NOEL KING, HOST: There is a frightening new dimension to the opioid crisis. People who are using cocaine are overdosing, not on cocaine but on fentanyl. Fentanyl makes heroin even more dangerous, and now it's showing up in cocaine as well. And that c

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Carol Beasley is at the center of a new movie Outside In. She's a middle-aged high school teacher trapped in her mundane job and marriage in Washington state. And that all changes when her former student, Chris, who is played by

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

Family Hires Assassin to Murder Mama in 'Killer Joe' Chris has no job and is deep in debt to a loan shark. He is convinced that Killer Joe can solve his financial problems. Mom has got a $50 thousand life insurance policy. Killer Joe is a professiona

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

Chris向一家香港公司的老板Hank和部门主管Rebecca介绍申请国际认证的程序。Hank觉得有点麻烦,可Rebecca认为值得,因为拿到国际认证,在美国和欧洲做生意就可以畅通无阻了。Chris赞同Rebecca的看

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 礼节美语

Barry召集公司同事开会,有个坏消息要宣布。 Barry: Well, folks...I'm afraid I have some bad news. Our lawyers told me this morning that we are being sued. Chris: Sued? Who's suing us? Susan: And on what grounds? B: An Australian man n

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a happiness meter built on word choice. We continue our conversation with Chris Danforth, a mathematician at the University of Vermont. He and his colleague Peter Dodds did a comp

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图片1 Can you do me a favour? Rich has had an accident and needs some help from a friend. In this episode, he calls Chris and asks him for a favour. (In Canada favour is spelled with a u. For other spelling differences, check out our glossary.) Ric

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Karla: You look like youve had a shock. Chris: Yeah, that phone call threw me for a loop. My ex-girlfriend is pregnant and she wants me to take a paternity test. Karla: Wow, thats quite a bombshell. Are you going to do it? Chris: Of course. If the ba

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

And as you know, ABC News is always looking for ways to bring American jobs back to America. So, this week, it was shocking to learn so many great infrastructure projects are under way in America, rebuilding bridges and roads in American cities, but

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2012年

By Alan Silverman Hollywood 26 September 2007 The short life of 24-year-old self-styled adventurer Chris McCandless, chronicled in a best-selling book by Jon Krakauer, became an inspiration for young people seeking to reconnect with nature and face t

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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(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)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(46) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has been promising that his economic policies are going to launch our economy into overdrive. He's even predicted the country will achieve about twice the growth rate of recent years, up around 4 percent sustained ann

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Big night for the GOP and the governors races too. We are joined now by the chairman of the Republicans Governors' Association Chris Christie. Chris, congratulations. Boy, you didn't just hold on to your big states with Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan.

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2014年

By Robert Berger Bethlehem 24 December 2007 Thousands of pilgrims joined local Palestinians in celebrating Christmas Eve in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. As Robert Berger reports for VOA from Bethlehem, the observances were more cheerful than in p

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

A landslide near Kaikoura blocked the road and railway from Picton to Christchurch on Friday night. While small landslides on the narrow road near Kaikoura are quite common, this is the biggest one ever in this area. It is about 100m long and covers

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Why am I mad, I don't get it, It seems like every time you give me signs, And I miss it! I did it again, I admit it, I left you standing there, And now I regret it, Seems like every time, I get the chance, I lose my cool, and I blow it, And I get all

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英文最新流行歌曲

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For a third year, an Arkansas town is host to a Hollywood-style film festival started by Gina Davis, the Oscar-winning actress. The Bentonville Film Festival aims to headline creative works by women and filmmakers of color. Opening

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

今天我们要学的词是exceed。 Exceed, 超过。 The team opened the season with three wins, exceeding everyone's expectations, 球队赛季一开始就连赢三场,超过了所有人的预期。美国加州一个郡发生水污染。 Test re

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A Trump appointee running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has disbanded a consumer advisory board, and that board helped the bureau identify unfair practices at financial companies. Consumer advocates say they have b

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月