This is the Top Five Countdown! Were hangin with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending April 29, 2017. It turns out that lighting does strike twice in the same place, because we get a Top Five deb

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(四月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The debate in Washington over what to do about mass shootings is following a familiar pattern. Democrats and Republicans both say they want to end gun violence, but they disagree on how to do that. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are ho

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

The Shape of Water Leads with 13 Oscar Nominations The small-budget film The Shape of Water has earned 13 Oscar nominations, including one for best picture the most of any 2017 film. 小成本电影《水形物语》(The Shape of Water)获得了13项奥

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After decades of masterful acting and five Academy Award nominations, actor Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for best actor for his role as washed-out country singer Bad Blake in the music drama Crazy Heart. Thank you, Mom and Dad for turning me onto such

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By Larry London Washington 21 August 2007 Beyonce Knowles has achieved success on many levels. She founded the pop/RB trio Destiny's Child; created her own clothing line, House of Dereon; is an Oscar-nominated actress; and has released two solo album

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By Larry London Washington 28 December 2006 Watch Weird Al report In the very competitive world of pop music, where there is little room for eclectic tastes or experimentation, there should be absolutely no room for anything weird, let alone anyone

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

By Larry London Washington, DC 25 September 2006 watch Goo Goo Dolls report Goo Goo Dolls, in concert After over 20 years together and a career that includes four Grammy nominations, multi-platinum album sales, and chart-topping hits like Name, Iris

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Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda have won non-permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council. They will serve two-year terms beginning in January. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more on Friday's elec

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

The Pentagon says it has video of the incident in Afghanistan's Farah Province two weeks ago, in which a U.S. air strike apparently killed some Afghan civilians. But U.S. officials dispute the Afghan government claim that as many as 140 civilians we

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The U.S. Senate Wednesday voted 92 to 5 to confirm Ron Kirk as U.S. Trade Representative. Kirk, who becomes the first African American to hold the post, has vowed to pursue new trade deals but also work to ensure that U.S. trading partners are not v

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Race Chronicles Triumph, Struggles of Track Star Jesse Owens in Segregated America When U.S. track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, it damaged Adolph Hitler's propaganda on Aryan supremacy. Yet, despite his t

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. Among the nominees is Christopher Plummer for a role he played as a last-minute replacement for Kevin Spacey. NPR's Camila Domonoske reports. CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE: All

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For many of us a new year means a clean start, the chance to toss out things we don't need anymore or get rid of bad habits. Well, the folks at Lake Superior State University in Michigan say we ought to start with some of the lam

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America's banking crisis shows few signs of subsiding, despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the federal government to prop up struggling financial institutions and unfreeze tight credit. It is a basic and, perhaps, obvious truth: capital

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(三月)

By Jim Fry Washington, D.C. 20 December 2007 As the U.S. presidential campaign moves toward its first primary season voting in early January, much of the campaign has focused on domestic issues. Candidates have talked about some foreign policy issues

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

By Jim Malone Washington 01 February 2008 The remaining U.S. presidential candidates are preparing for a major showdown on Tuesday when more than 20 states hold primaries or caucuses to choose delegates to the Republican and Democratic nominating con

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 03 December 2007 A coalition of Kenyan non-governmental organizations has released a new report charging parties and candidates with widespread bribing of voters before presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for De

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By Joe DeCapua Washington 16 January 2007 Three women have been nominated as the finalists for the annual Worlds Childrens Prize for the Rights of the Child. Nominations are accepted by the Swedish-based organization, after which a committee of chil

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 03 February 2008 The candidates for the Republican and Democratic U.S. presidential nominations are campaigning hard in advance of Tuesday's crucial round of contests in 22 states. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Washing

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Jim Malone Washington 17 December 2007 U.S. presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and John McCain are looking to benefit from some high-profile endorsements with a little more than two weeks to go until the first campaign test in Iowa on January

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