Agroecology, Part 2

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: October 7, 2003 This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we finish a two-part series. A listener in Brazil asked about 1)agroecology. This

Agroecology, Part 1

By Mario Ritter Broadcast: September 30, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This week, we take a suggestion from a listener in Brazil. Agricultural specialist Lu

最新英文歌曲精选：Touchin’ Lovin’-Treyz Songs feat Nicki Minaj

Woo 喔 Yeah, Young Money 耶 年轻的本钱 Trigga Trey Trigga Trey No I ain't tryna flex, 我们来吧 no ceilings you can see who's in it 不 我不是要掩盖什么 If talking about sex, 如果谈到性 girl you know I invented that 女孩你知道

2007年VOA标准英语-India, US Making Last-Ditch Bid on Nuclear Agre

By Steve Herman New Delhi 19 July 2007 High-level talks between India and the United States are going into an unscheduled third day in Washington in the hopes of overcoming obstacles to a controversial nuclear cooperation agreement. VOA's Steve Herma

2006年VOA标准英语-Kyrgyz President Bakiyev Makes First State

By Lisa McAdams Moscow 24 April 2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his visiting Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev meeting in the Moscow Kremlin on Monday, April 24, 2006 Kyrgyzstan P

VOA标准英语2009年-Gates Says Kyrgyz Base Expulsion Not Final

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday's vote by the Kyrgyz parliament to terminate the U.S. lease on a key air base used for supplying the Afghanistan war is not the last word on the subject, and the United States will continue to try to

VOA标准英语2009年-US Says Closure of Kyrgyzstan Air Base Will Not

The State Department said Thursday that the eviction of U.S. forces from the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan will not adversely affect American and NATO military operations in Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz parliament has voted to end U.S. access to the base,

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Pot Breathalyzer Is Here. Maybe

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police across the country are growing concerned about stoned drivers behind the wheel. Thirty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana. Nine of those, plus the District, have legalized recreational pot. One Cal

VOA双语新闻 Kyrgyz Opposition

Key opposition figures in Kyrgyzstan are claiming control of the government the day after President Askar Akayev reportedly fled the country. Meanwhile, widespread unrest and looting continues in the capital city of Bishkek. 在有报道说阿卡耶夫

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-10

And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-9

Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread，at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-8

This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-7

Southwest of Istanbul, three days sailing on an ancient slave ship, is the Isle of Marmara, its very name in stone. In the first centuries of Byzantium, slaves in their tens of thousands worked in these marble hills. How the Byzantines love marble! I

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-6

Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e

英语歌曲:Just Like You - The Rubyz

Just Like You - The Rubyz Artist:The Rubyz Song:Just Like You When I started out I had so many doubts About what a true friend should be But I don't ask those questions anymore When I was trying hard to find The truth between the lines You were alway

2007年VOA标准英语-Concern Growing in US West Over Agroterrorism

By Jeff Swicord Cheyenne, Wyoming 10 September 2007 Workers at adairy farm There is growing concern that farms and ranches in the western U.S. could become the target of agroterrorism. The devastating outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in Britain a

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-15

Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-12

The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-14

Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-13

Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space, for each one of them was occupied. And from that space they look outwards, from the soul towards the heavens. As you might expect, if you should move around them, solid bulk of marble in the huma