【英音模仿秀】欧美愁云惨雾 全球凄风苦雨

模仿文本： Unless a deal is struck by the 31st of December American tax breaks dating from the Bush presidency will be dropped and a series of draconian spending cuts imposed and many are afraid that a recession lies at the bottom of that fiscal

美国国家电台 NPR 2012-09-17

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the attack last week on a US consulate in Libya was spontaneous. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that appears at odds with what Libyan officials are saying. Libya's president has told NPR that al-Qaeda was

美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-03-07

Keep them honest tonight with a guy talking about his new buddy. He is a good guy to me, guess what? He is my friend. He is my friend, that's Dennis Rodman, and this is Dennis Rodman's new friend. His name is Kim, Dennis is a pro-basketball hall of f

SSS 2009-01-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. You may have noticed that as you get older, you start forgetting more stuff: like, where you left your glasses, or the names of your children. Well, if y

智慧人生篇章 第75期:不要让宗教蒙蔽双眼

Two weeks ago a young Christian girl, Rimsha Masih was detained in Pakistan near the capital Islamabad. 两周前，一名年轻的基督教女孩里姆沙马希赫在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰马巴德附近被捕。 The girl who is in her early te

轻松日记商务职场篇100:赚外快

核心句型： I want to make some side money. 我都想赚一些外快了。 side money直译过来就是：次要的钱，这个短语的正确意思是：外快。因此，当美国人说I want to make some side money.时，他/她要表达的意思

VOA慢速英语--塞尔维亚致力于在互联网时代保护斯拉夫语

Serbia Aims to Protect Cyrillic in the Age of the Internet When visitors arrive in Serbia, they find that all official signs are written in Cyrillic script. But while the internet is becoming a popular way to supply information to many Serbs, use of

NPR 2012-01-14

President Obama wants to consolidate six different government agencies that deal with trade and commerce into one. NPR's Scott Horsley reports it's part of a broader streamlining effort for which Mr. Obama is seeking a congressional green light. Pres

VOA标准英语2009年-UK Group: Limiting Population Growth C

There is a consensus among the delegates and world leaders attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions and shift to cleaner/more efficient energy. But a research center in Britain is espousing a d

VOA标准英语2009年-Rights Group Warns of Rwanda Anti-Gay

A coalition of human rights groups is condemning a proposed amendment to Rwanda's criminal law that would criminalize homosexual behavior and advocacy. Alan Boswell | Nairobi 17 December 2009 Meanwhile, Rwanda's northern neighbor, Uganda, is receivin

NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2013-08-13

Former Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger once among the most fugitives in the country is convicted of racketeering and murder. WBUR's Asma Khalid reports jurors reached a verdict not long ago. The indictment against him was a racketeering indictmen

世界小史 第81期:城市的公民

These laws were so strict that people still speak of Draconian severity. 这些法律十分严厉以致人们今天还在谈论德拉古的严厉。 But the people of Athens, who had roamed the seas in their ships, and had heard and seen so many diff

中国遏制大宗商品投机

China has moved to clamp down on excessive speculation in commodities after weeks of frenzied trading boosted prices and ignited fears of another bubble in its domestic markets. 中国已采取措施遏制大宗商品市场的过度投机。连续数周

Facebook打赢中国商标抢注案

Facebook has won a Chinese trademark case against a company that registered the brand name face book, in a sign that Beijing attitudes are softening towards the worlds largest social networking site, which is blocked to Chinas 700m internet users. Fa

英语单词大师：Formal Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: an example of how English teachers at one high school are trying to get students to keep the language of the Internet where it belongs. Jodi Schenck teaches at Rothberg Comprehensive High School in the

专业术语-财务英语词汇D23

draconian revenue measure 严厉的征税措施 draft 汇票 draft estimates 预算草案 draft estimates of expenditure 开支预算草案 draft estimates of revenue 收入预算草案 dragon bond 小龙

美国学生人类历史第50期:古希腊的自治制度(3)

They asked a man by the name of Draco to provide them with a set of laws that would protect the poor against the aggressions of the rich. Draco set to work. Unfortunately he was a professional lawyer and very much out of touch with ordinary life. In

【突破英文词汇】bacchanalian, chimerical等

1. bacchanalian /ˌbkəˈneɪljən/ -- jovial or wild with drunkness Bacchus是酒神。巴克斯（Bacchus）是罗马神话中的酒神和植物神，相当于希腊神话中的狄俄倪索斯。 狄俄倪索斯是古代希腊色雷斯人信奉的葡

TED演讲:为什么要留在切尔诺贝利?

Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. 三年前，我站在距离切尔诺贝利第四号核子反应炉大约一百码外。 My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going

英语听力精选进阶版 8556

Iranians have taken to the streets of Teheran to celebrate a landmark nuclear deal with world powers which should lead to the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. In return, strict limits will be imposed on Irans nuclear activities. The countrys