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China's coastal cities attracted international traders, missionaries and adventurers for 200 years before the communist party took power in 1949. Most Westerners left soon after that, but many retain fond memories of their years in China. They are ca

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

Technology Report - How the Edsel Became 'an Edsel' This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. ANNOUNCER: Theyll know youve arrived, when you drive up in the nineteen fifty-eight Edsel -- the car thats truly new, from nameplate to taillight.

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十)月

US Hikers: Iran Held Us Because of Nationality, Not Actions Two American hikers released after 781 days in an Iranian prison are back in the United States. Appearing at a news conference in New York on Sunday, the two men criticized Iran for holding

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(九月)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

It was in the national news every day. It was on the radio. It was on TV. It was in the newspapers. It was the recall. Toyota was recalling thousands of cars. The cars had a brake problem. Sometimes the brakes didn't work properly. Some Toyota driver

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

Today were looking at various ways to say because, including due to,since, and as. Wordy Ways to Say Because First, lets disparage all the wordy ways to express the meaning because. There are quite a few: due to the fact that, owing to the fact that,

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. The grammar authorities are going to battle it out today. For they all have a different opinion about our topics: the merits of using the word for to mean because, and whether its OK to start a sentence with the word for. Now, gues

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Jocelyn Ford Banda Aceh 19 December 2006 An Acehnese woman casts her ballot at a polling station, 11 Dec 2006 The Indonesian province of Aceh this month held its first direct elections for key officials, a landmark vote intended to cement a peace

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

The man who helped Thailand survive the Asian financial crisis says reforms a decade ago have made the region's banks better able to weather the global economic downturn. Former Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda also gave his endorsement to ba

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(四月)

By Al Pessin Honolulu 27 July 2006 The effort to identify the remains of missing American troops from past wars is very technical, involving anthropology, forensic analysis, and DNA. But behind it all are thousands of families that are sometimes eag

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 24 January 2006 Few singers have had the impact of Elvis Presley. Born to poverty in rural Mississippi, he soared to stardom in the 1950s and popularized American rock a

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(一月)

The director of governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says he expects a change in approach following Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharikas election as chairman of the African Union over the weekend. Peter Clottey | Washington

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

By Deborah Block Washington, DC 07 August 2006 watch Hiroshima report The Enola Gay on display Sunday marked the 61st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. During World War II, a United States plane nicknamed the Enola Gay flew over

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(八月)

South Korea is calling its ambassador to Japan home, in the latest flare-up of a decades-old dispute. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the islands at the heart of the conflict trigger some very painful memories for Koreans. South Korean Forei

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)
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accidental prevention
Agulhas Ridge
alkoxylate
arietina
autoxidation
aye man
BOT (build-operate-transfer)
brightwood
butt log
cap spinning frame
Celosia cristata
chain of sand dunes
charge-transfer complex
Civil Rights movement
continuous-time estimation
convert into money
crusty structure
current market
dark territory
determination of wake
devulgarised
Directioners
divided ring
doorbusters
elisions
enveloping surface
execution interruption
Fairbanksite
filicane
filoma
fully-licensed
globe thistle
Gonohe
Greke
heated cleaning screen
hepatoscintiphotography
hot peppers
how-do-you-do
hydroskeletons
if ever
information systems security association
interlamellar spacing
interplane engine nacelle
janitzio
janovaite (janowaite)
Jaunay Clan
Kil'mezskiy Rayon
knock-out grate conveyer
Ldls
legal status of the Antarctica
local interference
magnetic line
make a penthouse of the eyebrows
maleylated
mccollum
micro-processors
monopia
Muldoons
multi-spool gas turbine
natural hazards
neotenia
never a dull moment
nickel screen
OEP
oligoubiquitins
one word address
opulens
PBSFCMI
penis pump
polysaccharide-k
posterior tibial artery
pseudonarrative
pull-button
rat packer
reads into
regular-grade gasoline
ring lighting
Sagami-wan
science in retailing
simulation methodology
sodium tetraphenyl boron
spiritedness
squabble over sth.
step aerobics
stripper and fatter
swearing-in
synchrotron radiation topography
Tamassoumit
tank-coil formula
task environment
tefibazumab
terms of credit
tractor mounted
trestle cable excavator
trial balancing
twin souls
two-suiter
typhus vaccination
value incollection
varnish poisoning
votf
wood tank