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A 60m squid fishing boat hit rocks early this morning near Stewart Island in rough seas. Some oil started to spill from the boat. There was concern that the oil could spread to a marine reserve not too far away. Yellow-eyed penguin live in this reser

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

A year ago today, the ship, the Rena, hit a reef in Tauranga harbour. The result was a disaster for the harbour, the beach, sea birds, exporters and local businesses. It probably destroyed the career of the captain and navigator also. They served thr

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

The number of foreign-born players in America's professional National Basketball Association has tripled in the past two decades. One of the veterans - San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker - and a rookie - Washington Wizards' Hamady Ndiaye - talk about the

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(二月)

Rachel Smalley | London 21 December 2009 One of the exhibits at the Victoria and Albert Museum London's Victoria and Albert Museum claims to be the world's greatest museum of art and design. With artifacts dating back 3000 years, it has a collection

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)

The U.N. refugee agency reports torrential rains in Chad are affecting about 150,000 people. The UNHCR says more than one-third of the flood-affected victims are refugees, mainly from the Central African Republic. Heavy rains have been pummeling Chad

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(九)月

Chapter 17 - Anatole sets off Anatole went out of the room and returned a few minutes later wearing a fur coat girt with a silver belt, and a sable cap jauntily set on one side and very becoming to his handsome face. Having looked in a mirror, and st

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

By Noel King Khartoum 13 September 2006 A group calling itself al-Qaida in Africa has reportedly claimed responsibility for the death of a Sudanese editor in Khartoum. Mohamed Taha was found beheaded last Wednesday. In the days following Taha's deat

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(九月)

The ship, the Rena, hit a reef near the port of Tauranga on October 5th last year. As a result, containers fell into the sea and oil polluted the beaches, killing many sea birds. This week, a 20 page report gave the facts of what happened. The ship h

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

MOSCOW - Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Moscow airport and move to the city center, his Russian lawyer said on Monday. Anatoly Ku

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

MOSCOW, July 25 (Xinhua) -- The United States does not ask Russia to extradite Edward Snowden but just wants him returned, U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said Thursday. The U.S. doesn't ask to 'extradite' but simply to return Mr. Snowden, h

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

I have just delivered documents to him from the Russian Federal Migrant Service (FMS), the Interfax news agency quoted Anatoly Kucherena as saying. Kucherena said the documents allowed Snowden to move freely within Russia and the former intelligence

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

MOSCOW, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The father of former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden had contacted his son via the Internet despite security concerns, Snowden's lawyer said Thursday. We don't recommend using the Internet for communication, no

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Speaking to the state-owned Rossiya 24 channel in footage broadcast Wednesday, Lon Snowden of Allentown, Pennsylvania, thanked the Kremlin for the courage shown in keeping his son safe. Addressing his son, Lon Snowden said that your family is well an

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Sacrifice and selflessness, our next (girls) guests certainly know about that. Jarena Betes and her fiance Tyehsian Johnson are perfect matching in more ways than one. They got engaged last January. But a week ago today, Tye gave Jarena something mor

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录

An Australian journalist jailed in Egypt has called on the prime minister to do more to help him. Peter Greste and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues have faced court in Egypt for a second time,accused of spreading false news and supporting the outlaw

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

Debris from the Rena has reached beaches in the Coromandel. There are bags of milk powder, plastic and rope on the beaches and broken containers. The sea around the Rena is white from broken bags of milk powder. There is also oil for about 3km around

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On October 5th 2011, the ship, the Rena, hit a reef coming into the Port of Tauranga. The ship was carrying 1300 containers. Many containers fell into the sea and heavy oil spilled from the ship and reached the beaches. Last week, there were still 83

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Most of the oil has now been pumped out of the ship, the Rena, which hit a reef on October 5th. The ship carried 1700 tonnes of heavy oil. 350 tonnes leaked into the sea. This oil killed more than 1300 sea birds and polluted the sand and rocks around

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Bad weather meant that oil could not be pumped out of the ship the Rena today. The waves were too high. Pumping the oil is slow work because the oil is cold and thick. The pipe from the Rena to the oil barge is nearly 200m long and quite narrow, 7.5c

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Listen to the last two items on this website for background to the Rena disaster. The disaster from the broken ship Rena is getting worse. There is a crack in the middle of the ship which means it will sink. Salvage workers hope the back part the ste

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abnormal losses
aceraceaes
airport advisory service (aas)
algorithmic oriented language
anthologizer
attractingly
Ayvacιk
benzyl phenyl carbamate
bituminises
blade with pinned root
breathness
carbon lightning arrester
cardioarterial
Cartan integer
Chantonnay
chiches
churning out
coherent transponder
control tape
coscorobas
creative strategy
cut no figure
cydippideas
Cynanchum riparium
danielsson
deformation erosion
demirhan
descum
diagnostic test mode
differential housing
discuss about
disjoint probability
dognaped
dried beef chipper
dysalg(es)ia
enforcement of rights
examinations-in-chief
ferrite forming element
floor-spaces
gandir
gasping out
hammer lever
haplosufficiency
Hedysarinae
hypercapnias
industrial-era
inverse time-lag switch
ischiocavernous muscle
Jarring motion
lamellibranchiate dentiton
large interarch distance
leaf-storm
leaf-surfaces
leverage operation
little-endian
Louis VI
mean density of spike
mesochondrium
MGGH
multiple-break contacts
Muslimizing
nebularia chrysostoma
neviss
nickman
nine-part canon
nstas
party-line service
passout
petroleum revenue tax benefits
plexus rectalis inferiores
prairie-doggings
pressure face machine
primary support system
pustular eruption
quadded
radiometer gauge
recursive fft
reheader
relational algebra
sapromycetin
shaft wall cementing
shock-proof lacquer
sintering charge
speaking level
staunch ship
Stimson
successive scanning
swishily
traistily
tunas
tungsten strip lamp
two phase circuit
Ultra Mobile Broadband
under-gentleman
water son
young charges
zamco
zimmy
ZTIP(2nd-order tangential in-phase)