VOA慢速英语2013 The Ups and Downs of Living Longer

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George wore a pair of blue shorts around the house. They were old, faded, and ugly, but they were comfortable. And when you are at home, you want to be comfortable. It wouldn't be called Home, Sweet Home if you didn't feel comfortable there. But when

超级简单英语阅读:Ten Pushups

Up, down. Up, down. Billy was doing pushups. His arms were bent. His palms were on the ground. His toes were on the ground. His back was straight. His belly was close to the ground. His nose was close to the ground. Then he straightened his arms. Now

美国习惯用语: Lesson 217 - Ups and Downs / Down and Out

今天我们要给大家讲的两个习惯用语是由两个很简单的字组成的。我们先来讲第一个：Ups and downs. 在一般情况下，up 和down都用做副词，但是在这个习惯用

Whose Finger Do You Want on the Button?

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学个词Learn a Word 第899期 higher-ups

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: You know you're in your 40s when you become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth, you watch The Graduate and you identify with the parents, when you have bought a scale with a bigger digital display so you won

【英文短篇小说】THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON（1）

I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one

【英文短篇小说】THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON（2）

There's a great future in the dry-goods business, Roger Button was saying. He was not a spiritual man--his aesthetic sense was rudimentary. Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks, he observed profoundly. It's you youngsters with energy and vitali

每日一词【899】higher-ups：高层

今天我们要学的词是higher-ups。 Higher-ups, 高层。=He got the promotion only because he was a bootlicker to the higher-ups, 他就是因为拍马屁才得到了提升。NBC higher-ups plan to order 10 drama pilots, 美国全国广播公司的

每日一词【475】hot button：热门、焦点

今天我们要学的词是hot button。 Hot button, 是热门、焦点。在美国加州进行的最新民意调查发现，支持同性婚姻的选民第一次占据了多数。 The results of the survey showed the highest level of support on the h

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今天我们要讲的习惯词语都包括这样一个词，button。大家也许已经知道button是纽扣，但是button也可以作动词，意思你也一定猜得到，就是扣上纽扣。我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语是: button y

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今天我们要学的词是hot button。 Hot button, 是热门、焦点。在美国加州进行的最新民意调查发现，支持同性婚姻的选民第一次占据了多数。 The results of the survey showed the highest level of support on the h

每日一词【847】ups and downs：时好时坏

今天我们要学的词是ups and downs。 Ups and downs, 意思是时好时坏，起伏波折。The team had its ups and downs during the season, 这个球队整个赛季的表现时好时坏，起伏不定。The heavyweight champion had his ups an

环球英语 — 151：The Belly Button

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中英双语新闻——143 Ups and downs of social workers

Li Siting, 25, has visited an elderly hospital patient for two weeks to try to persuade him to agree to surgery for lung cancer. 25岁的李思婷（音译）近两周经常去医院看望一位住院的老人，并试着说服他接受肺癌手术。

CCTV9英语新闻：Chinese 'returnees' now backbone of start-ups

Homegrown talent who have come back from overseas, are now the backbone of start-up businesses. That's as the government cuts red tape, makes things easier for smaller companies, and encourages what it calls grassroots entrepreneurship and mass innov

中英双语新闻——168 Vacation start-ups

After toiling all semester on campus, the summer vacation has finally arrived. 在一个忙碌的学期过后，暑假终于到来了。 Unlike upperclassmen facing the pressures of job hunting or applying to graduate schools, freshmen and sophomores

英文短篇故事（纽约）338 Want Rain? Push This Button

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it, he said. Until now. My invention can change the weather. Just aim it at the sky and push a button. There are buttons for Rain, Sun, and Snow. His wife said, That sounds too good to