These Facebook posts may look legitimate but they were part of a disinformation campaign coordinated by Iranians and recently uncovered by the company.As the U.S. prepares for its midterm elections, the social network giant is working to reduce misin

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(十一月)

US Holds Elections on November 6 On Tuesday, November 6, Americans will choose hundreds of federal lawmakers and state officials. The election is called the midterm because it comes in the middle of the presidents four-year term. But even though the

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Australia is poised to overtake South Africa and the U.S. as the world's second-largest producer of gold as new mines boost output to meet a sharp rise in international demand. A giant facility south of Perth near the town of Boddington is leading th

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AS IT IS 2016-07-30 Australian Team Moves Into Athletes Village 澳大利亚代表队入住奥运村 When the Australian athletes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived last weekend for the Olympic Games, they got a surprise. 当澳大利亚的运动员上

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In 2016, Chinese investors spent 2.4 billion Australian dollars purchasing residential land in Australia, accounting for 35 percent of all Australian real estate trade, according to Knight Frank, a global real estate consultancy company. 据全球房地

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Global property developers are circling in on the latest hot property market in Australia: student housing. 全球房地产开发商正在关注澳大利亚最新的热门房地产市场:学生公寓。 As the recent fall in the Australian dollar s

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们再学几个美国政坛常用的习惯用语。第一个是:landslide。 Landslide,原来的意思是山崩、塌方,是由于大雨或者地震而导致大量的泥土石块从高处崩塌下来。这样由泥石汇成的巨流有排

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今天我们来学几个在总统大选中常会用上的词汇和习惯用语。在大选举行前,几乎隔一天就会公布一次民意调查结果,衡量那些希望得到共和党或民主党总统侯选人提名的人在选民中支持率的

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今天还是要继续讲在2000年的大选后的争持中,新闻界常用的两个习惯用语。当2000年的大选尘埃落定乔治W.布什赢得最终胜利之后,副总统戈尔虽然败阵,却落落大方地在白宫边上的副总统办公

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at recess 休息 ancillary staff 辅助教员 athletics 体育课 attendance 出勤率 career reference room 职业介绍室 elective 选修 co-opted member of school council 学校委员会增选成员 canteen 食堂,小卖部 discipline 纪律,学科 lunch pass 餐卡 locker 小橱,小

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With all but half a percent of the ballots counted from Sunday's presidential election in Russia, Kremlin candidate Dmitri Medvedev has garnered more than all of his opponents, combined. Now, Medvedev is indicating how he will share power with outgoi

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SYDNEY The Chinese authorities have formally arrested three Australian employees of the casino operator Crown Resorts who had been detained in mid-October in an investigation into the promotion of gambling in China. 悉尼中国当局已正式逮捕了

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While Australian products in China are known for being clean and green, a growing number of Chinese companies are heading Down Under to try their luck in the Australian marketplace. 随着澳大利亚的产品因清洁和绿色而在中国众所周知,

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The anti-austerity Syriza party is on course to win a decisive victory in Greece's national elections. The most recent exit poll projected Syriza to get between 36 percent and 38 per cent of the vote. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who heads the con

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今天我们要讲两个由paper发展而来的习惯用语。大家知paper是纸。Paper也可以作动词。例如在下面的习惯用语里:paper over。 Paper作动词的时候解释用纸复盖,所以paper over就是用纸遮掩什么了。

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Australian astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far a super-Earth located just 14 light years away. 澳大利亚的天文学家发现了太阳系外的一个潜在的宜居星球。这颗

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Asia: Australia and China: You cant buy trust 亚洲:澳大利亚和中国:买不了信任 A politicians blunder exposes inconsistencies in Australias attitudes. 澳大利亚一位政客的失误暴露了他们态度上的不一致。 Seldom have

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今天我们要学的词是camp。 Camp, 有阵营的意思。 Opposition camp, 反对派阵营。 Political camp, 政治派系的阵营。美国的政治版图不断发生变化。 Many Americans do not fit well within either the conservative or the

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本期内容: Opinion polls suggested that Hillary Clinton won Americas presidential debate on Sundaythe ugliest ever. The Republican nominee, who did better than expected, said Mrs Clinton had hate in her heart; she repeatedly questioned his tempe

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本期内容: Hillary Clintons doctor said the Democratic presidential nominee was healthy and fit to serve, and that the 68-year-old was recovering from the bout of non-contagious bacterial pneumonia which sparked alarm at the weekend. Donald Trum

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