By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: August 15, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Environment Report. In the United States, the Army has started to destroy old chemical weapons at a base in t

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The magical mustard seed 神奇的芥籽 A woman's only son died. In her grief, she went to the holy man and asked, 一个女人的独生子死了。她非常伤心地找到神父问: What prayers, what magical incantations do you have to bring my so

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He shook the squeeze bottle of mustard. The lift-top opened up. Did any mustard come out? He looked on the floor. He didn't see any mustard. He looked on the countertop. He didn't see any mustard. He squeezed mustard onto his two hot dogs. The next d

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Broadcast: Feb 13, 2003 Demand for electricity is growing in Mexico, but the state-owned oil company, known as Pemex, is reducing the amount of natural gas it can provide for electrical generation. Th

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你可能知道一直工作而不休息的人可能会burn out。你知道这是什么意思吗?看看今天的英语点滴来学习更多关于与burn相关的词组的用法吧。 burn out可以表达工作很长一段时间没有休息,而变得

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美国习惯用语第839:符合标准(音频) cut the mustard 上星期商店大甩卖,我买了个咖啡壶。样子虽然很好看,但是质量却不咋地。我决定马上把它退回去。这倒让我想起了今天要学的习惯用语, c

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