HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we take a virtual walk down a famous street found in almost every land on the planet the children's television show Sesame Street turns forty years old. (MUSIC

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(十一)月

'The Hangover' Sequel Features Same Crude Humor but New Location Two years ago, a comedy film about three friends on a spree in Las Vegas became a worldwide hit despite - or perhaps because of - its crude humor. Now they're back together and this tim

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(六月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The first Harry Potter book came out 20 years ago today. And before there were multimillion-dollar movies, Sorting Hat Halloween costumes and temporary tattoos of a lightning scar, there were just two books published in England tha

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. 伟大的人格,不会形成于平静的生活,或无风的太平洋港。(Abigail Adams) 图片1

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 Daily English-2016.02

Lesson 15 The Consumer Society and the Law消费者社会和法律 When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another p

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语85年上外美音版

The super-duper 3-D big-screen Imaxed-out extravaganza that is Monsters vs. Aliens has bells and whistles, whiz and bang, sound and fury. It even has Reese Witherspoon. What it doesn't have is heart. . .or much of a story. Witherspoon voices a charac

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit74:你是Cosplayer一族吗?

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语境识词

Chinese Symbols Prove Popular in US 汉字在美国大受欢迎 From the moment Spaniards - or Vikings, some would say - first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians because they thought they had arrived in India -

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(一月)

I'm Will Colson. We're working together today on train 1206.This ain't training. In training they just give you an 'F.' Out here you get killed.Frank Barnes is a veteran engineer hauling tons of freight across the Pennsylvania countryside. In the loc

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The first cast member of Moonlight to take the stage last night was Mahershala Ali. He won the Oscar for best supporting actor. In the film, he plays a man conflicted about being both a drug dealer and father figure to the story's

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Ann Beattie has been a voice for her generation, the baby boomers, for 40 years. Her stories were published in The New Yorker regularly and helped pull back the curtain on the love lives, hopes and confusions of the boomers in th

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Lawrence Osborne is a writer whose life and work are deeply connected to places. He has set books in Morocco, Cambodia and France, and he has lived in half a dozen countries all over the world. He joined me from a studio in Bangkok

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved American novels. It's set in the roaring 20s about the messiness of chasing the American dream. For the author Stephanie Powell Watts, something about the novel neve

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

Interview With Jonah Hill And Todd Phillips On New Film 'War Dogs' RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. government was awarding hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to American companies, everything

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

With 'Hell Or High Water,' Jeff Bridges Returns To The American West FARAI CHIDEYA, HOST: Jeff Bridges became a cult hero playing The Dude in The Big Lebowski, but he's made a career in movies set in the American West. He was Rooster Cogburn in the C

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A musical open for one night only in Washington, D.C., that asks, what threatens a great inner city American neighborhood - crime and poverty or organic produce and free-range poultry? (SOUNDBITE OF PLAY, EAST OF THE RIVER) UNIDENT

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

It seems rebel forces and the empire have agreed to pitch their next battle in Bukium shift. The new star wars trilogy will be made in the UK where much of this original was filmed, and Pinewood Studio is tipped as the mostly likely venue for Jedies

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2013年

Harry Potter. It is hard to believe it has been 15 years since we first fell in love with the boy wizard and the socerer stone phenomina. Now after 415m books sold and the most successful movie friend ever other J.K.Rollingan has an exclusive message

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2013年

Well Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace are in The Drop. Its a new crime drama. And I sat down with both of them. First here is a look at the scene from the movie. What are you gonna name it? Well, I was thinking maybe Rocco, you know, I like the name Rocco,

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(238) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2014年

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Strong female characters seem to have had a pretty good year in Hollywood. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, BLACK PANTHER) DANAI GURIRA: (As Okoye) Drop your weapon. SHAPIRO: Black Panther had several, Danai Gurira's war general for one. (SOUND

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月