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J.R.R. Tolkien and A Legend He Created Tolkien's grand themes would play out in the world of Middle Earth. It was a world created in his head but 1) imbued with his two greatest loves -- languages and

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

AILSA CHANG, HOST: To Middle Earth - that's where author J. R. R. Tolkien transported readers in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings to follow the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and this creature? (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE

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The Lord of the Rings author was JRR Tolkien. He was a Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University in England. He died in 1973, aged 81. He signed the movie rights to a company in Hollywood in 1969. This included rights to sell

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By Paul Burge London 26 June 2007 The most expensive stage show ever has opened in London's West End. Transformed from page to screen and now the stage, J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy The Lord of the Rings opened (Tuesday, June 19th) at the British

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

By Franz Wild Abidjan 23 May 2006 As Ivory Coast prepares to play in its first football World Cup, many in the war-divided country are pinning their hopes of peace on the sport. Politicians recently o

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Parents want their children to read Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' more than any other book during their lifetime. A survey by the University of Worcester discovered one in five parents wanted their children to experience the Victorian

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

A court in the Ivory Coast has sentenced two men to prison terms for dumping toxic waste that killed 17 people two years ago in Abidjan. But activists are criticizing the case because the trading company that transported the waste was not prosecuted

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

A group of Darfurian refugees who recently fled the war in Sudan have gathered across the border in the northern Central African Republic. But rather than living in a displacement camp as is usually the case for refugees, they live on their own, in

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Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro (R) and President Laurent Gbagbo (L), 15 September 2009 (file photo) Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro is expected to announce a new government this week, and Ivorian opposition leaders continue to call for t

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

By Nico Colombant Abidjan 06 June 2006 Days before their football team's first-ever game in the World Cup, many Ivorian fans are still waiting for visas to support their side in Germany. -------------

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 28 November 2007 Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has embarked on a planned multi-city three-day trip to the rebel-held north in Ivory Coast, following an agreement with rebel leader turned Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to hol

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

By Phillip Wellman Dakar 19 September 2007 United Nations peacekeepers and French rapid reaction forces are gradually pulling back from front lines of the Ivory Coast conflict, giving more of a role to Ivorian forces, five years after the conflict be

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By Phillip Wellman Dakar 16 September 2007 Efforts to reunite war-divided Ivory Coast have been fraught with difficulty, but some say the Ivorian band Magic System has been able to bring people together in a way politicians have not. The band is mark

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By Nico Colombant Dakar 12 June 2007 Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore traveled to Yamoussoukro, the capital of Ivory Coast, Tuesday to assess a March peace deal he brokered with northern rebels, opposition leaders and President Laurent Gbagbo.

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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Many Hobbit fans were excited or worried when Peter Jackson announced Monday that he will stretch the originally planned two-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy-adventure The Hobbit into a trilogy, some

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

俚语: 小傻瓜,小笨蛋 英语中有关傻瓜的表达大有泛滥之嫌,不过用时可要小心,弄不好有时会得罪人的!比如,之前我们讲过的dumbbell和chowderhead,其侮辱意味较浓,因此不能随便用在朋友身

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The UN Children's Fund warns thousands of Ivorian refugees(难民,逃难者), who have fled to Liberia, are threatened by disease outbreaks. UNICEF says cramped living conditions are increasing health and protection risks for children and women.

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Today we meet the English word folly, and we visit a strange old building and an art exhibition. Lets start with the word folly. I guess you know what foolish means. If someone is foolish, he or she does stupid or unwise things. We can call such a pe

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

By Anne Look Dakar 13 October 2009 Former Ivorian prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara declared his candidacy for the country's long-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled for November. Former Ivorian prime minister Alassane Ouattara (fil

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

Are you less than 170cm tall? Do you have hairy feet and toes? You do? Then there may be a job for you. Let me explain. You have probably heard of the writer JRR Tolkien. He wrote the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and a number of other books. His boo

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
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airpath
all the harder
analog-to-digital programmed control
ballistic pendulum
beau geste
best linear unbiased estimate
budget-makings
carinations
castelluccio inferiore
caulking strip
centre grinder attachment
certainest
clef
Combomune
computerized axial tomography scanner
cone-nose bug
course title
cradle scaffold
daolatabad (dowlatabad)
debonairness
dental periostitis
die-casting squirrel cage
discounted benefit/cost ratio
discover the hard way
draught tube bend
false activation
FE compound
finality of verdict
flour purity
foam powder
forhide
formal advertising
fsf
gas thermometer equation
goods forbidden from import
grain elevators
graphitepipe
gutturalising
hold your breath
hypocarps
i-bid
insert ear
iscd
it appears that
japanning works
jew-hatred
judah-ites
keyshie
label cargo
lenticular bone
liberal-national
lick ... wounds
loadbearings
local legislation
lost policy holder
luminescence microscope
Marconi-man
McConnell Air Force Base
merergastic
monochlorophenol
Nai Ga
negrofy
net profit theory
nigrin
noiray
nominal performance
non-westerner
nonserialized
nozzle pressure ratio
Nyabéssan
Oluku
paludification
pastes
pinus parryanas
plain statement
postallantoic
Protopinus
quotiety
recovery quotient
red bridge washer valve
remote-controlled drier
restart start cell
Rickettsia bovis
run off rails
Santiago de Machaca
seegh
silver fluorotrioxophosphate
skinnys
spin magnetic quantum number
Strategic Air Command photograph network
stress peak
Syklandol
tape automatic checkout equipment
thiermann
tragedious
unthreading end
volumetric filling machine
waist rib
water proof switch
westgreen
worm-eater
Yentreve