VOA慢速英语2018--牢固的人际关系等于健康和幸福

Strong Relationships Equal Health, Happiness From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle Report. What will most help you lead a long happy and healthy life? Is it making lots of money? Is it a great job that you enjoy? Perhaps its fame. I

VOA慢速英语--大学招生:通过写作讲述你的故事

College Admissions: Telling Your Story through Writing The application process to almost every college and university in the United States has several parts to it. Each part tells admissions officials at the schools something different about an appli

VOA慢速英语2018--保护儿童远离科技上瘾

Changes Urged to Protect Children from Tech Addiction Former technology industry leaders are calling for urgent measures to protect children from smartphone addiction. Among those urging major changes is Tristan Harris a former high-level employee at

研究称蚊帐被广泛用于捕鱼

Mosquito Nets Widely Used for Fishing, Study Finds Mosquito nets usually are used to prevent the spread of diseases which are passed by mosquito bites. Those treated with insect killing substance have been especially successful in the fight to agains

VOA慢速英语2018 挪威将斥资数百万美元升级北极种子库

Norway to Invest Millions to Improve Arctic Seed Vault Norway has announced it will spend 100 million Norwegian crowns, or $13 million, to make improvements to a special seed vault in the Arctic. 挪威宣布斥资1亿挪威克朗（约1300万美元）

VOA慢速英语2018 科学家首次在实验室培育出完全成熟的人类卵子

Scientists Grow First Fully Developed Human Eggs in Laboratory For the first time ever, scientists have succeeded in growing human eggs from the earliest stages to full maturity in a laboratory. 科学家们有史以来首次在实验室将人类卵子

新玩具帮助孩子建立情绪智力

New Playthings Help Build Emotional Intelligence in Children Children of all ages gathered in New York City recently for the International Toy Fair. Hidden among already popular toys were new, high-tech educational products. Educational products are

VOA慢速英语2018 美国教师教室开枪后被捕

US Teacher Arrested after Firing Gun in Classroom A high school teacher in the American state of Georgia was arrested after firing a gun in his classroom. 美国乔治亚州一名高中教师在教室开枪后被捕。 Police said the teacher had loc

枪击事件后，帕克兰学生陆续返回学校

Parkland Students Return to School After Mass Shooting Students in Parkland, Florida returned to their high school on Wednesday, two weeks after a gunman killed 17 people there. A former Stoneman Douglas student, Nikolas Cruz, carried out the attack.

研究发现特定剂量的黄热病疫苗有助预防疾病

Partial-dose Yellow Fever Vaccine Effective in Emergencies A new study suggests that partial doses of the yellow fever vaccine can help protect communities against the disease. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It found

教师持枪以防止校园枪击事件吗？

Can Arming Teachers Prevent School Shootings? President Donald Trump has called for arming teachers as a way to stop school shootings. His comments came after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14. A 19-year-old gunman killed

VOA慢速英语2018 奥斯卡相关的谷歌热门搜索

The Top Oscar-Related Google Searches This is Whats Trending Today The 90th Academy Awards are less than one week away. 距离第90届学院奖颁奖只有不到一周时间了。 The event, also known as the Oscars, will take place March 4 in Hollyw

土耳其总统前往非洲努力扩大其影响力

Turkish President Goes to Africa in Latest Effort to Expand Influence Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a five-day trip to Northern and Western Africa. The trip will take him to four countries: Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali. His v

VOA慢速英语2018--全球吸烟率排行

Smoking Rates Around the World From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by manufacturers. That is the first sentence of the World Health

对于当前的美国青少年来说,校园枪击案非常普遍

For Todays U.S. Teens, School Shootings Are Common The young people who experienced the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, were born in or after 1999. In that year, two students killed 13 classmates at Columbine High School in Colorado. Sin

残疾退伍军人获双臂移植开启新生活

Double Arm Transplant Gives Former US Soldier a New Life American John Peck lost his arms and legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2010. But unlike others who suffer such a loss, Peck does not have prosthetic arms. Doctors instead performed a succe

World’s First Robot College Student Learns About Love

Imagine you are a college student at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California. You walk into your philosophy class on the first day of the new term only to find a robot looking you right in the eye. This robot is no huge piece of equipme

VOA慢速英语2018--A History of Presidents’ Day

The third Monday of February is known as Presidents Day in the United States. For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968. Tha

VOA慢速英语--Words and Their Stories - 'When Life Gives You Lemons ...'

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. There are several kinds of citrus fruit. The most common are limes, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and lemons. Out of all of them, it is the lemon that has found its way into a number of

Words and Their Stories - Pulling on Your 'Heartstrings'

And now, its time for Words and Their Stories -- our weekly program about common, everyday expressions in American English. Americans celebrate Valentines Day on February 14. It is a day for love and hearts can be seen everywhere! So, naturally, I ha