An overseas business trip国外出差 My company assigned me to attend an overseas exhibition. 公司派我出国去参加展览 There are still lots of people,so was hard to move in the exhibition hall. 展览会场人山人海,人要移动都很困难...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced details of a plan aimed at removing billions of dollars in bad debts from American banks. The government program has two parts. One involv...
BBC Learning English Weekender The abolition of the slave trade William:Hello and welcome to Weekender Im William Kremer. Lets start by going back to 1807. At that time, Britain was an extremely powerful country with a large empire. Britain made its...
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