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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(156) / 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(120) / 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(147) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语会议解析

H.E. Sheikha Lubna Khalid Sultan al Qasimi is a pioneering woman. She was born a princess of the royal family of Sharjah in the UAE and became the first woman to gain a high-ranking job in the UAE government. She was appointed Minister for Economy an

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 各国名人英文介绍

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(99) / 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(129) / 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(77) / 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(99) / 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(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

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(73) / 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(124) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

By David Gollust United Nations 22 September 2006 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in a U.N. General Assembly speech Friday, accused Russia of what he termed a gangster occupation of the disputed Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Oss

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(九月)

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(162) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Bowing to public and political pressure, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government has announced a major policy u-turn that will allow nearly 40,000 veteran Gurkha soldiers the right to settle in Britain. The tough Nepalese fighters have been a part

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(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(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(七月)

By Liam Cochrane Pokhara, Nepal 06 December 2007 A record number of young Nepalese men are applying to join the British army's Brigade of Gurkhas. With political uncertainty continuing to undermine Nepal's economy, a job with the Gurkhas is one of th

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

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(116) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语小短文

67 吹长笛的岩石雕像 DATE=7-13-2001 TITLE=AMERICAN MOSAIC #826 - Kokopeli BYLINE=Paul Thompson HOST (Start at 0'58') Almost two-thousand years ago, a Native American used a sharp rock to cut a

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 文化聚焦

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(80) / 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??

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 OMG美语
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