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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: language in action. We have two reports. RS: We start with a program in the International Business School at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts. It helps introduce for

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: language in action. We have two reports. RS: We start with a program in the International Business School at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts. It helps introduce for

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Don had a pistol. It was a small pistol. He offered it to his brother Tony. Tony looked at the pistol. It was a beautiful pistol. It was black. It had a silver trigger. Tony put his finger on the silver trigger. He put the pistol in his pocket. He to

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 超级简单英语阅读

Thousands of Africans who came to the United States to escape Ebola virus disease might have to return home as another Ebola case has been found in the continent. The World Health Organization says a second case of Ebola virus disease has been confir

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(五)月

By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 19 September 2006 U.S. Capitol Police say an incident early Monday in which a man possessing a gun drove his car through the capitol security perimeter and ran inside before being caught, has prompted a new review of pro

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(九月)

By Dan Robinson Washington 26 May 2006 Police and emergency vehicles outside of Rayburn builiding A congressional office building near the U.S. Capitol was shut down for several hours Friday, as police investigated a report of shots being fired. ---

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Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. applaud as Mexican president Felipe Calderon waves after addressing a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, May 20, 2010 Mexico's president is appealing dir

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Monsanto, the pioneer of genetically modified food, likes to say it is rooted in science, but some leading scientists are accusing the company of denying evidence about the risks of its newest weedkilling technology. NPR's Dan Cha

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Farmers in parts of the South are fighting each other over a weed-killing chemical. Some are using it in combination with a new generation of genetically engineered crops. Others are angry because it's blowing in the wind and dam

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Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm

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In 1888, Brazil became the last major country in the world to officially abolish slavery, 66 years after breaking away from Portugal to become an independent state. Black workers were at last free to leave the plantations. Many headed south to Rio de

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In Rio, African rhythms began to mix with European styles. And it was at the house of a Candomble practitioner, a priestess named Tia Ciata, Auntie Ciata, that the first song widely recognized as Carioca samba, samba from Rio, was performed in 1916.

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Racial discrimination was now banned in Brazil, but prejudice and the belief in white supremacy was still widespread. So there was outrage in the press that black musicians like Pixinguinha should be allowed to represent Brazil when he and his band O

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Some said she wasn't a true Brazilian, because she was born in Portugal. But Carmen Miranda conquered Brazil during the 30s and then moved on to the States. Her songs came from the finest writers of the days, including Dorival Caymmi and Ary Barroso,

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

President Vargas gave Rio the Carnival for which the city became world-famous, but less than two years after his death, a new form of samba emerged that reflected a new political era in Brazil and would bring Rio even more international exposure and

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Garota de Ipanema, Girl from Ipanema, had been written by Jobim and Vinicius in 1962 as they sat in this bar off Copacabana, watching the girls walk by. They wrote that song just because they saw the same girl passing by the bar, going towards the be

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By Jill Moss THIS IS AMERICA – April 15, 2002: Visiting the Capitol VOICE ONE: Historians have described the United States Capitol building as “the most recognized sign of democratic government in

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(215) / 评论(0) 分类 This is America

By Kari Barber Kinshasa 26 November 2007 The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced changes in his government, naming 10 new ministers, while at the same time reducing the number of government positions. Kari Barber reports from

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India's richest man is rolling out a $20 billion mobile network that could bring lightning-fast Internet to hundreds of millions of people. 印度首富正斥资200亿美元建设移动网络,或可使十亿人高速连接互联网。 Indian consum

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

The United States has told Venezuela that its ambassador to Washington will be expelled in the latest chapter of a growing diplomatic dispute. The U.S. also slapped sanctions on Venezuelan officials for allegedly supplying arms and helping drug traf

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学英语单词
abays
address designator
aguayos
Albizia simeonis
any one location
astronomick
balantidosis
barometries
behind-closed-doors
bookmarker
broadband network termination 2
brunies
burst someone's boiler
came into possession of
carefreenesses
coalpickers
color fastness to perspiration
Cottaite
cracking-pressure
crustecdysone
Ctimene
dating billing
demethoxypalosine
diffuse hypergammaglobulinemia
DP after date
DSSTool
ectopic lung lobe
Erastian
erber
ethification
feare
federal reserve branch banks
ferryboatmen
fodder beet
ga(u)ger
gabrielle
generalized choice-based sampling
germinative temperature
glossotilt
go like hot wildfire
high frequency diode
hydrogenated amorphous carbon
i-limed
importing country
interviews one-on-one
investible
Israelitesses
Klokann
koph
lateral swing
lateroproximal
licobenzofuran
literateurs
manuscription
many nucleon transfer reaction
microbatch
microstratigraphy
msg (monosodium glutamate)
Mwelo
nacker
nappings
near at hand
Nervi intercostales
one-man flight vehicle
overrefinement
pass trestle
pericarditis epistenocardiaca
phenosafranin
plosive consonant
plumbism
pomboes
power end
pseudochylous ascites
quellable
re-directed
reel fore and aft control
scope of validity
scotomization
scribbling pad
Slick Willy
smokeless gunpowder
spongy body of urethra (or cavernous body of urethra)
staircase wit
sticholoroside
stone loach
subcategorisations
syntactic analysis
tailwinds
theonymy
theory of plate tectonics
time division multiplex
tinned leads
total physical response
trouser meats
virtual visitor
Viverra civetta
warspites
warst
weighting machine
Whale Head
wheel felloe
with a rope round one's neck