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By 2006, 40 percent of all the loans made that year, all the home loans made that year,were liar's loans,40 percent. 截至2006年，当年发放的所有贷款，当年的所有房屋贷款中四成是欺骗性贷款。高达四成啊，亲。 And t

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NPR 2009-03-10

President Barack Obama today moved to officially lift the Bush administration's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. The move reverses a 2001 directive from Mr. Obama's predecessor in the White House. At a signing ceremony in the East

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I am a conductor, 我是个指挥家， and I'm here today,to talk to you about trust. 今天我要谈的是信任问题。 My job depends upon it. 这对我的工作很重要。 There has to be, between me and the orchestra, 我和乐队间必须有信

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Sochi. Kerry, who has also held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, says his discussions with Putin have been frank and productive, adding that the US and

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AP 2010-12-09

1. The lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is negotiating with British police. They are discussing the arrest warrant Sweden issued. The 39-year-old Australian is accused of rape and sexual molestation in one Swedish case and of sexual molest

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今天我们要学的词是 coercion. coercion 的意思是强迫、强制。Mexico's new administration plans to discourage emigration not by coercion, but by creating jobs in Mexico. 墨西哥新政府的计划不是通过强制措施来阻止移民，

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