1. Colorado officials say a massive avalanche buried several cars on US Highway 40 about 60 miles west of Denver. At least 7 people have been rescued. Crews are searching for more survivors. Snow fell on the area on Friday, the third snowstorm in th

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(154) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2007

1. The crisis continues at a Japanese nuclear plant. A drop in water levels left uranium rods completely exposed today. And although the water was restored, the rods are again exposed after a second episode. That increases the risk that radiation wil

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1. President Barack Obama is staying right here. He's decided not to fly to Asia this weekend, so he can be in town for a possible House vote on his health care plan Sunday. The White House says he'll head to Indonesia and Australia in June. 2. Jihad

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[1] Haitians flock to church services on Sunday looking for some respite from all the misery around them. Aid is still slow to reach the survivors, and rescue crews continue to scour the ruins for any sign of life. [2] President Barack Obama is evoki

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1. Two thousand US marines are expected to arrive off the coast of Haiti today to help relief organizations get supplies to earthquake survivors. The troop increase and a request for more UN peacekeepers comes a day after more violence in the Haitian

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With Sentencing of Khmer Rouge Leaders, Memories Return 红色高棉领导人获刑 The recent court decision and sentencing of two aging Khmer Rouge leaders holds deep personal meaning for survivors of the 1970s genocide in Cambodia. Two of these su

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(八)月

AS IT IS 2016-04-20 Ecuadors President: Earthquake Recovery to Cost Billions of Dollars 厄瓜多尔总统:地震重建耗资数十亿美元 Ecuadors President says billions of dollars will be needed to help the country rebuild from the powerful eart

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YAN'AN, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The identity of 26 people, who were killed in a bus-tanker collision in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Sunday, have been confirmed, the local government said Tuesday. DNA testing has been completed for all of the cr

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24After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the craftsmen and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front o

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Walks Raise Money, and Hopes, in Fight Against Breast CancerBy Dana Demange and Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Friday, October 06, 2006 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special E

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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for god to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little

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A Dutch company that specializes in salvage operations says it will take weeks to remove the fuel from a cruise ship that capsized off Italy's coast. The company, Smit, says it plans to conduct a survey of the ship on Tuesday before the extraction pr

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是put off。 To put off, 有推迟、拖延的意思。 City council decided to put off the vote on the proposal, 市政委员会决定推迟就这项提案投票表决。 The economic downturn forced many people to put off t

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FREETOWN, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- The UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon on Friday assured the government and people of Sierra Leone of the UN commitment in helping Sierra Leone's fight against the Ebola disease. Addressing a press conference during his a

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It's now fourteen years since the Twin Towers fell. But time has not fully taken away the sense of loss. Marking the day on which almost 3000 people died, America again came together to remember the worst terrorist attack in recent history. In Washin

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Merkel unveils memorial for Roma victims of Nazis BERLIN, Oct.24 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated a memorial Wednesday in Berlin to tens of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, killed by the Nazi regime. The monument is a pool of wat

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1. The United States loses out in its bid to host the World Cup in 2022. The tiny Middle East nation of Qatar got the nod. President Barack Obama said the soccer body making the call made the wrong decision. Russia will host in 2018. 2. In Connecticu

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1. Crews have stopped drilling the relief well that's intended to permanently plug BP's broken Gulf oil well. That because a strengthening tropical depression is bearing down on the site. Crews have about 15 feet left to drill, but officials say the

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Hello, I'm Melissa Long here at the CNN Center in Atlanta with some of the headlines NOW IN THE NEWS at this hour this Thursday. In Beirut Lebanon, a major gun battle is going on right now between rival political factions. Shiite's supporters of Hez

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(五)月

We spend a considerable amount of time planning birthdays, wedding and anniversaries. 我们花了很多时间来策划生日、婚礼和纪念日。 But have you ever thought about how you would like to die? 但你可曾想过自己愿意以什么样的

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