AS IT IS 2013-12-24 A Visit to the US Botanic Garden and its Special Holiday Exhibits 参观美国植物园及其特殊的节日展品 From VOA Learning English, welcome to As It Is. Im Steve Ember. On our program today, we tell about beautiful green

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(396) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

A man rushes in, and people turn to look at him Taylor: [Whispers] Sorry! Excuse me! [sees Holly and Yi-jun] I got your message. Holly: [Surprised] Taylor? Taylor! Is this a joke? Is it really you? But...but... everyone said you were dead! [starts cr

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Holly: Taylor, I don't know if I'll speak tomorrow, and I had to let you know how I feel. You are my best friend. My life will never be the same without your smile to light my day. [starts crying] Yi-jun: Don't hang up, Holly. Keep talking. Holly: Yo

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FD: It may comfort you to know that many people attended his viewing. Holly:How did they hear? No one called. FD: In times of loss, it is often hard to pick up the phone. But his whole family was here. Holly:His mom and dad must be destroyed. He was

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The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, by Margery Williams. There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread

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THIS IS AMERICA - Letterboxing: A Modern-Day Treasure Hunt BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we explore letterboxing. And later, we loo

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Cue the music. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SHAPIRO: Put some mulled wine on the stove. String the lights. And grab everything red and green in your home, and throw it all over the walls, windows, door jambs. To tell us how red and green b

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America’s First Landscape Architect 2 U.S. Capital Grounds Every day, Holly Shimizu, executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden , looks out on Olmsted’s crowning achievement, the design of the

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As the Easter egg hunt begins Holly: [Out of breath] Hide me, Yi-jun! The kids all think I'm the real Easter bunny! Yi-jun: Aw, that's sweet! I knew your costume would be a success. Holly: It's a success all right. The kids keep trying to catch me. Y

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My morning routine has ups and downs*. First thing in the morning, I find myself rushing around like a frantic woman, trying to get my children up out of bed, and off to school. I'm usually still in my pajamas (pyjamas)* when I drop the kids off, and

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On the drive to the funeral home Yi-jun: Don't we need to give a white envelope with money for the family, though? Holly: No. People give plates of food. The food is brought to the reception or in the weeks following. Yi-jun: At the reception? Holly:

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'Baby Shark' Enjoys Big Bite of Media Success In the words of comedian James Corden, every so often a song comes along that defines a generation: Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo. Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo. The late-night television host,

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More New Authors Turn to Self-Publishing More and more authors are taking control of their future by self-publishing their work. In fact, more books are self-published than are issued by traditional publishers, according to Bowker, which compiles pub

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A woman who was bullied over her height is inching her way into the record books with what she believes are the longest legs in the US - measuring a whopping 49.5 inches. 一女子曾因身高受欺负,现因其拥有美国最长腿而跻身记录册

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Right Whales Seem To Think Before They Speak As animals grow, the sounds they make change. But some sounds continue to change, even after an animal matures. That's true for humans, and now it turns out to be true for North Atlantic right whales, too.

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Paul: I am in love with you. Holly: So what? Paul: So what? So plenty! I love you. You belong to me. Holly: No, people don't belong to people. Paul: Of course they do. Holly: Nobody can put me in a cage Paul: I don't want to put you in a cage. I want

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Lock up your husbands Lock up your sons Lock up your whiskey cabinets Girls lock up your guns Lock up the beauty shop No telling if they've heard the news Call the boys downtown at Neiman Marcus Tell 'em lock up them high-heeled shoes When God Fearin

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When I in awesome wonder/我每逢举目观看 Consider all the works /你手所造 Thy hands have made/一切奇妙大工 I see the stars/看见星宿 I hear the rolling thunder/又听到隆隆雷声 Thy power throughout/你的大能 The universe di

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He said I was in my early forties with a lot of life before me when a moment came that stopped me on a dime and I spent most of the next days looking at the x-rays Talking bout the options and talking bout sweet time I asked him when it sank in that

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Holly and Ivy At the approach of the holiday season, early American colonists decorated their homes with greenery in the English tradition. They found that the winter foliage in their new land was somewhat different, so they added mountain laurel and

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