150 years ago today, one of England's most famous composers was born. Sir Edward Elgar was the son of a piano tuner and was largely self-taught. His music, stirring, patriotic and emotional captured the spirit of England. It has endured as music we

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年NPR美国国家公共电台

Lesson 82 monster 怪物 Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea. 渔夫和水手们有时声称自己看到过海里的妖怪。 There are lots of stories about ghosts and monsters. 有许多关于牛鬼蛇神的故事。

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(575) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语词汇随身听手册2

比较:because, since, as和for 1)because语势最强,用来说明人所不知的原因,回答why提出的问题。当原因是显而易见的或已为人们所知,就用as或 since。 I didn't go, because I was afraid. Since /As the weathe

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1)because语势最强,用来说明人所不知的原因,回答why提出的问题。当原因是显而易见的或已为人们所知,就用as或 since。 I didn't go, because I was afraid. Since /As the weather is so bad, we have to delay our

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

On Fridays, we bring you StoryCorps. Ordinary people ask each other questions and their conversations add up to an oral history of America. You almost never get a bad story when you ask: how did you two meet. That's where the story begins for Catheri

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年NPR美国国家公共电台

Time now for business news. The World Cup begins tomorrow in Germany. Team rivalries in soccer or football, as it's known in the rest of the world, are intense. Equally intense is the soccer competition between the world's two biggest producers of sp

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This is All Things Considered from NPR news, I'm Robert Siegel and I'm Michele Norris. In Alabama, jurors've found Richard Scrushy not guilty of all charges. Scrushy is the founder and fired CEO of HealthSouth, the medical services company. And he wa

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One not so sudden problem that Chinese media have been reporting a serious shortage of water. Some worry that it could derail the country's rapid economic growth. China's per capita water resources are only a quarter of the world average and the prob

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They say nothing can ever prepare you for being a parent. You do the best you can and hope your kids turn out O.K.. Commentator Kevin R. Free thinks back on his childhood, and he says even if his father didn't realize it at the time , he did a lot of

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Back now with The Day to Day. The world's richest man, the founder of Microsoft, plans to gradually step away from his company's everyday operations. The man of course, Bill Gates, Microsoft's next major goal is to try to go after the online music bu

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Not wanting to take the chance of causing unrest, Lady Gaga has decided to push back plans to perform in the city of Paris, France over the upcoming weekend. Making the switch due to ongoing strikes in the region, a statement on the Poker Face singer

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TakeMeOutToTheballGame Takemeouttotheballgame,Takemeouttothecrowd,---- Buymesomepea-nutsandCrack-erJacks,Idon'tcareifInev-ercomeback, Andit'sroot,root,rootforthehometeam, 主队 Iftheydon'twin,it'sashame, 羞耻 Forit'sone,two,therestrikes 罢工 ,Yo

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A Windows 10 update has stopped many popular webcams from working. 日前,Win 10系统的一次升级已经让许多网络摄像头停止了工作。 The update, released earlier this month, stops many cameras being used for Skype or to broadcast a

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

America's debt 美国债务 Shame on them 真丢人! The Republicans are playing a cynical political game with hugely high economic stakes 共和党人见利忘义,不顾巨大经济风险,玩弄政治游戏 Jul 7th 2011 | from The Economist pr

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韩国铁路工人罢工 SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of rail workers and supporters rallied in downtown Seoul and marched into streets on Saturday to protest the government's move to open a new subsidiary for the state-run rail operator, whi

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是Easter。 Easter, 复活节。 Shoppers are expected to spend $13 billion this Easter, 今年复活节,消费者预计要花130亿美元。英国航空公司机组服务人员可能举行罢工。 The walkouts scheduled a

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

BERLIN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 2,000 Lufthansa flights scheduled for next Monday were cancelled because of a warning strike called by labor union ver.di. Lufthansa released the list of cancelled flights Saturday evening. By 9:00 p.m. (1900 GMT),

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New regulations have not snuffed out tobacco firms, either. 新的规定也并没有消灭烟草公司。 Countries have passed a battery of laws to fight smoking, including taxes and bans on advertising and on smoking in pubs. 各个国家已经通过

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Business: Cigarette companies: Plucky strike 商业:烟草公司:勇敢的罢工 A merger is the latest sign of Big Tobaccos resilience. 一场象征大烟草复苏的兼并。 British American Tobacco (BAT) announced on January 17th a final deal

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Big BenBig Ben is not the name of a man. It is a name of the clock. It is in London. London is the capital city of England. The big clock has four faces. So no matter where you stand, you can read the face of the clock. The hands are about four meter

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