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The liberation of Mosul is a critical milestone in the global fight against ISIS. This victory, and every significant victory of the campaign, was achieved with the support of the 73-member nation Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and with Iraqi Secur

VOA常速英语2017--美国呼吁加快剿灭IS的步伐

The campaign against ISIS has dramatically accelerated over the past six months. Since 2014, when ISIS was at the height of its power, the group has lost about 78 percent of the territory it used to hold in Iraq, and about 58 percent of the territory

VOA标准英语2017--美媒：IS时日无多

In 2014, although no one knew it at the time, ISIS had reached its high point. In June of that year, said Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS Brett McGurk, Mosul, a city of nearly 2 million people, fell to ISIS; and it

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-09-07

Good morning. The New South Wales State Opposition is pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into allegations for the tape made by murdered businessman Michael McGurk implicates Labor MPs in a bribery scandal. However, former ALP powerbroker Graham Rich

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-01-08

The US President Barack Obama has taken responsibility for the foiled Christmas Day plane bombing, saying the buck stops with him. Security reviews into the attempted attack are now complete. Mr. Obama says the incident wasn't the fault of a single i

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

AS IT IS 2016-05-18 IS Delivers More Deadly Bombings in Iraq

AS IT IS 2016-05-18 IS Delivers More Deadly Bombings in Iraq Islamic State militants are again using bombs to attack Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. A number of bombings struck markets across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday. At least 68 people were kil

美国特种部队将“很快”部署到叙利亚

AS IT IS 2015-11-25 US Special Forces to Deploy to Syria 'Soon' 美国特种部队将很快部署到叙利亚 American Special Forces will deploy to Syria soon, says the U.S. representative to the nations fighting Islamic State. Brett McGurk, the rep

英语小达人 188 The Effect of Advertisement

The Effect of Advertisement 广告的效果 Some businessmen were talking about advertising on TV excitedly. As none of them had ever done it before, every one had his point of view. At this moment, Mr. Grey came by. He was a car dealer and he had on

2007年VOA标准英语-Kabul Beauty School Book – How Close to Reality

By George Dwyer Washington 11 June 2007 A new book set in Afghanistan and based on a true story is selling so well in the United States that Hollywood now wants bring it to the big screen. But as VOA's George Dwyer reports, some of the participants i

每日一词【619】ripple effect：连锁反应

今天我们要学的词是ripple effect。 Ripple effect, 连锁反应。 The shutdown of the local mine had ripple effects on the entire community, 当地这家煤矿的关门，在整个社区引起了连锁反应。 美国汽车业界人士警告说

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

零基础学英语：affect & effect词汇辨析

Affect and effect are different in meaning, though frequently confused. Affect is chiefly used as a verb and its main meaning is to influence or make a difference to, as in the following example sentences: Affect一般用作动词，其含义为：影响

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

中考英语热点作文：温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Medicine prices at public clinics have been notably reduced thanks to a policy that promotes basic medicine, an office of the State Council said Thursday. Current price levels of basic medicine used by government-funded t