RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Like many American manufacturing towns, Massena, N.Y., has hemorrhaged jobs in the past decade. GM and Reynolds Metal closed. Aluminum company Alcoa downsized. But now Massena is banking on a new opportunity to boost its economy

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Baltimore is closing in again on 300 murders. It has passed that grim milestone every year since 2015. That was the year of the Freddie Gray riots, which led to the current effort to reform Baltimore police. The unrelenting carnage

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Brad: [兴奋] Ron! Ron: [高兴] Hey, how did it go? Brad: [故意装沮丧] Uh... You know, who wants a teacher that barks (v. 狗叫) like a dog? You should try another line of work. Ron: Are you serious? [为Brad不平] Didnt they look at your re

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He climbs a tree. He climbs from limb to limb. He climbs higher and higher. The ground gets farther away. The top of the tree gets closer. He sees a squirrel. It barks at him. He looks down at the people on the ground. His mother looks up in the tree

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A snake,having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage,inflicted a severe bite on the cottager's infant son,of which he died,to the great grief of his parents.The father resolved to kill the snake,and the next day,on its coming ou

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

An old snake goes to see his Doctor. Doc, I need something for my eyes, I can't see very well these days.The Doc fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in 2 weeks. The snake comes back in 2 weeks and tells the doctor he'svery dep

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