By Challiss McDonough Iraqis are marveling at their soccer team's good fortune at the Athens Olympics. The team won Saturday's quarterfinal against Australia, and is now just two games away from a pos

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--雅典奥运

By Challiss McDonough Three generations of one family erupt in joy. Emad Mohammed has scored the only goal of the game against Australia in the Olympic men's soccer quarterfinal. Thirty tense minutes

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Microfinance is becoming a big business. It started as a way to provide very small loans to people in developing countries so they could begin to move themselves out of poverty. A few hundred dolla

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

Once A Regional Stabilizer, Saudi Arabia Becomes A Disrupter MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: For generations, Saudi Arabia's monarchs have based their rule on tradition and caution and, above all, stability. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman represents a bre

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

1.1B 1 woman: Good morning,my name's Tessa Saunders. man: Pleased to meet you,Mrs Saunders. 2 man: Hello,I'm Paul Timmerman. woman: How do you do. Mr Timmerman? man: Please,call me Paul. 1.1C 1 woman: Excuse me, are you Mr Robinson? man1: No,I'm not,

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[00:30.94](Man) 1, 2, 3... 1, 2, 3 [00:32.74](? Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama) (音乐:Sweet Home Alabama) [00:35.74]片名:美利坚颂歌 [00:45.18](Children laughing and shouting) [00:53.14](Kids) Hi, Grandpa! 爷爷! [00:53.22]Hey!

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Technology Report - A Cool Way to Keep Food From Spoiling 科技报道 - 罐中罐食物保鲜系统 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 A few degrees can make a big difference when it c

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Tripoli Neighborhood Checkpoints Help Keep the Peace The Moammar Gadhafi government in Libya has collapsed after 42 years, and many people question whether Tripoli will descend into the chaos that plagued Baghdad after the fall of Iraq's Saddam Husse

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(八月)

EVERY place is east of some other place. 每一个地方都在另一个地方的东边。 America is east of China. Europe is east of America. 美国在中国的东边,欧洲在美国的东边。 But the only place called THE East, with a capital T

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

The last most important place in Palestine is the city where Christ diedJerusalem. Christians call it their Holy City. 巴勒斯坦最后一个最重要的地方是耶稣去世的城市耶路撒冷,基督徒称它为自己的圣城, But, strangel

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The Turks also built, close to each mosque, one or more candle-shaped towers, called minarets. 土耳其人还在每座清真寺旁建造至少一座形似蜡烛的塔楼,叫做宣礼塔。 About midway of a minaret is a balcony, and five times a d

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Officials: Afghan Children Taken to Pakistani Religious Schools Officials say Afghan children are being taken to Pakistan to study at religious schools in areas controlled by the Taliban extremist group. 有关官员表示,阿富汗儿童被带到巴

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Saudi Crown Prince Detains Opponents, Expands Power The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is expanding his power over the Middle East country with a reported anti-corruption campaign. 沙特王储正在通过反腐运动扩大他在这个中东国家的权力

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Stranded in Greece, Afghan Interpreters Feel Abandoned by US, Coalition ATHENS Among the tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece are many Afghan nationals. VOA spoke to several of them who claim they were forced to flee threats from the Tali

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(四月)

The Mohammedans have commandments as the Christians do. We have ten; 和基督教一样,伊斯兰教也有戒律。基督教有十条戒律, they have four or more. One of their commandments is to pray five times a day; 伊斯兰教至少有四条戒

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Once upon a time there was a king in the old days long ago when kings could put to death whomsoever they wished. 在很久以前的古代,国王可以任意处死他不喜欢的人。 This king had a wife whom he was going to put to death the next

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Ever since the temple was destroyed Jews have gone there to weep and to pray that their country, which the ancient Romans took from them, would be restored to them. It is called the Wailing Wall. 自从圣殿被摧毁之后,犹太人常来此哭泣并

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Here is a look at what's happening right NOW IN THE NEWS. The Pentagon is now charging six detainees at Guantanamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the 9.11 attacks. If convicted, th

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(二)月

The Mohammedan churches or mosques were merely large stone halls without benches or pictures, 穆斯林的教堂,清真寺,仅仅是巨大的石砌大厅,里面不设桌椅板凳, where the faithful could gather (if they felt so inclined) to

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

The story of Ahmed, the son of Abdallah and Aminah (usually known as Mohammed, or he who will be praised,; reads like a chapter in theThousand and One Nights. 阿哈默德是阿布达拉和阿米娜的儿子,世人皆称他为穆罕默德,意思是

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