STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit two museums housed in one building in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently opened a show on the New Yor

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

US force was coming in this way. The Iranian force was coming in this way. This is a line of converging happening right here, and again Jim just pointed out here, look at the place we are talking about here. US forces about 12 US naval ships and Iran

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The Seven Ages of Man(from As You Like It, II, vii)by William ShakespeareAll the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

From the Belly of a Beast 抹香鲸与龙涎香 There she blows!there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! From Moby Dick, by Herman Melville 牠喷气了!牠喷气了!身体浮出水面的部分看起来像被白雪覆盖的山丘,

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[00:02.48]Why are you doing this? 你为什么要这么做? [00:05.76]Because you have to understand that there is no future with me. 因为你必须明白 跟我在一起没有未来 [00:08.52]Don't you want to have a career and marriage and child

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介绍: belly laugh 捧腹大笑 I love Mr. Bean, his acting give us a lot of belly laugh. 我喜欢看《憨豆先生》,他的表演时常让我们捧腹大笑。 cackle /?k?k.?l/ v. 嘎嘎大笑(不雅) A group of women were cackling in a co

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文本: E: What is it, dear? D: Sulphur! Can't you smell it? Brimstone. I smelled him out the minute he came in. E: Who, dear? D: Beelzebub! He thought I was taken in. E: You remember Miss Wannop? D: He takes a pleasing shape. E: I have just been t

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Why Dont Humans Have Spots Or Stripes? 为什么人类身上没有斑点或条纹? Have you ever wondered why we humans dont have spots or stripes? Well, maybe you havent, but it is interesting that so many creatures are multicolored but we are not

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Arienne, Norway speaker In school, when I was younger, I had a bunch of subjects, but my favorite subjects were maybe language subjects and math. I like numbers and I like learning languages. The subject I was not very good in was history and geograp

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Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem--corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here--but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for l

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER: We remember William Safire, who died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79. RS: Readers of the New York Times knew him not only from his years as a conservative political co

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Frogs from an ancient lineage reveal that the amphibians developed the ability to jump before they had mastered landing Youd think an animal that hops would know how to land. But for a kind of frog, thats not the case. Imagine trying to catch a frog.

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Todd: So, Katia and Fred, we're talking about your dance school, and before we were talking about the belly dance, and Katia you do the belly dance, but you also do Salsa. Fred: That's right, Todd. Todd: And that takes two? Fred: That takes two. It t

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美联社,新闻一分钟,England,police,NASA,1. Police arrest seven more people in southern England in connection with the failed July 21st London transit bombings. 2. NASA scrambles to see if material dangling from Discovery's belly may endange

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Here she comes with the master plan And I'm starting to lose control Here she comes to this trash of man And I'm ready to taste it all... when She's bringing me in Checking me out Making me glorious here she comes like a brand new day belly dancing a

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As the rate of obesity in many countries continues to rise, health officials worry about the expanding waistlines of their citizens. And it turns out there's reason to worry. New research suggests the size of your waist can predict your chance of dea

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所谓加减联想,就是对一个生词加上或减去一个联想单位,从而变成一个熟悉的词。我们可以用这个熟词、参与加减的联想单位,以及生词的中文意思三部分构成一组联想单位来进行记忆。 例如:smother (v. 窒息)这个词,经观察发现后半部分mother是熟词妈妈,前面是字母s,

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Is coconut oil a healthy food? - certainly is promoted as one. Survey a broad group of Americans and 72 percent say, yes, coconut oil is healthy. Talk with some nutritionists, and they say, no, it's not. NPR's April Fulton report

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Meanwhile I was examining this unusual bird. Conseil was not mistaken. 我于是检查一下这只奇异的鸟。康塞尔没有搞错。 Tipsy from that potent juice, our bird of paradise had been reduced to helplessness. 无双乌被豆寇汁迷醉了

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A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答:是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说:箭

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