2016年ESL之旅行交通购物 03 Smuggling Across Borders

ESL Podcast 1185 Smuggling Across Borders Christina: What is the holdup? There are cars backed up for half a mile. Harry: I bet the border patrol is looking for smugglers. Christina: Do you really think so? I wonder if there could be a drug mule in o

Mineral Smuggling Losses Said to Cost

By David Lewis A natural resources watchdog group issued a report Tuesday warning that smuggling and corruption are costing the Democratic Republic of Congo millions of dollars a month in lost revenue

2006年VOA标准英语-Israel: Palestinians Smuggling Improved Ro

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 April 2006 Israel says it is facing a new strategic threat from the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip, because of the smuggling of improved weapons across the Egyptian border.

VOA标准英语2012--Smuggling Tunnels Become Lifelines for Impoverished Gaza

Smuggling Tunnels Become Lifelines for Impoverished Gaza One of Gaza's major economic lifelines is a smuggling tunnel, 20 meters underground, stretching some 200 meters from Gaza into Egypt. It is used primarily to smuggle cement and gravel and some

West African Diamond Smuggling Traced to Terror Financing

By Leah Krakinowski Diamond smuggling in West Africa has become a steady, almost untraceable source of funding for U.S.-listed terror groups like al-Qaida and Hezbollah, according to information disco

Cocaine chicken

BBC Learning English 6 Minute English 6 September 2012 Cocaine chicken 6 Minute English ? British Broadcasting Corporation 2012 Page 1 of 4 bbclearningenglish.com Jennifer: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Jennifer

与buck相关的英语日常口语

1. big bucks=a lot of money 比如：He owed me big bucks. 他欠我很多钱。 2. make a fast buck：一下子赚得一笔钱（通常指不义之财） He made a fast buck by smuggling. 他通过走私一下子挣了不少钱。 3. feel/look a mil

2007年VOA标准英语-UN: More Than 100 Drowned in Smuggling Incident

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 February 2007 The U.N. refugee agency has raised to 107 the number of people who died trying to reach Yemen earlier this week. Their bodies have been found along a remote stretch of the Yemen coastline. Several people are s

VOA标准英语2008年-Refugees Could Be Victims of New Smuggling Ring

The U.N. refugee agency says it is concerned that new, smuggling rings taking advantage of refugees may be developing in eastern Sudan. It says 21 refugees from Eritrea and Somalia are feared to have drowned recently when their overloaded boat capsi

VOA标准英语2009年-Israel Pounds Gaza Smuggling Tunnels After More

Israeli warplanes have attacked smuggling tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, after militants in Gaza fired at least two rockets into southern Israel. The tit-for-tat violence is further complicating prospects to draft a truce between Israel a

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Says People Smuggling Across Gulf of Aden Do

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this year. At the same time,

2006年VOA标准英语-UN Warns of Rapid Rise in Drug Smuggling b

By Ron Corben Bangkok 01 March 2006 A United Nations international drug report says the world is facing an increase in the smuggling of both illegal and legal drugs through the international mail syst

中国加强打击成品油走私

China has conducted a nationwide campaign to crack down on refined oil smuggling. As of Friday, more than two thousand marine police, anti-smuggling police and armed policemen in eight cities have captured more than 250 suspects and seized 440-thousa

2007年VOA标准英语-Two British Girls Face Drug Smuggling Charges i

By Selah Hennessy Dakar 13 July 2007 Two British teenagers have been provisionally charged with drug possession and drug trafficking in Ghana. Experts say Europeans, as well as pregnant women and minors, are increasingly being used by traffickers to

Smuggling kingpin sentenced to life imprisonment

XIAMEN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Lai Changxing, the kingpin of a notorious smuggling ring, was sentenced to life imprisonment Friday for smuggling and bribery, the Intermediate People's Court of Xiamen said.

VOA标准英语2009年-Scores of Smuggling Victims Dead or Missin

The U.N. refugee agency says 65 people are dead or missing and presumed dead in three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the Gulf of Aden during the past 48 hours. Somalia and Gulf of Aden These tragic events are just the latest in a lo

英闻天下——107 Crackdown on Courier Smuggling in Shenzhen & HK

More than 600 police and customs officers from Shenzhen and Hong Kong participated in the operation on January 5th. Fu Zhihua, is the commanding officer of one of the teams of Shenzhen customs officers. In our search of suspect Yang Junhao's storage

金球奖获奖感言不够“得体” 抖森发贴道歉

Actor Tom Hiddleston has apologised for his much-criticised acceptance speech at the Golden Globe awards, admitting it was inelegantly expressed. 演员汤姆希德勒斯顿（抖森）在金球奖发表的获奖感言饱受争议，他为此道歉，承

VOA常速英语2008年-Study: Cigarette Smuggling Causing Public Healt

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 February 2008 Anti-tobacco campaigners negotiating a treaty to combat the illicit tobacco trade say cigarette smuggling is big business throughout the African continent and is resulting in serious health problems. Lisa Schle

英语听书《白鲸记》第780期

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, 美洲在一四九二年不就是一条无主鲸， in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and mistress? 后来经过哥伦布把西班牙旗降了下来，为他