For over 60 years, UN peacekeeping missions have operated in some of the most dangerous and difficult environments in the world. 60多年来,联合国维和任务在全球一些最危险、最艰难的环境里开展。 Peacekeepers provide stabili

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(9月)

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Everglades National Park One of the Worlds Great Biological Wonders From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. And Im Shirley Griffith. This week, we tell about Everglades Nation

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 May 2006 United Nations aid agencies are mobilizing a huge relief operation for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java Saturday. The quake killed

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Researchers at Boston University have identified a kind of genetic signature in people who are likely to live to age 100 or older. The technique may also help doctors predict whether you're likely to get a disease, decades before the symptoms show up

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River otters, like other social animals, have to carefully weigh the costs and benefits of hanging out in large groups. A big group makes it easier to catch fish, which seems like a good deal, but there's a downside to social life too. More otters me

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Unit 24 Is Beauty an Advantage? Is beauty an advantage? Does it make the beautiful individual powerful? Does it result in substantially better pay and opportunities in the workplace? Ten years ago, feminist author Woolf wrote about the beauty myth. W

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Unit 72 E-mail Is Here to Stay Is e-mail a blessing or a curse? Last month, after a week's vacation, I discovered 1,218 unread e-mail messages waiting in my inbox. I pretended to be dismayed, but secretly I was pleased. This is how we measure our wir

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Is My Brain Static Or Constantly Changing? Scientists used to think that for all its complexity, the brain was pretty static. Once the brain matured, it essentially stopped growing and changing. And when neurons, or brain cells, were lost or damaged,

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, President Obama proposed major changes to rebuild government supervision of the financial industry. President Obama announces his plan at the White House BARACK OBAMA: So today, my admi

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By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 22 November 2006 European and African nations met in Libya on Wednesday to seek ways to stem the rising tide of illegal migration. The Libyan foreign minister, Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, told the conference that EU countri

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 28 September 2006 In 2004, Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid became the first and, to date, only woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architectural Prize, the so-called Nobel of the design world. Her bold designs are on

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By Zulima Palacio Santa Fe, New Mexico 27 August 2007 The western U.S. state of New Mexico has 19 Pueblo tribal communities, some of them among the oldest American Indian settlements in the United States. Many of them are well known for their pottery

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The recently signed free-trade pact between the 10 members Association of South East Asian Nations with Australia and New Zealand is seen as a positive, as the region grapples with the global recession. Asia business executives also see the pact wit

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Taliban militants have pulled out of a peace deal in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, dealing a blow to the government's efforts to eliminate attacks by Islamic extremists. The announcement by a spokesman for Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahad

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Slew of New Products Unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show 新产品亮相消费电子展 For a glimpse into the future, look no further than the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Self-driving shuttles and solar cars are on displa

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'Loving' Tells Story Of Supreme Court Ruling Legalizing Interracial Marriage play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0007:55repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or updat

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(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, WIDOWS) VIOLA DAVIS: (As Veronica) My husband left me the plans for his next job. All I need is a crew to pull it off. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Here's the premise of Widows, the action-packed heist thriller from director Steve McQueen

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The Belo Monte phase two project is the first ultra high-voltage(UHV) transmission overseas project that China has invested in independently. It's also a big step for the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America. Here is more on this ongoing project

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By Sean Maroney Washington 15 December 2006 Astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery have successfully rewired half of the International Space Station to run on its permanent power system. VOA's Sean Maroney reports from Washington with deta

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Dolphins Dumb Down Calls to Compete with Ship Noise The oceans are getting louder. And coastal areas are some of the noisiest, as in this underwater recording, captured 17 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. 海洋的声音越来越大。在这

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