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Who's Next Princess? Fair Princess Unfair Once upon a time, and for hundreds of years, being a princess was a very formal job. It seemed to be about smiling and waving at people. But when today's youn

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The founder of a Chinese courier group whose company went public on Friday is now worth $27.5bn, making him the countrys third-richest man. 上周五上市的一家中国快递集团的创始人的身家如今达到275亿美元，使其成为中国第三

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Iran has joined the list of countries targeted within its borders by ISIS. On June 7, at least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in twin attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Tehran. The first assault occurred at the parliament building; th

NPR 2010-04-07

The Obama administration has released its Nuclear Posture Review, the guideline for how nuclear weapons fit into the nations defense plans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says its designed to make clear states like Iran and North Korea all options ar

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NANJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, announced on Sunday to end housing purchase restrictions in a bid to revive local property market. In a notice released by the municipal government of Nanjing, the city

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How did the '80s become a punchline? Give anything 20 years and it'll start to look like the makings of a joke. And so -- welcome back to the '80s, or, as LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge put it, borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered '80s. You don'

俄政府开展安全自拍宣传活动

A campaign to make young people think twice before snapping selfies in dangerous situations has been launched by the Russian government. 俄罗斯政府开展安全自拍宣传活动，号召年轻人在危险地带谨慎自拍。 The interior minist

TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(2)

From the entrance, this is nothing like a commercial cave. 从洞口看，这绝不像个商业旅游的山洞。 You're looking at Camp Two in a place called J2, not K2, but J2. 你看到的是二号营地，它搭在J2,不是K2(世界第二高峰）

英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2013-11-04

The Electoral Commission will today officially declare the result of the Senate race in Western Australia, but it could be short-lived. The Green's Scott Ludlam has narrowly edged out the Palmer United Party for the 6th and final WA senate seat. But

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Bruce Lee once compared studying martial arts to studying oneself. It's with that same philosophy that a group of community leaders in the US city of Philadelphia are introducing kung fu to youngsters in a bid to tackle gang crime. CRI's Dominic Swir

CNN 2008-03-17

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男女来自不同星球?专家称属无稽之谈

Some days the opposite(相反的) sex seems so different, you can almost believe that they come from another planet（行星）. Indeed, the theory that we are all hard-wired by our gender has proved so popular that a book on the subject, Men Are Fro

Iran 'executes Sunni militants'

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恶意软件让多台取款机同时“自动吐钞”

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A dog once stole a bone from a butcher's shop．He ran off down the street as fast as he could，across the meadow in the village and down the hill to a rough bridge over a stream．There he paused，panting，to look at the clear，clean water．Wha

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The euro has lost 5.1 percent versus the dollar over the past month. And a spate of poor eurozone economic data Friday further eroded its value, signaling a grim economic outlook for the European economy in 2012. At 13 years old, the euro is barely a

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今天我们要讲几个包括bone这个词的习惯用语。Bone是骨头。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: feel in your bones。Feel in your bones这个习惯用语用了有一百来年了。它的起源很有趣，曾经骨折或者有风湿

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BERLIN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited on Wednesday a violence-hit refugee home, vowing that Germany would have no tolerance for xenophobic attacks on asylum-seekers. Far-right protesters booed the chancellor as she arriv

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The rise of selfie photography in some of the world's most beautiful, and dangerous, places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide. 在世界上一些最美、最危