2009-01-25&01-27 奥巴马的希望

Now the change is in him. Just days from inauguration, Barack Obama is striking a different tone. The soaring campaign rhetoric, America, this is our moment. This is our time. has given way to grim reality. With the country mired in an ugly recession

中英双语新闻 法国总统选举加大力度

BBC News with David Austin. The Romanian government has withdrawn a draft decree which would reduce some penalties for corruption following days of huge street protests. The Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu told a news conference that he did not want t

CNN 2011-11-03

Not happy news for you basketball fans.The NBA season was supposed to start tomorrow.Not gonna happen.The League and team monors have locked out the players.The NBA already cancelled the first two weeks of its season.Friday,the League announced that

【一起听英语】英国的政党

英国的政党制度是什么样子的？ Yvonne: You're listening to 6 Minute English, I'm Yvonne Archer and Stephen has kindly joined me for today's programme. Hello Stephen! Stephen: Hi Yvonne! Yvonne: This year, there's a special British bank ho

British republicans

NB: This is not a word for word transcript Yvonne: You're listening to 6 Minute English, I'm Yvonne Archer and Stephen has kindly joined me for today's programme. Hello Stephen! Stephen: Hi Yvonne! Yvonne: This year, there's a special British bank ho

AP 2011-08-18

1. President Barack Obama is on the road. He was greeted in St. Paul, Minn, by the state's governor and congressional delegation. The White House says the three-day bus tour through Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois will focus exclusively on the economy.

白领英语晨读-115 Equipment　装备

Equipment Figure it out for yourself, my lad. You have got all that the great have had: two arms, two legs, two hands, two eyes, and a brain to use if you'd be wise. With this equipment they all began, so start for the top and say I can. Look them o

中英双语新闻 特朗普财富缩水8亿美元

BBC News with Jerry Smit. The human rights group Amnesty International says the government of Sudan has used chemical weapons against his own people in Darfur. It says since January more than 200 people, including dozens of children have died in agon

股市反弹 IPO再度重启

China's securities regulator has announced that it will resume initial public offerings by companies after halting the fundraising mechanism since July. The suspension was part of emergency measures to contain a massive meltdown that sent the stock m

精灵鼠小弟 第61期:关于打斗的法律

Rats don't like the open, said Agnes Beretska. 大老鼠不喜欢让人看见，阿格尼斯.贝伦卡说。 That's because whenever they come out, somebody socks them. 那是因为他们只要一出来，就会有人殴打他们。 Rats might like t

毕业生找工作时毁约真的值得么

Many college graduates these days settle for any job they can find while still searching for better career opportunities. Graduates often have an employment contract in hand, but will breach it once a more ideal job opportunity comes along. 如今，很

时事关注：揭秘中国用工荒

Various domestic media reports put the labor supply gap at around a million people in Guangzhou and neighboring cities such as Dongguan, legendary centers of China's export boom in the past three decades. Numerous assembly lines and construction site

英国拟将劳动节挪至十月（双语）

英国政府考虑把法定假日五一劳动节挪到10月，并更名为英国节或特拉法尔加节，以促进旅游业。负责旅游事务的部长官员说，新节日设在秋天，不仅能促进旅游业发展，还能让我们所有人专注

英伦广角 2009-08-02 英国航空亏钱了

Not long ago, BA was flying high and making millions, but the turbulent global economy has seen its profits plunge. And even the last three months gearing up to the lucrative holiday season have failed to lift the downward trend. Unless this airline

More equipment parts exempted from import tax

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) has revised a list of major items of technical equipment enjoying import-tax exemption, according to a circular issued by the body on Monday. Chinese manufacturers of items of large tech

芬兰计划每人每月发800欧元津贴

The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal wont be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out 800 ($870) p

我国三大运营商十一起全面取消长途和漫游费

China's three major telecom carriers announced that they will scrap charges for domestic long-distance calls and roaming starting Oct 1, following Premier Li Keqiang's promise in a government work report. 我国三大电信运营商日前宣布，将自

瑞士将就公投超级福利 不工作月拿2500瑞士法郎

Switzerland is considering giving every adult citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 a month. 瑞士正在考虑每个月给成年人发2500美元的补助。 The country is holding a national referendum on the introduction of a basic income on June 5

Brown move to cut UK nuclear subs

The prime minister is to tell the United Nations that he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three. Gordon Brown will make the offer at a meeting of the UN Security Council on halting the spread of nuc

经济学人:反对人口普查 十年一度制度被保留

Official statistics 官方统计 Con census 反对人口普查 Britain's decennial population count has been saved. Now make it work better 英国十年一度的人口普查被保留，如今需改良运作状态 WHEN the first results of the 2011 ce