10.The Trial That Rocked the World John Scopes A buzz ran through the crowd as I took my place in the packed court on that sweltering July day in 1925. The counsel for my defence was the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow. Leading counsel for the

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AS IT IS 2015-09-29 Kenyan Court Orders Teachers Back to School 肯尼亚法院命令老师结束罢工返回学校 A court in Kenya ruled Friday that the country's public school teachers must return to the classroom this week. 周五,肯尼亚一座

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必背句型: A:The case has been stood over to next week. 案子的审理被推迟到下个星期进行。 B:Why was it like this? 为什么会这样? The case has been put off to next week. 案子的审理被推迟到下个星期进行。 The mee

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必背句型: A:They all stood up when the judges entered the courtroom. 当法官进入法庭时他们全部起立。 B:Yes,they must do. 是的,他们必须这么做。 They all stood up when the judges came into the courtroom. 当法官进入法庭

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Annulling a Marriage Courtney: Did you hear? Kate and Christopher are trying to annul their marriage. Ray: What?! Theyve only been married for two months! What brought this on? Courtney: I have no idea. Neither of them is underage or bigamists and th

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今天我们要学的词组是subpoena。 Subpoena的意思是传审、以传票传唤,要求某人在某个时间和地点就某个案件作证。法庭可以传唤证人, subpoena a witness. 美国国会也有权传唤美国官员。 比如参议

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Ukraine Takes Important Steps Against Corruption Despite the significant progress Ukraine has made on reforms since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, corruption remains a fact of everyday life in Ukraine. As Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said

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Indias lower house of parliament has passed a much awaited anti-rape law. It comes after a huge public outcry over the treatment of women in the country, triggered by the rape and murder of a student in New Delhi. 印度下议院已经通过了一部被

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1. Republican Newt Gingrich is not running for president. A spokesman for the former House Speaker says Gingrich will continue as head of American Solutions, a tax-exempt committee and a lucrative avenue for his writing, pundit and consulting work. 2

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Republican officials say Idaho Senator Larry Craig will resign from the Senate because of the controversy over his arrest and guilty plea in a men's room sex sting . Craig is expected to make his official announcement Saturday during a press conferen

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Shakin Stevens(希金斯.史蒂文斯)演绎的because i love you是第58届奥斯卡最佳影片走出非洲(OUT OF AFRICA)的主题曲。 if i got down on my knees i'm pleaded with you if i cross a million oceans just to be with you. would you ever

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Again, would your lordship a moment suppose 你的贵族身份,但愿再度认定, 'T is a case that has happened, and may happen again 已发生的实例,可能还会再现, That the visage or countenance had not a Nose, 容貌或是面孔,若

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今天我们要学的词组是plead。 Plead的意思是辩护,抗辩。Plead for就是请求、恳求的意思。美国著名黑人律师Thurgood Marshall 1954年在美国最高法院辩论说, 美国学校的种族隔离政策是非法的。 He

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At the sound, two large Mastiffs appeared, dressed in Carabineers' uniforms. 听到声音,马上来了两只身穿火枪队制服的獒犬。 Then the magistrate, pointing to Pinocchio, said in a very solemn voice: 然后法官指着皮诺乔,用庄

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As he did so, he heard a hearty burst of laughter close to his head. 正在这时,他听到自己的头上方突然传来大笑声。 He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his feat

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UN to Review Cambodia ' s Tribunal Law Breck Ardery United Nations 11 Aug 2001 09:53 UTC United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the world organization must carefully review a new Cambodian l

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A computer 'judge' has been developed which can correctly predict verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights with 79 percent accuracy. 科学家们研发出一台电脑法官,它可以正确预测欧洲人权法庭的判决结果,准确率达

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Forensic experts are using DNA matching to identify bodies from the Eastern Star ship disaster. As of Thursday morning, 342 bodies had been identified, but the forensic experts work is far from a simple process. One hundred and seventy specialized me

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Security forces in Tunisia have been fighting a gun battle with suspected members of the presidential guard at the presidential palace, several kilometres north of the capital Tunis. The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi told national televi

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模仿句子: And so I think this particular decision might not have a huge impact than on itself, but I think as part of a broader movement it is starting to see as a shift in the balance. 翻译: 我觉得这个判决可能本身的影响并不大

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