万花筒 2008-11-04&11-05 美国选民提前投票

Even before Election Day, records are being set in this year's presidential race. Officials are reporting record turnout in early voting with many locations extending hours to handle the numbers. NBCs Kerry Sanders has been watching the long lines in

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This is AP news minute. 1. Hillary Clinton appears to be displaying strength in the crucial battleground states of North Carolina and Florida among people cast early ballots. The AP has found she may also be building a advantage in Arizona and Colora

VOA标准英语2012--Egyptians Living Abroad Cast Votes for New President

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今天要学的词组是cast ballot。Cast ballot就是投票。美国是多种族的国家，有的政客以为 voters can be counted on to cast ballots along racial lines -- 他们以为选民们肯定会按照种族的界限来投票。结果呢？

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is single quotation marks versus double quotation marks. Cyndy left this message on the MyChingo line: Hey Grammar Girl. I would love for a future topic to be on the use of quotes versus, I don't know, the single quot

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It is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November and that, according to a law established in 1845, makes it Election Day in America. Of course, many Americans have already cast their ballots in early voting. But many more will be lined up at poll

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 27 December 2007 Voting is under way in Mombasa, Kenya's second city and its main port. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA, the situation has been largely calm, despite delays in the opening of some polling stations. The normally

SSS 2012-01-19

On election day, where do you vote? If its in a church, you might be inclined to vote more conservatively than if you cast your ballot at a school or government building. Thats according to reserch published in the international journal for the psych

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By Sarah Simpson Abuja 05 April 2007 Vice President Atiku Abubakar is battling in the Nigerian courts to get his name on ballot slips for a crucial presidential poll on April 21. But after two courts this week issued divergent rulings, it looks incre

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By Kari Barber Dakar 25 March 2007 Mauritanians are choosing their president at the ballot box in the country's first presidential runoff. The polls pit former minister Sidi Ould Sheik Abdallahi against longtime opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah. K

Karzai defends vote 'integrity'

Afghan President Hamid Karzai （卡尔扎伊） says he believes in the integrity of last month's election process despite allegations of vote-rigging. He said he had been surprised and rather shocked by EU observers who recently said that about a quarter

单词超市 第三十期

今天要学的一个词组是cast ballots. Cast, c a s t . ballots, b a l l o t s . cast ballots,就是投票。 美国是多种族的国家，有的政客以为 Voters can be counted on to cast ballots along racial lines. 他们以为选民肯定会按

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 02 December 2007 Russians are voting in a parliamentary election in which President Vladimir Putin leads the list of the ruling United Russia Party, though he is not a candidate. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky report

每日一词【587】mock election：模拟选举

今天我们要学的词是mock election。 Mock election, 是模拟选举的意思。虽然孩子们不能投票，但每次大选都是对他们进行选举教育的天赐良机。 In classrooms across the nation, students have been casting ballots

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ESL Podcast 569 – Traveling for Singles

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学个词 39:cast ballot

今天要学的词组是cast ballot。Cast ballot就是投票。美国是多种族的国家，有的政客以为 voters can be counted on to cast ballots along racial lines -- 他们以为选民们肯定会按照种族的界限来投票。结果呢？

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horn n.角；号角（=trumpet)；(汽车的)喇叭 Some goats have large and magnificent horns. 某些山羊有着又大又雄伟的角。 I don't like Peter because he likes to blow his own horn most of the time. 我不喜欢彼得，因为大部分时