Obituary;Betty Ford; 讣告;贝蒂福特; Betty Bloomer Ford, an outspoken First Lady, died on July 8th, aged 93; 贝蒂布鲁姆福特,直率的前第一夫人,于7月8日逝世,享年93岁; All her life, Betty Ford loved to dance. At ten she

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人人物系列

KWAME HOLMAN:Wall Street was down much of the day, but trimmed its losses after news that the House will convene Sunday to focus on the fiscal cliff. In the end, the Dow Jones industrial average shed 18 points to close at 13,096. The Nasdaq fell four

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as President Donald Trumps nominee for labor secretary. Just two days earlier, Michael Flynn resigned from his position as national security adviser. Puzder faced united Democratic opposition. And some Senate Republicans w

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(二)月

Obamas Prepare for Their Final White House Christmas 奥巴马准备最后一次在白宫过圣诞节 This is Whats Trending Today President Barack Obama and his family will celebrate their eighth and final Christmas in the White House next month. On

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

政府机构能够从开放源代码运动中学到什么?在本次激动人性的演讲中,白宫前CTO Beth Noveck 与我们分享了她对于开放运动的看法联系政府与民众,分享数据,创造一个真正人人参与的民主形式

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:群体的力量

JUDY WOODRUFF: He has given his final major speech, and now President Obama has also held his final news conference. He spent an hour before the White House press corps today, two days before his presidency ends. John Yang was there. JOHN YANG: In hi

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

今天我们要学的词是outgoing。 Outgoing, 除了有性格外向的意思,还可以指即将离任的。谷歌公司首席执行官埃里克.施密特不久前突然宣布准备离职。 Google will give a $100 million equity award to outgoin

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Disney raised its bid for the bulk of 21st Century Foxs assets to $71bn, almost half of which is in cash and the rest in shares. 迪士尼将21世纪福克斯(21st Century Fox)大部分资产的出价提高至710亿美元,其中约一半是现金,其

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奥巴马在白宫会见总理西班牙 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey at the White House next month to discuss a range of issues, a presidential spokesman said Thu

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BRIEF: U.S. President Barack Obama was interrupted Friday, while delivering remarks about a change in U.S. immigration policy at the White House Rose Garden. About 800,000 young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children could be sp

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Power outages across the Washington area knocked out electricity at the U.S. State Department and briefly disrupted activities at the White House, the Capitol and the citys tourist attractions. 华盛顿地区停电波及美国国务院,并短暂影响

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a shot across the bow 发出警告 bow可以指船首,a shot across the bow原来是海军的专用语,通用了两百来年了。它指军舰对可疑船只发炮,落到贴近那条船的船首作为警告,命令这艘船停止前进。要是它

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

今天我们要学的词是squabble。 Squabble, 是争吵的意思。美国民主党总统参选人希拉里.克林顿参议员和巴拉克.奥巴马参议员在星期一晚上的辩论中就彼此的人品争吵不休, Senator Hilary Clinton and Se

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President Barack Obama has several months left in office, but in one sense, he's already split. 贝拉克奥巴马总统还有几个月就要和他的政治生涯告别了,不过从某种意义上来说,他已经分开了。 The US women's gymnas

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

在纽约上大学的Michael 和李华今天在华盛顿参观名胜古迹。他们在对话里会用 到两个常用语:ticked off ,另一个是close。 L: Michael, 大家都说纽约人开车不守

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Good evening and thanks for joining us. For the second day in a row, Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejecting the assertion by American intelligence agencies that Russians meddled in last year's U.S. presidential election to the potential benefi

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Barack Obama lit the National Christmas Tree at the White House for the eighth and final time as president on last Thursday night. 上周四晚上,巴拉克奥巴马第8次在白宫点亮美国国家圣诞树,这也是他作为总统最后一次点

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Theres been a long standing tradition of welcoming championship sports team to The White House 邀请体育冠军进白宫一直是是个传统 Kobe and Derrik have been there so many times now, They can lead tours themselves 科比和费舍尔来过很

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听听奥巴马白宫记者协会晚宴段子。我们解释这些笑话的精华语言点,这样你不只看热闹,更能学习英语的门道。 关键词: 首先,什么是White House Correspondents' Dinner? 白宫记者协会WHCA(White Hou

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

Dialogue 1 Mark: Whew! You made it. I was just about to turn in. 马克:嗬!你还是到达了!我这就准备回房间了。 Jingjing: You would have stood me up? 京晶:你要放我鸽子吗? Mark: We'd have run into each other at the bre

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