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In this Business English Podcast, were going to look at delivering an elevator pitch. A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation des

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George wore a pair of blue shorts around the house. They were old, faded, and ugly, but they were comfortable. And when you are at home, you want to be comfortable. It wouldn't be called Home, Sweet Home if you didn't feel comfortable there. But when

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Can you name those notes? Probably notperhaps one in 10,000 speakers of European languages has perfect pitch, the ability to recognize a note without having heard any reference note first. But theres a much better chance you could successfully name

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Whose Finger Do You Want on the Button? Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore the meaning of everyday expressions in the English language. Today, we talk about a common object that appears in many express

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By Elizabeth Lee Washington 23 September 2009 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addresses the general debate of the 64th session of the U.N. General Assembly, in New York, 23 Sep 2009 Libyan leader is in New York and spoke at the United Nations General

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I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one

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There's a great future in the dry-goods business, Roger Button was saying. He was not a spiritual man--his aesthetic sense was rudimentary. Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks, he observed profoundly. It's you youngsters with energy and vitali

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We might think perfect pitch is an innate talent. Well, a study in the American Journal of Human Genetics is providing some evidence for that. Perfect pitch, aka absolute pitch, is the rare ability to name or recreate musical notes like A or middle

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今天我们要学的词是hot button。 Hot button, 是热门、焦点。在美国加州进行的最新民意调查发现，支持同性婚姻的选民第一次占据了多数。 The results of the survey showed the highest level of support on the h

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今天我们要讲的习惯词语都包括这样一个词，button。大家也许已经知道button是纽扣，但是button也可以作动词，意思你也一定猜得到，就是扣上纽扣。我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语是: button y

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今天介绍的俚语是pitch in，pitch in是什么意思呢？最常见得意思是一起帮忙，做出贡献(to join in and help someone with something). 例句： If you could pitch in a little we'd be finished quicker. 如果你能帮忙一下，

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for Spotlight! Im Rebekah Schipper. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Are you an i

英文短篇故事（纽约）338 Want Rain? Push This Button

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it, he said. Until now. My invention can change the weather. Just aim it at the sky and push a button. There are buttons for Rain, Sun, and Snow. His wife said, That sounds too good to