每日一词【5】opt for：选择

今天要学的一个词组是：opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如，美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后： ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

法律英语：125 Can States Opt Out of Federal Law?

by Adam Freedman Todays topic: Nullification. Can states opt out of federal laws they dont like? And now, your daily dose of legalese: This article does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader. In other words, although I am a lawye

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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

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Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Soviet Union. North Koreas official biographies, however, state his year of birth as 1942 and his birthplace as Korea. He has been the leader of North Korea for over a decade. Since Kim is not actually the presiden

VOA慢速英语2009-EXPLORATIONS - Wiley Post: The First Pilot to Ci

Now the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today Shirley Griffith and Doug Johnson tell about pilot Wiley Post. He set new records when he flew his own airplane around the world in nineteen thirty-three. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: It was nineteen thi

VOA标准英语2012--Growing Number of Runners Opt to Run in Bare Feet

Growing Number of Runners Opt to Run in Bare Feet Michele Musacchio runs without shoes whenever she can. She started running in her bare feet nine months ago because she was looking for a way to exercise without joint pain. My hips had been hurting,

VOA标准英语2010年-Americans Opt for Cheaper Funerals

For years, the U.S. funeral industry was considered recession proof but today, even the bereaved are scaling back and paying more attention to cost. Many families are forgoing traditional burials for less expensive cremations. It's a change that's ha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fearing Deportation, Some Immigrants Opt Out Of Health Benefits For Their Kids

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单词超市第5期 opt for

今天要学的一个词组是：opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如，美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后： ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

英语听书《海底两万里》第68期 第6章 开足马力(10)

While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

2006年VOA标准英语-Militants Attack Nigerian Oil Facility

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 June 2006 A militant group in the Niger Delta Wednesday staged a bloody raid on an oil facility seizing five South Korean oil workers and killing four soldiers. ----------

美国国家公共电台 NPR Frozen Food Sales Feel The Heat As Consumers Opt For Fresh

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Call this the freezing out of frozen food - you know, TV dinners, which were a novelty when they first showed up in national supermarkets back in the 1950s. (SOUNDBITE OF AD) UNIDENTIFIED VOICE ACTOR: It's the first and only three

学个词 5:opt for

今天要学的一个词组是：opt for。 Opt for就是选择。比如，美国国务卿赖斯在紧张处理中东事务后： ...opted ...for a piano recital featuring classical pieces for her performance..., 意思是她选择举行钢琴独奏会

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The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, 我们的蛇形玻璃管中的光学，照在这些天然的凹凸不平的拱形建筑物上面， or some overhang suspended

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In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus

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A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

英语听书《海底两万里》第222期 第17章 海底森林(3)

There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而

万物简史 第522期:丰富多彩的生命(18)

At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) 它不时下达命令，宣布从今以后加州倒挂金钟（一种普通的假山庭园植物） is to be known henceforth as Epilobium can