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听歌学英语：Play-Jax Jones / Years & Years

How long 要多久 Till you play me the song that will make me belong to you 你才会对我奏起那让我感觉到属于你的歌 One dance 和我最亲爱的 With my baby tonight and we'll dance till the night is through 跳起一支舞我们要舞到

英文情歌歌词《暮光之城》插曲 A Thousand Years

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VOA标准英语2011--Reflections on 30 Years of HIV/AIDS

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VOA标准英语2011--MRI Sees Brain Atrophy Years Before Alzh

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VOA标准英语2011--Palestinian Prisoner Tastes Freedom After 33 Years

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2007年VOA标准英语-Pain of Partition Lingers 60 Years After Indepe

By Steve Herman New Delhi 14 August 2007 An electrician checks the decorative lights on the Indian gate, at the joint border check post, Wagah, India, 13 Aug 2007 Sixty years ago, India and Pakistan celebrated their newly won independence from Britis

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英文歌曲：Christina Perri(克里斯蒂娜·佩里) A Thousand Years 爱你千年

中英歌词： Heartbeats fast 心跳开始加速 Colors and promises 色彩飞旋、承诺在心中回荡 How to be brave 我该怎样鼓起勇气面对一切 How can I love when I'm afraid to fall 我该如何去爱你，此刻的我是那么害怕因