Technology Report - How the Edsel Became 'an Edsel' This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. ANNOUNCER: Theyll know youve arrived, when you drive up in the nineteen fifty-eight Edsel -- the car thats truly new, from nameplate to taillight.

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

It was in the national news every day. It was on the radio. It was on TV. It was in the newspapers. It was the recall. Toyota was recalling thousands of cars. The cars had a brake problem. Sometimes the brakes didn't work properly. Some Toyota driver

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

Grammar Girl here. The grammar authorities are going to battle it out today. For they all have a different opinion about our topics: the merits of using the word for to mean because, and whether its OK to start a sentence with the word for. Now, gues

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

The director of governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says he expects a change in approach following Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharikas election as chairman of the African Union over the weekend. Peter Clottey | Washington

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

Banks' dodgy assets; Taking out the trash;The lingering toxicity of banks' balance-sheets; 银行的不良资产;清理垃圾;银行资产负债表的毒性挥散不去; Waste disposal is still a big part of post-crisis banking. A large amount

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