重新再学英语——从听写开始

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我有罪，周末例行陪人偷懒后
今晚打球回来又帮她改年度报告
又只能泛听一段录音，关于GAMBILING
还好语速慢，生词也不多，当保持一下下状态好了……
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Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories.

Many people believe that money makes the world go around; others believe that money buys happiness. I do not agree with either idea. But I doadmit that money can make people do strange things. Let me tell youabout a person I once knew who like to play card games for money. Heliked to gamble.

My friend Bob had a problem because he liked to gamble at all costs. He would play at anytime and at any price to take part in a card game, such as poker. My friend would have to emptyup. He would have to pay a small amount of money at the beginning ofthe game. Bob always played with cold, hard cash, only coins and dollarbills. Sometimes, my friend will clean up. He would win a lot of moneyon one card game. He liked to tell me that one day he would break the bank. What a feeling it must be to win all of the money at a gambling table.

Othertimes, my friend would simply break even. He neither won nor lostmoney. But sometimes, Bob would lose his shirt. He would lose all themoney he had. He took a beating at the gambling table. When thishappened, my friend would have to go in a hole. He would go into debtand owe people money.

Recently, Bob turned to crimeafter losing all his money. In his job, he kept the books for a smallbusiness. He supervised the records of money earned and spent by thecompany. Although my friend was usually honest, he decided to cook thebooks. He illegally changed the financial records of the company. Thispermitted him to make a fast bark. My friend makes a quick, easy money dishonestly.

I never thought Bob would have sticky fingers. He did not seem like a thief who would steal money. But some people will do anything for love of money.

Bobused the money he stole from his company to gamble again. This time, hecashed in. He made a lot of money. Quickly, he was back on his feet. Hehad returned to good financial health. His company, however, ended upin the red. It lost more money than it earned. The company was nolonger profitable.

It did not take long before my friend's dishonesty was discovered. The company investigated and charged him with stealing. Bob tried to pass the bark, he triedto blame someone else for the deficit. His lie did not work, however,he ended up in jail. Today, I would bet my bottom dollar that my friendwill never gamble again. I would bet all I have that he learned hislesson about gambling.

Words and Their Stories in VOA Special English was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.

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27.

今晚的听力比较简单，很少那些比较复杂的词
但其中不少固定词组蛮有趣的
抓出来让大家分享下
at any price: 无论如何
hard cash: 硬币、现金
clean up: 赚钱、获利
break the bank: 耗尽资源
break even: 打成平手、不赔不赚
lose one's shirt: 丧失全部家当
to go in a hole: 陷入绝境、陷入两难
cook the books: 伪造或篡改财务报表、造假帐
have sticky fingers: 有偷窃的习惯
make a fast buck: 轻易得来的钱（通常指不择手段得来的）
pass the buck: 推卸责任
back on one's feet: 得到恢复
bet one's bottom dollar: 打赌，孤注一掷

以为晴天

链接不成功，下载了不少听力材料，可惜是rm格式，只能在电脑上播放，不能在MP3播，看来要下载个音频转换程序了……

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发现新注册的MJ不能发音频的
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今晚的录音，又是几段简短的政治新闻
很高兴地发现经过听过几段政治方面新闻后，听这些新闻没那么吃力了
而且确实会碰上很多同类型的词
以前可能会根本听不出来的词
现在也会一听就听到，然后能写出来了
只是依然还很多单词听不出更写不出的

