WORDS AND THEIR STORIES(25) - Apple-Pie Order

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Apple-Pie Order By Broadcast: Sunday, October 17, 2004 Now the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression apple-pie order. It me

AP 2010-07-30

1. The White House says the release of 91,000 secret military documents is a breach of federal law and a potential threat to US military personnel. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama was alerted to the leak last week. The

NPR 2011-05-04

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. CIA analysts are going through documents and other information taken from the raided compound in Pakistan where US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden. NPR's Rachel Martin says the data could

NPR 2011-06-07

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House is reaffirming what it calls a real drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan. This hours after the president met with his advisors to review US policy in that region. NPR's Ari Shapiro repor

俚语口头禅:A tall order

【句子对照】 Financing your studies may seem like a tall order, but there is plenty of help available. 为你学习提供资金的要求太苛刻了点，不过可以给你很多帮助。 【关键俚语】 a tall order 英：difficult thing to do 中：离谱的要求

英语口语大赢家Topic73:点菜Order

丹尼尔和汤姆中午放学后到餐馆吃午餐，两个小家伙要吃虾球，好像又碰上了好玩的事情，究竟是怎么回事呢？ Listen Read Learn Daniel: Tom, we are in the restaurant now！ Waiter: May I take your order? Daniel: I'd like to see the menu, please. Waiter: OK, her

外贸服装口语 第53期:处理客户的抱怨之实用句型

处理客户的抱怨 Handling the Customer's ComplaintsS: Salesclerk 售货职员 C: Customer 顾客实用句型 Practical Key SentencesS1: What's the problem? 你有什么问题？ S2: Do you have receipt? 你有收据吗？ S3: What seems to be th

蒋健棠一词多意教程(17):order

order,秩序,治安;规律。 The young teacher cannot keep order in her classroom.那位年轻教师无法维持课堂秩序。 order还有其它意思，例如命令`指示等。 He gave orders that the job be done in four days.他指示四天内完成这项工作。 order也指定货`订购的意思。 Th

美国习惯用语: Lesson 214 - IN SHORT ORDER / GET THE SHORT EN

今天我们再来给大家讲解两个以short这个字为主的习惯用语。In short order. In short order就是立即，马上的意思。许多美国孩子都不喜欢打扫房间。这也是父母

complaint and claim 申诉及索赔

COMPLAINT AND CLAIM 申诉及索赔 Introduction In international business, claims do not happen in every transaction but often occur. Sometimes when the loss is not serious, the party suffered the loss may not lodge a claim for compensation. In stea

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Government Ignores Court Order, Kenya's Media Blackout Continues

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Kenya is in the fourth day of a major crackdown on the opposition and the media. It all comes after the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, declared himself president despite losing an election. The government responded by switc

美国国家公共电台 NPR Equifax Breach Puts Credit Bureaus' Oversight In Question

DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred and forty-three million. That is the number of Americans whose personal information may have been exposed in the recent data breach at Equifax. This led to a lawsuit against the company by the state of Massachusetts, an

ESL商务英语: ESL Podcast 288 – A Business Contract

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经济学人:一周商业要闻13

Business this week 一周商业要闻 The European Central Bank announced that it will begin its review of the quality of assets held by 128 banks in November. 欧洲央行日前表示：将于今年11月份起对欧元区的128家银行进行资产的

经济学人81:金钱的罪恶

Banking and crime金钱的罪恶Hitting at terrorists, hurting businesses打击恐怖，损害金融。 Forcing banks to police the financial system is causing nasty side effects迫使银行监督金融机构会造成令人厌恶的副作用。 KIDNA

伦敦地铁员工罢工

LONDON, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Subway workers in London are planning to stage five days of strike in late April and early May against ticket office closures and job losses, Britain's National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) announce

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SYDNEY, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Huawei Technologies, on Monday asked a U.S. District Court to prevent Motorola(摩托罗拉) from illegally transferring Huawei's intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), officials of Huawei told Xinhua

美国习惯用语:392 put one's house in order...

我们今天要学两个习惯用语有共同的关键词：house。大家知道house是房子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是：put one's house in order。 Put one's house in order从字面来看是整理自己的住房，但是习惯用语

外贸常用英语:订货(Order)

到了订货这个环境，应该离成功不远了,我们与客户之间的交易快要完成了。 1. We'd like to order your products. We'll send our official order today. 我们想订你们的货，今天会寄上正式的订单。 2. Did you get

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2898 data breach

今天我们要学的词组是data breach。Data breach，意思是数据泄漏。In the US, a data breach at Equifax, one of the country's three major credit reporting agencies, left driver's license numbers and other sensitive information for 143 m