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AS IT IS 2016-10-17 Modern Builders Construct French Castle the Old-Fashioned Way 现代建筑者用古老方法建造法国城堡 In France, a man walks on what can only be described as a human-sized hamster wheel. The wheel moves around and around,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十)月

1. President Barack Obama says General David Petraeus will assume the role of top US commander in Afghanistan. This after General Stanley McChrystal tendered his resignation, following biting comments he made about the president and his aides in a ma

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett are campaigning hard on this last day before the state's historic recall election. As Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson reports Walker says he is cautiously optimistic. Walker

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The swollen Mississippi River is giving residents of at least one Louisiana town something ever reprieved. Evacuations that were supposed to become mandatory in Butte La Rose today had been put on hold. Most have already left, but officials there now

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Red Adair By Jill Moss Broadcast: Sunday, October 31, 2004 (MUSIC) Graphic Image VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA

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By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: November 1, 2003 This is Steve Ember with In the News, from VOA Special English. Thousands of firefighters from around the United States are battling the wildfires in Southe

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A number of pro-government's news websites, including the Fars News Agency which is closely tied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Rosemary, they all reported initially that a home-made hand grenade had been thrown at the convoy as the Irania

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President Bush made his fourth and final trip to Iraq today before leaving office. He defended his decision to order the US-led invasion and he met with the American troops. But his news conference in Baghdad was interrupted when an Iraqi man threw

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Hundreds of people have gathered at a cathedral in Italy where Luciano Pavarottis body has been taken. The tenor was considered one of the best singers of his generation. A funeral has been set for Saturday. Rescue crews are expanding their search fo

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1. Emergency crews in Minnesota say they themselves are surprised more people weren't killed or seriously injured in Wednesday's bridge collapse. While crews continue to search through the muddy waters, officials now say only as many as eight people

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1. After weeks of wildfires, the first tropical storm of the season is welcome news for fire crews in Florida and Georgia. Andrea, the first named storm of the year is spinning off the coast. Fire crews hope rain from the storm will help them battle

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1. Colorado officials say a massive avalanche buried several cars on US Highway 40 about 60 miles west of Denver. At least 7 people have been rescued. Crews are searching for more survivors. Snow fell on the area on Friday, the third snowstorm in th

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1. American Sarah Shroud says shes grateful to Iran's president and other officials for her release from a Tehran prison. Iran is still holding her two hiking companions. Shroud boarded a plane out of the country earlier Tuesday. 2. Warm, dry weather

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AS IT IS 2014-06-19 California Firefighters Ready for Severe Fire Season 加州消防员为火灾季做准备 Record high temperatures in May led to serious wildfires near San Diego, months before the fire season is usually under way. 5月份创纪录的

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last week, Time magazine announced the silence breakers as their person of the year, referring to those who helped create a greater awareness around sexual assault and harassment. Terry Crews is one of those silence breakers. He

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Argument 37 The following is a memorandum from the director of personnel to the president of Get-Away Airlines. Since our mechanics are responsible for inspecting and maintaining our aircraft, Get-Away Airlines should pay to send them to the Quality-

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MOSCOW, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The main and backup(后备) crews that will fly to the International Space Station in June have passed preflight tests and are ready for space travel, the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center said Friday. The main crew includ

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1. Crews have stopped drilling the relief well that's intended to permanently plug BP's broken Gulf oil well. That because a strengthening tropical depression is bearing down on the site. Crews have about 15 feet left to drill, but officials say the

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Australian Spider May be Worlds Fastest 澳大利亚蜘蛛或是全球最快捕食者 Australia is home to many unknown species. Researchers now say that it may be home to the worlds fastest lunging predator. The karaops spider is a small and flat sp

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Joshua Leo. Voice 2 And I'm Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Mari lives in Tokyo, Japan. She li

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学英语单词
ability-to-pay principle of taxation
aciie
african grays
Agapetes pyrolifolia
Ammit
anti-cultural
appetitious
apple sucker
basic water content
beachsalmon
Bhutia
biogeologists
blanking pedestal
blue-tongued skink
brouages
channelized
cherry-brandy
child helping agency
circumerration
cloudwashed
coniotoxicosis
contractings-out
convoluted seminiferous tub tubules
copper(ii) carbonate
device-level font resource
Deyeuxia petelotii
diazoparaffins
diplodia ricinella
discongruities
double-dog dare
Ena
enfranchised company
environment oxygen content
Ethamicort
ethyl sulfocyanide
exit stage left
exploratory bore-hole
Explore all avenues
extracting method
fast acting
feel sure about
ferrite-core loop antenna
gagan
generalized system of preference
glamour-puss
Golaya, Gora
guns blazing
hierarchical diffusion
homeotherapy
homoneura (homoneura) simplicissima
interrecord gap
Italian pottery
Meduno
milk strainer
more dead than alive
music-box
myelocone
New Taiton
no-where
O2V
overrent
paloheimo
Peter-penny
petromyzontids
phone camera
playfriends
power bus
put on style
radar echo box
random scan function
reading gun
reclon
releasing device
revenues are over expenditures
reversed phase coil
Rosa Seamount
Rufen-P4
saponaceous liquid wastes
Saprosan
see into a stone wall
sidesaddle
site designation memorandum
sodium polysulphide
sphygmometer
sylv
synsedimentary fault
temenggong
the briny
the man in the moon
Tien-pao
time-scale calibration method
tin dredging
Tozen
traffic peak flow
travesier
unlighted
urheen
USM (ultrasonic stress meter)
viridian
welding reheat cracking
Wollaston, Lake
yawing angle