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by Mignon Fogarty This week in the United States we celebrate Veterans Day, a holiday to remember the end of World War I in 1918, but the name of the holiday brings up a common question: Do we need an apostrophe in the word Veterans? The short answer

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 跟谢孟媛学语法

Teenage girls who have babies. First, there are fewer of them than there are used to be. This is especially striking among black teenagers. Their pregnancy rate is down 45% over a decade. Also young girls who have babies are overwhelmingly poor, at l

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1. depose /dɪˈpəʊz/ -- (literally, put down) put out of office; dethrone Did the king abdicate or was he deposed? 那个国王是自己放弃了王位还是被废的? 2. impose /imˈpəuz/ -- put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict Cleanin

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This is the second in a two-part Business English Pod series about an internal meeting to consider a proposal. As we saw in the last episode, this type of meeting can be similar to a negotiation. People with different opinions sit around the table an

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. When I was in second grade, I lost a spelling bee because I misspelled the word its. I put an apostrophe in when I shouldn't have, and it was a very traumatic moment in my young life. So when listeners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is tough apostrophe issues. I said it in the last episode about apostrophes, and I'll say it again: there are some confusing situations when it comes to apostrophes. For example, Christine, from Portland, Oregon; Judy

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Hurricane Gustav, which killed at least 22 people in Haiti, is now headed south of Cuba, but forecasters believe the storm will move north into the Gulf of Mexico by early next week and threaten a coastal area that stretches from Texas to the Florid

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 01 January 2008 Pakistani officials say elections will be delayed until February because it is impossible to hold next week's parliamentary vote on time. Election Commission Secretary-General Kanwar Dilshad told rep

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 August 2007 Philippine security forces are on high alert for possible attacks by communist rebels after Dutch authorities arrested their exiled leader in the city of Utrecht. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Ce

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Jamat ud Dawa, formerly Lashkar-e Taiba parading in a Pakistani city (file photo) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba or LET was for a long time considered a militant group fighting Indian rule of Kashmir. But after Chicago-based American David Headley pl

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

Greg Flakus President Bush and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Monday at Mr. Bush's ranch near Crawford , Texas , where they discussed Iraq and the Middle East in general. Both leaders are backin

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Obama Proposal Could Help US-Russian Ties President Obama chose an iconic Cold War location -- the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin -- to make his new arms control proposal, offering to reduce U.S. nuclear warheads by one third. I intend to seek negotiated

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today in Your Health, we're going to look at teen pregnancy because nationwide the rates of teen pregnancy have been on the decline. Reporter Lauren Silverman from member station KERA in Dallas has been looking into this, and she

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

How did they ever publish this book? Did they read it before they published it? Did they ever hear of Spell Check? He couldn't believe that they charged $70 for the book. He had circled all the errors with a red pen. So he couldn't return the book. H

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Nirvana涅磐:Smells Like Teen Spirit 少年心气 Nirvana(涅磐)是一支80年代末诞生的摇滚乐队,他们在90年代风靡全球,至今仍有着无数的歌迷。 主唱Kurt Cobain是NIRVANA乐队灵魂人物。 佛语中说,涅磐 (

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Oksana Dragan On January 5th, Armenians around the world - including the approximately one and a half million Armenian-Americans living in the United States - celebrate Christmas Eve. At St. Mary's Ar

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The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare that the opposition says the only option is intervention by the Southern African Development Commun

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OMG! Congratulations to both of you!! How did he pop the question??OMG! 祝贺你们俩啊!!他怎么求的婚啊??

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 OMG美语

Teen Girls Average 80 Texts Per Day Mobile phone use in teens is currently at a very high rate and most of those teen users spend more time texting than they spend talking on their devices. Unfortunately, texting has become such an integrated part of

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