On August 4, explosives aboard two drones flying near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as he spoke in Caracas were detonated. Seven people were injured. Maduro has used the incident as a pretext to crack down on Venezuela's opposition by unleashin

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(八月)

The United States has recently been made aware of new reports of the Congolese government and militias engaging in horrific human rights violations and abuses in the Kasai regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. The latest report acc

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U.S. officials have condemned the bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia, that has left at leastfourteen people dead and scores injured. 美国多位官员对俄罗斯圣彼得堡发生的爆炸事件表示谴责,这次爆炸事件导致至少14人死亡,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(四月)

There's been another mass shooting in the United States. This time, three people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a municipal council meeting in a small community in the east coast state of Pennsylvania. Three others are also said to be in crit

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Lesson 59 Toms Demise 汤姆的死 Words: deck n. 一副(纸牌) declaim v. 高谈阔论,慷慨陈词 declaration n. 宣布,宣言 declare vt. 宣布,声明 decline vi./n. 衰退,下降,减退;vt. 婉言谢绝 decompose v. 分解,(使)腐烂 decomposition n. 腐烂,分解 decorat

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Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sinsby Craig DuncanMarch 2005: its official vice pays. And its not even illegal. This month the Financial Times examined the spectacular growth of The Vice Fund, a Texas-based investment company which encourages

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 英文杂志-Magazine

Late last year, the Environmental Investigation Agency, in Washington DC, said Yahoo Japan had auctioned more than 12 tonnes of ivory products, including whole elephant tusks, in 2012-14. 据位于华盛顿的一家环境调查机构去年底的报告称

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By David Gollust The United States Tuesday condemned what it said is a campaign of political violence in Haiti by supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that is complicating flood-disas

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点

歌曲:Justin Bieber-One Time If Justin Bieber were Michelle Obama's son, she would pull him close, the first lady toldUnivision in an interview Friday (Feb. 7). 如果贾斯汀-比伯是第一夫人米歇尔-奥巴马的儿子,那她就会把他拉

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AS IT IS 2013-10-16 Amnesty Condemns School Attacks in Nigeria 人权组织谴责武装分子袭击尼日利亚学校 Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Bob Doughty. Today we have two reports from Africa. We hear about claims

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Obama Condemns US Journalist's Execution 奥巴马谴责斩首美国记者行为 President Barack Obama has condemned the Islamic State militants who killed an American reporter and threatened to kill another one. The militants executed James Foley a

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AS IT IS 2016-07-01 Activists Critical of Latest Human Trafficking Report 激进分子谴责最新的人口贩运报告 Activists are voicing concerns about a new United States government report on human trafficking. 美国政府对贩卖人口进行了

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US Criticized by All Sides in Egypt On the streets of Cairo many are angry over Washington's inaction as to whether the military's ouster of President Mohamed Morsi was a coup - an important legal distinction that would affect U.S. aid to the country

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BBC news with Johnathan Izard. President Obama has criticized the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for modelling his policies on the Russian president Vladimir Putin and showering praise on him. Mr. Obama said this was unprecedented in

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

Chapter 36 Secession,1860-1861 第36章 南部各州脱离联邦(1860~1861年) 369. The Republican Nomination, 1860. 369.共和党的提名(1860年) Four names were especially mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination for Presi

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生历史

The Ugandan parliament has banned the controversial practice known as female genital mutilation, or FGM. The traditional rite - which critics decry as inhumane - is still carried out across much of the region. Alan Boswell | Nairobi 11 December 2009

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Leaving services at Charlottesville's African Methodist Episcopal Church this morning, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe had a clear message for the white nationalist protesters. Tell white supremacists, tell the neo-Nazis, tell the KKK, tell 'em all, We

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An emergency UN Security Council meeting was held on Wednesday, as tensions intensified over Israel's announcement to build some 1,000 new settlement units in it occupied East Jerusalem, the part of the city Palestinians demand for their future state

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今天我们要学的词是denounce。Denounce,意思是声讨,谴责。U.S President Donald Trump denounced the whites supremacists who staged the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th. 美国总统川普谴责制造了8月12日

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由于新gre考试新增句子填空更多的考单词的用法和精确含义,所以也不能忽视gre词汇的备考,虽然减少了对单词纯意义的考察,更加注重实际运用语言能力,但gre词汇仍是整个考试中的基础也

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