A phrase from the American South meaning, to get along.
> Barack Obama and us Southerners just don't geehaw.
> Me and that food just ain't geehawin'

UN Assists Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Conflict The U.N. refugee agency continues emergency airlifts to aid thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan. The fighting between government forces and rebels is taking place in two Sudanese states Blue N

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On October 4th, the Iraqi Security Forces supported by the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, liberated the town of Hawija and over 150 surrounding villages from ISIS, along with as many as 85,000 civilians who had been trapped there. Hawija w

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June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations General Assembly decided to create this day in 2000. It marks the 50th anniversary of the international convention relating to the status of refugees. The day is also Africa Refugee Day. A different th

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(THEME) ANNOUNCER: Im Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell the story of a musician who led one of the most popular American bands during the nineteen thirties and forties. His name was Artie Shaw. Listen for a few

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EXPLORATIONS - November 13, 2002: Volcanoes and Haleakala National Parks in Hawaii By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with the VOA Special English progr

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 November 2006 The U.N. refugee agency says Iraq is facing a displacement crisis, on a larger scale than was anticipated when the war began in 2003. The UNHCR says continuing violence is leading more Iraqis to flee their hom

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The U.N. refugee agency is appealing to European Union countries to make sure that people seeking asylum are given a fair hearing of their claims for international protection. The UNHCR says it is concerned about the treatment of the growing number

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In the morning When the moon is at its rest You will find me at the time I love the best Watching rainbows play on sunlight Pools of water, ice from cold nights In the morning It's the morning of my l

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 April 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says it has sent medical and relief supplies to a small Somali town near the Kenyan border, the destination of many people fleeing violence and instability in Somalia. Cathy Majtenyi rep

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Vice President Joe Biden gave a hint to the Obama administration's attitude toward relations with Russia in a Feb. 7 foreign policy speech in Munich, Germany. US Vice President Joe Biden addresses International Conference on Security Policy in Munic

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The new Obama administration appears to be taking tentative steps towards resuming dialogue with Syria, while the key step of sending a new U.S. ambassador to Damascus for the first time in three years remains up in the air. A visit by Senate Foreig

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US Pledges Aid for Drought-Stricken Somali Refugees With the drought in Somalia officially declared a famine, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya to pledge Ameri

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Migrants, Refugees Flee to Chad Migrants and refugees are entering Chad from the north, east and south, as they flee violence and instability in neighboring countries. The International Organization for Migration is appealing for three and a half mil

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'Cash Mob' Phenomenon Supports Local Business What do you get when you mix a store's need for more business with enthusiastic local consumers? A cash mob. Organized through social media, the phenomenon is based on the concept of a flash mob, where la

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在生活中每个人都免不了会有举棋不定、犹豫不决的时候。那就用得上我们今天要学的两个习惯用语来描述这样的局面了。 第一个习惯用语是:hem and haw。在这儿hem和haw这两个词都是模拟人们

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2006 The U.N. refugee agency is gearing up for a multi-million dollar operation to help tens of thousands of people displaced by the current crisis in Lebanon. The UNHCR says the first members of an initial 11-strong e

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By Roger Hsu Washington, DC 06 February 2008 On a number of islands off the coasts of the southern states of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, live the Gullahs, a group many believe is the most authentic African-American community in the U.S. The

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Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Rebekah Schipper. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a Special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 It is a warm

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今天我们要学的词是refugee。 Refugee, 是难民的意思。refugee camp 是难民营。外国人在南非受到攻击,造成数千人出逃。分析人士说, This is a classic refugee situation, 这是典型的难民情况。 最近,乍

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June 20th is World Refugee Day, a day to remember refugees world wide who have had to leave their homes and may never return. A refugee is a person who has had to escape from their country because they could be imprisoned or killed for their beliefs.

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学英语单词
actuating mechanism
air attache
alloy hardener
Alpinia oui
analyst backlog
anti-evolutionary
atherinomorus pinguis
autonomous learning
bagged garbage
block prefix
brazed vessel
Butvar adhesive
charcutiers
chromosome mobilization
citramalase
colitoxin
comis
compound semiannually
conjugated group
cullambine
curlicue fractal
cut-off shaft
dance attendance on sb
decentralization of authority and responsibility
deeny
dihydroxydurene
disencouragement
disposable tape reel
dlouh
dramseller
e-readers
effluxion
electric violinist
errhina
ethno-religious
feeder ratchet stop link
foreign exchange budget
free vehicle respirometer
fungia (verrillofungia) repanda
gamages
gastrulations
genus Vedalia
glass-blowers' disease
grandstanders
hot floor drier
ijma'
immune response
in great numbers
instersecting axis
interconnected networks
interference of light filter
isopentanized
james leonard farmers
kickshawses
Lamarck
lateral margin
level compensation
malignant xanthogranuloma
mangano columbite
Marmolada, Pta.la
mascoutah
memoriter
Menen(Menin)
mesural music
multiplex tderminal
N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfatase
nerve supply
North American porcupine
not file protection
packed tower
painshills
pairing of interlaced field
payee's account
photoneutron source
plague the life out of
polyphosphoesters
Pontrilas
post-mortem suture
Priestley, John Boynton
primitive community
quenching machine
refined mesh
SCD (severe core damage)
sedimetry
shell envelope framing
sight-sound synchronization
silky-leafed
single-event
skein cells
spaghetti tubing
sucking in
syrian-iranian
Tiselius
to have one foot in the grave
trichloroethyl urethan
turn the frown upside down
universal hydrometer
Vandzene
video transmitter
zebra roof
zone of confusion
zulie