Jews in Israel and around the world are observing Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. An Ultra-Orthodox Jew prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, before start the holiday of Rosh H

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

U.S. President George Bush is urging Congress to move quickly to pass the $700 billion financial rescue package unveiled Sunday. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush says it is an extraordinary agreement to deal with an extra

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

Fighting has erupted between Pakistani troops and a Taliban faction located in the Swat valley in the country's northwest. Pakistani forces reported killing at least 25 militants on Wednesday and imposed a curfew throughout the valley. VOA's Barry N

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

Heres an interview with our friend Kelly. She helps out behind the scenes at Culips, so we thought wed use an episode to introduce her to you! Like all of us at Culips, shes not originally from Montreal. In this episode, we talk about her hometown, w

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Sometimes there are things that are not likely to happen, and weve got a few expressions to talk about them! Have you ever dreamed of flying to the moon? Or maybe you hope that your boss will give you the day off tomorrow. Fat chance. Listen to this

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

With the Internet and social media, people are on computers and cell phones more than ever! This means that there are all kinds of new terms that have been created to describe all the new trends and innovations online, one of which you already know:

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Heres an episode idea we got from Daniel on Facebook. Thanks again for the suggestion! In this episode, Harp and Maura talk about elementary and high school in Canada, including sharing their own experiences. They also tell you about different names

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 22 October 2007 At least one person is dead and tens of thousands have been evacuated from their homes in Southern California, where fires have scorched 40,000 hectares and firefighters are battling at least 12 major bl

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By David Gollust Sydney 15 March 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice deplanes after touching down in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, March 15, 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

By Scott Stearns White House 24 October 2006 President Bush says he expects his political party to keep control of both houses of Congress in next month's elections by campaigning on the issues of national security and a strong economy. The presiden

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

By VOA News 19 September 2007 A powerful typhoon has brought wind and rain to eastern China and has forced changes in the schedule at the 16-nation Women's World Cup football (soccer) tournament. VOA's Jim Stevenson is in Shanghai where the heavily f

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

By Paula Wolfson White House 20 March 2006 The situation in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan was on the agenda when President Bush met Monday with NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. Mr.

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

International shipping companies have welcomed the deployment of additional warships in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia, where dozens of commercial and private vessels have been attacked this year. Concerned ship owners are also

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

Craters here stretch as far as the eye can see. Although no human has ever set foot on Mercury, we have a pretty good idea of what you would see. If you are walking around on the surface of Mercury, it will look outwardly a lot like the moon. When yo

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

Move away from the sun, and you'd expect things to cool down a little. Venus, the picture of coolness and calm, all pale but gully-cloaked by clouds but the planet of love is shrouded in mystery-----------draw beneath her treacherous veil at your own

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

You are there, on the most exciting, nerve-shattering journey in the history of man! Fifty years ago, it was easy for us to imagine Venus, closer to the Sun and wrapped in clouds, to be our scorched, tropical sister, swarming with life. There was thi

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

And thats the first time; it was return black-and-white panoramas of the Venus surface. These images were extremely important, because it was the first time, we ,human beings had a chance to see with our naked eyes completely different other world. W

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

One of the really exciting and high-level scientific interests is whether Venus is geological active today, because there are reasons to think of the clouds on Venus only exist, because there is ongoing geological activity, so this is one of the bigg

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

Congratulations, you've arrived on the hottest surface in the solar system. Here, the official temperature is eight hundred seventy degrees Fahrenheit. Day or night, equator or pole, the searing heat never varies more than a few degrees, and thats wh

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are only two historically black women's colleges in the U.S. One of them, Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C., has been facing a loss of accreditation because of shaky finances, and that would lead to a loss of federal fund

发表于:2019-03-17 / 阅读(305) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年NPR美国国家公共电台2月