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It’s 15:30 universal time ,you’re listeningto the news in Voa special Engligsh.I’m Keren
** in Washington .
Russian president *** Putin has expressedhis surpport for first deputy prime minister ***to be the next president .Mr Putin
madehis announcement at a meeting of his United Russia pary. The Russian constitutiondose not permit Mr Putin to be a candidate for president again.But he is closeto the Mr ** ,Mr *** is a top offcial of government own natural gas company ***.He was educated as a lawer and he’s considered fridendly to business interests..
British prime minister Gorden Brown is onhis first trip to Afghanistan.He visited troops asthe main British military base in Helmand province.He thanks the troops for their sacrifice.Mr Brown now is in Kabul for meeting with the top
Afghan officials.British and Afghan troopsrecently launched an offensive
in Helmand province to recapture the ***.The Talibanseized control of the town in February. NATO? officals said Afghan troops
entered ** on Monday . More than six thousandsAfghan and ** slodiers are invovled in the operation in*** A **spokesman saysthe goal is to return civilian rule to the town.It’sthe only major population center in Aaghanistan under Taliban control.
A former prime minister of Pakistan hasbegun to campaign for a parliamentary election injanuary .** had said he would boycott theelcetions . But he says his party and another oppotition party faile to reachagreement on the boycott plan .Now he says he wants to increase surpport fo hisPakistan *** party. Persident ** had said again the vote january 8th will be free and fair. He also said he would end emergencyrule on December 15th..(不懂这句话什么意思)
The Swiss bank UBS says it lost ten billondollors because bad loans of people buying houses in the United States.The banksaid it would try to make up the loss by selling shares to investors in Singaporeand the Middle-east. Last month , the largest Amercian bank Citigroup alsoreported major losses due to similar problems with bad home loans in UnitedStates.The *** finacial news service reports theindustry has now lost a total at about seventy six billion dollors on bad homeloans
American and chinese officials are meeting in Beijin this week totalk about trade , exchange rates of the money and other issues. Us Commerces
secretary ** said both countries must work fora freer trade .He said China and the UnitedStates must surpport
new ideas andcompertition .China’s vice commerce minister *** said both side should stopblaming each other for trade problems. Later this week, Us health secrertary **and ** sacretary ** will join in the discussions in Beijin .You are listeningthe news in the Voa Special English.
有一个词组已经听过两次了，这次依然写不出来，有点郁闷——seized control of the town

另外发现一个单词很好玩的——boycott，意思是联合抵制，应该跟杯葛是同样意思
这样的话中英文的发音是很相象的

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不懂为什么每次复制过来都排版都会打得乱七八糟，不弄鸟，溜达一下去睡觉……

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Test ...

文件尺寸: 小于 2048 kb
可用扩展名: jpg, gif, rar

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我承认我RPC
但为什么在电脑版都可以
在E文版就不行了呢

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各个版面权限设置不同吧

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昨晚跑去GZ聚会，今晚又好累
于是又是泛听……
不过建立在精听的基础上再泛听的确有效果
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Now, wecontinue our discussion from last week about the pay for professors inthe United States. We looked at the averages. Today we narrow that toone example.

Andrew McMichaelis a young history professor in his sixth year at Western KentuckyUniversity, a state school in Bowling Green. He started as an assistantprofessor, teaching seven courses a year. His starting pay wasforty-three thousand dollars, plus benefits. These included healthinsurance for himself and his family, life insurance and a retirementplan.

His position was on the tenure track. This meant theuniversity would have to decide either to award him tenure, whichprovides job security, or ask him to leave. He requested tenure afterfive years. He had to present evidence of his research, teaching andservice on committees.

Teaching skills are measured throughevaluations by students and observations by other professors. Theresearch requirement includes publishing three articles or writing abook or translating a foreign work into English.

Professors maythink they have met all the requirements for tenure, but there are noguarantees. The process can seem mysterious and unfair.

Inrecent years many schools have reduced their number of tenuredpositions. Doing that saves money and gives administrators morecontrol. It also means greater competition for fewer jobs.

Earlier this year, Andrew McMichael received the decision about his future at Western Kentucky. It was good news: he earned tenure.

Thatmeant a promotion to associate professor. It also meant a ten percentpay increase as well as a one-time payment for good work.

He nowearns almost fifty-eight thousand dollars a year, not a huge amount, headmits. And he knows that even a starting professor outside the liberalarts, in an area like accounting, earns a lot more.

He alsoknows that his school could hire someone to teach the same number ofclasses he does for about fifteen thousand dollars with no benefits.But being a professor means more than teaching classes.

ProfessorMcMichael says tenure will mean the freedom to speak out and doresearch on whatever he wants. History is not his only interest. In thespring he will be team-teaching a class with a biologist on the historyand science of beer and brewing.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy S. I'm Steve Ember.

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今晚开始打不开那界面
于是跑去找歌去了
这篇也蛮好的，今晚泛听下，明晚写下来……
This is the Voa special English development report.

