 By Shelley Gollust People in America, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. In the eighteen-fifties, women in the United States began to try to gain the same ri

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We are in --class,from --School in Florida,welcome to CnnStudentNews! Take it away,Carl! I most certainly will,thank you for that IReport introduction,we started in Jacksonville,but during the next 10 minutes we are heading to Africa,Afghanistan and

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Karren Hopkin.This'll just take a minute. Location, location, location. We all know it's true of real estate. But it may also apply to the ballot box. Because a team of American researchers has foun

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(六)月

哈皮和毛拉这期谈论的主题是选举,国民选举要注意的事情是什么呢,这是国民有效参与政事的一个有效途径。 Maura: So, today were going to do a Chatterbox episode. And that is where Harp and I get to chat about

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Explanation: Sometimes the United States makes special coins (or pieces of money made out of metal) that honor (or give special recognition or importance to) people in American history. Our one-dollar coin has a picture of Susan B. Anthony on it. Sus

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Explanation: The United States is a land of opportunity, which means that there are a lot of things that people can achieve (or do) if they want to. But some opportunities are reserved (or set aside) only for U.S. citizens. What can citizens do that

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First listen to March 15th 2013 to hear more about this bill. A crowd of people queued to get into the public gallery in Parliament tonight to watch the final vote on the Marriage Amendment Bill. The bill passed with 77 votes to 44. The crowd in the

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Lianne Dalziel today announced that she was a candidate for mayor of Christchurch. Mayor Bob Parker also plans to stand as a candidate for mayor so Christchurch people will have a choice of two strong people. This will make the local body elections i

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The White House says it remains confident that congressional leaders can come together and work out a way to raise the U.S. debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline. A top aide to President Obama spoke as Republicans controlling the House of Represen

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The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan to trim government spending and raise the federal borrowing limit. The vote comes days before a deadline to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations that Pre

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本期内容: Shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday evening, British MPs face a choice that will affect the country's 66 million citizens for many years to come. They will either vote to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, negotiated with the

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America's mid-term elections 美国中期选举 The silent centre 沉寂的中间地带 If moderates don't vote next week, extremists will thrive 如果中立人士于下周不进行选举,极端主义者将会茁壮发展 ALL political campaigns i

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My Generation 我的世代 I'm part of a fearful generation, and I refuse to believe that I can change the world. 我是这个畏缩世代的一部分,而我不愿相信我可以改变世界。 I realize this may be a shock, but an independent Scot

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The U.S. House of Representatives late Monday passed a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling in exchange for cuts in government spending - one day ahead of a potential default on America's $14.3 trillion national debt. The action now shifts to the

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Explanation: The government of the United States is a representative democracy, which means that citizens vote for people who then represent them in the government, making laws and decisions that reflect (or are the same as) what the citizens want. C

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Why this is interesting is because in the past decade we have found that this is not just some anomaly of this ridiculous, 这个发现之所以有趣,是因为在过去十年间,我们发现这种现象不只局限在这种古怪的、 glow-in-t

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