Lesson 11One good turn deserves another 课文内容 I was having dinner at a restaurant whenHarry Steele came in. Harry worked in a lawyer's office years ago, but he is now working at a bank. He gets a good salary, but he always borrows money from hi

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(501) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第二册

Building on a Record of Economic Progress (November 19, 2016) 在经济进展的基础上继续努力(2016年11月19日) Hi folks, this is Joe Biden. 大家好.我是乔?拜登 Over the last eight years, we've created more jobs than all the advanced

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Today, the minimum wage has increased by 25c from $12.75 to $13 an hour. For young people who are still being trained for the job, their pay has increased by 20c from $10.20 to $10.40. At $13 an hour, this comes to $520 for a 40-hour week. The median

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AS IT IS 2013-12-18 HM Plans to Raise Pay for Clothing Workers HM计划提高制衣工人工资 Welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. Clothing workers around the world have demanded higher pay for the job they do. Now, a maj

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Lesson 54:Instinct or cleverness? 是本能还是机智 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Was the writer successful in protecting his peach tree? Why not? We have been brought up to fear insects

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(385) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第三册

模仿文本:Young people in China today who've often benefited from a good education don't want a low-wage job that doesn't use their skills. Is the rising Chinese wage bill likely to dull the country's competitive edge? I spoke to George Magnus,

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Broadcast: Apr 08, 2003 The World Health Organization has intensified efforts to eliminate the crippling disease polio in India following a dramatic increase in cases during the past year. Health offi

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1. Oil prices are down for a second day, more than four dollars lower on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is trading at less than 135 dollars a barrel. Yesterday prices fell nearly six and a half dollars in the biggest one-day drop in dollar te

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(七)月

May Day Rallies Held Around the World A May Day labor union strike in Greece has disrupted ferry service to the Greek islands and public transportation in Athens where demonstrators are protesting against prolonged economic austerity policies. Worker

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Chris向一家香港公司的老板Hank和部门主管Rebecca介绍申请国际认证的程序。Hank觉得有点麻烦,可Rebecca认为值得,因为拿到国际认证,在美国和欧洲做生意就可以畅通无阻了。Chris赞同Rebecca的看

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Walmart and McDonald's, two of the biggest and oldest brands in the US, have for years faced widespread complaints about poor customer service. 近年来,顾客们普遍抱怨美国两个最大最老品牌沃尔玛和麦当劳的顾客服务差。

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Michelle Wright : A weaker than expected month for job growth in May, says Commerce Bank Chief Economist Joel Naroff. Joel Naroff : Well, looks like businesses are becoming a little bit more cautious

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Hi, everybody. 大家好! This week, I visited a community college in Florida, where I spoke with students about what we need to do to make sure our economy rewards the hard work of every American. 本周,我走访了佛罗里达州的一所社区大

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By Laura Adams. In this episode Ill discuss payroll tax withholding. Understand what exactly is taken out of your paycheck and when youll need to adjust your allowances. How Withholding Works When you take a new job, one of the forms you complete for

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 货币英语

BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A judge has ruled that Charlie Sheen's monthly 55,000 U.S. dollar child support payments will be garnished from wages he receives from his former boss Warner Bros. Television, media reports said Wednesday. Los Angeles

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Workers in homes for intellectually disabled adults are paid just $34 a night for sleeping in the IHC home. IHC used to mean intellectually handicapped children but now it is people with intellectual disabilities, adults and children. If adults canno

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

祝你猴年涨工资!不过加薪前,先得底气足。听今天的节目,了解美国职场的薪酬、福利;学习怎么用英语恰当表达加薪这件事儿。 关键词: 工资英语怎么说? 美国人如何提加薪? 但是,这些

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

Whether additional effort translates into higher wages depends on the other options available to workers and on their bargaining power 额外的努力能否转化为高额的工资取决于员工手中的工作选择以及他们的议价能力 in par

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What is a fair wage? Why aren't more people in the world offered pay equality? These are some of the questions the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently investigated. With a global population of over seven billion, is it

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Number 2, they don't want to raise the minimum wage even though today's Federal minimum is 25 percent below what it was in 1968, adjusted for inflation. 第二,他们不想提高基本工资,现

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