Seeking Our Outer Space Home One hundred years ago, walking on the moon was only a dream -- it is almost impossible to imagine what might happen in the next 1)millennium. We know that one day we will

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2004年

The exodus from the Gulf Coast has begun as Hurricane Gustav takes aim on the region. Tens of thousands of people have been leaving today. If the storm stays on its current path, a mandatory evacuation will be ordered for the entire city of New Orle

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台八月

Twice a year, day and night, fall into balance, lasting for nearly equal length. Known as equinoxes, Latin for equal night, they occur in March and September and along with solstices mark the changing of seasons as Earth travels around the sun. Astr

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

There's a disturbing side to the diamond trade--- the traffic of conflict diamonds, otherwise known as blood diamonds. This is Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the West African coast, a country still emerging from ten years of war. During tha

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

非洲移民给意大利带来的问题 LONDON Thousands more migrants have arrived on the southern shores of Italy from North Africa in the past two days. Authorities say they expect the total number of arrivals this year to far exceed previous leve

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(八月)

鲍勃马利(Bob Marley),1945年2月6日生于生于牙买加圣安妮,1981年5月11日逝世,牙买加唱作歌手,雷鬼乐鼻祖,拉斯塔法教徒。 1960年,马利开始了演唱生涯,1964年组建了Wailing Wailers(哭泣着的

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语名人堂

Obviously, their reasons for staying home are vastly different. 显然,女性决定做全职妈妈的原因各不相同。 Mothers married to the lowest-earning men struggle to find jobs that pay enough to cover child care costs, which are increasi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 向前一步

Indonesia Increases Its Own War on Drugs Indonesias President Joko Jokowi Widodo is again urging an increase in efforts to fight illegal drugs in the country. Jokowi said police should shoot foreign drug dealers who resist arrest. He added that the c

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(八)月

The Age Wave: America's Retiring Workforce 美国退休人员年龄波动 It’s being called the “age wave”, and it’s causing concern in both federal and corporate circles. Rudolph Penner of Wa

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(下)--社会新闻点评

坚持不懈,直到成功。 我们每天的奋斗就像对参天大树的一次砍击,头几刀可能了无痕迹。每一击看似微不足道,然而,累积起来,巨树终会倒下。这恰

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Craig Windham. The outer bands of Hurricane Gustav are expected to reach Louisiana and other parts of the Gulf Coast this evening. The storm has expanded in size, and forecasters say it will have a powerful impact eve

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台九月

Gamers love to be attached to awe-inspiring missions to human planetary-scale stories. 游戏玩家喜欢依附在那些关乎人类星际故事的威严任务里面。 So, just one bit of trivia that helps put that into perspective: 你所做的任何

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April 20th, 1889. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany who ruled for more than a dozen years is born in Austria. Hitlers Third Reigh brought WWII and the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in Europe. 1999. They didnt care who they shot at, they w

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2016年

If one day during Spring Festival, your door bell rings and a young foreigner is at your door with your parcels, dont be surprised. 春节假期这几天,如果某天你开门后看到一名金发碧眼的外国小伙说春节好,这是你的快递

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

China had a total of 1.26 million students overseas as of 2015, accounting for 25% of the world's total number of students studying outside their native country, meaning one in four such students is from China, according to the 2016 Report on the Dev

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Business: Schumpeter: Leaving for the city 商业:熊彼特:转战城市 Lots of prominent American companies are moving downtown. 美国大量名企正迁向城市。 Fifty years ago American companies started to move their Headquarters away fro

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Topic 1-Videos of 6000 Infants Leaked Online A young mother found video clips of her newborn baby among nearly 6,000 other infants on a commercial website. Without parent's consent, how did the footage get uploaded online? What other private informat

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Special Report 特别报道 From darkness, dawn 冲破黑暗,走向黎明 After years of underachievement and rising violence, Mexico is at last beginning to realise its potential, says Tom Wainwright Tom Wainwright说道经过长年停滞和内乱,

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

The offensive continues. France collapses. 攻势继续。法国溃不成军。 But Reynaud and De Gaulle who was under secretary of state for defense on war want to continue fighting. 但雷诺和国防部次长兼陆军次长戴高乐想要继续奋战

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The Nazi's emblem, the Swastika, flies over Paris. 纳粹的象征万字旗在巴黎飘扬。 One of the first act of German occupier is to seize all the records of the abandoned ministries, list of spies, 德国占领者的首要行动之一,就是查

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