Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa
A nearly extinct Aboriginal language spoken in the New South Wales region of Australia.

On National Geographic Channel's Taiwan to the World 2, we take a look at some of the exciting things that are going on right here on our island. First, step inside the secret world of the great kung fu1 masters of Taiwan. Then, find out how Taiwanes

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤生活英语

This 'Swan Song' Is My 'Last Hurrah' Now, the Special English program Words and Their Stories. The white swan, with its long, graceful neck, is among the most beautiful of birds. The swan is mostly silent through its life. It floats quietly on the wa

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Once there were two friends Kanakaksha the owl and Sumitra the swan. Sumitra was the king of the swans. But Kanakaksha was an ordinary owl. He was afraid to let Sumitra know that he was a poor owl. So he told Sumitra that he was also a king and also

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小短文

Words and Their Stories: Swan Song 词汇典故:天鹅之歌 Now, the Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. 现在是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 (MUSIC) The white swan with its long, graceful neck is among the most beau

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发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 中式口语纠错

Kwanzaa is a week-long holiday that is celebrated around the world. It takes place between December the 26th and January the 1st every year. The holiday celebrates African culture and history. Kwanzaa started in 1966 in the U.S.A. It was the first ho

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

I bet if you have downloaded this podcast, you are wondering what on earth it is about. I know, the title is curious. Well, let me tell you. I'm in the city of Yakima at the moment, writing for you from a lounge chair, next to a pool, at the Oxford I

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

Long time ago, there lived a King. He was lazy and liked all the comforts of life. He never carried out his duties as a King. Our King does not take care of our needs. He also ignores the affairs of his kingdom. The people complained. One day, the Ki

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英汉幽默故事选读

By Steve Schy Turin 12 February 2006 American figure skater Michelle Kwan's quest for an Olympic gold medal has come to an end. An injury forced the 25-year-old Californian to pull out of the Turin Ga

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(二月)

China says 3,000 Chinese tourists a day will be allowed to travel to Taiwan, a long-estranged island Beijing considers part of Chinese territory. The visits will be possible once the two sides implement regular, direct flights, weekend, next month.

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(六月)

People from several villages are said to have made it to higher ground before mud and rock engulfed their homes. Among the survivors (幸存者) found by rescue teams are 200 from Hsiaolin village, reports the Taiwan Central News Agency. However, des

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng's wartime blockbuster Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, originally a two-part series lasting four-and-a-half hours, will begin screening in the mainland in May in a condensed, 150-minu

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Members of the Taiwan delegation to the Two Sessions have welcomed president Xi Jinping's remarks about cross-strait relations. They said the president's statement demonstrated a determination to safegurad peaceful development of relations between Ta

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2016年

Taiwan has appealed for international technical assistance to help rescue more than 2,000 people stranded after Typhoon Morakot caused major mudslides. The Taiwanese authorities say they need giant cargo aircraft able to drop large earth diggers and

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Land of ancestors Some have never been to the land of their ancestors, who migrated to Brazil in the 20th century. But others, like Claudio Koboyashi, have. Until last year, the 53-year old worked in a Japanese factory. He lost his job during the glo

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十)月

The governments of China and Taiwan have agreed to allow direct commercial flights for a limited time between their territories for the first time in 55 years. The move is expected to ease tensions in one of Asia's most contentious political disputes

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

This Easter weekend vintage planes fly over Wanaka for three days. These are the warbirds. Some are old, some have been rebuilt and some are copies of old planes like the Fokker D-8 flown by the Germans in World War 1. It was called The Flying Razor

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

MELBOURNE, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Former French Open champion Li Na knocked out fourth-seeded Polish Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets to reach her third Australian Open semifinals here on Tuesday. The Chinese top player's 7-5, 6-3 victory will set h

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Czech third seed Tomas Berdych muscled out top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France here on Saturday to reach the final of the 2.1-million-U.S.-dollar China Open ATP tournament, while Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska saw off Ital

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

TAIPEI, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) - Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou pledged on Wednesday that he will work to close the island's income gap during his next term. Ma said at an economic forum that economic development is not the sole target for his administratio

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Abu Ghraib prison
accurate machine construction
active layer
actual dispense amount
after a sort
aimed at
alastrim
allow substitutions
am/qam system
axillary veins
Bacillus foetidus lactis
band coupler
bank-card
Bluemail
Bourail
business meeting
cable-operated
California Nebula
camp car
canned rotor pump
capillovirus citrus tatter leaf virus
cariogenesis
cephalin cholesterol flocculation test
Chongsok
communicating aqueduct
concentricly
corticolimbic
counter dam
Cymbopogon flexuosus
declaimants
degree of curvature
detail data
detergent action
disempire
drysaltery
dust respirator
etailer
Euglenales
federal-styles
flare head
formulates
fuggles
full scale development (fsd)
get sowed up
global decision
gods willing
Gonadylchrionic
Goredin
Hemitelia
high-speed adapter teleprinter module
hoist overwind device
information receiving station
infra
ivy-tod
j.n
jig point
laser alignment error
latasa
law of advocate
light month
limitage
limping
Mamata
metromalacoma
microphysical process
multi-circuit transformer
nociferous
octane number of gasoline
omega equation
on the threshold
organomercuric
Oud-Avereest
pan Arabism
PG-LM
polyadditions
prodegeeria javana
prompt for summary information
proto-fascist
pyridine ferrporotorphyrin
radial symmetry gradient
razaq
renormalized vertex
Schultz's test
semiconjugacies
serpell
side-striped jackals
smurfing
speech perceptions
squishlip
student's t-statistic
SV (sluice valve)
table of squares
teacher morale
Tenfidil
Tenryu
theory of constant energy of deformation
unnatural offender
uromyces dianthi
varus deformity of heel
ventrocranial
whale-line