pretentious, stuck up
> "St. Louis teachers, on the other hand, tended to act very "siditty" and talked down to their students from the lofty heights of education and whitefolks' enunciation"-Maya Angelou, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"

By Alan Silverman In the new comedy by writer/director Alexander Payne, two friends nearing 40 take a holiday in the California wine country and learn some valuable and often very funny lessons about

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(282) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--文化艺术

THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Kennedy Becomes President STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) We begin this week's story on January twentieth, nineteen sixty-one,

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Kathy said, Here, Kitty, Kitty! But Kitty didnt come. Where was Kitty? Kitty always came home for dinner. Kathy said it again. Here, Kitty, Kitty! But Kitty didnt come. Kathy stayed up late. She waited for Kitty to come in. Kitty always came in throu

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Kathy said, Here, Kitty, Kitty! But Kitty didn't come. Where was Kitty? Kitty always came home for dinner. Kathy said it again. Here, Kitty, Kitty! But Kitty didn't come. Kathy stayed up late. She waited for Kitty to come in. Kitty always came in thr

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 24 September 2007 Israel is playing down tensions with its arch-enemy to the north - Syria. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there are new moves to bring Syria into the Middle East peace process. Prime

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By Alex Villarreal Washington, D.C. 21 December 2007 The Lebanese Parliament will make its next attempt to elect a new president on Saturday. The post has been vacant since late November, when the country's pro-Syrian president stepped down. As VOA's

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

Have a little love on a little honeymoon You got a little dish and you got a little spoon A little bitty house and a little bitty yard A little bitty dog and a little bitty car Well, it's alright to be little bitty A little hometown in a big old cit

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By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 21 September 2007 Islamist political parties have added their voice to charges that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's bid for re-election is unconstitutional. The movement against Mr. Musharraf's candidacy was also jo

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called America's first Pacific president. The president, born in Hawaii, began his eight-day trip in Japan, then visited Singapore

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Sorry,thereisnottexttemporarily,Pleasehelptingroomtolookforit! 如果您能找到更好的听力原文,请发贴到 听力原文收集区 ,您将会获得10到30积分的奖励! Thankyou! 爱探险的朵拉 BBC儿童动画-小猪威比

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is words that sound funny. Funny ha ha, not funny weird. And now, on to funny words. Guest writer Kevin Cummings, of the Shortcomings Audio podcast, writes, I had my first comedy hit with the phrase itty-bitty kidneys

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Kerry Set to Be Democratic Presidential Nominee Meredith Buel U.S. Senator John Kerry has all but clinched the Democratic nomination for president, and his main rival, Senator John Edwards, is expecte

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 25 February 2008 The former Seoul mayor who swept December elections in South Korea is getting used to his new title: Mr. President. Lee Myung-bak has taken his oath of office in a formal ceremony in the South Korean capital. VOA

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(290) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Greg Flakus Mexico City 04 July 2006 In Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, candidate of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, is charging election officials with manipulation of the vote count in Sunday's presidential election that sh

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By Kari Barber Dakar 19 March 2007 Mauritanian presidential candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi casts his vote in Nouakchott, 11 March 2007 The third-place finisher in Mauritania's first round of presidential polls, Zeine Ould Zeidane, has thrown in

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Kitty:赌注,头钱 相信你一定有过这样的经历:和三五个好友围坐着一张小圆桌,每人从钱包里掏出三五块零钱放在桌子旁边,然后手里捧着一把扑克牌,思忖着今天谁能走好运把大家的赌注

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(211) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Hello Kitty will appear in an animated feature set for release in 2019, according to an article by Deadline. The white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow and six symmetrical whiskers will star in the film project with an estimated budget of $160 mil

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 02 April 2008 The U.N. Security Council will hold a high-level meeting with African leaders later this month in New York to discuss continuing conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. From U.N. headquarters in New York, VOA

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节奏布鲁斯:Lemar - Time to grow 相关介绍 :施展出迷人节奏蓝调,灵魂等音韵的大本营美国,捧红多为扬名国际的歌手。然而进入90年代,传承Aretha Franklin、Roberta Flack等绝代动人的灵魂音韵,香醇

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美国人似乎好把两个押韵的词连在一起组成习惯用语。今天我们首先来讲一个这种形式的习惯用语:nitty-gritty。 Nitty-gritty这个习惯用语约莫在1965年间开始在美国人的日常交谈中流行。谁也不清

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学英语单词
abbozzo
abstract simplex
accounting business
albumate
antiurbanization
apages
area inertia moment
Astor,Nancy (Langhorne), Viscountess
aureliuss
axially symmetric load
back wash
bioscientific
birthun
breathe deeply
Brib.
brillante
chalcis flies
civic role of libraries
Click-beetle
colour coordinates
COM automation
comminuted fracture of upper end of tibia
common ringlet
completely additive ring of set
corpule
CPC (clock-pulsed control)
cricopharyngeal diverticulum
cushaws
docosahexaenoic
dropout ratio
dry-laid masonry wall
Durchbruchsberg
electronic eye
enschedule
ethmoid fossae
eyewitness news
flammable substance
flexive
foreign branch office
fuel pool filter-demineralizer
g.703
goose neck pipe
grandpere
Gulf Coastal Plain
Habana
Harriet Beecher Stowe
hoccleve
hollow steel spoke wheel
ill-husband
infix operator
interactive graphics library
inward position
Iranian Petroleum Law
ischemia-reperfusions
ivoriness
jinkss
junior seaman
kiaugh
lateral range
learning by analogy
length of warranty
loxoconcha jiantao
magnetic disturbances
Micoud
microwave scatterometer
midswing
multiplex holography
nidificating
nucleus ventralis posterior thalami
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
oldnesses
p-group
paving brick
peak current (diode)
photopyrometer
phyllactinia pyri (castagne) homma
platform end door
procephalic lobe
programming interface
provincial assembly
pterines
puff sth out
pump power input
quitting-time
rashamel
reversing colour sequence
Rio Formoso
saber-toothed cat
saintite
semi-products
set link
sexual jealousy
skew metric space
snap-shooting
sum-frequency generation
techno-geek
the unobservable
University of Miami
unswung
us capitol hill
W/WO
water-glass