Mary Morningstar The 46th annual Grammy Awards will be handed out on February 8 in Los Angeles. This year's Country nominees include some of today's most popular performers, but also many artists who

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--艺术专集

US Navy Gives Women Permission to Let their Hair Down The United States Navy is giving female service members more choices with the shape and look of their hair. The Navy has approved changes to let servicewomen wear a ponytail or have other hairstyl

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Thirty-year-old Shamsia Hassani is widely recognized as Afghanistans first, if not only, female graffiti artist. Being a graffiti artist anywhere in the world presents difficulties. In war-affected Kabul, such artists face special problems. Hassani,

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(225) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Once a crow and his wife built their nest atop a huge banyan tree beside a river. They were very happy there. But when the female crow laid her eggs, they were in for an unpleasant shock. A huge snake who lived in a hole at the bottom of the tree cam

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A Cup of Joe With Average Joes and Plain Janes 来和普通的乔与简喝一杯咖啡吧! Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. A persons name is very important. Some names also have special meanings in popular American expre

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Test Your Vocabulary Knowledge of Farm Words 测试你关于农场的词汇知识 Today we have a vocabulary quiz. We start with two questions about terms for plants. First question: What is the name for a plant that lives only one year or one growin

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AS IT IS 2015-04-15 India Seeks More Women on Corporate Boards 印度寻找更多的女性加入公司董事会 From VOA Learning English. This is the Economic Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 The goal appeared simple: require

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Men and Women Really Do Think Differently From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report. Raise your hand if this story sounds familiar. A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all -- milk. At the same tim

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Health Workers Advised on Care of FGM Victims 卫生工作者建议关注FGM(女性生殖器割礼)受害者 The World Health Organization has released guidance to help health workers care for girls and women living with female genital mutilation. Ab

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D: (At the check-out counter) Victor: Thank God! The line moves along at a real fast pace. Mike: Gee! I forgot one thing! (Saying to a lady) Uh, ma'am, would you please mind my cart for a second? Female Customer: Sure! (A few minutes later) Mike: Mir

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由历年考研英语真题可知,阅读理解部分的试题中,大多数是针对段落的细节设计的,其目的是为了测试考生对组成段落的主体部分的理解。在每年的考试中,细节题的数量是最多的,大约占

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But I want to jump up to shallow water now and look at some creatures that are positively amazing. 不过我现在还是想说说浅水里的世界,来看看那些神奇的生物。 Cephalopods -- head-foots. As a kid I knew them as calamari, mostl

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- etymology meets entomology! The new movie Spider-Man inspired us to untangle some spider-related expressions. RS: Meet a real spider man, not the comic book superhero. Al York i

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As predicted, violence ahead of Iraq's October 15 national referendum on the draft constitution is rising, with more than 110 people killed and as many wounded in car bombings since late Thursday. Wednesday's attack in Tal Afar, carried out by the fi

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

Topic 1-Exclusive interview with Dr. Chen Shufen The pressure of studying abroad is causing some Chinese students to resort to suicide, a problem some worry will be exacerbated as more Chinese students travel abroad for their schooling at younger age

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Todd: Hello, Daniela, how are you tonight? Daniella: Hi, Todd. I'm fine, thanks. Todd: Now, you were showing me a picture of a horse. Daniella: Yes. Todd: And you were saying that female horses and male horses are different. Daniella: They behave dif

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Scottish singer Susan Boyle has been given three different entries in the new Guinness World Records book。 Her debut album I Dreamed A Dream was the fastest selling album by a UK female and also had the most successful first week's sales of a UK de

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An interesting question came up Saturday at the MIT Tech Conference on artificial intelligence: Why are most 'serving' machines given female voices?在周六的MIT科技会议关于人工智能的讨论中,冒出了一个有趣的问题:为什么大

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Park Geun-hye of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party won the tightly contested presidential election held Wednesday, becoming the first woman to lead the country and extending the conservative rule for another five years. Wi

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是bombshell。 Bombshell, 是指引起震惊的事件。Cuban leader Fidel Castro's decision to retire came as a bombshell, 古巴领导人卡斯特罗决定退休的消息引起了轰动。 纽约时报上星期刊登了关于

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