Booksare a high cost of higher edutcation ,but the gobal text project goals to create a free library of one housandelectronic textbooks for students in the developing countries.
The aim is offer subjects that students may take in their first fewyears at (the) universtry.
The books could be printed or read on thecomputer or copied on to a CD or DVD.
Two professors in the United States are leading the gobal text project.
Richard Watson is the acting head of the department of managementimformation systems at the university of Georgia.And,Donald Mcubbrey is a professor on imfomation technology and electroniccommerce at the university of Denver
in C**.
Professor Washion tells us that the idea for this project goes backseveral years.He was teaching
a computerprogramming in the class ,but did not have a***d textbook..So, he asked his students to each writepart of the book that he would organize and editit.By the end of the term ,professor Waston had finished the product.Since then,he has used it for other classes.
Now , professors Waston and Mccbbreyiare seeking volunteers to supervise the creation of the books for thelibrary.They are looking for professors or other professionals.
The gobal text project is similar in technology to ??? ,the free encyclopedia
that anyone can edit it on the interne t.Butonly one or two people will be able to make the final edit in texts. The project includes a committee of scholars,, mostly from developing countries to avice on require textbooksand their content.
Gobal text.org has a link to the photo type gobaltext library with two books (on?) imformations stystem and economic ***ysis .Others free texts on subject including algybra
And oceanography are also avilable gobaltext.org.The group first book on theimformation stystem is being tested *** and ***.Professor Waston says the planis to offer ten free books within the next years including an English grammertext.
Project organizers also want tooffer text book in Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish ,they are working with atranslation company in the United States. And professor Waston says studentscould also get invovled .Fox example ,a student learning English in Arabcountry could translate
part of the bookinto Arabic,Then another student and the class professor could check thetranslations.
And that is the voa special English developing report written byJill moss.

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发现自己对尾音真的很不熟悉，听力工夫未到家的表现
基础单词拼写也不够熟
今晚的一些词听不出来，若有高人帮忙指点，感激万分……

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It’s 15:30 universal time,I’m steve member in Washiton.

1\ Pro-bussiness candidate Lee *** has won a big victory in southKorea’s presdential election.
Mr lee’s main opponent was Liberal candidate Chung Dongyoung.
Mr Chung admitted the defeat severalhours after the voting ended on Wednesday.  
With more than half of ballots ccounted,Mr Lee had 47% of the vote.Mr Chung received 26% .
Mr Lee is a former mayor of Seoul and the former top officer at the Hyundai company.
In the victory speech , he said he would save the south Korea economy from a possible crisis.

2\ The organization human right watch says, freeand fair elections are not possible in Pakistan under the current politicalsituation .
The organization said the media remains surpressed ,it also said,
community leaders are still under house arrest and the governmentsurpporters have replaced Judiciall officals.
The organizationg reproted thePakistan during the emergency rule placed last month.
The reprot says judges,lawyers,and the government opposition members are stillbeing the detained.
Pakistani president ** Musharraf liftedthe emergency conditions on Saturday .
He said the restricions were placed in the last effort to save Pakistanfrom further unrest.

3\Pakistani officals said at least fifty sixpeoples were killed when train cars filled with holidays traverlers came off a railroadon Wednesday in Southern Pakistan
.More than one hundred twenty others wereinjuried.
The train was going from the southern city *** to Lahore.
Many of thepassengers were believed to be going home for the Muslim holiday ***.
Rail roadofficals say the accident was not an activeterror.
They said early reports showa joint broke because the cold weather.
Also in Pakistan,at least 14peoples were killed on Wednesday in a traffic accident invoving to vehicles.

4\Afghan presdient *** says Afghanistan is not ahiding place for terrorism but a victim for it.
The Afghan president spoke during observances making the Muslim holiday ***.
He urged the United States and itsthe allies to attack terrorists in countriers other than Afghanistan.
Thecomments come as United States has begunto reexamine its work and goals inAfghanistan.
In the past,***Mr ** had asked Taliban leaders to put theirweapons down.and join his government.T
he Afghan leader is expected to visit Pakistan next week.

