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A gem stone plucked from the earth, the sea, or riverbed, often travels across continents to cutting and polishing workshops; and those are increasingly found in India. Far away, the Belgian city of Antwerp is still king in diamond trading. In these

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w

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Why dont you ever take me out to dinner? Ginger screamed. All my girlfriends go out to dinner with their boyfriends at least once a week. They go to nice restaurants and they have a good time. Then they call me up the next day and brag about what a n

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A woman who claims to be the mother of a militant leader says she does not know if her son is alive or dead. Abubakar Shekau is the head of the Boko Haram militant group. Boko Haram launched its campaign against Nigerias government in 2009. Nigerian

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AS IT IS 2015-02-07 Nairobis Famed Matatu Graffiti Is Back 内罗毕的著名Matatu涂鸦又回来了 For the last 10 years, the Kenyan government banned any painting on matatus --- large public taxis in the capital, Nairobi. The vehicles could only

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 22 November 2006 Reconstruction in central and southern Iraq has been hindered by the ongoing violence. But in northern Iraq's relatively calm Kurdistan region, some 2,000 South Korean troops are on a mission to help

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By Efam Dovi Accra 20 October 2006 Ghana has agreed to a U.N. request to contribute more troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The West African nation already has 700 soldiers serving in Southern Lebanon, where the security situation remains

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By Scott Stearns White House 17 February 2006 President Bush says peace in Sudan would help end attacks by Ugandan rebels based in southern Sudan. Mr. Bush also called for more troops to protect Sudan

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By Sonja Pace London 16 June 2008 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced he will send additional troops to Afghanistan to boost force levels in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida supporters. VOA's Sonja Pace has details from London. B

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Hi, I'm Patty Kim. Today we are setting our sights on India, a land of deserts and rain forests, modern cities and ancient beliefs. With over a billion people, India is the world's largest democracy, and many say it's a travelers paradise. In truth,

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: terror and renewal in West Africa. Just days ago: Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, raising fears the militants' insurgency in Nigeria could become part of an international conflict. This weekend saw a burs

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈娱乐系列

Today is the beginning of Matariki, the Maori New Year. It is the time of year when the group of stars, The Pleiades, first appears in the sky. When the new moon appears after this, it is the time to celebrate Matariki. It has two meanings: Mata Riki

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - April 18, 2002: Synopsis: 1920-1940 By David Jarmul VOICE 1: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) History usually is a proce

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The Ant and the Dove An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the strea

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By Benjamin Sand Kabul 14 March 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan Tuesday. The newly elected Canadian leader told reporters that the foreign troops

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By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 03 April 2007 In February, U.S. and Iraqi troops began new security operations in Baghdad to bring spiraling sectarian violence under control. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports that in one district of the capital, joint U.S.

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 April 2007 Officials in the breakaway republic of Somaliland say their forces clashed with troops from the semi-autonomous Puntland region earlier this week over a disputed strip of desert that has been the source of violence

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出去旅行是很多人都喜欢的事情,不过在出行风格上不同的群体风格有所差异。学生族、工薪族可能会选择结伴穷游,处于人生黄金收入期的中年精英人士则可能会选择高端定制游。 Globizen

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MADRID, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Luis Milla, coach of the Spanish football team for the London Olympic Games, named his 22-man preliminary squad for the quadrennial games on Tuesday. The list includes Jordi Alba, Juan Mata and Javi Martinez who formed part

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E-commerce in South-East Asia 东南亚电商 Home-field advantage 本土优势 The global online-shopping giants may not find it easy to conquer the region 全球的电商巨人可能都难以征服这一地区 TROPICAL rain pounds on the roof of a

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Acanthopanax trifoliatus
amebic pneumonia
annual assay
aqcuire
bad-press
bathymasterid
bedblockers
betsy rosses
biogeochemical provinces
Bischheim
blockglide
bourgueticrinid
capacitor pick-up
Clatonia
coaries
community-gardening
complicated dependence
computational length
concentrator station
cross crack
demonomagy
diallyldisulfide
dimethyltransferase
disk feeder
dispute resolutions
doublelock
drop-off interval
Duche
energizingly
ensorcel(l)ment
enterprise management level
evaporograph cell
foremake
gasoline gravity
gestural movement
gll. sudorifer? axillares
gyroscopic stabilizer
Haemachromatosis
hysterical hiccup
Ileret
itemization
Jasminum attenuatum
ketene process
lansol
liquid scintillator detector
lumped input
medilateral fissure
mental epidemic
mishikamau l.
molephantin
monotonically increasing function
mortality curve
Moshenka
moves out
muntah
nanocephaly
National Physical Laboratory
new hampshire chicken
ngunis
night-timest
noranda
order statistic
outlets capacity
pay-or-die
payment clause
photo-FET
pilfery
piss-take
poly-disc tiller
pomatorhine skua
prefermentor
Primary trend
program paging behavior
qajaq
radiant ceiling
real goal
regular holohedry
resonant-reed tachometer
Reston, James Barrett
result state
rukun
saints'day
seawater cooling system
secondary electron conduction
serrated root
shadow banking system
shellbark
ship detained
shuttleless
South Yemen
spatial arrangement of marine resource exploitation
Spharomagnesit
spin coating
suprameatal triangle
to-fleet
trifluoroacetylacetone
Truncus inferior
Vaccinium hancockiae
Venetian blind multiplier
veyron
wild angelica
Y-type