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  graehah hahahj Written by Cynthia Kirk This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. 内容来自英语堂 The government of France says it is closely following theviolence in its former colony of Ivory Coast. Protesters havedemonstrated for several days in Abi...  moreWritten by Cynthia Kirk This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English. 内容来自英语堂 The government of France says it is closely following theviolence in its former colony of Ivory Coast. Protesters havedemonstrated for several days in Abidjan, the business capital ofthe West African country. They are protesting the French militarypresence in Ivory Coast. Riot police fired tear gas as they foughtwith young demonstrators near the main French military base inAbidjan. On Tuesday the government banned demonstrations,http://www.coachoutlethandbagsxstore.com/, but theprotests continued. english tang .com A youth leader, Charles Ble Goude, organized the demonstrations.He is the leader of a pro-government group called the YoungPatriots. Mister Goude also led anti-French riots in Abidjan earlierthis year. 英语堂欢迎大家到来 French peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enforce a cease-fire line thatseparates rebel forces and gov...    less

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  graehah hahahj Beijing is very much worried about the potential global economic fallout from the US subprime crisis and expanding financial woes, which could make China's job of balancing growth and fighting inflation more difficult, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday i...  moreBeijing is very much worried about the potential global economic fallout from the US subprime crisis and expanding financial woes, which could make China's job of balancing growth and fighting inflation more difficult, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday in Beijing. "We need to blaze a trail in between (curbing inflation and nurturing economic growth)," Wen said after the conclusion of the first session of the 11th National People's Congress, the parliament. Wen was reappointed China's primer minister on Sunday, after his administration attained an eye-catching annual double-digit GDP growth for China in his first term. However, the Chinese premier admitted that it would be challenging to control inflation this year to within the projected 4.8 percent target. China's inflation ran as high as 8.7 per cent in February, partially because the severe snow storms seen in five decades battered south China and handicapped food supplies. Wen's administration has set "two prevents&qu...    less

  January 22nd

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  graehah hahahj By Nancy Steinbach 2008-12-14 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A flag made of reflective tiles at the American History Museum And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program,...  moreBy Nancy Steinbach 2008-12-14 VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A flag made of reflective tiles at the American History Museum And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we visit Washington's new Capitol Visitor Center and the newly reopened National Museum of American History. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The National Mall is a grassy area that extends between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol building. The Capitol is where Congress meets and where presidents are sworn into office. The inauguration takes place on the West Front of the Capitol as crowds watch from the Mall. Traditionally, parts of the Mall are used to organize the inaugural parade on Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. But the full length of the Mall will be open to the public for the swearing-in of Barack Obama on January twentieth. Planners expect at least a million people, and perhaps many more, for the inaugu  less

  January 22nd

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  graehah hahahj Written by This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. 英语堂欢迎大家到来 Graphic Image Scientists have identified theelephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia as separatefrom other Asian elephants. The group Worldwide Fund for Nature,...  moreWritten by This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. 英语堂欢迎大家到来 Graphic Image Scientists have identified theelephants that live on the island of Borneo in Malaysia as separatefrom other Asian elephants. The group Worldwide Fund for Nature, orW-W-F, announced the finding. This follows genetic tests on wastefrom Borneo's Pygmy Elephants, as they are called. 英语堂欢迎大家到来 The Sabah Wildlife Department in Malaysia permitted researchersto collect droppings from forests on Borneo. They sent the materialto Columbia University in New York City. There, the Department ofEcology, Evolution and Environmental Biology carried out the tests. englishtang.com Scientists compared the D-N-A to the genes of elephants that livein mainland Malaysia and in Sri Lanka, India and other Asiancountries. copyright englishtang The research shows that Borneo elephants were separated fromother Asian elephants about three-hundred-thousand years ago. Somedifferences are easy to see. The Borneo elephants are  less

  January 22nd

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  graehah hahahj This div will be replaced by the 今天我们要讲几个包括bone这个词的习惯用语。Bone是骨头。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: feel in your bones。Feel in your bones这个习惯用语用了有一百来年了。它的起源很有趣，曾经骨折或者有风湿性关节炎的人每逢天气潮湿就会感到骨头酸疼得利害。这时候他就心中有数，快要下雨了，于是他出门会带上雨具。当然这个习惯用语的意思已经不再局限于关节疼痛而对天气变化有预感。让我们听个例子来体会它的意思吧。这是一...  moreThis div will be replaced by the 今天我们要讲几个包括bone这个词的习惯用语。Bone是骨头。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: feel in your bones。Feel in your bones这个习惯用语用了有一百来年了。它的起源很有趣，曾经骨折或者有风湿性关节炎的人每逢天气潮湿就会感到骨头酸疼得利害。这时候他就心中有数，快要下雨了，于是他出门会带上雨具。当然这个习惯用语的意思已经不再局限于关节疼痛而对天气变化有预感。让我们听个例子来体会它的意思吧。这是一位教授在评价一名心爱的学生。 例句-1：I feel in my bones that Tim will imprint his name in history. Not only is he brilliant in his own field, but he also has this rare sense of responsibility to all humanity. 他说:我有一种直觉的预感Tim的名字将会铭刻史册，因为他不仅在自己的专业领域内才华出众，而且还对全人类抱有一种可贵的责任感。 可见 feel in my bones 含义是"有直觉的预感"。 ****** 我们来学下一个习惯用语: bone up。这儿的bone是动词，可能来自一百多年前大学教科书的撰写人。英国学者Bohn的名字。这位Bohn先生的姓的拼法实际上是Bohn，但是它和bone这个词发音相同。Bone up这个习惯用语起先是上个世纪六十年代的大学生说的俚语。每当大考临近他们就得发奋啃读Bohn先生撰写的教科书，于是他们用bone up来表达专心致志、苦苦攻读书本的意思。让我们来听个例子。这是一个美国学生在评论亚裔学生发奋用功，准备大学入学考试的事儿。 英语堂:[www.englishtang.com] 例句-2：I hear how hard those Asian students have to bone up for their college entrance exams. They study a lot more than us with very little time for fun. But I guess the resu...    less

  January 22nd

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