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by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 跟谢孟媛学语法

1. depose /dɪˈpəʊz/ -- (literally, put down) put out of office; dethrone Did the king abdicate or was he deposed? 那个国王是自己放弃了王位还是被废的? 2. impose /imˈpəuz/ -- put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict Cleanin

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 突破英文词汇

This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series about an internal meeting to consider a proposal. As we saw in the last episode, this type of meeting can be similar to a negotiation. People with different opinions sit around the table an

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语会议解析

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Hurricane Gustav, which killed at least 22 people in Haiti, is now headed south of Cuba, but forecasters believe the storm will move north into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week and threaten a coastal area that stretches from Texas to the Florid

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 01 January 2008 Pakistani officials say elections will be delayed until February because it is impossible to hold next week's parliamentary vote on time. Election Commission Secretary-General Kanwar Dilshad told rep

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(一月)

By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

EXPLORATIONS - Global Positioning System By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special Engli

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 Explorations

Iran's state-run television station says three American tourists have been arrested after entering the country from northern Iraq without permission. The State Department is looking into the reports, as NPR's Allison Keyes reports. The three were re

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

Jamat ud Dawa, formerly Lashkar-e Taiba parading in a Pakistani city (file photo) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba or LET was for a long time considered a militant group fighting Indian rule of Kashmir. But after Chicago-based American David Headley pl

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

Greg Flakus President Bush and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Monday at Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford , Texas , where they discussed Iraq and the Middle East in general. Both leaders are backin

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(178) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(七月)

Gun-Carrying Teachers Becoming More Common in Arkansas The number of teachers carrying guns in and around schools in the American state of Arkansas is growing. One of those teachers is Dale Cresswell. He works in the Heber Springs School District, ju

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(303) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

By Erik Silk Gettysburg, PA 13 July 2006 watch Gettysburg Casino report The site of one of the most famous battles in U.S. history is now the focus of another conflict -- over a casino. This is Gettysburg, in the southern part of the U.S. state of P

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

How did they ever publish this book? Did they read it before they published it? Did they ever hear of Spell Check? He couldn't believe that they charged $70 for the book. He had circled all the errors with a red pen. So he couldn't return the book. H

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语小短文

By Joe De Capua A new initiative has been launched to strengthen the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Africa, making them better able to respond to emergencies. The local humanitarian groups ar

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点

The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare that the opposition says the only option is intervention by the Southern African Development Commun

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

OMG! Congratulations to both of you!! How did he pop the question??OMG! 祝贺你们俩啊!!他怎么求的婚啊??

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