A Harvard commencement is a special occasion.How could anyone not have been thrilled by this morning's assembly?25,000people packed in the Harvard yard to celebrate one of the great occasions of life.I loved it all,and I love this great gathering a

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 白领英语晨读

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks Wednesday on a two-week Asian tour that will take her to Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and China. The trip is expected to bolster Washington's ties with Asian all

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年10月

A controversial but still powerful former Afghan warlord has flown back to the country from exile to campaign for President Hamid Karzai. The return home of the Communist-era militia general is seen as a boost for the incumbent president's campaign. 阿

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Iraqi officials testifying before a committee of Congress have urged the United States to be cautious in how it withdraws military forces from their country. Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and another member of Iraq's parliament also said Thursday

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(22) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年9月

图片1 Babies are special little people that have vocabulary special to them. In this episode, we look at vocabulary for before the baby gets here, when the mother is in labour, and after the baby is born and starts to grow. Do you know what a onesi

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 Most people learning English know the word ball. We can use it in a few different ways though, and it is used in many expressions! To have a ball describes a fun time! In this episode we have a ball giving you examples and explanations. We al

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图片1 Are you a chip off the old block? Are you similar to any relatives that came before you? In this episode we are talking about family, and how often family members look alike and act alike. There are many ways to talk about this, and some espe

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图片1 Jessie is starting a new type of employment that she wants to talk about: freelancing! Freelancing is popular nowadays and is the type of job that will continue to grow. In this episode we also talk about other expressions related to work inc

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图片1 Please meet another of our friends at Culips. This is Dasilva (also known as Ricardo) who is a friend with lots of interesting things to chat about. He is a Montrealer, born and raised. He is a first generation Canadian. He has taught English

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 Paul Kerrison is a friend of Maura from England who was visiting North America for the first time. In this interview you get to know Paul, and hear about his American adventures in New York City and the Independence Day celebrations he attend

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图片1 Meet another friend at Culips: Katie! A friend of Mauras from University, she has just moved to Montreal and is happy about getting the chance to practice her French. Katie has moved around and we talk about her experiences in these different

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图片1 In this episode we talk about a person that you do not want to be friends with. We describe a person who is two-faced! We also give examples of how a person talks behind anothers back and how someone backstabs another. If you ever find yourse

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图片1 As Harp and Robin explain in this episode, to tear a strip off someone, is to get very upset at them and to express that emotion in a very harsh and angry way. This could involve yelling or screaming, or just very angry, mean words. As you ca

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 Harp recently had a chat with Adam, a friend of Culips, when he was staying in Montreal. Adam currently lives in Japan and was back in Canada for a short time visiting before returning to Japan. While he was here we talked to him about his ex

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

图片1 Please meet our friend Melanie! She is a native English speaker who learned French from a very young age. She traveled to Lyon, France where she met her partner Christophe, who is a native French speaker. In this episode, Maura and Melanie di

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图片1 In this episode Maura is again joined by our friend Rita. (If you dont know who Rita is you can check out her previous episodes with us by clicking here or here.) Maura and Rita discuss a couple expressions to do with time: The early bird cat

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In this episode we are looking at the word guts and gut. They look similar but they have quite different meanings! Which one means a big, fat belly? There are also other related expressions like to follow your gut or to have a gut feeling. We can als

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Some movies and television shows can be very tense and dramatic, and weve got a handful of expressions to talk about them. This episodes all about the exciting things we see on screen or read in books that keep us wanting to know more and make us anx

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Who doesnt like to play games? Weve got an episode for you all about board games, which ones are popular in Canada and which ones Harp and Maura have memories of playing. Have you heard of The Game of Life? Do you know Monopoly? Listen and learn here

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图片1 This episode is about how people react to different situations. Some people have big reactions to situations that are not important. In these cases, we can use to blow something out of proportion, to make a mountain out of a molehill, or to m

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情