我都统一好多遍了  :gggggg

可惜现在我不用考英语了
否则 真的要好好表扬VAN  :mmmmmm

学术版块，严肃点的说:$

3Q柠檬

:kkkkkk  
:gggggg
谢谢LZ的分享 （官方正式语）

英语是虾米时候都要学的说

以后不敢看这个了  头大

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SENEWS-2007-06-17 Report
Words and their stories Report



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Now the VOA Special English Words and Their Stories.

Have you ever considered all the English expressions that include words about cloth? Let's see if I can name a few of the cuff or without any preparation. People wear pants to cover the lower part of their bodies. We sometimes say the people who are restless or nervous have ants in their pants. They might also fly by the seat of their pants. They use their natural sense to do something instead of their learned knowledge.

Sometimes people may get caught with their pants down. They are found doing something they should not be doing. And in every family, one person takes control. Sometimes a wife tells her husband what to do. Then we say she wears the pants in the family. Pants usually have pockets to hold things. Money that is likely to be spent quickly can burn a hole in your pocket. Sometimes you need a belt to hold up your pants. If you have less money than usual, you may have to tighten you belt.

You may have to live on less money and spend your money carefully. But once you have succeeded in budgeting your money, you will have that skill under your belt. I always praise people who can save their money and not spend too much. I really take my heart off to them. Yet when it comes to my own money, I spend it at the drop of my hand, immediately without waiting. And sadly you can not pull money out of hand. You can not get money by inventing or imagining it.

Boots are heavy or strong shoes. People who are too big for their boots think they are more important than they really are. I dislike such people, I really do. You can ban your boots on that. Yet truly important people are hard to replace, rarely can you fill their shoes or replace them with someone equally effective.

My father is an important person. He runs a big company; he wears a suit and tie, and a shirt with sleeves that cover his arms. Some people who do not him well think he is too firm and severe.They think he is a real staff shirt. But I know that my father wears his heart on his sleeves. He shows his feeling openly and he knows how to keep his shirt on. He stays calm and never gets to angry or too excited. Also my father has never lost his shirt in the business deal. He is too smart to lose all or most of his money. This is because my father rose up his sleeves and prepares to work hard. He often has a special plan or answer to a problem that he can use if he needs it. He is like a person who dose magic tricks. We say he has a cut a piece sleeve.

This VOA Special English programs Words and Their stories was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.

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I'm Carmen English from the VOA News Center in Washington.

World powers and neighboring Arab states are voicing support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Islamic militants of the Hamas party routed Mr. Abbas's Fatah forces and took control of the Gaza Strip. More now from VOA's Jim Teeple.

For the first time in nearly a week, calm largely returned to the streets of the Gaza Strip as Hamas militants completed their takeover of the territory by seizing the Gaza headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Ismail Haniyeh, who Mr. Abbas dismissed as prime minister, says he will ignore the order and focus on restoring security. Haniyeh says he has instructed the Hamas Executive Force militia to impose what he described as "quiet" in Gaza. He says the existing Palestinian government will continue to operate no matter what President Abbas says. About 100 Fatah officials fled to Egypt on Friday, but tensions eased considerably after Hamas announced an amnesty for senior Fatah commanders. Hamas leaders also say they will take over Gaza's border crossing with Egypt, which has been staffed by Fatah security officials and monitered by observers from the European Union. Jim Teeple, VOA News, Jerusalem.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates met top US military commanders in Iraq today to assess a troop build-up designed to slow ongoing violence, while Iraqi officials pursue national reconciliation. US officials gave no details of Gates' talks with the top US military commander in Iraq. Gates was to meet later with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi officials.

Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck near a NATO convoy in the capital Kabul, killing four civilians. Officials say five other people, including one foreigner, were wounded when the bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a lined vehicles in western Kabul today.

The senior US envoy to the North Korean nuclear talks says a banking issue that has held up the diplomatic process is days, at most, from being resolved. VOA's Kurt Achin reports.

Christopher Hill, the US Assistant Secretary of State, says a banking transfer that has held up North Korean nuclear diplomacy for months is likely to be resolved by Monday. He says about 20 million dollars in North Korean funds has been transferred out of Macau's Banco Delta Asia to a bank in Russia where only technical issues are holding up a final transfer into a North Korean account. Hill, the US representative to six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, is in Mongolia for a conference. He is expected to visit Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo over the next week for talks aimed at getting a crucial February agreement back on track. North Korea promised in February to shut down its main nuclear production facility by mid-April, a preliminary step toward full abandonment of its nuclear weapons. Pyongyang missed the deadline, however. It said it would take no action until the Banco Delta Asia money, which belongs to North Korea but was frozen in Macau by US action, had been transferred to its custody. Hill says the hard technical effort of getting the money from point A to point B has been accomplished and that Washington now expects Pyongyang to honor its part of the February agreement. Kurt Achin, VOA News, Seoul.

