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This is my mother/mom. This is my father/dad. (These are my parents) This is my wife. This is my husband. There are five people in my family. (My mother, my father, my older brother, my older sister, me, my younger brother.) I have two brothers. One

VOA标准英语2011--Asia Pacific Nations Can Help Solve European Crisis, US Officials Say

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VOA标准英语2011--European Debt Crisis Dominates IMF Talks

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VOA标准英语2011--Geography Meets Social Media on ‘Geoso

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英文原版对话1000个:978 European Matters

Christophe: OK, Aiste, we're going to talk about environmental issues in Europe. So, does Lithuania have environmental issues? Aiste: Oh, actually were are facing kind of a big problem. The Baltic Sea that's beside Lithuania. You know three Baltic co

VOA常速英语2007年-UN Study Finds Nairobi Dumpsite Endangers Child

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Ibrahimovic banned by UEFA for two European matches

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原版英语对话1000个:489 European Vacation

Todd: So, Steven, you're from Europe, you're from England. (Yep) Have you travelled much in England? I'm sorry, have you travelled much in Europe? Steven: Ah, yes I have, yeah. Um, when I was 18 and 20 I travelled all around Europe by train. Todd: Oh

European Central Bank to Buy Troubled Governments' Bonds

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European Leaders Adopt Second Greek Bailout

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European Economy, African Food Security to Top G8 Summit

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Todd: Now Norman, you've lived in Japan for awhile. Have you lived in any other countries? Norman: Yes, I've lived in Germany as well. Todd: Germany! Norman: Yes, I lived for five years. I had two contracts in Germany. The first one in the seventies,

US, European Stocks Plunge, Borrowing Costs Rise

Major U.S. and European stock exchanges plunged Wednesday and Italy's borrowing costs jumped, as the long shadow of the continent's debt crisis consumed the Greek and Italian governments. Key stock markets in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt all

China backs European integration: CPC official

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European Central Bank Pledges Euro Support

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European Debt Crisis Summit Starts

European leaders have started a two-day summit in Brussels in the latest effort to resolve the continent's debt crisis and save the euro. Some officials have described the European summit as a moment of reckoning for the common currency, under siege

European Debt Crisis Dominates IMF Talks

U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Saturday that the euro area sovereign debt and banking crises are the biggest threats to the global economy and that European officials need to address and remedy that quickly. Meanwhile, leaders of the

Major Stock Indexes Fall Over European Concerns

Stock indexes in Europe and the United States fell sharply Tuesday as investors worried about the contraction of the economy in the 17-nation euro currency bloc and whether Greece can successfully eliminate a large portion of its debt. Markets in Lon