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VOICE ONE: Emperor Norton Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we answer a question from a listener in Brazil. Tino Therezo in Sao Paulo wants to know about Joshua Norton. Who is that? Oh,

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十二)月

1. Capitol Hill is in a stalemate heading into the holidays. House Republicans want Senators to return to Washington and negotiate a payroll tax cut extension after the House rejected a Senate measure. The tax goes up for workers January 1st if nothi

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Mr. President, Dr. Conant, members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning. I am overwhelmed, a

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - 'Grandmother to the Nation' Celebrated in Traveling Art ShowBy Nancy Steinbach and Caty Weaver Broadcast: Friday, August 25, 2006 Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English.

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EXPLORATIONS - Visiting Seven Man-Made Wonders of the United StatesBy Caty Weaver Broadcast: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with Exp

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Sitting in Two States at Once Is it possible to be in two places at once? It certainly is if youre in the southwest city of Texarkana, which straddles the border between Texas and Arkansas. In almost every regard, Texarkana is one community. But its

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THIS IS AMERICA - Summer Camps By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, June 21, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Millions of American children attend summer camp. Some play sports. Others make music, learn to use

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Mr. President, Dr. Conant, members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning. I am overwhelmed, as

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THIS IS AMERICA - Travels Through Seven States By Broadcast: Monday, June 28, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I'm Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty

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VOICE ONE: This is Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with THE MAKING OF A NATION, a VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. Today, we tell about the first term in office of President George W. Bush. Mister

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Boston Tries to Keep Visitors Coming to the City Welcome to This Is America from VOA Learning English. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Mario Ritter. Today we talk about the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has been in the news recently because of th

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Twelve Mispronounced U.S. Place Names 12个被误读的美国地名 Place names in the United States are a hodgepodge, a seemingly random collection, of different languages. This can make pronunciations a bit difficult, even for people who live here.

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Find out the best city in each person's country.找出每个人所在国家的最好的城市。 Simon, Canada speaker What's the best city in my country? My country is Canada, so I'd have to say my hometown, Vancouver, although previously I said tha

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THIS IS AMERICA - Going the Distance, Coast to Coast and Border to Border, on America's HighwaysBy Paul Thompson Broadcast: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA i

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Music Mash-ups | Mashed-up Data | Train Travel in U.S.By Dana Demange and Daniel Kirch Broadcast: Friday, May 19, 2006 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special Englis

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THIS IS AMERICA - Boston By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, July 26, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. We tak

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EXPLORATIONS – The Mississippi By Oliver Chanler Broadcast: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, Shirley Griffith and I

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George C. Marshall: The Marshall Plan 《欧洲复兴计划》的通称。第二次世界大战后美国争夺全球战略的重点—欧洲的扩张计划。1947年6月5日,国务卿G.C.马歇尔

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The best and worst states for small business 小本生意的旺市与淡市 Red tape blues 繁文缛节让人忧郁 Small businesses fret less about taxes than over-regulation 小本生意担心监管过度问题多过税收 IAN TONER, an architect i

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学英语单词
administrative performance
aerophor
aluminium-silicon alloy
amicable number
apron strings
askeletal
back altitude
be in sth for the long haul
bipolar moment
bodish
bow jet thruster
brokered convention
bufo bufo asiaticus
CHELYIDAE
chemical binding energy
chinju (jinju)
climb aboard
coleron
conjunctive transformations
contingent receivable
corpuscular property
dallis grasses
Damsholte
deceptive trade practices
Decomade
distal convoluted tubule
done business
duff sb up
duniwassal
earthquake history
Engels, Friedrich
epithelisin
every whips while
frostbird
glandulae labiales oris
grain cart
Grimm, Jakob (Ludwig Karl)
gulcher
Guwen
hard-shell crabs
Healthcare Sector
incanus
Inflorescence-bud
input parameter list
itea glutinosa hand- mazz
IWL
knock you out
Ladbrokes
leading edge sweep
Leptocylindrus
local perturbation
longitudinal zoning
lower apron
Maksudi
Maxwell fluid
means-testings
meetinghouse
meningitophobia
mercurammoniums
metryperesthesia
murdrum
Mwasa
myrmeleon formicalynx
Nguia-Bouar
nonvegetable
notice of withdrawal
oil-immersed type transformer
parols
pay one's duty to someone
pirated edition
possing
raise havoc
reburial
Reppe reactions
research diagnostic criterion
Rumasal
semimean
shield opening
sky clad
smudgings
soy(bean) trypsin inhibitor
sparnacian subage
stellare
still as the grave
stratigraphic division
Suaeda ussuriensis
Sufist
suplattices
surface-to-underwater
swiney
T-1384
theta antigen
thread forming machine
Tongni
trinerved
use torture to coerce a statement
valaite
velocity control servo
virtual impedance
wandering in the wilderness
winwoods
wooden stand