117-Year-Old Bolivian May Be Oldest Person in the World In a few weeks, Julia Flores Colque will celebrate her 118th birthday. She is the oldest woman in Bolivia. Following the death of a woman in Japan earlier this year, Flores Colque may now be the

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月

【今日基础词】 Knowledge 【Transcript】 Once upon a time there was a small island on which lived Happy, Sad, Knowledge and Love. One day, feeling that the island was about to sink, they were ready to ship, leaving the island. Only Love to st

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 听基础单词练听力

Most people are looking forward to the retired life, they have a lot of plans, such as travel around the world or do something they have never done before. But for some old and retired persons, who have lose their wife or husband, feel lonely all the

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

ABOUT 18 months ago, my 97-year-old grandmother went out to dinner with some friends. As Nanna got out of the car, she tripped over her friend Shirleys cane, fell to the pavement and came down hard on her elbow. Back at home, she headed to the kitche

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Millions of Americans are looking after an older family member. A survey a few years ago put the value of family care-giving at $375 billion a year. And while care-giving has traditionally been something family members do for their elders, a growing

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2011年4月

中民社会救助研究院和今日头条寻人公益项目联合发布《中国老年人走失状况白皮书》。调查显示,全国走失老人一年约在50万上下,平均每天走失老人约为1370人,失智和缺乏照料成为老人走

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

It seems like a silly question, anyone in sane would give a hand to the elderly who fell. But in China, this question is becoming tricky. Many news report that there are some old people not just fell, they do it on purpose. Usually, they walk on a cr

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

A student at Huainan Normal University is seeking witnesses who saw her helping an elderly resident who had fallen, after the woman's family accused her of being the cause of the old lady's fall. 一名淮南师范学院的学生遇上老人摔倒,扶

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Call it life experience or the school of hard knocks, by 50 we all have the hindsight to know which decisions were good ones and which decisions were, well, a result of youthful na?vet. But whether you're a firm believer in everything happens for a r

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

More than 1,300 elderly people go missing in China every day -- 500,000 per year, a new report claims. 一份最新报告显示:我国每年走失老人约50万人,平均每天就有超过1300名老人走失。 Senior citizens aged 65 or over acc

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

LESSON 56 第五十六课 hoe 锄头 grave 墓地 knock 敲击 except 除了 droll 离奇可笑的 hymn 圣歌 prayed 祈求 cottage 村舍 A GOOD OLD MAN 善良的老人 There once lived an old man in a snug, little cottage. 从前,有一位老人,

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 美国语文第二册

今天分享一个小故事,你看懂了吗? The Director And The Old Man A Hollywood director was making a film in India. For the film, he needed to have clear blue skies, so the weather conditions were very important to him. One evening, after

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 卡卡课堂早餐英语

My family's first TV set in 1948 我家1948年的第一台电视 had only three knobs that I quickly mastered: 只有三个旋钮,我很快就掌握了要如何使用: an on-off switch, a volume knob, 一个电源开关,一个音量旋钮 and a

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

There are several reasons for this low status 美国的老人地位如此低 of the elderly in the U.S. 有几个原因。 One is our Protestant work ethic 一是我们新教的工作伦理 which places high value on work, 这个伦理给予工作很大

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端, are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

Lesson 11 Talk About It 第十一课 主题讨论 October 24 10月24日 The Elderly Man 困惑的老人 Sam and Mary were walking back to their apartment after a long day of classes. 珊和玛丽上完一整天的课之后,正走回她们的公寓。

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 大家说英语

This picture of an elderly man eating out with a photo of his late wife has melted the hearts of thousands after it went viral last week. It was tweeted by Madina Bashizadah, who clicked the picture while having lunch with a friend at In-N-Out Burger

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far away would occasionally watch as he vanished into the distance and later

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The elderly and the state 政府与老人 Golden oldies 老人的黄金时代 The government makes rich pensioners richer still 政府让原本富有的退休老人越来越富有 BRITAIN'S pensioners are a cosseted lot. Since 2011 their state pensio

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to 1)out-patients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文