ESL Podcast 1161 Traveling by Light Rail Jean: Look out! Gordon: Dont worry. Thats just a light rail train. The new light rail system shares the road with street traffic. Jean: Phew! For a second there I thought we were going to collide with it. Gord

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年ESL之旅行交通购物

听遍美国之空难性新闻[3]:Big Storms in the Midwest Big Storms in the Midwest. Near blizzard(1) conditions in Colo-rado and Wyoming, big snows closed and brought down power lines for thousands. Power Company spokesman Steve Rolstead in Denver says, We

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What is the premise at the very beginning of the film, what has happened? We er, bought so much stuff, that we just filled up the world with trash/, almost like a blizzard of snow, and with just no room, and this poor little guy just kept doing his

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Venezuela is one of three divided countries we've told you about recently. It sees protests against its president, rallies and support of him and violence in the upheaval. Its current leader like its previous one has been controversial. He's moved th

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A: Let' s got out tomorrow night. We can go to a bar and try to find you a girlfriend. 今晚我们出去玩吧。我们可以去酒吧,然后看看能不能找个女友。 B: I don' t think that' s a good idea. I am just not good with approaching

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Near eleven o'clock in the morning, while on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a herd of baleen whales. 早上十一点左右,诺第留斯号在大洋面上, This encounter didn't surprise me, because I knew these animals were b

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IN THE NEWS - Obama, in Mideast Speech, Supports Palestinian Demand This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Obama discussed the political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa in a speech Thursday in Washington. BARACK OBAMA: We su

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about someone important in the history of the United States. This week we tell about singer and songwr

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US Looks for New Civilian Leadership in Syrian Opposition The SNC long looked to be the foundation of a transitional authority to replace President Assad. But Washington has watched with frustration at the opposition's personality-driven leadership a

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It has been four months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. And still, 40 percent of the island's customers are still without power. But as NPR's Adrian Florido reports, some people in one town got so tired of waiting t

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg testified for Congress today, we sat wondering, how much do Americans care about their online privacy? What's OK for companies to collect about you, and what's not? So we went out here in Washing

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Todd: OK, John could you tell us about your wedding day? John: Sure, I got married about two years ago on May 18th. I got married in my wife's parents backyard. They have a really beautiful backyard, with a pool and it's nicely landscaped, with lots

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Gerrallan needs to escape the fast-developing cloud in order to survive. The tunnel was rapidly getting stronger, and it was a little lower at ten thousand feet to the center of the tunnel so we aimed for that opening and started descending down at f

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Top 5 Songs for Week Ending August 3 Were exploring the five most popular songs in the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending August 3, 2013. This week, Ill take a look at performers who also write and produce their own mus

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Sue: I just made airline reservations for our trip. Do you want to look over the itinerary before I purchase the tickets? Alex: Which airline is it? Sue: Its McTse Air. Alex: Oh, no, I dont want to fly on that low-cost airline ! We dont get assigned

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Topics: The Hatfields and the McCoys; serving in the military to obtain U.S. citizenship; consistent with, in agreement with, coincide with, and identical to; software versus application versus app; to run out of versus to be out of Words: feud presu

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Topics: Famous Americans: Annie Leibovitz; home shopping cable channels and celebrity product lines; come versus go; via versus through Words: portrait the arts big break to be named chief celebrity channel cable host product line affiliated with nam

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The Weekend - Adventure Sports There is nothing quite like pushing the boundaries of safe and bor- ing. The rush from jumping out of an airplane or riding a huge wave can really make you feel alive. In this lesson we talk about adventure sports.

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语播客-EnglishPod

On our last program we discussed a simple experiment run by an Alexandrian named Eratosthenes in the third century B.C. By noting that, at the same time of day, sticks in the ground cast different-length shadows depending on whether they were in a no

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曾经参加过09年Dacing With Stars的乡村绅士Chuck Wicks于2008年发行了首张专辑《Starting Now》,Chuck Wicks 包办了里面10首歌的创作,可见才华。Chuck的嗓音温暖细腻,唱功了得,所有歌曲的表现都非常出

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