Now the special English program American Stories. Our story today is Hard Rock Maple. It is about two people living in New England. They seemed like the hard rock maple trees, often found in that area. Nothing can make them move. Today's story was wr

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 弗兰肯斯坦.Frankenstein

The Special English program -- AMERICAN STORIES. Our story today is called About a Place Called Gabrielle's. It was written by Robert Paul Smith. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. There are a hundred places in New York like Gabriel's. Up front is

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 美国故事

Now, an American short story in Special English. Our story today is The Devil and Tom Walker. It was written by Washington Irving. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Before we begin our story, let us go back 300 years to the late 1600s. In those ye

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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story is called The Animals Give Themselves from the book Cloud Walker by Joe Montour published by Forum Publishing. Mr. Montour is a native American from the Mohar nation. He has written sto

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Olive Bowen made some hot coffee to take to her husband Nate who was over in the barn. He was helping their cow Maudie to give birth. Olive herself was expecting a baby very soon. She felt heavy and moved around slowly. The coffee boiled on the stove

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Ben was awakened by a gunshot. The sharp noise came through the thick stonewalls of the house. It was cold in the bedroom. Ben Newman was shaking as he got out of bed. He put on his eyeglasses and went over to the window. The field was covered with w

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it were smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the man at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotiating until one's face b

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Before I was born, I went on the road. The road was highway 17. It went from the city of Jacksonville to the city of Whelmington in North Carolina, that is where the hospital was. My father back the car out of his place in the barn. He helped my moth

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Googles New Pixel Buds Offer Real-Time Translation American company Google recently announced the release of its Google Pixel 2 phone and other products that work together with the phone. 美国的谷歌公司最近宣布发布其谷歌像素2手机以

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十)月

Topic 1 - China's Feature Town Industry China is promoting its feature town, or tese xiaozhen, so as to narrow the wealth gap between the cities and the countryside. What is a feature town? How can it improve rural economy as well as living standards

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Ever since money was invented there have been people trying to fake it. Thats why its important for everyone to know how to spot a fake banknote. And the best thing to do is to know by heart what genuine notes should look like. Here is our expert Lee

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I'm an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow and so I decided to get one more man to help write legal papers. I have met a great many people in my days. But the man who answered my advertisement was the strange

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 美国故事

One day, our neighbor Keno Carter rode his horse over to our house. He had another horse with him. He rode to me and said: You have helped me a lot during the year. You've been a good boy. Now, here is the horse I promised. It is yours. At first, I j

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There are a hundred places in New York like Gabriel's. Up front is a small bar, in back there are a few booths and a half of dozen tables, the husband is the cook, and the wife takes care of the bar. It has a name, which is the first name of the husb

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Mister Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not k

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G sat in the bedroom and looked at the paper that covered the walls. He felt strange. He and his wife had slept in this room all of their married life. Yet he could not remember what the walls looked like. He had been blind. Now he could see again. H

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Observe, I beg of you, the savage look of his eye. 我只请求诸位注意他两眼发射出来的野性之光。 All the means used by centuries of civilization in subduing wild beasts failed in this case. 几个世纪文明里的一切驯兽手段都

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 木偶奇遇记

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Brave won the Oscar Award of Animated Feature Film Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. The animated film of Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman featured a high-spirited Scottish princess named Merida who res

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(312) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

词汇畅谈(Vocabulary Build-up):feature 口语训练营(Everyday English):关于茶文化的情景会话 语法天地(Grammar Talk):动词-ing形式作状语表示伴随情况

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语

Little interest in the next iPhone's purported Force Touch feature combined with weak demand in China could sink iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, says analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. 分析师郭明池称,下一代iPhone的压感触控功能(Force Touch)

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