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France's Finance Minister Christine Legarde will become the first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund. She was elected today with the backing of the world's major economies. The changes at the IMF come during tumultuous times for the organi
Don't Panic! 别慌! Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Have you ever felt pure fear, a fear that makes you act in a way you normally would not? That is panic. Panic is a great fear that makes otherwise normal people do ab
Sadness is part of the human experience, 悲伤是人类必经的感受, but for centuries there has been vast disagreement over exactly what it is and what, if anything, to do about it. 但几个世纪以来,人们既没有判断出它到底是什
[00:00.00]Greek weddings [00:02.60]On the day of Greek wedding ceremony, [00:05.11]the bridegroom has to ask the bride's father [00:07.55]for his daughter's hand in marriage. [00:10.16]The bridegroom's best man then [00:11.82]goes with the couple to
By Gary Garriott Broadcast: November 25, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils from seeds and nuts. Most
Oil Refining An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum - a dark, thick ooze from the earth - had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made of it. In the 1850's Samuel M. Kier,
After Elections, Greece May Renegotiate Loans 希腊选举后可能就贷款重新谈判 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 美国之音慢速学英语节目,这里是经济报道。 Elections in Greece on Sunday put politicia
You will hear some history and a good yarn in this story, which is largely set on the Greek island of Crete. The island which is now a popular holiday destination was the scene of a World War II Battle in 1941. Bertie hears the story from an old gene
The mermaid and merman legends begin with the worship of god as have many mythologies. The earliest representations and descriptions of these now well-known creatures can be traced back as far as the eighth century BC, where merfolk got their beginni
Greek firefighters are facing another day battling wildfires still threatening areas north of Athens. Thousands of residents of the capital's northern suburbs were forced to leave their homes as dozens of houses and large areas of forest were burnt.
ATHENS, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Greek finance ministry officials appeared confident over the outcome of the debt buyback plan shortly before the Friday evening deadline, expressing optimism that targets set would be reached and the country's debt burden w
VIENNA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) (石油输出国家组织 )raised its forecast Monday for global oil-demand growth this year, encouraged by outlook of continued world economic recovery. In 2011
NEW YORK, March 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday on high oil prices and possible earning lost from airline companies because of Japan disaster. With no economic news released on Tuesday, investors(投资者) paid attention to the co
1.Chinese dragon. 麒麟。不是中国龙的意思。中国古代的神兽,雄为麒,雌为麟,明代郑和下西洋带来了长颈鹿后,又用来代指长颈鹿(在日本依然如此),常用来比喻杰出的人。 2.American beauty. 美国
ISTANBUL Growing tensions between Baghdad and the semiautonomous Iraqi Kurdish government over control of the country's energy reserves is threatening to pull neighboring Turkey into the deepening dispute. This past weekend, Iraq warned Ankara that s
British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t
World oil prices are dropping because of fears the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will weaken the country's economy and curtail(缩减) its demand for oil. Oil recently has been trading at two-year highs. The violent conflict(冲突,矛盾)
President Barack Obama proposed tougher measures Tuesday to fight the illegal manipulation of oil markets, saying his plan would protect American consumers against artificially inflated gasoline prices. The country cannot have some speculators reap m
JUDY WOODRUFF: There was another dramatic chapter in the Greek economic crisis this evening, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced to his nation that he's resigning. ALEXIS TSIPRAS, Greek Prime Minister (through translator): My fellow Greeks, I