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(476) / 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

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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

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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

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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
abat-jour
advance-decline
asbestos washer
binary-compatible Hollerith
Birak
bisazimethylene
brindled brick
broad mindedness
Buch,Baron Leopold von
Cerebri-
chief-inspector
circulation principle
coefficient of biological type
creamed crab meat soup
cyclic error
cyclotrigermene
DDNP
deipnophobias
demask
dendrocopos
development finance institution (dfi)
direct pick-up camera
direct-attacheds
Duflo
duplex type
el tabaco
express lanes
faece
Fart and Dart
Fenibutazona
Fluor-Op
for the consignee
formosanus
frontward
Frsp
fusarium oxysporum sesami
gender-neutral pronouns
general anemia
genus Hypsiglena
good plan
graduated in inches
group control supervisory panel
guildlike
harmonic correspondence
identical period
iditabike
indirect language
inscrit
intellectualism
Keuten
kormann
La Crosse
Ledeburitic steel
leghold trap
Lewis blood group system
lickin
loan syndication
lohmiller
long-acting sulfonamides
macrolabia
Mazdaism
monogeosyncline
nevie
Norse mythology
nozzlechamber
oculary
operational program
overhead cranes
passenger vehicles
peptone solution
phoenicaceous
prior party
procesos
procyclidine
projective invariant
quadrature-axis transient open cir-cuit time constant
radio listening post
Radix Hemsleyae
re-draws
recoiling reel
recrystallization behavior
retinitis
risk-benefit ratio
rotating pattern radiobeacon
roundhead
sallekhana
serrodyne
slendong
slop feed
smite
soap-dodger
steam jacketed mold
steering column control
tailbooms
torpids
torsion force
ultramicroscopic organisms
vrana
Welsh British
willingnesstopay
wymore
Yongjeo-man