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Surprising Origin of 'To Keep at Bay' Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore everyday expressions that we use in conversation. Americans often use the first saying we will talk about today. B

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Unit 4 Text B Short-term Memory There are two kinds of memory : short-term and long-term .Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time (when it is needed) . The information may be k

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What do you do when you have time to kill? It's a bit of a violent phrase, isn't it? It really means to use up spare time, or extra time. That is just(1) what I was doing this weekend, while I was waiting for my son's basketball game to start. We had

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By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 20, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says medical progress against disease will have no effect if

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Now, it is time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we explain the meaning and usage of common expressions in American English. Today we will talk about expressions with the word heel. Now, heel has several meanings

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Many Food Names in English Come From Africa On a recent program, we told you stories of English words borrowed from other languages. Today, we will tell you about words English has taken from African languages. Many of these words entered English as

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In Part 1 of this program, we told you many uses of would in everyday speech. Today, we will talk about two more uses. Well also look at some important elements for understanding this modal verb. Before we continue, though, lets do a short review exe

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'Take' Is a Building Block in English Now, the weekly program Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore the history and usage of common expressions in American English. And we give examples so that you can learn t

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For All Book Lovers: Chapter 2 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. The goal of this show is to help you learn words and expressions in American English and also when to use them. Today, we continue talking about the word bo

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AS IT IS 2016-09-04 Sometimes You Have to Bite the Bullet Now, the weekly program Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore the history and usage of common expressions in American English. We also give you example

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Dictionaries range broadly in purpose, size, and price; and choosing one is a very personal decision. The best advice is to make note of the things you and your family look up in a dictionary over a few weeks' time, and then go to a comprehensive boo

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今天我们要学的词是short-term。 Short-term, 短期的。 Short-term loans, 短期贷款。联合国粮农组织最近在罗马开会。 The summit tried to solve the short-term emergency of the increased hunger caused by soaring prices, 这次

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MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Fitch international rating agency confirmed long-term ratings of Russia in national and foreign currency at the BBB level, the agency said Friday. Fitch's forecast remained positive due to a strong government's bookkee

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S.

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