5\An Israeli  cabinet member say Israel would agree to communicate with Hamas leaders in the Gaza strip.
He says the aim of such communication would be to stop rocket attack form thePalestinian territory.
Transprotation minister *** spoke on Israeli  army radio.
He said ,Israel will not stop itsattack again terror groups until the rocket fire from Gasa ends.
Mr ** wasreacting to what Iraeli media says was a offer from Hamas leader *** to openthe negociations to end the violence.
Irael hasrefused to have any contact with Hamas until the the group rejects violence.
You are lintening to the news in Voa specialEnglish.

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发现只要涉及到选举，如election、vote\ victory \ speech \candidate 还有我加粗的ballots就会反复出现
听懂这些词，基本再听选举方面的新闻就问题不大了……

AK47明

LZ加油 支持你

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最近晚上安排得实在比较满,发现已经N天没听听力了
我有罪 坚持的确不是容易的事,我希望我能尽量支持下去……
今晚打球回来，听段短点简单点的
[wma]http://download.putclub.com/update/sest/200712/27/20071227REPORT.mp3[/wma]

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Today we have the second of two reports about the education of college athletes in the United States.

Millionsof Americans follow college sports mainly football and basketball.Schools with good teams are under pressure to win, but now they arealso under pressure to do more to make sure their players get acomplete education.

On January 7th, the two top college football teams will play in New Or***s forthe National Championship. Ohio State, rated NO.1, will play NO.2,Louisiana State. Privacy laws limit what schools can say about academic performance. Still, we wonder how these two universities support their football players off the field as well as on.

Stan Jefferson directs player development for the football program at Ohio State University. He says all the players can receive the same academic help. This includes in their first year of school, required meetings of what is known as the interactive study table. This is a program in which players meet with a tutor before classes to discuss their work. Stan Jefferson tells us that players also meet with counselors who make sure they are progressing toward their degrees.

AlliesYouth says on its website that football players there also receiveextra help. It says, one hundred tutors are available and can providehelp in every subject.

We noted last week that the organizationthat governs college sports is paying closer attention to academicperformance. Schools now recieve an academic progress rate, or APR fromthe National Collegiate Athletic Association.

This number represents graduation rates for athletes on scholarships in each sport. An APR of 925 equals a graduation success rate of about 60 percent. So how were the top schools doing? 950 was the average APR for all the male sports teams in Division 1 in the last report in May.

Football teams had a lower average, 931. Louisiana State had an APR of 941. And the Ohio State football team had an APR of 928. Teams below 925 must develop plans to improve their athletes' academic performance.

Good athletes often get a free education on a scholarship. Critics say it is only fair to these young players to invest in their minds as much as their bodies.

Andthat's the VOA Special Education Report written by Nancy Stanbach. Thefirst part of our report can be found at voaspecialenglish.com. I'mSteve Ember.
今晚写得不多，因为基本都听得出来，听完后跟读了下……

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今晚比较有心情灌水
泛听这段一分钟多点的新闻
估计没有听惯的会什么都听不到
好多好熟悉的单词，但还是组织不起来

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President Bush today called the assassination of Bhutto “a cowardly act by murderous extremists who were trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy." Larry Miller has more from London.

Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai met with Benazir Bhutto just hours before she was killed. Karzai described those who planned the attack as "the enemies of prosperity and peace, and the well-being of Pakistan and of the Muslim world. " UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was a heinous crime. Russia's Vladimir Putin called it barbaric. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "She risked everything in her attempt to win democracy in Pakistan. " The Vatican said the attack shows how difficult it is to pacify a nation so wrought by violence. Iran said the terrorists who carry out the assassination should be found and punished. Israel described Bhutto as a courageous woman who did not hide her ideas, did not know fear and served her country with courage. For NPR News. I'm Larry Miller in London.

A Pakistani opposition leader now says his party will boycott parliamentary elections scheduled for next month in the wake of Bhutto's death. Nawaz Sharif, a former Prime Minister was also scheduled to take part in the elections.


heinous:a If you describe something such as a crime as heinous, you mean that it is extremely evil or horrible.
那天忘了发听力稿上来了，很明显是其他人的，实在太难了
不过很搞笑的是
这两天在家时看回新闻，发现N多与这条新闻相关的新闻
平生第一次，先听英文新闻再去看中文版

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第一次听时就听出了之前提过的一个单词——boycott
好开心
总结下我不认识或不熟悉的单词——prosperity
assassination，heinous，barbaric. pacify，wrought等等

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