Hello and welcome to the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Everyone around the world celebrates the New Year differently and at different times. Most people in the U.S. celebrate it on January 1. But they may also observe New Year

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(321) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

勇士中锋贾维尔-麦基和沙奎尔-奥尼尔在推特开启骂战,公开对飙脏话。队友凯文-杜兰特公开力挺麦基,他在采访中说道: JaVale works extremely hard. He has come in here and done so much for us. He only wants

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For the tribe and for Jamuqa(扎木合) it was a decisive moment.

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 成吉思汗

Diamonds Aren't Everyone's Best Friend 嗜血钻石 by Jerri C. Graham In the middle of dinner, Victor got down on one knee. Taking Claire's hand in his, he spoke the words she had been dying to hear, Will you marry me? Claire beamed as Victor reache

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤解析英语

On the shore of Lake Michigan, in the town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, they've got one of the largest historical markers you'll ever see----28 square feet of homage (whoop) - to the ice cream sundae . T

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Topic1-Are 20 million people in Beijing pretending to have a life An article with the title There are 20 million people pretending that they have a life in Beijing has gone viral on social media. It has received 5.28 million reads, nearly 20,000 comm

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

[00:14.80]Michael Dell 迈克尔.戴尔 [00:38.02]词汇扫描 [00:42.82]complement 补充 [00:46.97]address 宣布 [00:52.84]On May 15, 2006, The University of Texas at Austin [00:59.17]announced a US$50 million grant [01:03.23]from the Michael and Susan Dell Fo

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(204) / 评论(0) 分类 各色各样的人

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.Police in Newtown Connecticut are still investigating the crime scenes where 27 people died yesterday. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports the names of the victims have not yet been released. Police Lieutenant P

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America's 'Capitals of the World' Have you ever heard that New York City claims to be the financial capital of the world? It claims to be the fashion capital of the world, too. But, London, England also says it owns those titles. And, most any French

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The third season of American Crime premieres this Sunday on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN CRIME) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) When they were running crack in the city, they didn't have any Narcan. They let the Mexica

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ryan Murphy, the producer behind TV shows like Glee and American Horror Story debuts his latest series Sunday on FX. It is called Feud: Bette And Joan. And it's based on a legendary rivalry in old Hollywood. NPR TV critic Eric Deg

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土耳其解雇350名警察 ANKARA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Turkey dismissed about 350 police officers in the capital Ankara overnight amid a corruption probe, private Dogan news agency reported Tuesday. The officers were sacked by a government decree iss

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

I was among the first batch of people to read Guo Jingmings City of Fantasy (《幻城》) back in 2003, when I was in high school. To my younger self, the story was *heart-rending, and Guos language was mind-blowingly beautiful. I amused myself by i

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Sailing from the strait of Gibraltar in to the bey, a steel, grave warship shaped a reminder that Britain is still the dominant overseas power on the rock. And for the locals, long may it remain so. HMS Westminster is here as part of a long planned n

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BBC News South Korean prosecutors carried out further raids on businesses of the Lotte Group, a sprawling conglomerate at the centre of a bribery probe. At least 10 divisions were raided including its chemical and confectionary businesses, a spokesma

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The Democratic presidential candidates said Saturday they are focused on the U.S. economy and defeating the Islamic State group as their top priorities. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot be thought of as the police of the w

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Spain's press 西班牙报业的压力 A shrinking order 一个持续紧缩的制度 Sacked editors are a sign more of financial than political pressures 不断失业的编辑们背后意味的经济压力远大于政治压力 Two of the remaining re

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Rescuing your father and stopping Fyers is not going to be some walk in the park. 营救你爸爸,阻止法尔斯,并不像公园散步那么简单 They're not going to allow us to just stroll on into their camp. 他们不会让我们在军营里晃

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After graduation he took the job for which he was destined: as an animator at Disney Studios. Except it didn't work out. 毕业后,他得到了一份注定要从事的工作--在迪士尼制片厂做动画师。但是拉塞特在迪士尼的工作并

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今天我们要学的词是feud。Feud名词,意思是不和、争执。 President Trump attacked two Republican lawmakers, Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona in tweets, deepening his feud with members of his party. 川普

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