美国政治的核心在腐败,这是由国会候选人依赖向微小比例的公民筹备竞选资金引起的。这是这次法律学者劳伦斯莱斯格猛烈抨击的核心内容。利用快速的视觉效果, 他展示了募资的过程是怎么

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

AS IT IS 2016-12-05 Africans Demand for Democracy Declines 非洲人民对民主的需求下降 A report about a new public opinion survey shows that a ten-year-long period of Africans demanding democracy has recently ended, and such demands have bee

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

最近的英剧「Very British Problems」,异常火爆。 该剧起源于一个Twitter账号,该账号经常吐槽一些腐国人民独有的生活不能自理问题,矛头直指英国文化中繁琐至极的礼节,视角犀利,槽点到位,

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

Venezuelans blocked streets in Caracas Tuesday to protest the presidents call for a new constitution. 本周二,委内瑞拉人民占领了加拉加斯的街道,抗议总统要求制定新宪法的决定。 Protesters filled streets with pieces o

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(五)月

Earlier this year, the White House deplored the human rights abuses imposed on the Iranian people by their government and pledged not to remain silent when Iranians rose up to peacefully protest against repression and corruption, as White House Spoke

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(三月)

这位英国保守党领袖说,我们正在进入一个崭新的时代 -- 政府自身拥有更少的权利(和更少的钱),同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利。利用行为经济学的新观点,他探讨如何将上述趋

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:世界权势大转移

援助巴基斯坦流离失所需要帮助的人民 The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development,recently contributed 20 million to support the provision of food to approximately 1.2 million temporary displaced persons o

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(二月)

And I realized it had to come from the people. 我意识到和平必然来自人民。 After all, they decide, 毕竟是他们的抉择, and they did. 而他们这样做了。 So the sounds that were before distorted and loud, 于是之前嘈杂混乱

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you. Please, have a seat. Thank you very much. I want to begin by thanking Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landm

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 美国总统演讲视频

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Residents of other countries feel the same about their nation,and we feel the same about our ethnicities. 其他国家的人民对自己国家也抱有相同态度,我们对自己的种族也是如

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

For a while individual noblemen curried favor with the people to win their votes, and then seized power. 在一段时间里一些贵族附和民众获得他们的选票,然后夺取了统治权。 Rulers like these were called tyrants. 这样的统治

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Anna Faris sums up her feelings about the People's Choice Awards in a single word. 安娜法瑞丝用一句话说出了她关于人民选择奖的感受。 Terror, says the actress, who will co-host the 41st annual awards, airing live Wednesday from

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

英语学习笔记: one thousand 1000 one million 1000,000(一百万) one billion 十亿 trillion 万亿 1.56billion 15.6亿 Grammy awards 格莱美奖 American Music Awards 全美音乐奖 Brit Awards全英音乐奖 The Academy Awards or The O

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

Hi, everybody. 大家好。 A few weeks ago, we launched an important new part of the Affordable Care Act. 我们开始实施一项事关全美国人的《平价医保法》。 It's called the Marketplace. 我们称之为医保市常 And for American

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Good morning. 早上好。 Over the past few days, I've met with Republicans and Democrats from both houses of Congress in an effort to reopen your government and remove the dangers of default from our economy. 在过去的几天里,我会见了国会

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Last month at the United Nations General Assembly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to do more to help his country's 1.4 million indigenous people. He said there needed to be an effort to, quote, correct past injustices and bring about

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union。 英国首相卡梅伦在英国公投决定脱欧后将于十月辞去首相职务。 Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Dow

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

They wanted action. Something must be done and must be done quickly. A popular hero by the name of Varro, the sort of man who went about the city telling everybody how much better he could do things than slow old Fabius, the Delayer, was made command

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

We're in the Musee du Louvre and we're looking at Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. 我们在罗浮宫,我们正在欣赏德拉克拉瓦的《自由领导人民》。 This is one of the most historically important paintings in this collection

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 欧美人文风情