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【句子对照】 I've heard that Greedie Corporation is a terrible place to work, because the company is filled with back stabbers and liars. 我听说在格利迪公司工作简直让人无法忍受,因为公司里的人不是背后说别人的坏话,就是说谎。 【关键俚语】 Back stabbe

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 俚语口头禅

Ohhhohhhh Yeah Ooooh Oohohh Remember we'd be up all night Talking 'til the morning light, yeah Like the way it used to be Those simple days Just you and me, mmmm I think baby I know What's on your mind Cuz you look like you've Got something to say I

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THIS IS AMERICA - Rahm Emanuel Gets Ready for New Job as Mayor of Chicago BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. FAITH LAPIDUS: And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week on our program we look at the interesting politi

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Meeting 见面 Mame Thurber, the mother of humorist James Thurber, was a renowned practical joker. In her 60s, she went to visit a friend she had not seen for 30 years. The plan was for Mrs. Thurber to wear a red rose so that the friend could identif

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注释: commission [kE5miFEn] n. 委员会 session [5seFEn] n. 会议 sitting [5sitiN] adj. 在任期中的 investigatory [In5vestI^eItErI] adj. 研究的,好研究的 Congress [5kCN^res] n.(美国

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- When the sun withdrew its last drop of sunshine on Tuesday, the ancient Stonehenge was transformed into a carnivalesque fire garden to mark the London 2012 Olympics. Lit up with fire sculpture, the megalithic monuments wer

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Author James Thurber depended on words for entertainment. 作家詹姆士.瑟伯用词来消遣。 He told me once about a trick he played on a nurse during one of his hospital stays. He asked her what a seven-letter word had three Us in it. She thou

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Bob Beamon established himself as the favourite in the 1968 long jump by winning 22 of 23 meets in the pre-Olympic season. He almost met with disaster in the qualifying round. After fouling his first two attempts, he had only one try left. His teamma

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An October SunriseI was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over th

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

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AS IT IS 2015-03-24 Landmark to Close as Camp David Hosts Afghan Meeting 戴维营举办的阿富汗会议或达里程碑协议 Since the 1950s, American presidents have been going to Camp David in the mountains of Maryland, just outside Washington,

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Ukraine and Russia are expressing concern about their image as reliable gas suppliers amid growing gas shortages in Europe, for which Moscow and Kyiv are blaming each other. European officials warn of a crisis across region as a dispute between Russ

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By Edward Yeranian Cairo 28 October 2009 Iranian technicians work at a facility near Isfahan, south of Tehran, that produces uranium fuel for a heavy-water nuclear reactor (File) Iran's official Arabic-language al Alam TV is reporting Iran's parliam

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'Atlas Obscura' Tour Of Manhattan Finds Hidden Wonders In A Well-Trodden Place play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0007:34repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or upd

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Friends and neighbors, a new movie is making its way to your town from The Rock - Dwayne Johnson, former pro wrestler, current action movie superstar. It's called Skyscraper. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SKYSCRAPER) DWAYNE JOHNSON: (As

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VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(243) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年慢速英语(三)月

TUNIS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Tunisian interim(临时的) government, born on Monday, is expected to convene its first meeting Thursday, amid protests against the make-up of the national unity cabinet, state TV reported Wednesday. The meeting, t

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By Paula Wolfson Bucharest 02 April 2008 NATO leaders have devised a plan to bolster alliance forces in parts of Afghanistan where the threat of combat is high. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports it was one of the first signs of consensus to emerge from the

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

True Dedication! 好投入啊! Mrs. Fortesque was getting more and more worried. 福特斯克太太越来越担心。 Her husband had left for a round of golf early in the morning and by mid-afternoon he still wasn't home. 因为她先生一早出去打

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It was a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite season when partridges are still in security or cold storage, and there is nothing to hunt--unless one is bounded on the north by the Bristol Channel, in which case one may l

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