Russia Must Fix Crisis it Caused in Ukraine On February 27th, 2014, Russian military forces, wearing masks and no military insignia, infiltrated Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and proceeded to capture strategic s

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(六月)

In eastern Aleppo, Syrian government forces backed by Russia are gaining ground. Victory here for President Bashar al-Assad may force a change of strategy by Western governments. 在阿勒波东部,有俄罗斯部队支持的叙利亚政府军取得了

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很感人的故事山顶之上,丈夫一脚踏空,霎那间,蹲在地上拍摄风景的妻子一口咬住丈夫的上衣,同时,她也被惯性带向崖边。紧要关头,她抱住了一棵树,并坚持着,咬紧牙关 一个小时后,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

叙利亚危机中伊朗保持低调 Syrias main ally, Russia, has taken on a central role in the effort to get President Bashar al-Assad to give up his chemical weapons. But his key regional ally, Iran, has kept a lower profile. Experts say the Syri

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Mail's here. Let's see. 邮件到啦,来看看有什么 Mom, you got a new Zoobook. 妈,新一期的《动物园那些事儿》 Ooh, it's the penguin one. 喔,这期是讲企鹅的 Looks like you boys got a package. 你们有一个包裹 It's f

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Its time for these men to get ready for work, and work means hanging off a cliff at 10,000 feet. High in the Austrian Alps, these men are trying to rescue a historic weather station from the weather itself. It was a couple of years ago, we saw this

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Books and Arts 《图书和艺术》版块 Johnson: Lost without translation 约翰逊:因没有翻译而错失 Language problems bedevil the international response to crises 语言问题困扰着国际社会对危机的反应 Sitting on a muddy fl

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Tornillo, Texas: A Small US Town and a Big Crisis Tornillo, Texas, is a small farming community in the southwestern United States. It sits along the Mexican border, a short drive from the city of El Paso in West Texas. A month ago, the federal govern

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Over the past two decades, much of East Africa has suffered through recurrent droughts resulting in failed crops, dying cattle and escalating food prices. The result is hunger, undernutrition and suffering for millions of people. 过去二十年,东非

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在这个激烈而有趣的演讲中,纽约时报食品专栏的作家马克比特曼讨论了在我们现在饮食中存在的问题(太多的肉类,太少的植物;太多的快餐,太少的家庭烹饪)和为什么我们的饮食习惯会

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经济学这门忧郁科学在这场乐观的讲演中大放异彩. 经济学家Alex Tabarrok认为自由贸易和全球化正把曾经分裂的世界塑造成一个共享创新的社会, 这个社会的未来会比任何人的预测都更加健康,幸

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Screwing up is part of life. Even great geniuses make mistakes. When you do screw up, however, what's important isn't the screwup (that's history) but what you do afterward. Here's a step-by-step approach: 生活中总有时候我们会把事情搞砸,

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[全屏观看] 点击右键- 另存为 可保存这个Flash影片 作品简介 : 你是一个画师,也是一个巫师,你的部落遭到外来魔法师的攻击,你让箭士们把箭头蘸上魔法颜色,然后指挥他们在空中画出符咒

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Number two, there's power in promiscuous thinking. 第二,胡思乱想的力量 Another striking similarity among good problem-solvers is that they're all pragmatists. 另一个好的问题解决者的显着相似点是他们都是实用主义者 T

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The proof? When Pena was sworn in, the pact held, 证据呢?当培尼亚宣誓就职时,协议也签订了 and Mexico moved forward for the first time in years. Bueno. 而墨西哥也在这么多年来第一次朝前发展。非常好 So now we'v

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Science and Technology 科技 Rare earths and climate change 稀土与气候变化 In a hole? 陷入了危机? Demand for some rare-earth elements could rapidly outstrip supply 某些稀土元素可能很快会供不应求 MANY plans for reducing t

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奥巴马默克尔通过电话讨论乌克兰危机 WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday urged Russia to form a contact group that will lead to direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russ

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In addition, the illegal fur and pet trades have made this wildcat a near-threatened species. 此外,非法的毛皮买卖和宠物交易使这种山猫有绝种的危机。 学习重点: 1.illegal 非法的 illegal (adj.) 非法的 legal (adj.) 合

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Experts say Iceland's strong sense of community has solidified its so-called happiness maintenance, which is a consistently high happiness rate even when the country is in crisis. 专家表示,冰岛人强烈的社会意识巩固了当地所谓的幸

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LONDON, Aug. 27, (Xinhua) -- Britain's armed forces are working on contingency plans for military action as a response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, media quoted Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman as saying Tuesday. Claiming unaccept

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