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As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

The Cambodian government has ordered a limit on interest rates on small loans. The decision comes before local elections are set to take place in June. The 18 percent limit on the microfinance industry interest rates takes effect on April 1. Microfin

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(三)月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In June of 2017, Nicole Smith-Holt lost her 26-year-old son Alec when he couldn't afford the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes. Since his death, Smith-Holt has been vocal about the rising price of insulin, which has more than

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

The High Cost of Winning People Weekly 2004 Time Inc. All rights reserved 1 Jay Sommers, 36, Won: $5.8 million, Outcome: Lost it all, delivered pizza Jay Sommers was 20 when he won a $5.8 million lott

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 彭蒙惠英语

The High Cost of Uncritical Teaching By Ira J. Winn / Reprinted with permission. Adapted from the article originally published in Phi Delta Kappan magazine. If students are not given the guidance and

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As the Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping day, approaches and people get ready to honor their departed loved ones, funeral services have once again become a hot topic. Some people complain about the rising cost of funerals and say the

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

How about half the price? 半价怎么样? How much does this vase cost? 这个花瓶多少钱? $20. 20美元。 $20! It's too expensive. How about half the price? 20美元!太贵了。半价怎么样? Half? Are you kidding? 半价?开玩笑嘛

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 旅游英语口语情景对话

Americans love chicken. In fact, its the most popular meat in the United States. Americans eat more than eight billion chickens per year. But bringing all of that chicken to the dinner table creates a lot of big problems. Meat production is bad for t

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

Hello, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta and here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Help is on the way for all struggling homeowners. President Bush today signed a housing bill that will provide government-backed loans to

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(七)月

Some people say the United States higher education system is the best in the world. But the cost of a college education in the U.S. can be very high -- about 70 percent of students graduate with some debt. In 2014, the total amount of that debt in th

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(198) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(二)月

By Brian Wagner Port-au-Prince 17 April 2008 Foreign aid groups in Haiti say they are hurt by the high cost of food just as much as ordinary citizens whose anger over the rising prices led to violent protests in the Caribbean nation last week. In Por

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

A new education survey reveals that chief executives at America's largest corporations fear the U.S. could lose its competitive edge in science and technology because of a shortage of trained workers. Leaders questioned in the survey advocate greate

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And House Republicans, as we noted, have met to discuss potential replacements for the Affordable Care Act. One suggestion to lower some people's premiums is to create what are called high-risk health insurance pools. But as Minnes

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

Latest official figures show China's pork prices, a stable meat in the country and a key driver of inflation, has hit a new record high, rising 0.7 percent last week from the previous week. The Ministry of Commerce said that was the fifth consecutive

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

价格 Price (一) Business is closed at this price. 交易就按此价敲定。 Your price inacceptable (unacceptable). 你方价格可以(不可以)接受。 Your price is feasible (infeasible). 你方价格是可行(不可行)的。 Yo

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Four years after being labelled a security threat by the US Congress, Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has quietly grown into the third-largest seller of Android smartphones in the country. 四年前,中国电信设备制造商中兴(ZTE)被美国

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Insomnia costs average U.S. worker 11.3 days, or 2,280 dollars, in lost productivity each year, according to a new study published in journal Sleep. The total cost to the nation is 63.2 billion dollars annually, the st

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Leaders 社论 Britain's planning laws 英国规划法 An Englishman's home 英国人之家 The shortage of housing is a gathering national crisis. Rev up the bulldozers 英国住房匮乏,危机重重,应大兴土木! NOW that the economy is a

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie, Physicist 「我们必须相信,我们拥有某种天份,而这个特质,我们必须不计一切代价取得。」玛丽居里

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(199) / 评论(0) 分类 卡卡课堂早餐英语

Rip somebody off: to cheat somebody, by making them pay too much, by selling them something of poor quality, etc. 敲诈;讹诈Tourists complain of being ripped off by local cab drivers. 游客们抱怨被当地的出租车司机敲了竹杠. Soak: t

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇
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airworthiness directives
antiadherents
asbat al-ansars
astripotent
beryllium bluoride
branchinella kugenumaensis
burdened
Chondon
circular cutting disk
close-cut fraction
clothes hangers
CMLA
convergence criterion
Crawfurdia speciosa
Dalai-lama
desmitis
dimidiata
disallow
downstream sand injector
durovemum (canterbury)
Eberschwang
embowing
encysted tumor
Eolian
fall into a habit of
flipism
foresightedly
Foxbase
furnished room
further rights of partnership creditor
gelatos
genemark
General Purpose Fuse
get blood from a stone
helical orbit
houk
Humicola
indication of duration
intermediary orbit
intermittent rod withdrawal
isohyomene
jewsbury
jugg
Kabankalan
Kukawa
leucoprotease
light chart
lulus
manufacturing engineering
marketability security
Mercurialis leiocarpa Sieb.
metric screw thread
milk shrimp
modulation type multiplier
mogodored
moly b metal
Mongol dynasty
moss zinc
myodes
natural ground surface
Negl.
nonies
octacerores
off-critical
offering up
paper-cutting
patent journal
performing arts center
pericentrin
Peristrophe strigosa
pod boiler
prehardener
public offense
real world
reduction in tariff
relatively bounded space
riverine rabbit
self capacity
southern blue flag
spin bath
springform tin
stevin
suburban-types
succinyl peroxide
synkfoile
t-quark
ta-chou
terminationless
thermion
three-position control
tip-leakage loss
to encode
transput declaration
twelfthic
uk -spattered
unbeneficiated ore
under the yoke
unlawful assembly
van't Hoff isobar
vegeterian
weight controller
Westcott g-factor