FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. This week on our program we hear from some Americans about Christmas past, present and future. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: Jeffrey Davis remembers Christmas two years ago

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

A Piece of Cake ACT I I am exhausted. My new exercise class is so hard. 我太累了。我那里的健身班太难了。 Your new exercise class?你的新健身班? Yeah. My new advanced exercise cl

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台二月

Broadcast: Jan 10, 2003 While President Bush is promoting tax cuts to stimulate the economy, some state officials are considering tax hikes to fix their budget problems. California's governor, faced w

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(上)-商业论坛

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Baltimore is closing in again on 300 murders. It has passed that grim milestone every year since 2015. That was the year of the Freddie Gray riots, which led to the current effort to reform Baltimore police. The unrelenting carnage

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

All right. A Rhode Island High School that fired all of its teachers now plans to give them their jobs back. The news comes after Central Falls High School and the teachers union agreed on some new standards. Nearly a hundred teachers were fired beca

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet two English teachers from Haiti. But first, an update on how schools are trying to reopen following the earthquake in January. VOA's Jeff Swicord was there as some students returned to classes

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Australia's the Age: Patrons may have to wait until 2018 before smoking in outdoor dining areas is banned under a plan from the Napthine government. 室外就餐禁止吸烟 The government has announced it will ban smoking in dining areas on Monday,

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 双语趣听精彩世界

Shirley Horn: One of the Great Jazz Singers of the 1950s and 1960s Written by Cynthia Kirk (THEME) VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA IN VOA Special English. Today we tell about jazz singer and pianist S

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 名人轶事

By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: October 4, 2003 This is Bob Doughty with In the News, from VOA Special English. Voters in California will decide Tuesday whether to remove Governor Gray Davis from office. I

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(下)-教育与新闻

This is VOA News Minute. Protesters gathered outside Kentucky Detention Center in support of Tonifer Kim Davis who's deliberated ignoring the court's order to issue marriage licences to gay couple. US supreme court judge David Bunning , he said he wo

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(九)月

Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. If one album had to explain jazz, a strong candidate would be Kind of Blue by the trumpet player and bandleader Miles Davis. This week on our program, Steve Ember and Gwen Outen

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十)月

Southern States Form a New Nation 南方各州组成新的国家 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. South Carolina withdrew from the United States on December 20, 1860. South Car

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(九)月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today, we have a tale of two medical bills - same patient, same test, but one test cost 33 times more than the other. It's our bill of the month, part of a series with Kaiser Health News in which we examine real-world medical bil

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

AILSA CHANG, HOST: We're joined now one last time by pastry chef Aggie Chin. She's been with us this holiday season with recipes for all our gatherings. And this time, we'll be talking about the perfect dessert for a small festive dinner party on New

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Welcome to Lesson Two. For this lesson,you'll need a pencil and a piece of paper. Remember this conversation between Jake and Mike. Mike,I found Larkin.He's staying in St.Louis tonight. He's flying to Dallas in the morning. He's leaving at 11:55 A.M.

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 洪恩环境英语

unit 227 预定二人餐位 dialogue 英语情景对话 A:Good moming. Panyu Restaurant. May help you? A:早上好,这是番禺宾馆。我能帮您什么吗? B:What time do you open this evening? B:今晚你们什么时候开始营业? A:We op

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 高频英语口语对话

民族志学者韦德大卫斯探寻野生世界的世外桃源但在这篇短小精悍的演讲中,他呼吁大家拯救他的后院,即加拿大北部天堂般的土地。偏僻古老的神圣水源因富含含油砂而正面临威胁。演讲中

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:环境 重造计划

Dentists and researchers have come up with the formula for the perfect smile, from the size and width of each tooth to the curve, colour and shape of the teeth, and the overall width of the smile. 牙医和研究学者已经研究出完美笑容秘诀,

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

She's looking for a job and a finer place to stay,她在找一份工作,找一处更好的栖身地 She's looking for the hope and the empty promises,她在空洞的承诺中寻找希望 She's working two jobs, keeping alive,她做两份工才勉强过

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 The Voice 美国好声音

战胜失败 Keep your confidence in yourself 充满自信 Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis别对你的梦想和现实之间的差距感到畏惧,如果你有梦想,你

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening