2007年NPR美国国家公共电台一月-A Broken Foot, an Artificial Leg, and a R

Recording technology has changed a lot over the years, but you can still do one essential thing. You sit in front of a microphone and you tell a story, which here we are again this Friday morning because it's time for StoryCorps. It's an oral history

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Short Story: ‘The Boarded Window’ by Ambrose Bierce

FAITH LAPIDUS: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES. (MUSIC) Our story today is called The Boarded Window. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. SHEP ONEAL: In eighteen thirty, only a few miles away fro

365个英语简短小故事-346. The Refund (1)

Delbert figured the bill would be a little over $15. He had bought seven Hersheys Special Dark 5-ounce chocolate bars. They were on sale, reduced from $1.49 to $1 each. He had studied the various deals on toilet paper. You need a calculator to figure

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2012-08-31

1. Isaac nears the Louisiana coast as a Category 1 hurricane with top winds of 75 miles per hour. Landfall along the swampy coast is expected late Tuesday or early Wednesday. 2. Along the Gulf Coast, businesses are boarded up ahead of Isaac, but no w

【中级类英语听力】22

Let's learn how to play the game of checkers. Two players choose one color of the round disks known as checkers. In this particular game, the checkers are red and black. There are 12 black checkers and 12 red checkers. The checker board consists of 6

听一分钟英文：Weath-财富

There's so much wealth in the world. And there's so much poverty and suffering. Thousands of billionaires live like kings and queens while billions go hungry. They show off their wealth to each other. They fill their gigantic mansions with all the tr

公众人物毕业演讲 第119期:奥巴马美国军事学院(22)

And you will embody what it means for America to lead the world 你们将以实际行动 体现出美国在世界上的领导 Next week, I will go to Normandy to honor the men who stormed the beaches there 下周 我将赴诺曼底纪念当年在那登

365个英语简短小故事- 30. A Daytime Robbery

Rod was a manager at House Depot. He worked about 50 hours a week. He loved his job, although the extra hours cut into the time he could spend with his three little girls. One morning he was supposed to go home at 7 a.m. Instead, he stayed on to help

原版英文故事与诗歌：Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer…

Eye halve a spelling checkerIt came with my pea sea.In this poem some words have been substituted by homophones - words with the same sound but different spelling. It proves that computer spelling checkers are not infallible! Eye Halve a Spelling Che

'The Boarded Window' by Ambrose Bierce

'The Boarded Window' by Ambrose Bierce Our story today is called The Boarded Window. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio, lay a huge a

美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-31

1. The Senate's Democratic leader urges President Bush and Vice President Cheney to apologize for actions of their aides in the CIA leak case. 2. Two US soldiers are charged with assault for allegedly

AP 2010-09-18

1. American Sarah Shroud says shes grateful to Iran's president and other officials for her release from a Tehran prison. Iran is still holding her two hiking companions. Shroud boarded a plane out of the country earlier Tuesday. 2. Warm, dry weather

AP 2012-07-04

1. The lights are slowly coming back on across the mid Atlantic. Power crews have been restoring electricity after a violent storm Friday night knocked it out. By Sunday afternoon, millions remained in the dark. 2. A storm stranded passengers on a Ne

安布罗斯·比尔斯的《The Boarded Window》

The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce Our story today is called The Boarded Window. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio, lay a huge and

VOA标准英语2011--International Trademark Laws Vital to Global Businesses

International Trademark Laws Vital to Global Businesses Companies go to great lengths to protect their trademarks and logos. A recent conference by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) highlighted the importance and the difficulty of

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A: How much do you think that I should ask for my house? B: Well, there are a lot of factors involved in setting an asking price. A: What do you look at when setting an asking price? B: We need to look at the selling prices for similar homes in the a

英文短篇故事（纽约）465 Those People Will Never Change

On Alternate Earth, there are Stripers and Checkers. The Stripers have stripes. The Checkers have checks. Stripers and Checkers with only two colors are rich and powerful. Those with fifty colors are the middle class. Those with 100 colors are often

原版英语小短文 184. Carry the Groceries Home (2)

Two weeks later, Brian bought a sturdy wooden stick. He took it into Gristedes. He bought his groceries. The checker put them in four double plastic bags. He took the stick and the four heavy bags outside. He put the bags on the sidewalk. He put two

2013年美国好声音 Walking In Memphis - Patrick Dodd

第一段： Put on my blue suede shoes 穿着我的蓝色羊绒鞋 And I boarded the plane 我登上了飞机 Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues 在南方布鲁斯音乐之乡着陆 In the middle of the pouring rain 外面正下着瓢泼大雨