Topics: Movie The Shawshank Redemption; The Pentagon; to go ahead versus straight ahead; cheesy and quirky; a few quarters short of a buck Words: redemption to be convicted sentence parole inmate tax warden diploma swamp stable Cold War mission to go

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

影片对白 RED: What the hell's going on? SNOOZE: You tell me. One second he was fine, then out came the knife. RED: Brooks, Brooks, we can talk about this right? BROOKS: Nothing left to talk about! It's damn all talked out! I'm gonna kill him, cut hi

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

Dannielle Hadley: Life in Pennsylvania means just that: life without the possibility of parole. For us lifers, as we call ourselves, our only chance for release is through commutation, which has only been granted to two women since 1989, close to 30

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news - O.J. Simpson finds out today if he will be released soon from a Nevada prison. He's been in there almost nine years. Nine was the minimum. He received a sentence of 9 to 33 years for armed robbery and other char

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

1. President-elect Obama and President Bush have held their first face-to-face meeting since election. Obama and his wife arrived at the White House about ten minutes early. The president and president-elect later waited for cameras as they strode a

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月

今天我们要学的词是parole。Parole名词,意思是假释、有条件释放 。O.J. Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in prison for a robbery in Las Vegas, a group of four Nevada commissioners decided on July 20th. 7月20日由四

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