From NPR News, this is weekend edition. I'm Liane Hanson. I believe in mystery. I believe in family. I believe in being who I am. I believe in the power of failure. And I believe normal life is extraordinary. This I Believe. For our regular series--

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年NPR美国国家公共电台

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's something people do every day that many of us apparently do wrong - bending over, you know, to pick things up or put things down or even just to sit down. Now, a group of scientists who study bending say Americans are doin

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: For New Year's Eve, the musical tradition has long been this old chestnut... (SOUNDBITE OF GUY LOMBARDO AND HIS ROYAL CANADIANS' PERFORMANCE OF AULD LANG SYNE) FRAYER: If Guy Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne is decidedly, w

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Running a Family-Owned Business When I took over the family business three years ago, I didnt know what I was letting myself in for. My uncle, who ran the business before me, established a clear chain of command, which I thought would eliminate infig

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年ESL之商务英语

美国总统选战特朗普与桑德斯在爱荷华州异军突起 In towns across Iowa,the crowds supporting Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders,a U.S. senator from Vermont,are growing. 在爱荷华州各地,支持佛蒙特州参议员民主党候选人

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)

Bush in Europe to Talk Security with Allies President Bush is in Brussels for talks with NATO and European Union leaders, and bilateral meetings with some of the toughest critics of his decision to in

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(上)--国政军事聚焦

By Barry Wood Washington 21 January 2006 Ibrahim Rugova Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the father of the province's movement to gain independence from Serbia, died of lung cancer on Saturday. He was

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(一月)

Candidates Spending Millions on Undecided Ohio Voters Halloween decorations in Ohio share the yard with political signs. Ohio is called the batteground of all battleground states and it could decide the election. The midwestern state is a cross-secti

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)

Anti-Establishment Candidates Popular on Iowa Campaign Trail GRINNELL, IOWA One of the biggest surprises in the race for the White House in 2016 is the surge in popularity of anti-establishment candidates in both parties. In towns across Iowa, the cr

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(九月)

BBC Learning English London Life Princess Beatrice Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In London Life today, we travel back in time to hear about the life of Princess Beatrice, the youngest of Queen Victorias nine

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(167) / 评论(0) 分类 伦敦生活

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Britain's upcoming exit from the European Union dominates the news headlines in Europe. It cast a shadow over last month's election in the U.K. and the recent G-20 summit in Germany. It's the topic of family arguments over many B

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: Five-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Miss., had a hot tip on a heist last week, so he called 911. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: This is the Byram Police Department. We had a 911 hang up from this number.

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's a new era for Sinn Fein. That's the political party that has fought for a united, independent Ireland. Sinn Fein had close ties to the Irish Republican Army during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland known as the T

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a real-world experiment in how to attack drug addiction. Many parts of the United States are fighting the spread of opioids or heroin. Portugal fought its own drug problems differently. That country decriminalized dru

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to some economic news. South Korea's economy has been thought of as an Asian tiger with high growth and productivity. But momentum there has slowed, and these days, unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years.

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: India's largest city has banned plastic bags and packaging. In India, people actually produce only a tenth of the plastic waste that Americans do. The problem is where it ends up, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai. (SOUN

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Bison lose the last of their winter coats. In the heat, tempers fray. To escape soaring ground temperatures, cowbirds choose a bison's back as a cool place to feed and catch the breeze. Biting insects now become a draining nuisance. A grizzly bear es

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is a tense time to travel between North America and China. A Chinese executive was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. She is accused of fraud. Her company allegedly got banks to help it do business in Ir

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Beijing may finally allow guide dogs on public transport after the city approved a new draft of its Animal Epidemic Prevention Law. Currently, regulations in cities like Shenzhen and Chongqing allow people with visual disabilities to bring their guid

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年12月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The biggest gathering of human beings anywhere in the world has kicked off in India. It's the Kumbh Mela, an ancient Hindu pilgrimage to dip in the waters of the Ganges River. Up to 120 million people are expected to do so

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年NPR美国国家公共电台1月