VOA慢速英语20061227a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New York City wants to fight fat. The Board of Health has passed a ban on trans fats in all restaurants. Kentucky Fried Chicken sells a fried chicken fre

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Jo: I'm Jo Reffin and on today's entertainment programme on bbclearningenglish.com, we're talking to someone who works in the film business. Samantha Perahia My name's Samantha Perahia I work for the UK Film Council, we are a government funded organ

Penelope Cruz - Volver

Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. Today, we listen to parts of an interview with film star Penelope Cruz! She talks about her new movie, 'Volver', what she likes about working with Spanish director Pedro Almodo

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Jackie: Hello, welcome to Entertainment! I'm Jackie Dalton. Many countries have a particular type of food or drink which they become associated with. Swiss chocolate, Cuban rum, American burgers. What are the English most associated with? Well, for

Fat or thin?

Jackie: Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton, welcome to Entertainment! Today we're going to look at an issue which often comes up in the world of Entertainment, and that's being fat or thin. It's a big issue in the British media at the moment. One report says

Mr Bean and M. Hulot

William: Hello and welcome to Entertainment I'm William Kremer. [FX canned laughter] Well, the comedy that has made Mr Bean popular around the world doesn't quite work on the radio, since the main character Mr Bean - doesn't actually say anything. I

Elle Macpherson

Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with a woman who - in the 1980s and 90s - put the word 'supermodel' in the dictionary! She's Elle Macpherson. Elle began her b

11 Nations Sign Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Without US

Eleven countries in the Pacific region have signed a major Asia-Pacific free trade agreement in Santiago, Chile. The deal is a new version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership from which the U.S. withdrew last year. The agreement is called the Comprehens

WHO Wants to Remove Trans Fats from Food

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. There may be something in your food that you cannot see and cannot taste. But it could be killing you. It is an artificial oil commonly called trans fat. Trans fat is a toxic chemical th

英语四级同形异义词辨析08

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Now, even though both of these molecules are made up of exactly the same building blocks, 尽管这两种分子由一模一样的东西组成， they are two completely different substances, and they behave completely differently inside of us. 但它们

How to Maintain Your Love Relationship

In order to experience everlasting love in life, you ought to first figure out what is missing in your life and then fill in the gaps. People fall in and out of love because they expect their lovers to be everything to them and do everything for them

Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit7:Transporation(2)

Part 2. Green Transporation Festival. Keywords. Green Transporation Festival, oil, environment, reduce, other kinds of fuels. Vocabulary. hydrogen, propane, scooter, hybrid, ethanol. A. You are going to hear a report on green transporation festival.

8 Ways To Maintain Your Productivity After a Long Day

8 Ways To Maintain Your Productivity After a Long Day Sometimes its easy to go into lazy mode when you leave work. You might be tempted to hit the couch and turn on the TV the minute you get home. Instead, you know you should be doing useful things l

National standard for trans fat labeling

BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of trans fat and other nutritional information will be marked on the labels of prepackaged food, according to the country's first national standard for food nutrition. The labeling will take effect on Jan 1,

最性感机器人：会跳钢管舞

Technology shows such as the annual E3 games conference in Los Angeles have become known for their scantily clad 'booth babes' designed to attract people to stands. 在洛杉矶，一年一度的E3游戏展以穿着暴露的展品模特儿闻名。 H

乔布斯传 第446期:回到未来(4)

Both metaphorically and in reality, the translucency connected the inner engineering of the computer to the outer design. 无论是比喻还是现实，这种半透明都把内部的工程学构造和外壳设计联系在了一起。 Jobs had always

乔布斯传 第445期:回到未来(3)

By the next showing Ive had refined the playful model. 在下一次展示之前，艾弗又完善了这个模型。 This time Jobs, with his binary view of the world, raved that he loved it. 这一次，乔布斯带着他那不是杰作就是狗屎的评

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