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n. 壶( urn的复数形式 ); 瓮; 缸; 骨灰瓮
n. a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
n. a large pot for making coffee or tea

As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Charles Darwin And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This month is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers in science history. Charles Darwin

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US Returns Smuggled Art to Italy It's a beauty--Zeus, seen as a swan, seducing a woman. A rare oil-on-copper painting from the 16th century artist Lelio Orsi. Auctioned off in Manhattan for $1.6 million. But Leda and the Swan was smuggled into the U.

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Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state government

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As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

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By Katherine Cole Washington 30 May 2007 For close to 50 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been a leading proponent of acoustic music in America. He's recorded dozens of albums of his own music, launched his own record company, and pr

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Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state governments

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By George Dwyer Washington, DC 03 August 2006 watch MTV 25th Anniversary Twenty-five years ago this week, MTV -- short for music television -- premiered on cable television in the U.S. It began by broadcasting music videos from popular artists such

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama made his first official visit to Latin America. He arrived Thursday in Mexico City and met with President Felipe Calderon. They discussed the drug war in Mexico, illegal immigrat

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 01 July 2006 The original comic book super-hero is back on the big screen in a rip-roaring adventure directed by Bryan Singer, who made the first two X-Men movies. Alan Silverman spoke with the director and his stars for

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 25 March 2007 Residents of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, are relieved but bitter, as calm has returned after two days of brutal fighting between government forces and the guard of opposition leader

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Writer of America's Soundtrack Turns 80 For over 50 years, John Williams' music has taken us to galaxies far, far away with the Star Wars theme, or on rollicking adventures around the world with the Indiana Jones movies. His scores make us feel giddy

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Ar kansasTreasureHuntLinksPeopleWithLostCash Today every newspaper in the state of Arkansas is publishing a special section. There are no stories in it. No photographs. Not even any advertisements. Nothing but page after boring page of names and addr

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Every Night is Fright Night at Elegant Theater In many American cities, one can find beautifully restored movie houses from the Golden Age of Motion Pictures in the 1920s and 30s. Many boast classical dcor, complete with crystal chandeliers, velvet d

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A California congressman and his wife are in Ethiopia to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps at the place where they served as volunteers in the 1960s. John Garamendi leans back in his chair as he recalls the life he and his new wife Pa

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Growing numbers of communities in the United States are facing a painful new reality: they're running out of cemetery space, making traditional burials, especially in urban areas, extremely expensive. More Americans are opting for cremation and a new

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Construction of a railway tunnel under the Istanbul or Bosporus Strait in Turkey has uncovered ancient ruins older than historians believed existed. The Marmaray Project aims to upgrade about 47 miles of commuter rail that includes connecting either

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All we have are little paintings on pottery on vases and urns. 我们只见到陶制器皿上、花瓶上和坛子上的小型画像。 Their loveliness tells us what we have lost. 这些画像如此之美以至我们能够想象得出来我们丧失了

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Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to Harare after receiving treatment in Botswana for injuries sustained in a car crash that killed his wife. Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai, seen, addressing mourners at his home, in Harare, 0

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(三月)

TIANJIN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- People in a north China city have been offered a new way to go green -- put the ashes of their loved ones in dissolvable urns and bury them in the soil or in the pond. That is a far cry from the tradition land burial, whi

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