National Grammar Day Is Here! Robert Lowth, bishop of London in the 18th century, wrote a book of grammar rules that are still used today. What will you be doing on Friday? How will you have spent your day? Do you have trouble understanding these que

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(三)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the American National Corpus! RS: In linguistics, a corpus is a body of words. It's language collected in context, from books, poems, recorded conversations, newspapers, broadca

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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Fu Ming'ai was reunited with his family on Sunday after 22 years. He is one of the more than 1,400 abducted children who were helped by a national DNA database, which helps match trafficked children and their parents.

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Amour took home the best film and two other awards when critics from the National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) cast their votes during the 47th annual voting in New York on Saturday. The French-language drama, which

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(222) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

FUZHOU, April 11 (Xinhua) -- China is preparing to set up a national mortality database to obtain cause-of-death information, marking a step toward establishing a monitoring network for health risk factors across the country, an official said Wednesd

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This is Maori language week, a time to think about the survival of the Maori language and to encourage more people to use it. Listen to more about the purpose of Maori language week: July 29 2009 About 18,000 people are fluent in Maori but the number

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