The First Day

I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me, If bright or 1) dim the season, it might be Summer or winter for 2) aught I can say. So unrecorded did it slip away,

新东方商务口语[60]:买冰箱

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TED演讲:对最近气候趋势的警告(1)

Last year I showed these two slides so that demonstrate that the arctic ice cap, 去年我给各位展示了两个关于北极冰帽的演示， which for most of the last three million years has been the size of the lower 48 states, has shrunk by 40

CNN 2010-02-18

How the heck do you miss nearly a million jobs during the recession? Boom, just vanished. Apparently our experts did. Just minutes ago a new measure of just how bad the economy is, and it isn't good, folks. CNN's Christine Romans in New York. So how

英语诗歌:The Horses

Ted Hughes I climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf, not a bird,-- A world cast in frost. I came out above the wood Where my breath left tortuous statues in the iron light. But the valleys

The Fox in the lce

Very early one winter morning，during a hard frost， a fox was drinking at an ice－hole， not far from the haunts of men．Meanwhile，whether by pure accident or from negligence doesn's much matter，the end of its tail got wet，and froze to th

2006年VOA标准英语-Experts Keep Close Tabs on North Korean Missile

By Kurt Achin Seoul 28 June 2006 World leaders have expressed concern for weeks over the possibility of a North Korean missile test. Beyond satellite images of the missile launch base, however, relatively little is known about Pyongyang's prospectiv

双语：离职礼仪知多少？

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Bestselling Author Alexandra Fuller Talks New Novel: 'Quiet Until The Thaw'

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Over the past year, there have been a lot of big stories in the news about the rights of tribes versus the federal government, themes that have resurfaced over centuries. A new novel explores those themes and their cyclical natur

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justina Machado On Her Quincea?era, Rita Moreno's Abs And 'One Day At A Time'

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THIS IS IT) POLLY CUTTER: (Singing) This is it. This is it. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the 1970s and '80s, the TV show One Day At A Time pushed boundaries. It was about a divorced mother raising two teenage daughters in Indianapolis. N

英语美文-----Solitude 独处

Solitude 独处 I find it wholesome to be alone the greater partof the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome anddissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was socompanionable as solitude. We are for the

VOA双语新闻：朝鲜半岛南北关系缓解

South and North Korea have resumed traffic across their tense border to a jointly run industrial zone, renewing hopes for the project's viability. The move reflects a thaw in tensions after recent diplomatic moves between the two Koreas. 韩国和北韩

如何安全地解冻冷冻鸡肉

Getting chicken safely from a rock-hard frozen state to a thawed ready-to-cook state raises a lot of questions. Here are the answers. 将坚如磐石的冷冻鸡肉解冻至可以做饭状态，会出现很多问题。下面交给你如何去做。 F

4千万火鸡4千卡 感恩节趣事集锦

2 The ranking of Thanksgiving on the list of Americas favorite holidays. Christmas is No. 1. 2美国人民最喜欢的节假日，感恩节排名第二，第一是圣诞节。 2 The maximum number of days the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggests k

Mondeo, S-Max cars recalled over ABS concerns

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Co. Ltd. will recall 62,445 vehicles in China from April 1 due to a problem that could lead to erroneous warnings on the vehicles' dashboard displays that their anti-lock braking systems (AB

十二星座生日礼物送什么好（双语）

送爱人或朋友礼物实在是很费脑筋的事，要是对方又不喜欢又不实用，那简直就是费钱费力不讨好，下回朋友和爱人过生日，按照朋友或爱人的星座来挑选礼物试试吧。 ARIES:白羊座Aries loves

Every mountain has a peak

Every mountain has a peak What is the secret ingredient of tough people that enables them to succeed? Why do they survive the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? Why do they soar when others sink? The answe

美国商务部临时解除针对中兴通讯出口限制措施

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) is expected to announce a lift on the export curbs imposed on ZTE later this week, two weeks after the ban was put into place, media reports said on Monday. 相关媒体上周一报道，美国商务部预计将于本

听播客学英语 51 冷冻

For the last two weeks, our newspapers have been full of stories about the Big Freeze. Like many other places in Europe, the weather in Britain has been very cold. We have had lots of snow, and the roads are covered with ice. There are shortages of g

Zimbabwe's PM alleges persecution

Zimbabwe（津巴布韦） Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused the Zanu-PF party of President Robert Mugabe of persecuting his MDC group. He said Zanu-PF violated(侵犯) the law and spread the language of hate, and vowed not to let it continue. Mr