今天我们来学习一个俚语 sacred cow。直译过来是神圣的牛。这个短语,和印度人崇拜牛有很大关系。 印度是一个多宗教的国度,其中,印度教占主导地位,印度教徒的数量达到人口总数的80%,

发表于:2018-12-13 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Almost seven decades of U.S. presidential State of the Union Addresses and speeches to Joint Sessions of Congress. The difference is where we start today on CNN 10. Last night, President Donald Trump gave his first speech to

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年3月

So if you get sick, that sticks you with a lousy choice. 所以,如果你病了,这让你被迫进行艰难的选择。 Do you go to work and get everyone else sick, too? 你是去工作或者让每一个其他的人也生病? Or do you take care of

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Hi, everybody. 大家好! My top priority as President is doing everything I can to create more jobs and more opportunities for hardworking families to get ahead. 作为总统,我最重要的任务就是尽我一切努力为所有辛勤付出的工薪

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President Barack Obama has urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to work with him on major national priorities, saying cooperation is essential to the country's economic recovery. President's spoke to Republicans at their issues conferenc

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年2月

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress for the fiscal year that begins on October first. It is the first step in what is expected to be a long, contentious budget process. 美国总统奥巴马向国会递交了

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年2月

美国国会两党就2016年预算达成协议 From funding the U.S. government to upgrading America's overburdened highways to boosting the nation's cyber security, the Republican-led Congress passed a flurry of bills that President Barack Obama, a

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(二月)

The shooting rampage in Arizona that left six people dead and 14 injured has re-ignited concerns about security for politicians. Government prosecutors have portrayed the attack as an assassination attempt on an Arizona congresswoman, who was critica

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2011年1月

A new U.S. Congress has convened in Washington. Republicans now control the House of Representatives, and Democrats have a reduced majority in the Senate, giving the United States a divided legislature. The 112th Congress features scores of new Repub

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The U.S. Senate has approved a $91 billion package that will continue funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and provide assistance to Pakistan by a vote 86-3 late Thursday. The measure will have to be reconciled with a House-passed version before

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年5月

Hi everybody. 大家好! In my State of the Union Address, I said that the best measure of opportunity is access to a good job. 在我的国情咨文里,我说过,衡量机会的最好方式就是能否创造更多良好就业。 And after the

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Hi, everybody. 大家好。 Restoring the idea of opportunity for all requires a year of action from all of us. 为所有需要机会的人创造机会是我们今年工作的重心。 Wherever I can act on my own, I will-and whenever I can ask more

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华盛顿:在本周的讲话中,奥巴马总统号召国会像过去两年里七次做到的一样,全力通过交通运输法案的延期表决。如果国会不能成功通过该法案,对我们的经济将是一场灾难,明年将有100多

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

By Robert Raffaele Washington 06 March 2008 A new report by a major, black advocacy group says the American dream remains out of reach for many African Americans. The National Urban League examines the lives of black Americans in its annual report, T

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

U.S. President Barack Obama is stepping up his campaign for passage of the massive economic stimulus plan now making its way through Congress. Mr. Obama is taking to the road and the airwaves. 美国总统奥巴马正在加速推动他大规模刺激经

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年2月

今天我们要学的词是repeal. Repeal, 撤销,废止。在国会中期选举中, California voters rejected a call by the teachers unions to repeal a series of tax breaks for corporations, 加州选民否决了教师工会提出撤销公司减税

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

President Bush says Congress should approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia in recognition of President Alvaro Uribe's fight against violence and drug trafficking. Mr. Bush says failing to approve that agreement this year would embolden U.S. adv

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The Bush administration is urging U.S. lawmakers to quickly pass its sweeping $700-billion bailout plan for financial institutions that are holding large amounts of bad mortgage debt. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in television interview

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年9月

A former White House spokesman says Americans have lost trust in U.S. President George Bush, because he is refusing to reveal his administration's involvement in leaking the identity of a previously-covert CIA operative. The Bush administration dismi

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年6月

Hi, everybody. 嗨,各位好。 Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I'd work to change a tax code that too often benefited the wealthy at the

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话