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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Baseball Terms: This Is a Whole New BallgameBy Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, August 13, 2006 Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Baseball is A

VOA标准英语2013--Estranged Family Gets Sports Fix in 'Trouble With The Curve'

Estranged Family Gets Sports Fix in 'Trouble With The Curve' In Trouble With The Curve, Gus Lobel knows more about scouting new talent for baseball teams than anyone else in the business; but his failing eyesight and old-fashioned attitudes may end h

NPR 06-29:The Learning Curve of Gratitude学会珍惜每一天

After suffering a life-threatening illness, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had time to reassess her priorities. She came to believe in more fully appreciating the blessings each day brings From NPR News, this is weekend edition. I am Liane

体育美语-020 Throw a curve ball

P: Hey Yang Chen why are you playing Hail to the chief? I thought we were a sports show - are we going political? Y: Not really. You see, Patrick, the presidential election is in its final stretch - the home stretch - the final lap - just like in长跑

企业家成功的5大要素 乔布斯全都有

No one could have taught you more about starting a company than Steve Jobs, and I had the privilege and honor of working for him in the Macintosh division of Apple. 没有人能够比斯蒂夫乔布斯给你更多关于创建公司的指导了，而笔

Lesson 91 - PASS THROW A CURVE / THROW FOR A LOOP

to throw a curve to throw for a loop 美国人在打棒球时经常喜欢发曲线球，使球的方向会发生突变，这样给对方造成错觉，不能回击那个球。这和其他球类运动，

2006年NPR美国国家公共电台五月-John Kenneth Galbraith, In His Own Words

Don Gonyea: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, prolific author, Harvard professor, and iconoclast , died yesterday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97 years old, born in Canada to a farming family, Galbraith became the country's leading

英文歌曲：Britt Nicole - Who You Say You Are

Yeah, yeah. You know my name. I know You wrote my story-y-y. But there are days, I can't see a happy ending. No, no. Life get's hard. Sometimes it just hurts. It's kicking me down and throwing me curves. When I feel the rain. I won't be afraid. 'Caus

英文蓝调歌曲：Britt Nicole - Who You Say You Are

You know my name. I know You wrote my story-y-y. But there are days, I can't see a happy ending. No, no. Life get's hard. Sometimes it just hurts. It's kicking me down and throwing me curves. When I feel the rain. I won't be afraid. 'Cause I know, I

中英双语新闻——86 Tintin leaps off the page into 3D

A new film about the adventures of Tintin, the Belgian boy reporter, opens across Europe this week. 上周，一部讲述比利时少年记者丁丁历险故事的新电影在欧洲地区上映。 The movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, faithfully d

【跟着英剧练发音】The Queens PalacesE1-13

So if Charles I was collecting, in a sense, to self-aggrandise and to make a statement about himself, whereas George III was collecting because he thought that's what a king should do, because he loved art? Yes. He would never have commissioned an im

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—15

After Luiz Gonzaga died in 1989, a statue was erected just outside Recife, the capital of his home state, Pernambuco. It marks the start of the Luiz Gonzaga Highway. Gonzaga had reminded Brazils city dwellers of the depth of music that exists out in

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—6

In Rio, African rhythms began to mix with European styles. And it was at the house of a Candomble practitioner, a priestess named Tia Ciata, Auntie Ciata, that the first song widely recognized as Carioca samba, samba from Rio, was performed in 1916.

英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—13

Carmen Miranda came to symbolize Brazil for the outside world, though she had been criticized at home for becoming too westernized. Her sophisticated light-hearted songs had little to do with the everyday struggles of many ordinary Brazilians. They f

美国习惯用语:470 beanball; curve ball...

今天又要学两个在总统大选年里新闻界时常会用到的习惯用语，而且这两个习惯用语还是从美国人最心爱的消遣活动: 棒球赛中借用来的。 这两个习惯用语都和用牛皮制成的结结实实的棒球有

TED演讲:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(3)

Before I talk about that, 谈到这之前 I've written down at the bottom there 我在底下标出了 the slope of this curve, this straight line. 这条曲线的斜率，即这条直线 It's three-quarters, roughly, 大约为3比4 which is less than

音乐咖啡厅:Remember when

Remember when-- Alan Jackson Remember when I was young and so were you And time stood still and love was all we knew You were the first, so was I We made love and then you cried Remember when 曾几何时我年轻过你亦如此 时光静止你我除爱别无所知 我之初

CCTV9英语新闻：Spotlight on hand-drawn work of Zhu Deyong

The renowned Taiwan cartoonist Zhu Deyong - an exponent of the hand-drawn artform - is presenting sketches showing his process to a finished product. Zhu Deyong has attended the festival several times, but this is the first time he has had an entire

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托福8000词汇怎么背?新东方托福考试网分享托福熟词僻义词汇总结：，让我们一起背单词吧。 address v. 应付，处理(问题等) aging n. n陈酿 appropriate v. 擅用，挪用，占用，盗用 article n. 物品;制品，