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A. accept - v. to agree to receive 接受 accident - n. something that happens by chance or mistake; an unplanned event 事故 accuse - v. to say a person is responsible for an act or crime; to make a

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Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Protests Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece, ther

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Explaining his decision to authorize the use of U.S. military force as part of international operations in Libya, President Barack Obama said Monday night that the United States must act when its interests and values are threatened. The president rul

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National Defense University, Washington, D.C. 7:31 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Tonight, Id like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya - what weve done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us. I want t

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CNN 2011-03-01

There are roughly 6,000 Americans in Libya, and the U.S. government is trying to get them out. A ferry that was chartered to take hundreds of U.S. citizens from Libya to Malta was held up for a while yesterday. U.S. officials said everyone onboard wa

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CNN 2010-05-16

Vicious weather in the southern plains. Two deadly tornadoes swirling in unison in southern Oklahoma. All of it caught on tape. There comes one right there. Look at them. They are all over. As you can hear, storm chasers were only reporters because i

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BBC Learning English Weekender The abolition of the slave trade William:Hello and welcome to Weekender Im William Kremer. Lets start by going back to 1807. At that time, Britain was an extremely powerful country with a large empire. Britain made its

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Ibelievethatinlifepowercomesfrom concentratingyourfocus, andtakingdailyactiontoimprovesomething. Ifallyoudoisworkonsomethingeveryday andimprove1percentaday, what'sthedifferencewithinayear? Well,It'snot365percentdifference, 'causeonepercentaday starts

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I often ask myself what politics is. When I turn on the television and see politicians in action, I think it looks like a circus. A lot of the politicians I see are like comedians. They lie, they steal money and get involved in all kinds of scandals.

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Analysts Say Medvedev-Putin Job Swap No Surprise Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will swap jobs next year with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In this report from Washington, senior correspondent Andre de Nesnera looks at the ramifications of such a

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