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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

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abnormal a.不正常的 abolish vt.废除，取消 abortion n.流产，堕胎 abrupt a. 突然的,唐突的,无礼的,不连贯的 absurd a.荒谬的，荒诞的，荒唐可笑的；不合理的 abund

剑桥分析公司还影响了非洲的选举

Cambridge Analytica Influenced African Elections The data mining company Cambridge Analytica has come under criticism recently. In the U.S., it is accused of taking information from 50 million Facebook accounts without users permission. The company t

VOA慢速英语--网络之父警告称科技巨头太强大

The inventor of the World Wide Web has warned that the worlds biggest technology companies have become too powerful and may have to be broken up. Tim Berners-Lee made the comments to reporters with the Reuters news agency. The British-born computer s

英语口语1+1:Out of the frying pan and into the fire

Out of the frying pan and into the fire 【1+1英文】 Angela:

【突破英文词汇】pan, panto -- complete 全部

panacea /ˌpnə'si:ə/ A two-week vacation is wonderful for fatigue, but will not cure baldness or improve vision. It is no panacea. -- remedy for all ills; cure-all; universal remedy ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

经济学人14:商业活动与网络安全 鬼魅之声

Business. 商业。 Businesses and cyber-security. 商业活动与网络安全。 A spook speaks. 鬼魅之声。 Its cost may be hard to count, but cybercrime has companies worried. 网络犯罪损失难料，公司企业忧心忡忡。 LIKE blooms

VOA慢速英语--Facebook Tells Users Whether Private Data Shared

Facebook says it will begin informing users as to whether their personal data may have been wrongly shared with a British research company. Beginning Monday, Facebook said users who may have had private data shared with Cambridge Analytica will recei

VOA慢速英语--立法者讨论监管Facebook的可能性

Lawmakers Raise Possibility of Regulating Facebook U.S. lawmakers have demanded that Facebook take more steps to protect the privacy of its users. Some even raised the possibility of regulating social media networks. The demands came during two days

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2006年VOA标准英语-1918 Spanish Flu Holds Clues to Future Pan

By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch Bird Flu report As the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu continues to spread from Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Europe, there have been many pred

2006年VOA标准英语-Kuwaiti Women Appear on Political Landscape Thi

By Challiss McDonough Kuwait City 28 June 2006 Kuwaiti voters will go to the polls Thursday in a historic parliamentary election. Women will be allowed to vote for the first time, and 28 women are running for office. ------------ Rola Dashti's campa

VOA标准英语2008年-French Far-Right Political Movement Struggles f

French political parties are hosting a series of meetings, in the coming weeks, to mark the new political season. That includes the National Front Party - the most popular far-right movement of any major European Union nation. Six years ago, the ant

美国习惯用语:354 frying pan

今天我们要讲的习惯用语都包括pan这个词。它最常见的意思是平底锅或者盘子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: out of the frying pan into the fire。 Frying意思是油煎或者油炸，所以frying pan就是煎东西

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Did Cambridge Analytica Do During The 2016 Election?

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump's presidential campaign paid millions of dollars to Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election. So did Texas Senator Ted Cruz's campaign. Following reports that the company improperly collected data on 50 million F

美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica May Have Obtained Data On As Many As 87M Users

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right. To another story now, a story involving the number 87 million. Facebook says that's the number of people whose information may have been improperly shared with the political data mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Th

美国有线新闻 CNN 脸谱网陷数据泄露丑闻 被指影响总统大选

In 2004, a site known then as The Facebook was launched by a student at Harvard University. AZUZ: That student, Mark Zuckerberg, is now the CEO of Facebook and he's admitting his company has made mistakes when it comes to some users' information. Her

VOA常速英语2007年-Central Asian Women Still Struggle for Politica

By Navbahor Imamova Washington 16 November 2007 In most of Central Asia women are still struggling to find their place in the political arena. Despite the Soviet legacy of gender equality, women are still underrepresented in the highest levels of gov

美国俚语:一边开车一边发短信 intexticated

今天要介绍的新词是intexticated，intexticated是什么意思呢？意思就是一边开车一边用手机发短信。为了您的生命安全，请您不要这样做。 好了，我们来看对话： How did he get in a car accident? 他是怎