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Obama's budget which aims to cut funding in certain areas while increasing money used to create jobs would cancel NASA's constellation programme.

奥巴马的预算案旨在削减某些领域的经费,同时增加用于创造就业机会的资金,这将会取消美国国家航空和宇宙航行局(NASA)的星座计划。

It's a great opportunity to make new friends, join lots of clubs and settle into university life.

It would involve 15,000 police, private security and military personnel.

它将涉及15000名警察、私人保安和军事人员。

Two charter buses carrying 80 people that collided and skidded off a road were pulled to safety.两辆共计搭载80人的包租巴士相撞并滑出路面,已被拖至安全场所。

Luckily, there will be thousands of others in the same boat as you.

Britain has a well-respected higher education system and some of the top universities and research institutions in the world.

We've done the research and we think they'll like our advertisements.

It does research on infectious diseases and reproductive health, and also provides services.它研究传染病和生殖健康,并提供服务。

I'd like some information about exhibiting at the International Automobile Show.

The programme has sought to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.

Well, first, I've got to have numbers, delegates to the conference, their husbands or wives and so on for the transport as much as anything else.

嗯,首先,出于交通及其他因素,我必须要知道一些数字,与会代表、代表们的丈夫或妻子的人数等。

The cargo ship had been on route to a fishing area when it experienced problems.

Indeed, a poll conducted in the UK indicated that almost 70% of British women thought that men were as good at raising children as women.

From a safety standpoint, a lot of the older planes were built tougher and with proper maintenance.从安全的角度来看,很多老飞机制造得更结实,并配有适当的维护。

He was wearing a grey jacket with a hood and dark trousers.

Women and children living in rural communities will receive most of the services.

A campaign is getting under way in Italy to take back large stretches of the country's beaches from private bathing clubs, which usually charge to use them.

意大利正致力于将大片国有沙滩从私人沐浴会所手中收回,这些会所常会收取沙滩使用费。

Also, going abroad is more expensive. As a result, more British people are choosing to spend their summer holidays in the UK.

Banks and other financial organizations pay interest on savings accounts, but the interest rates are low.

Some critics claimed the company has not been spending enough on network upgrades to keep up with growing demand.

The new school year that begins this fall will cost about $ 50,000 for undergraduates, that includes 12 months of living expenses estimated at $20,000.

The supervisor also performs some of the carpentry duties if time permits.

这个主管有时间也会做一些木工活。

Organizers have not said when the song might be ready for the world to hear.

Italy has some of Europe's finest beaches, but they are often buried under a mountain of deck chairs and umbrellas.

In downtown Vancouver some roads are already closed and rings of security fencing surround some key venues.

The threat of a terrorist attack is rated as low, but the memory of the 1972 Munich Olympics has not gone away.

UNICEF is joining with a nonprofit group to bring AIDS prevention programs to more women and children in five countries.

联合国儿童基金会(UNICEF)正与一家非营利性组织合作,把艾滋病预防计划带给五个国家的更多妇女和儿童。

The U.S. military presence and its impact on Japanese residents have been a thorny issue over the years.

That year a terrorist group attacked the athletes' village, eventually killing 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.

That country has been getting attention for its progress in reducing some of the highest infection rates in Asia.

International students in the United States generally cannot receive federal student loans, but they maybe able to take out private loans as many American students do.

"The snowfall closed the airport for several hours, and cut into local business hours for retail shops during the busiest shopping season of the year."

降雪迫使机场关闭几个小时,当地零售业在一年之中最繁忙的购物季也暂停营业了好几个小时。

Experts say an important part of fighting AIDS is political will.

Once they arrived at their destination, they met with other groups of young people and had one long party.

Ice had formed on the outside of the ship and the crew was chipping it off.

船体外面结了冰,船员正在把冰铲掉。

The government says the state owns the shoreline and swimming should be free.

He never misses the kids' school plays and he passes on a drink after work so that he can get home in time to read their bedtime story.

I've been working as a helper at a youth club since I started at the university as a sort of volunteer, with teenagers.

Hundreds of emergency workers combed the site of a five-story apartment building in southern Ukraine Thursday after a series of explosions reduced it to rubble, authorities said.

当局称,乌克兰南部于周四发生了一连串爆炸,一栋五层公寓变成废墟,此后数百名救援人员仔细搜查了此处。

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