By Caty Weaver Broadcast: November 21, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, the World Trade Organization ruled that United States taxes on imports of stee

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-农业与经济

Johnny-Cake 玉米饼 Once a little old woman and a little old man and a little boy lived in a little old house. 从前,一个小老太太、一个小老头和一个小男孩住在一座破旧的小房子里。 One day the little old woman made a r

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's push for tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is driven in part by competition from China. The United States still produces most of its own steel, we should be clear. But the industry has faced pressure from ch

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BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's steel output growth slowed in July and prices of steel products have continued to drop, according to data from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Crude steel production gained 4.2 percent year

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to go haywire 火冒三丈,非常生气 美国的农民一般都是用一根细的铁丝把乾草一捆捆地捆起来。这种捆乾草的铁丝在英文里叫做:haywire。每当一个农民要喂牲口的时候,他就用斧头把铁丝砍断。可

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我们经常把非常快乐或值得庆贺的日子称为red-letter day,日历上也把节日用红色标示。但是你知道这样的习俗是什么时候开始形成的吗? red-letter day是一个有着非常悠久历史的短语,其最初的应

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