TODD: So, are you going to come for brunch with us tomorrow? REBECCA: What time? TODD: 11:00. We'll meet at the restaurant at eleven. REBECCA: I'm sorry. I won't be able to come then. TODD: Why not? REBECCA: I go to Mass at 10:30. TODD: Mass? I didn

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(1391) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化口语

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We listen to some holiday music that has been nominated for a Grammy Award /P Answer a question about how Americans celebrate Christmas /P And

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(十二)月

And last week we sang with the children one of their favorite songs, 上周我们与孩子们一起唱了一首他们最喜爱的歌曲: The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock. 聪明人建房岩石上。 Perhaps some of you know it. Some of th

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲娱乐篇

There they signaled a passing ship and asked that his body be taken to England. 在海边,他们向一艘过往的船发出信号,请求将利文斯通的尸体带回英国。 In England he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where the famous and gr

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

A hundred years ago people knew little or nothing about this part of Africa. 一个世纪以前,人们对非洲的这块地方所知甚少或一无所知。 It was an unhealthful and a dangerous country for the white man. 对白人来说,这是一个

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

A good Sunday afternoon to you, I'm Cory Kessler at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Gaza is in the dark after its only electrical plant was shut down. The plant had been running low on fuel after Israel

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(一)月

Still in Books and Arts;The Dead Sea scrolls;Voice of reason; 文艺;死海古卷;理性的声音; The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Geza Vermes. 《古卷的故事:死海古卷

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

JUDY WOODRUFF: A student walked into a high school in suburban Denver today armed with a shotgun and shot two other students before apparently killing himself. Authorities in Arapahoe County have not identified the gunman yet, but did say he was look

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈教育系列

Would you like to know how to write using hieroglyphs? 你想知道如何用象形文字书写吗? In fact, learning this sort of writing must have been incredibly hard, as it's more like constructing a picture puzzle. 事实上,这种书写确实不

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Confusion and misery reigned in the years after AD 200. 这是在200年后时期里的一场可怕的大混乱和一场可怕的大灾难。 In the Roman empire there was almost no one to keep order but slaves or foreign troops who couldn't understan

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 世界小史

Pope to Visit Mostly Orthodox Ukraine Sabina Castelfranco Rome 21 Jun 2001 20:13 UTC The most traveled Roman 1)Catholic church leader in history 2)embarks on another 3)controversial trip this weekend.

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2001-国际风云(1)

He hit the brakes too late. The train, carrying 218 passengers in eight carriages, hurtled off the tracks and slammed into a concrete wall, killing 79 people. On Tuesday, investigators looking into the crash announced their preliminary findings from

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Christmas is one of the most beautiful holidays of all time. It is the day when God's son was born on earth. Hence, this day is sacred for all Christians around the world. The Christmas season gives rise to a number of Christmas traditions that come

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Racism give birth of Auschwitz the killing factory 种族主义制造出杀人工厂奥斯威辛 Liberated by the Russian offensive of January in 1945 1945年1月苏军解放了这里 Hatred of the Jews exterminating them was as Hitler wrote in Mein

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 二战启示录

Jeff: My name is Jeff Eagar and I'm 32 years old and I'm from Canada and most people in Canada are Christians, they're Catholics or Protestants and my parents are Catholic but I've done a lot of traveling in my life and now I'm interested in the Budd

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 实战口语情景对话

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Robin Basselin. Voice 2 And I'm Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 J.J. Keki is a musician f

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. 船长徒劳地吓唬着要把他抛进海里;还在他那赤裸裸的肘腕上架了一柄弯刀

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

Explanation: The United States has 10 national holidays, or days when all people who work for the national government and most other people do not have to go to work. These holidays are usually on a Monday or Friday so that people can enjoy a three-d

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 美国精神

Explanation: Many of the earliest Americans followed a religion that was different from the one practiced (or believed in) by the people in government. These early Americans fled (or ran away from) their original countries because they were treated u

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 美国精神

From NPR news in Washington, I am Craig Windham. Christmas day in Bethlehem were crowed students long lines outside the church of Nativity for look at the grotto, the tradition holds with the site of the birth place of Jesus. In Newtown, Connecticut,

发表于:2019-03-15 / 阅读(583) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年NPR美国国家公共电台12月