大学英语六级词汇(拼读版) 010

[00:00.00]execution [00:07.01]execution [00:09.02]n.实施，执行；死刑 [00:18.31]execution [00:20.32]exemplify [00:27.60]exemplify [00:29.77]vt.举例证明(解释) [00:37.41]exemplify [00:39.59]exempt [00:45.22]exempt [00:47.16]adj.被免除的

NPR 2010-07-27

The Pentagon says it's trying to assess the potential damage caused by the leak of more than 90,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan War. In a briefing today, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Wikileak.org's unauthorized action was irres

Justifiable Defense正当防卫

Justifiable Defense正当防卫 我国刑法第二十条对正当防卫的规定是：为了使国家、公共利益、本人或者他人的人身、财产和其他权利免受正在进行的不法侵害，而采取的制止不法侵害的行为，对不

NPR 2011-06-10

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The top staff of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign have resigned en masse. As NPR's Mara Liasson reports, their departure raises the question of whether the Gingrich campaign, rocky from the start,

洋话连篇 Lesson 28

针对肥胖问题 英国将对含糖饮料征税!

The UK government has published draft legislation for a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks, which is set to begin from April 2018. 英国政府已于日前公布了关于对含糖饮料征税的立法草案，并定于2018年4月开始实施。 There will

NPR 2008-12-16

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. President-elect Barack Obama is again saying there is no indication from a review by his own lawyers that shows he had any direct contact with disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Speaking in Chic

你知道英国女王有哪些特权吗？

Being Queen Elizabeth II opens you up to certain privileges thatthe rest of us can only dream of. Not only does she get to live inBuckingham Palace, milling between 700 odd rooms on a dailybasis, but there are a few other actions that the Queen and o

美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Challenges Hawaii Judge's Expansion of Relatives Exempt From Travel Ban

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A federal judge in Hawaii says grandparents should be exempt from President Trump's travel ban. An order issued late Thursday greatly expands the list of family relationships that allow visa applicants from six mostly Muslim countr

NPR边听边练88:美商家将收信用卡附加费

以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议： 1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。 2、继续听，特

揭露药医利益关系的新招

TWO drug executives walked into a bar. No, this is not the start of a joke. The workers for Roche, a Swiss drugs firm, had been dining with doctors after a medical conference. At the bar, alleged an anonymous complaint in a recent report by a British

【英语语言学习】西班牙语的教会

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Across Europe, bankrupt municipalities are looking for new sources of revenue and some are eyeing the Catholic Church. In Spain, the church is the country's largest and richest landowner, but its non-profit status means it's exem

经济学人99:税收磨刀霍霍向猪羊

Taxing corporate cash 税收磨刀霍霍向猪羊 A tempting target 一个诱人的目标 South Korea's government tries to get firms to spend their accumulated riches 韩国政府试图向企业现金储备征税来充盈国库 SINCE becoming South

中国股市引入熔断机制

The planned introduction of an index circuit breaker system would be similar to trading-curb triggers currently used on the markets in New York. It would help limit volatility by temporarily cutting off, or restricting, trading during intra-day perio

学个词Learn a Word 第1401期　exempt from

今天我们要学的词是exempt from. Exempt from意思是免除，免做某件事。美国总统奥巴马提倡保证劳工的最低工资和福利保障。Under current U.S. labor law, home-care workers are exempt from minimum wage and overtime p

新西兰：网络挑衅将被判刑

Internet trolls face up to two years' jail in New Zealand under a controversial new law which bans harmful digital communications. 新西兰出台一项尚有争议的新法案，禁止有害数字信息，在网上发布挑衅文字或将入狱两年。

中国为小微企业减税

Small and micro-sized companies in China are seeing their corporate income tax cut by half. Chinese tax authorities have announced companies with annual incomes of less than 200-thousand yuan are going to see their rates cut down to 10-percent. The t

US Now Has Developed World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate

The United States, with the world's-largest economy, now has claimed the dubious distinction of having the industrialized world's highest corporate tax rate. Japan dropped its corporate tax rate slightly on Sunday, to just more than 38 percent. That

新西兰将对含糖饮料征税?

WELLINGTON, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- New Zealanders are rapidly developing a taste for a tax on sugary drinks to offset the public health costs of obesity, according to research out Friday. The findings from two large-scale, nationwide surveys indicated

立法者考虑严惩贩卖儿童

The ninth draft amendment to the Criminal Law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress earlier this week. It comes amid continuing discussions on China's social media outlets about whether or not child traffickers sho