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发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台二月

Everyone in my family went to school here at Michigan: me, my brother, my Mom and Dad--all of us. My Dad actually got the quantity discount: all three and a half of his degrees are from here. His Ph.D. was in Communication Science because they though

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 名人励志英语演讲

If my Dad was alive today, the thing I think he would be most happy about is that Lucy and I have a baby in the hopper. I think he would been annoyed that I hadn't gotten my Ph. D yet (thanks, Michigan!). Dad was so full of insights, of excitement ab

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 名人励志英语演讲

Jame Rouse was a land developer who built shopping malls and a planned city near Washington, D.C. Written by Jerilyn Watson (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we t

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

Nicholas Willis has won a bronze medal in the men's 1500-meter race at the Beijing Olympics. He is one of many athletes who lives in the United States but was born in another country. VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on the middle distance runner from N

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor Pulls US Into War STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) History is usually a process of slow change.

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(五)月

3-D Printed Device Helps Children with Rare Breathing Disorder 3-D打印设备可以帮助罕见呼吸障碍儿童呼吸 You may have heard about a process called 3-D printing. It is where a machine creates a three-dimensional object -- one with heig

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(五)月

我们今天要学的习惯用语都表示特定的地点。第一个是:stomping ground。Stomping这个词的意思是用脚使劲地踩踏,ground当然是地,那么习惯用语stomping ground是什么意思呢? 从字面看是被踩来踩去

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As Americans, we are bound by a collective identity. We see ourselves as independent change makers. We invent things. And we can reinvent ourselves. But that innovation, that desire to keep changing has gone away. That's the cent

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Kentucky Derby day - sorry if we didn't mention that in sports - post time this afternoon, 6:46 Eastern. Midway University - an hour's drive away from Churchill Downs to the east in the Kentucky bluegrass - it's a small school with

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Five years ago, a husband and wife opened a bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michael and Hilary Gustafson called it Literati. And, almost on a whim, they did something that would make them famous in the town. MICHAEL GUSTAFSON: We bas

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

Everyone in my family went here to Michigan: my brother, my Mom, my Dadall of them. 我们家的所有成员都毕业于密歇根大学:我哥哥、我妈妈和爸爸我们全家。 My Dad actually got the quantity discount :he got all three and a ha

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 财富精英励志演讲

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our conversation with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program centers on a class called Intergroup Dia

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Here is how one history of the period describes the advent of time-sharing: 让我们看看当时的历史文献是如何描绘分时系统的优势: This was not just a revolution. It was a revelation. 这不仅仅是一项革命,并且是新的起

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 异类:不一样的成功启示录

EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #11: Health Insurance By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, November 11, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report. We continue

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 教育与新闻

70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Approaches On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy staged a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Five U.S. battleships sank or were severely damaged, several hundred warplanes were destroyed and

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)

Todd: Now, Michael, I think you grew up California, right? Mike: No, I didn't. Todd: You didn't! Mike: No. Todd: I thought you were from Santa Barbara. Mike: No, no. I was born in Cincinnati and I grew up, I grew up there and I lived from my teenage

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

All these wonders I glimpsed in the space of a quarter of a mile, barely pausing, following Captain Nemo whose gestures kept beckoning me onward. 约在四分之一海里的空间内,我没有停步,几乎不断地看到这些珍品。尼摩船长向

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

Near one o'clock, Captain Nemo gave the signal to halt. 到一点钟左右,尼摩船长发出暂时休息的信号。 Speaking for myself, I was glad to oblige, and we stretched out beneath an arbor of winged kelp, whose long thin tendrils stood up

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

Don: Time once again for Surprise Finding. This is where we report on some experiment where you think you know the outcome, but then mother nature surprises us again. Ready? Ya?l: Ready. D: Analyzing data from a five-year study, Stephanie Brown, a ps

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16