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In countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of poor people face daily hazards to earn meager livings by scavenging for recyclable goods. In Cambodia, hundreds of scavenger families find their lives changing - they will lose their homes and

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

By Michael Bowman Washington 04 June 2008 Late Tuesday, Illinois Senator Barack Obama made history as the first African American to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, becoming the presumptive Democratic standard bearer.

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(237) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(六月)

By Meredith Buel Washington 27 October 2006 The United States says it is ready to help Saudi Arabia defend its oil facilities against terrorist threats, following a statement by the British navy asking merchant shippers to be on alert for suspicious

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(257) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 April 2006 A U.S. government official has told Congress Iraq's new government will require long-term U.S. and international assistance if reconstruction efforts are to

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By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(351) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(三月)

By Jim Randle Pittsburgh 25 September 2009 Leaders of 20 of the world's leading and emerging economies are gathered in Pittsburgh, seeking ways to fight the recession, and keep economic troubles from breaking out again. Friday, presidents, prime min

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Negotiators at the climate summit in Copenhagen last month failed to agree on a new climate change treaty to replace the current Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012. Jonathan Lash is president of World Resources Institute, an environmental polic

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(204) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Ethnic Karen minority children play soccer on a muddy field at their refugee camp along the Thai-Burma border near Mae Sot, Thailand, 29 Jun 2010 Burma's ethnic Karen communities and rights groups are reporting stepped up attacks by Burma's military

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Swaziland has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world - 26 percent for those between the ages of 15 and 29. But to deal with the epidemic, health officials must do more than increase treatment, care and prevention efforts. They must also

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Anu Garg, creator of the A.Word.A.Day Web site and author of a new book called Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

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By Chris Simkins Washington 16 April 2008 Millions of Americans could lose their homes this year and next as the rate of foreclosures across the United States rises to the highest in decades. The foreclosure crisis has worsened despite ongoing effort

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(213) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

今天我们要讲的习惯用语里都有一个主要的单词:scratch。很多人都知道scratch这个词的意思是抓、或者刨刮表面。你要是给蚊子叮了一口,你就会这样做:scratch your skin with your fingernails。就是你

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 06 February 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates faces his NATO counterparts at a meeting starting Thursday in Lithuania, just days after comments he made and letters he wrote generated angry responses from some allies. VOA

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By Gary Thomas Washington 20 March 2008 Loyalists of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were big winners in the recent parliamentary elections. With many reformists locked out of the electoral process, the contests were primarily between different faction

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17 October 2007 A group concerned with human rights in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region says refugees fleeing to neighboring Somalia are being rounded up by Somali authorities and handed over to Ethiopian troop

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By Mil Arcega Washington 08 March 2007 watch Export Control report A coalition of technology and manufacturing associations is pushing for an overhaul of the nation's export control system. The group claims current U.S. regulations aimed at keeping

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Vasco da Gama will increase the capacity of its Sao Januario football stadium to 43,000 for the 2016 Olympic rugby sevens tournament. The club has until Wednesday (Oct. 31) to present redevelopment plans t

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By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 07 September 2007 Recent reports to the U.S. Congress about the situation in Iraq point to limited success by the Iraqi government in establishing security but continuing problems in bringing about political reconciliation.

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LONDON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the women's 56kg division weightlifting competition at the London Olympic Games on Sunday: 1. Om Yun Chol, DPR Korea, 293kg 2. Wu Jingbiao China, 289kg 3. Valentin Hristov, Azerbaijan, 286kg 4.

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LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Kobe Bryant will lead a bunch of big names from the U.S. Olympic basketball team to tour in China after the London Olympics. Bryant will fly directly from London to Beijing to kick off his journey that will start from Jina

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学英语单词
abhominations
aerochlorination
air vent screw
ALGOL 68
Alipura
amount of similarity
analytic learning
angle output
aperture response
arch constraction
ashwin
asymmetric hull
baroque piety
besteman
body-centered cubic
bonded labor
bookkeeping cycle
borospherene
canalis carpalis
capnomancy
catalyzed
ceramic bearing
chain code
cochliobolin
controlled current potentiometric titration
Crookes layer
Dandie Dinmont terrier
diactor
directory code
dissolved carbon dioxide in seawater
dysprosium selenate
East Walpole
eigenvlaue problem
electronic millsecondmeter
engineer-in-chief
entrance guard
eriovixia laglaizei
exchange of unequal value
exploitatively
factor score
fishing gear
friay
Ganser's diverticula
genito-anal seta
genus Heloderma
humanistic study
hydraulic tensioner
idiopathic obliterative perifoveolar retinal vasculopathy
infectious papillomatosis
intra-arteria transfusion
jet bit drilling
kadders
leasehold interest insurance
legal pluralism
legitimate theater
leptinemia
lime acetate
limphatic
lock bar pipe
lococession
management through costs
manufacture of vessel
map reader function generator
mask epitaxial method
mechanical reversibility
microlaminated
modai
modulated amplifier valve
nervus (pl. nervi)
non-alcoholic drinks
nuclear electronics
optional halt
oscillation response spectrum
osteokine
paleobiologies
pato
purple nightshades
rack-and-pinion gate
radial transmission feeder
Rapla
rattigan
sea cadet
severe frost
shpiel
Smilax aberrans
snoutish
spaceship computation center
spiral vibrating conveyer
spratelloides delicatulus
summerland
TASC (terminal area sequence and control)
trainshed
trans-africa
Turing computability
unsuccessible
unsupervised training
urethrophyma
variance accounts
waterproof sheet
weather pattern
worst-performing
Yizkors