Today's current events coverage begins with the report on the death of a controversial world leader. Fidel Castro, who ruled the Caribbean island nation of Cuba for almost 50 years, died Friday at the age of 90. His brother Raul who took over the cou

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年11月

Barbara Pierce Bush was the US First Lady in the early 1990s, when her husband was the countrys 41st president. She also later become the mother of a president when one of her six children George W. Bush was elected in 2000. I had trouble when I was

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(四月)

During a campaign rally in Montana, President Trump sought to build expectations among supporters for his upcoming Supreme Court announcement. As you know, theres now a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and if you turn in Monday at nine oclock, I think y

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(七月)

This is AP News Minute. A 25-year-old US soldier who was killed in Niger along with three other US troops has been laid to rest in South Florida. Residents lined the streets with some carrying US flags as the casket carrying La David Johnson passed b

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2017(十)月

Kennedy Center Announces Its Honorees for 2013 肯尼迪中心公布2013年获奖者 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im Faith Lapidus. On the show today, we tell all about this years Kennedy Center honorees. And we play music by

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(九)月

50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act Remembered 美国纪念民权法案诞生50周年 WASHINGTON A milestone in American history is being remembered this week as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (July

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(六月)

今天要讲的习惯用语里都是以hard这个词为主的。Hard和其他英语的词汇一样,有好几种解释。在我们今天要讲的几个习惯用语里hard这个词的意思是很难对付。好我们现在来讲第一个习惯用语:

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

迷你对话: A:I learned of the railway accident only this morning. 我今天早上才听说火车事故的事情。 B:A really dreadful accident and many people were killed. 真是一场可怕的事故,死了很多人。 A:Is that true? 真的吗

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 迷你对话学地道口语

文本: Building works on the palace dragged on through the finalyears of George's reign. By the time he died in 1830, costs had more thanquadrupled. As soon as the King was dead, his ever-obedient architectJohn Nash was hauled before the courts to

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Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland Dead at 95 爵士乐钢琴家玛丽安逝世享年95岁 Eric Felten, Bernie Bernard August 21, 2013 Marian McPartland, one of the best-known jazz artists in America, died August 20 in Port Washington, New York. She was

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(八月)

The dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she sang Happy Birthday Mr President to John F Kennedy has been sold at auction for $4.8m (3.9m pounds). 玛丽莲梦露为约翰肯尼迪总统献唱总统生日快乐一曲时穿过的连衣裙,近日以480万美

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英语

Hemingway Exhibit Opens at JFK Library in Boston 肯尼迪总统图书馆举办海明威展 The novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 possible endings to his book A Farewell to Arms. Eight of them are part of a new show at the John F. Kennedy Presidenti

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(四)月

I've taken that Robert Kennedy quote, and I've turned it into a new balance sheet for just a moment here. This is a collection of things that Robert Kennedy said in that quote. GDP counts everything from air pollution to the destruction of our redwoo

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CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Never before has a sitting U.S. president met with the sitting leader of North Korea. But with plans for a meeting in the works, CNN 10 starts today by explaining how it could come together and what's changed between the two

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年6月

In fact,what happened to that flight is so similar to what would happen seven years later in Guam that it's a good place to start our investigation into the mystery of Korean Air's plane crash problem. 该事故同七年后发生的关岛事故极其相

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 异类:不一样的成功启示录

Secret Service Agent Opens Up About JFK Assassination 特工解密肯尼迪被刺杀经过 DALLAS President John F. Kennedys trip to Dallas on November 22, 1963 was intended to boost support in Texas for his 1964 re-election campaign. But an assassin

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(十一月)

今天我们要学的词是founder。 Founder, 创始人。The founder of the company is set to step down, 公司创办人准备退休。美国前总统约翰.肯尼迪的妹妹肯尼迪.施莱佛去世,享年88岁。Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们要学的词是influential。 Influential, 是有影响力的意思。美国民主党联邦参议员肯尼迪星期一宣布支持民主党总统参选人巴拉克.奥巴马。Of all the endorsements in the Democratic Party, Mr. Kennedy's

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美国《男人》、《传记》等媒体联合评选出了美国文化的十大偶像。据称, 他们的评选标准是:只要提到他或她的名字,人们就会联想到美国;不管人们喜欢还是憎恨,在别国人的眼里,他们都

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

美国同胞们,不要问国家能为你们做些什么、而要问你们能为国家做些什么。 全世界的公民们,不要问美国将为你们做些什么,而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。 ---约翰.肯尼迪 Fir

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