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(67) / 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(142) / 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Intense debate on two controversial security bills continues in Japan's parliament. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pushed the bills that would allow Japanese forces to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two. But the country's legislative

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes visit to the Yasukuni shrine has drawn much criticism from South Korea. Seoul has gone so far as to call off a series of defense meetings and military exchanges with Japan scheduled for early next year. Deputy defe

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本期内容: G7 leaders meeting in Japan warned that Brexit could harm the world economy and promised more forceful (but unspecified) measures to boost growth. Barack Obama laid a wreath at Hiroshima and decried nuclear weapons, without apologizin

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JUDY WOODRUFF: This week's chemical attack in Northern Syria has now claimed 75 lives, and it may trigger a shift in U.S. policy. The president today voiced his outrage and threatened a tougher approach. John Yang begins our coverage. PRESIDENT DONAL

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