China has opened a national investigation into a slave labor scandal in central China, where as many as 1,000 people are believed to have been forced into a brutal human trafficking ring. China's official Xinhua News Agency says a team of investigations will be sent to brickkilns and coal mines in Shanxi and Henan provinces, where more than 500 people, many of them children, have been freed in recent days. Officials say they believe hundreds more could be trapped at the work sites.

The United States said it's tightening export controls on high-tech goods to China that Beijing could use for the military. The new regulation announced Friday also makes it easier for approved Chinese customer SOE import more high-tech goods. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says the new rule strikes the right balance for Washington's complex relations with China.

These are the top stories this hour. In Washington, I'm Carmen English, VOA News. More news on the Internet at voanews.com.

Vocabulary

rout: v. ot defeat someone completely in a battle, competition, or election （在战斗、比赛或选举中）击溃，彻底击败
kiln: n. a special oven for baking clay pots, bricks etc. （烧制陶器、砖头等的）窑
brickkiln: n. 砖窑
SOE: n. (state-owned enterprises), means those companies which all property of the enterprise belongs to the state. 国有企业

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The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that the new emergency government being formed by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas creats a fresh opportunity for a peace partnership because it won't now contain the Islamics movement Hamas. Mr. Olmert was speaking before boarding a flight to Washington where he is due to meet President Bush on Tuesday. Alex Van reports.

The Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert said he had long considered President Mahmould Abbas a negotiating partner. But speaking before leaving for the United States, he said the alliance between Mr. Abbas's Fatah party and Hamas had made any peace making virtually impossible. Now, Mr. Olmert said the situation had changed enablig diplomatic progress. Mr. Abbas is due to swear in an emergency government today excluding Hamas. Earlier in the fresh serve of support for President Abbas, the US indicated it will lift to the aid embargo against Palestinians in the West Bank early next week.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians, many of them supporters of Fatah, have been fleeing Gaza by land and sea. After chaotic scenes, Israel closed its crossing into Gaza, saying it would consider requests to leave on a case-by-case basis. An advisor to the Israeli government M I said Israel was doing its best to limit the impact of the disorder in Gaza. "We do know of our impact certainly of the entries and entrance ways, but the water to the Gaza Strip comes from Israel that has not been stopped, the fuel, the electricity come from Israel that has not been stopped, and that though the Hamas have taken over, Israel does not want to see, like the western world, any kind of humanitarian disaster inside the Gaza Strip."

United States has welcomed to North Korea's decision to invite the International Atomic Energy Agency to send inspectors to discuss shutting down a key nuclear facility. A White House spokesman described the North Korean announcement as a good step. The official North Korean news agency said the move was in response to the release of North Korean funds frozen in a bank account in Macao.

The British pop star Elton John has given a concert in the main square of the Ukrainian capital Kiev promoted awareness of AIDS. Ukraine has one of the highest HIV infection rates in Europe and the organizers hope Elton John's performance will help reduce ignorance surrounding the disease. Our correspondent Helen Fawkes was at the concert.

This was probably the biggest ever concert Ukraine has ever seen. There were more than 200,000 Ukrainians crammed into the main city square in Ukraine. And it was a very positive, very upbeat atmosphere. People were very happy. Ukraine is a country where there is widespread homophobia, openly gay men not something you rarely see.

Helen Fawkes in Kiev. You are listening to World News from the BBC.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has held talks with Polish President Lech Kaczynski on the future of a new treaty for the European Union which Poland has threatened to veto. A German government spokesman said the four-hour meeting took place in a good atmosphere but there was no indication that Mrs. Merkel persuaded Mr. Kaczynski to drop his veto threats.

Heavy snowfall in the Andes is hampering efforts by Argentine and Chile authorities to clear one of the main mountain passes linking the two countries by road. More than 6,000 trucks have been stranded on the crises that the R Pass since Wednesday. There were few cars fitted with chains have been allowed through. It's a major freight route linking Argentina and Brazil with Asian markets via ports in Chile.

The organizors of a controversial gay pride march in Rome say that more than 100,000 people took part. Revelers, many dressed in extravagant costumes, made their ways past ruins of the C to rally outside the P A J L. But the Roman Catholics and Right Wingers have criticized the support given to the event by members of the Italian government. David Willey now reports from Rome.

At the head of the procession, Italy's best known gay and pee F L S. The match was deliberately channel by the authorities to remain far away from the Vatican. Most Italians now accept that gay civil unions are a fact and must be recognized by the law. No fewer than three government ministers took part in the rally. Italy's Environment Minister A F S said it was part of the fight for civil rights.

Four England footballers have got married within 24 hours of eath other at lavish ceremonies. The wedding of the captain John Terry was in a palace in M K, which onlookers said was decked out with pink seats and purple carpets. The other players, Garry Navels, Steven J and Michael C had equally colorful ceremonies.

And that is the latest BBC World News.

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