美丽英文诵读(37)Somewhere a Room of One's Own

My room at home was too small for me. I barely had room for all the little knickknacks I’d collected over the years. There were so many things I had to pack away in boxes and store in closets all over the house. Oftentimes I didn’t quite remember exactly where everything was.我在家里的房间很小,偏偏我平时又喜欢搜集一些可爱的小玩意,几年下来,各种各样小玩意就渐渐...

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布莱尔首相演讲:Mozambique

TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S BROADCAST ON 3 MARCH 2000 The scenes this week from Mozambique have been incredibly moving. I don’t suppose any of us will forget the extraordinary courage of the pregnant woman clambering for safety up a tree having to give birth there and then, fortunately mother and baby being winched by helicopter to safety minutes later. Th...

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布莱尔首相演讲:NHS Plan

Transcript of the Prime Minister’s Broadcast on the NHS Plan Friday 28 July 2000 The creation of the National Health Service back in 1948 lifted a massive worry from people’s lives. For the first time, health care did not depend on wealth. Need, not ability to pay, was what mattered. Every family in Britain – and certainly mine – has its own reasons t...

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布莱尔首相演讲:Tourism and foot and mouth disease

Transcript of the Prime Minister’s broadcast on Foot and Mouth Disease This weekend will see the traditional start to the tourism season in Britain – when hundreds of castles, historic houses, wildlife centres and other attractions open their doors to visitors after the winter break. There’s no doubt however, that this year the tourist season has been overs...

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布莱尔首相演讲:Russia

PRIME MINISTER’S INTERNET BROADCAST, 13 APRIL 2000 – RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA I’m sometimes asked why so much of a Prime Minister’s time is spent on foreign affairs when there are so many pressing problems here at home. And I’ve got some sympathy with this point of view, not least because I know more than anyone what needs to be done here. But I al...

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布莱尔首相演讲:Northern Ireland

Transcript by the Prime Minister and Taoiseach for Internet broadcast on Northern Ireland, 20/04/00 Prime Minister I want to talk today about a subject on which I’ve probably spent almost as much time as anything else since I became Prime Minister – the efforts to find a fair and lasting peace for Northern Ireland. I am also delighted that the Irish Prime Ministe...

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布莱尔首相演讲:The Pre-Budget Report

Prime Minister’s broadcast 10 November 2000 – Pre-Budget Report If your home or business is flooded, or your journey to work badly disrupted because of floods or work on the railways, it’s not been a pleasant time. I saw for myself last week the devastation caused by the flooding. But few people would have thought that a week later the floods would, in many...

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布莱尔首相演讲:New Deal for over-50s

The New Deal for older people Overall the British economy is stronger today, but, if we are to continue to increase prosperity and living standards, we have to make sure that we have the best possible use of the talents and energy of all the British people. We can’t afford to waste potential. Human resources are the great natural resource of a country in the 21st Centu...

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布莱尔首相演讲:Investment

Transcript of the Prime Minister’s broadcast on investment Wherever you look in our country, you can see the result of decades of under-investment. Children still being taught in cramped or prefab classrooms. Patients treated in wards built long before penicillin was discovered. Our railways and roads fall short of the standards we need. And that’s not just bad f...

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