AS IT IS 2016-01-30 Asian-Americans Active in US Politics 亚裔美国人活跃于美国政界 A growing number of Asian Americans are becoming active in politics, according to demographic researchers. 人口统计研究者称越来越多的亚裔美国

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(二)月

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:beat a dead horse. 大家都知道, dead Horse是死马的意思,动词beat是打的意思。Beat a dead horse连在一起是徒劳无功的意思。 最近办公室洗手间的水龙头漏水,我跟维

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苏明,你去过夏威夷吗?当然去过,夏威夷美极了,就像人间天堂一样。哎,你不是要去夏威夷休假吗?是啊,飞机票都买好了。可是航空公司突然宣布破产,结果我们什么时候能去还不知道

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模仿文本:In the case of Italy, the entire cabinet consists of financial specialists. The non-elected prime minister's head governments of national unity which pursue policies for which nobody in the electorate voted. Indeed, they are not expect

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JEFFREY BROWN: And now part of our regular look at the campaign as it plays out in social media and on the Web. Margaret Warner has that. MARGARET WARNER: And we're joined again by Howard Kurtz from the website Daily Download. He's also Newsweek's Wa

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Many voters are disappointed with Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's job six years into his tenure and believe things will get worse, the latest Field Poll showed Sunday. The survey found 59 percent of those surveyed believe the state will

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Don't change horses in the middle of the stream to jump on the bandwagon 美国的民意测验显示,布什总统落后于民主党候选人克林顿。这使人想起在十九世纪美国内战期间

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总统选举竞选活动在爱荷华举行 Though Cedar Falls,Iowa has a population just over 40,000, right now it is the epicenter of the race for the White House. 尽管爱荷华州锡达福尔斯市人口刚刚超过4万人,但是它成为白宫角逐

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blame game negative campaigning 美国选民每四年不仅要选举一位总统,而且还要选举四百三十五名国会议员、至少三十三名参议员以及在州一级和基层的许多官员

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我们今天要学的三个习惯用语由一个共同的词组成:glad。 Glad这个单词的意思大家都熟。它描述高兴喜欢的感觉。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是:give the glad hand。 大家知道hand是手, give the gla

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[00:00]J:That's Governor Pappy O'Daniel. [00:02]Wish you appreciate it if you ate his farina and voted him a second term. [00:06]Ain't you gonna press the flesh, Pappy? [00:07]Pl:You don't tell me how to court the electorate. [00:10]We're mass co

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And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. Some have called you the generation of choice. You've been raised with multiple choice tests,

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February 17th 1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer receives a series of life sentences for his grizzly string of murders. Dahmer had admitted to killing 17 young men and boys, some of whom he mutilated and cannibalized. Just a few years

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Britain Politicians' salaries 英国 议员们的薪酬 Bargain basement 地下廉价部 The 2009 MPs' expenses scandal cast a long shadow over British politics. It also led to the creation of an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) t

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Welcome, gentlemen, together again. So we -- we start with a pretty tough story, Mark, and that is what's h

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GWEN IFILL: Early voting has already begun in key states that could determine the balance of the Senate and the direction the nation may be heading in the final two years of the Obama presidency. One of those states is North Carolina, where a Democra

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The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. 这其中包括着各式各类的人,从有权有势的人到一般的小人物, Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down. 从捕鲸界的老手到

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The Auckland south-western motorway now goes 13km from the airport to Mt Roskill but on Friday, another 4km to Sandringham Rd will open. This motorway is called State Highway 20 (SH20). The plan is for this motorway to continue further so that it lin

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今天我们要学的词是show up。 To show up, 意思是到场。 The defendant failed to show up in court due to health reasons, 被告因健康原因没有出庭。 Thousands of people showed up at the two-day event, 这次为期两天的活动吸

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1. Wall Street closes to modest losses as investors wait for a Senate vote on helping out the financial market. The Dow was down more than 200 points early but recovered to a loss of 19 points. 2. In Washington, high hopes that revised financial res

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