本期内容: British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of conn

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本期内容: From Friday, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is making its video streaming service available in the mainland. The part-sport, part soap-opera joins a long list of sports eager to tap into a new customer base. Industry-watchers say

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本期内容: Nissan has launched a new longer-ranged version of its Leaf electric car that can be driven by just one e-Pedal for both accelerating and braking. The new Leaf can travel up to 235 miles between charges under European driving conditio

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本期内容: A musician who made a 10-hour long video of continuous white noise - indistinct electronic hissing - has said five copyright infringement claims have been made against him. Sebastian Tomczak, who is based in Australia, said he made th

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本期内容: MandarinlearninghasgrowninpopularityintheUnitedKingdominthewakeoftheBritishgovernmentacknowledgingtheimportanceofChinaasakeypartnerafterthenationleavestheEuropeanUnion. Earlierthismonth,theForeignOfficehostedaspecialcelebrationMandari

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本期内容: ElectriccarmakerTeslasaysavehicleinvolvedinafatalcrashinCaliforniawasinAutopilotmode,raisingfurtherquestionsaboutthesafetyofself-drivingtechnology.Oneofthecompany'sModelXcarscrashedintoaroadsidebarrierandcaughtfireon23March.Tesla'sAut

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本期内容: Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has announced she is launching a bid for New York governor. Ms Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbs on the HBO series, plans to challenge incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic party nominati

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本期内容: The mobile games developer behind Angry Birds expects to be worth about 1bn dollars when it lists on the stock market. Rovio has set a range for its share sale that would value the business at between 802m euros and 896m euros. The Fi

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本期内容: Britain's highest pub, which regularly gets snowed in at its isolated location in the Yorkshire Dales, is up for sale. The 17th Century Tan Hill Inn has panoramic views and is on sale for 900,000 euros. The pub, 1,700 feet above sea l

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本期内容: Theworldiswidelyconsideredtobeonthecuspofafourthindustrialrevolutiononewheremachineswillbeabletodomanyofthejobscurrentlyperformedbyhumans,andperhapsevendothembetter.Itisafuturethatpromisesgreaterefficiencyandcheaperservices,butonethat

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本期内容: The U.S. is expected to broaden its ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from the European Union, a move that would create logistical chaos on the world's busiest corridor of air travel. The ban would affect trans-At

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本期内容: Irans civil-aviation authorities said they had agreed to buy 100 planes from Boeing, pending final permission from the American Treasury Department. The deal could be worth $17 billion. Pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington complained. A

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本期内容: China is preparing to make the first attempt at landing robotic spacecraft on the Moon's far side. A static lander and rover are expected to be deployed to the surface in the next day, state media reports. The vehicles are carrying a

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本期内容: A humble houseplant with a dash of rabbit DNA could help lower our exposure to indoor air pollution, new research suggests. Scientists have revealed that by inserting a rabbit gene into devils ivy the plant is able to clean the surrou

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本期内容: Shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday evening, British MPs face a choice that will affect the country's 66 million citizens for many years to come. They will either vote to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, negotiated with the

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本期内容: Michel Barnier has said Brexit is at a standstill after the crushing rejection of Theresa Mays deal by MPs but offered to return to the negotiating table if parliament forces Theresa May to shift her red lines. The motivations of the

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本期内容: USPresidentDonaldTrumphassetoutnewplansonhisMexicanwallprojecttotrytoendapartialgovernmentshutdownlastingmorethanfourweeks.Oneofhiscompromiseswasonso-calledDreamerswhoenteredtheUSillegallywhenyoung.Hestillwants$5.7bn(4.5bn)tofundthewa

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本期内容: The growing concentration of the world's wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet's population. In an annu

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本期内容: HarshwordsovershadowedtheloomingBrexittalks.AfterBritainwascriticizedforanunrealisticandill-informedapproach,TheresaMayaccusedEuropeanfiguresofinterferinginthegeneralelectiononJune8th.HerConservativesdidwellinlocalelections,mostlyatth

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

本期内容: PhilipHammond,Britainschancelloroftheexchequer,gavethegovernmentsfirstdetailedbudgetannouncementsincetheBrexitvoteinJune.HeconfirmedforecastsofreducedGDPgrowthoverthenexttwoyears.Netgovernmentborrowing,whichintheMarchbudgetwasexpected

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