【英语语言学习】幸存者的故事

Hi again. Nice to have you with us on As It Is. I'm Kelly Jean Kelly. Today we are talking about a man named Shin Dong-hyuk. He spent the first 23 years of life inside a labor camp in North Korea. Hes the only individual born in the labor camp to esc

【英语语言学习】当收藏的东西越来越多时

This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Mario Ritter. And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome. It is both a mental disorder and an issue of public safety. Many people in the United States are looking f

【英语语言学习】绝境求生

DAVID GREENE, HOST: On the night of October 19th, 1984, Erik Vogel was uneasy about flying. But the young pilot was behind schedule and he felt like his job was on the line. So he took off, as he did most days, shuttling between remote communities do

【英语语言学习】电台节目与电视节目

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we're going to tune into the radio, as heard in Syria. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Foreign language spoken) INSKEEP: It's Radio Watan. It's an opposition news source heard in parts of that country. Instead of being run by Syria

【英语语言学习】到目前为止我们知道什么

Why? Why? is a question that parents ask me all the time. Why did my child develop autism? As a pediatrician, as a geneticist, as a researcher, we try and address that question. But autism is not a single condition. It's actually a spectrum of disord

【英语语言学习】躺着的雕像

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., that's unlike anything you might see in a church. It depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. A few residents have complained, but most find the statue spi

【英语语言学习】纸质版的维基百科全书

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. A German-based group called PediaPress is trying to raise enough money to do the impossible. They want to print a copy of Wikipedia - yep, a print version of the constantl

【英语语言学习】童年的扼杀者

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has been three years since India recorded at its last polio case. This achievement means the country can now be declared officially polio-free, a feat many health leaders felt was impossible just a decade ago. As NPR's Michael

【英语语言学习】如何将声音永久保存

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: OK, here's a question. If a tree falls in the forest and someone records it, does the sound last forever? We are increasingly finding out that the answer is no. Fragile records from the 1940s are breaking, cassette tapes from the

【英语语言学习】农民发明了种植作物的新方式

From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Today, we tell about an American farmer and an unusual device he developed. For 20 years, people around the world have been buying his invention. Blake Whisenant and his family are farmers. They

【英语语言学习】抚育孩子

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Raising kids is hard. It just is. And there's a whole industry out there trying to help parents figure out how to do it. All kinds of books on the very basics - sleeping, eating and talking - to those that deal with more complica

【英语语言学习】墨西哥灾难性的一年

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Twenty years ago today, shots rang out in a poor neighborhood in Tijuana. That sound reverberated throughout Mexico. The victim was the man hand-picked by the country's dominant ruling party to win the country's presidential elec

【英语语言学习】在路上学英语

On some French trains, the conductor's whistle signals more than just a departure. For commuters traveling on an express train from Reims to Paris a 90-mile, 45-minute ride it means the beginning of English class. Before the course, we were sleeping

【英语语言学习】咖啡因帮助提高记忆力

Welcome to VOA Learning English. This is As It Is! Im Anna Matteo. On todays show we will talk about wait a minute. What was I going to talk about? I was just about to say oh, yes memory! When we are young, we expect to remember things easily. But as

【英语语言学习】让世界走向灭亡的十种方式

The advances that have taken place in astronomy, cosmology and biology, in the last 10 years, are really extraordinary -- to the point where we know more about our universe and how it works than many of you might imagine. But there was something else

【英语语言学习】谷歌下一步的发展方向

Charlie Rose: So Larry sent me an email and he basically said, we've got to make sure that we don't seem like we're a couple of middle-aged boring men. I said, I'm flattered by that -- (Laughter) because I'm a bit older, and he has a bit more net wor

【英语语言学习】科学家们的智慧

Scientists are usually portrayed as highly rational seekers of the truth - and they are that. But they also have qualities that make them more similar to you and me than you might think. NPR's Joe Palca has a story that reveals that quite dramaticall

【英语语言学习】父母希望孩子得到的是快乐

When I was born, there was really only one book about how to raise your children, and it was written by Dr. Spock. (Laughter) Thank you for indulging me. I have always wanted to do that. No, it was Benjamin Spock, and his book was called The Common S

【英语语言学习】无家可归的人的故事

As a little girl, I always imagined I would one day run away. From the age of six on, I kept a packed bag with some clothes and cans of food tucked away in the back of a closet. There was a deep restlessness in me, a primal fear that I would fall pre

【英语语言学习】抑郁症

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Many subjects that were once considered impossible to talk about are now dinner table conversation. The taboo of mental illness can still be difficult. Eva Rosenfeld and Madeline Halpert are hig