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今天我们要学的词是 high-stakes. High-stakes 原意是赌注高,风险大,引申下来是指事关重大。Harvard University is fighting accusations that its admissions office racially discriminated against Asian-American students in a h

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

Guantanamo 9/11 Suspect Hearings Face Rough Start The case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators remains tangled in legal motions that are taking months to resolve - before conditions can be set for a trial to take pla

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(一月)

W: Hello! How can I help you, sir? M: I want to take out a loan for school. What kind of interest rate do you offer? W: Do you qualify for any of the Federal loan programs? M: Yes, but I need to borrow some more money. W: Well. In that case we can o

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 想聊就聊

Virginia State authorities and agents from five federal law enforcement organizations raided the Leesburg, Virginia headquarters of independent presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, this morning. NPR's Frank Browning reports. Three key members of

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(228) / 评论(0) 分类 高级英语听力

6. Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized. 【分析】并列复合句。and 连接两个并列分句。第一个分句主干为

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

The federal government, albeit reluctantly, has gotten into the banking business, announcing it would inject 250 billion dollars directly into some of the nation's largest financial institutions. Richard Sylla is an economics professor and financial

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台十月

By Jim Malone Washington 16 March 2006 Government prosecutors are trying to overcome a major legal setback in the death penalty case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person tried and convicted in

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

Court Overturns California Gay Marriage Ban Those who back the right of same-sex couples to marry cheered the ruling by the three-judge panel in San Francisco. In their 2-1 decision, the judges upheld the ruling of a lower court, saying Proposition 8

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(二月)

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The federal ban on sports betting is tested before the Supreme Court today. Now, we do not know the odds in Vegas on how this case will turn out, but we do know that the United States prohibits sports betting in most states. The

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(235) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

The parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo have ended their appeals in the federal court system following another ruling against them by a three-judge panel in Atlanta, Georgia. The Florida Circuit Court Judge who ruled to disconnect their daughter's

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

By David Gollust State Department 30 October 2007 The State Department said Tuesday that U.S.-hired private security guards accused of killing Iraqi civilians in September may still be subject to prosecution, despite a promise of immunity given by in

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's hear about a legal case now that could sort of unexpectedly influence the special counsel's investigation. Today a convict from Alabama is challenging a longstanding Supreme Court precedent that allows the state and fede

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

ECONOMICS REPORT - Up to 1.6 Million Female Employees Could Be Included in Sex-Discrimination Case Against Wal-Mart By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 02, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Sp

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

By Robert Raffaele Washington 17 October 2007 Racial equality in the U.S. justice system came under scrutiny Tuesday during a U.S. House committee hearing that examined the highly-publicized Jena 6 case. The case involves six black teenagers who were

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Julie Carpenter Doctors in some parts of the United States have prescribed marijuana to people suffering from a variety of medical conditions; and though it is used for medicinal purposes in many p

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--时事新闻

今天我们要学的词是audit。 Audit, 是审计的意思。An audit discovered that federal employees have been using government credit cards to pay for personal items, 一项审计结果发现,联邦雇员滥用政府的信用卡,购买私人

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要学的词是audit。 Audit, 是审计的意思。An audit discovered that federal employees have been using government credit cards to pay for personal items, 一项审计结果发现,联邦雇员滥用政府的信用卡,购买私人

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

vehicle enters the garage at Federal Courthouse in Detroit before a hearing for Nigerian bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 08 Jan 2010 Terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has pleaded not guilty in a Detroit Federal courtroom to charges

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

本期内容: Apple said it would challenge a judges order to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December. Tim Cook, Apples boss, s

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读
学英语单词
a myriad of
anchor beam
argument of phasor
back substitution
Bakali
Basekpio
bloomery iron
bovine spongiform encephalitis
brisling
bulldog ant
calcium biarsenate
cast coated paper/board
ceriporia alachuana
conical equdistant projection
consequential loss policy
contractual research
cord vessels
craters
cross-bedded structure
data truncation
dexamethasone acetate
diphyllobothriasis mansoni
direct ancestor
disassembly saw
ditrisomic
document draft
double-sideband system
evergreen states
factorial series
flexible vinyl
flourescence lifetime
font map
forouzan
fruit paste
gridistor
hamerkop
hexagonal net
hinge belt
hirundinid
honoured dust
Ibdes
Inmarsat-B B
Jegher's syndrome
John Day
Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase
Kyle of Lochalsh
lxiiiest
magnetic links
maiidism
marcal
masking blade
MASP
McCarthy I.
Minoinae
mout
multicomponent fractionation
musculus quadratus labii inferioris
nuclear material
owlet moths
packery
pezd-
pierre-yves
polyadenylated
pop slag
postting
pressurizing tank
primitive green
Processus articularis superior
Promise is debt.
Pteridospermopsida
reverse weathering
Sandakan
Sayre's apparatus
seix
Septum interventriculare
Shareable Content Object Reference Model
single-tube daylight lamp
slyne
solanum burbankiis
source of parents
stable bituminous dispersion
steam piano
sterolin
stick gauge
superconductivity supraconductivity
synchronograph
system development life cycle (sdlc)
technical trend
temperature-pressure test chamber
tetartohedron
the-die-is-cast
time of equilibrium
transition stage from shaft to drift
United Services
unwarp
vair
warped fault
weeped
weight distribution steer effect
witness for the prisoner
woehlerite(wohlerite)
zaban