美国国家公共电台 NPR As Mexico Capitalizes On Her Image, Has Frida Kahlo Become Over-Commercialized?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In a few short decades, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has gone from obscurity to pop-culture icon. Forever 21 and Zahra have sold clothes with her self-portraits. But a recent lawsuit to stop the sale of a Barbie doll in Frida Ka

英语国际音标十、辅音其它型

[00:00.00]we [00:02.09]我们 [00:04.18]wait [00:05.35]等；等待 [00:06.52]way [00:07.58]路；通路 [00:08.64]walk [00:09.76]走；散步 [00:10.87]weather [00:11.93]天气 [00:13.00]warm [00:14.08]温暖的；暖和的 [00:15.16]want [00:16.27]要

Vincent

Vincent Starry , starry night paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills , sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch th

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution

A 'Ragged School' Gives U.K. Children A Taste Of Dickensian Destitution SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Charles Dickens made the East End of London infamous. In his time, it was rife with poverty and crime. Today, row houses in the gentrified area cost more th

星火英语四级2000核心词 26

[00:11]Day 26 [00:13]consequently [00:15]Mr. Foster has never been to China. [00:18]Consequently he knows very little about it. [00:23]conservative [00:24]There must have been a thousand people there, [00:27]at a conservative estimate. [00:31]constit

英语沙龙:Hi ,There 嘿,你好

Hi ,There It was Sunday，Christmas．Our family had spent the holidays in San Francisco with my husband's parents．But in order for us to be back at work on Monday，we found ourselves driving the 400miles back home to Los Angeles on Christmas Day．

地道英语在线听-Spitting Image 相貌酷似的人

Do you resemble someone famous? Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 嘿，你好吗？我是孙晨。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你是不是已经发

U.S States Use Slogans to Enhance their Image

By Ted Landphair Big corporations use memorable slogans or symbols -- like the

ESL Podcast 208 – Corporate Image

Adam: With our expansion into these new areas of business, I think we need to think seriously about changing our corporate image. Were much more than just a paper company now. Eva: I think youre right. Our brand has changed, and if we want to keep br

2007年VOA标准英语-Rwanda Says France Protecting Image by Resistin

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa

Body image survey results

BBC Learning English Weekender Body image survey results Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to a report about a BBC survey of 25,000 young British people, asking about their body imag

【英文短篇小说】The Beggar

KIND sir, be so good as to notice a poor, hungry man. I have not tasted food for three days. I have not a five-kopeck piece for a nights lodging. I swear by God! For five years I was a village schoolmaster and lost my post through the intrigues of th

<词海拾贝>Spit And Image：极其相似

大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是，有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的（人或东西）”。 语源学界普遍接受的

美国习惯用语:410 dead shot; spitting image

今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语有同样的意思。它们都用来说某一个人非常像另一个人。第一个习惯用语是：dead ringer。 Ringer原来意思就是酷似某人的人或者很像某物的东西. Ringer有时可以指冒名

VOA常速英语2008年-War in Iraq Badly Damages US Image Internationa

By Michael Bowman Washington 17 March 2008 The image of the United States has suffered as a result of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. Opinion surveys show international approval of the United States at all-time lows. VOA'

Enterprises try to refurbish image in overseas advance

CHENGMAI, Hainan, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- As China seeks to shake off its image of the world's mass-producer of cheap products and move up the value chain, Chinese companies are trying to reshape their reputations in the international market to win accept

莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第6篇

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled. 那么，在你未经提炼之前，莫让冬寒粗手把你体内的夏天掠夺， Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be se

爱的奇迹 Keep on Singing

你是我的阳光，惟一的阳光，当天空灰暗时你能使我快乐伴随着小男孩稚嫩清澈的歌声，病床上的女婴有了反应，呼吸也变得均匀而平稳了。 Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby wa

月亮和六便士 第五十二章(1)

Chapter 52 第五十二章 I suppose the next three years were the happiest of Strickland's life. 我想，这以后的三年是思特里克兰德一生中最幸福的一段日子。 Ata's house stood about eight kilometres from the road that runs ro

英闻天下——247 China Criticizes Japan for Tarnishing Its Image

The Chinese government is accusing Japan of intentionally tarnishing China's image. The accusation comes following reports that a Chinese vessel put a radar firing lock on a Japanese naval patrol in the East China Sea this week. Chinese foreign minis