慢速英语

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A small candle burns. It represents life - that was. It represents the lost promise of a future. The candle is a picture, on a website. It is on a ‘memorial wall.’ On the ‘wall’ is a long list of name...

一支小蜡烛在燃烧。它代表了生命——就是这样。它代表了对未来失去的希望。蜡烛是一张图片，在一个网站上。它位于“纪念墙上”“墙上”有一长串名字。有数百个名字。每一个都代表着失去的生命。信息充斥着网站页面。有来自母亲、父亲、姐妹、兄弟的信息。每一...

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Papa was a rancher.He worked with horses.He was proud of the way he dressed.He always wore clean clothes, even when he worked.That is very difficult for a rancher who works outside on a horse farm.He ...

爸爸是个牧场主。他和马一起工作。他为自己的穿着方式感到自豪。他总是穿着干净的衣服，即使他工作的时候也是如此。对于在马场外工作的牧场主来说，这是非常困难的。他经常对我说：“儿子，你可能买不到最好的衣服，但要始终保持干净。这是最重要的。”爸爸照...

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‘The drug got control of me and I could not stop. I tried everything.’ Millions of people across the world take illegal drugs. They are addicted - that is, they depend on drugs daily. They are no l...

“药物控制了我，我无法停止。我什么都试过了。”全世界有数百万人服用非法药物。他们上瘾了，也就是说，他们每天都依赖毒品。他们不再控制毒品。相反，药物控制了它们。兰吉特·辛格曾是一名瘾君子。大卫·巴斯特分享了他的故事。我十六岁时就不上学了。我想...

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The northeastern United States continues to clean-up, repair and re-build in communities hit by Hurricane Sandy.Many people ignored warnings to leave their homes for emergency shelters.Often, this was...

美国东北部继续清理、修复和重建受飓风桑迪袭击的社区。许多人无视离开家园前往紧急避难所的警告。通常，这是因为他们的宠物或牲畜。收容所很少允许动物进入。这个问题几乎出现在所有的洪水、大型野火和地震中。克里斯托弗·克鲁斯告诉了俄勒冈州的努力，告诉...

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For Luma Mefleh the Fugees were like a family. Luma grew up in Jordan, in the Middle East. She came to the United States for school. After she finished university, Luma did not know what she wanted. S...

对Luma Mefleh来说，难民就像一家人。卢马在中东的约旦长大。她来美国上学。大学毕业后，Luma不知道自己想要什么。她尝试了许多工作，搬到了许多不同的地方。最后，她搬到了格鲁吉亚。但她仍然感到不满意。直到有一天，她看到一群孩子在街上踢...

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On July fourth, seventeen seventy-six, the Second Continental Congress,meeting in Philadelphia,approved the Declaration of Independence.The new country, the United States of America,was at war with it...

1776年7月4日，在费城召开的第二届大陆会议批准了《独立宣言》。新国家美利坚合众国与其前殖民统治者英国交战。然而，并非所有前殖民地的人都同意宣布独立的决定。没有人确切知道有多少美国人仍然忠于英国。马萨诸塞州政治领袖约翰·亚当斯认为，大约三...

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Shamsoun Dikori was born in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan in the early 1980’s. He remembers his home as a beautiful place. It was filled with fruit trees and grass fields. As the oldest of six c...

Shamsoun Dikori于20世纪80年代初出生在苏丹中部的努巴山脉。他记得他的家是个美丽的地方。里面种满了果树和草地。作为六个孩子中最大的一个，Shamsoun也有一个庞大而充满爱心的家庭。“我妈妈关心每个人。她总是想给她的孩子最好...

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Each fall,people travel to Vermont to see the colorful autumn leaves.In winter,people come to ski and snowboard in the mountains.In the warmer months,they go on river-rafting trips and camp and enjoy ...

每年秋天，人们都会去佛蒙特州看五颜六色的秋叶。冬天，人们来山上滑雪和滑雪板。在温暖的月份，他们会去漂流和露营，并享受其他户外活动。佛蒙特州只有大约60万人。这使其成为美国人口第二少的州，仅次于怀俄明州。而且这个州不仅人口少。佛蒙特州是美国五...