Supporters of Gay Marriage Await US Court Rulings Supporters of same-sex marriage are rallying this week in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities, urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's 2008 gay marriage ban, called Proposition 8, and the Defe

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(三月)

Art Outside the Law 另类的街头涂鸦艺术 by Matthew Brown What seems like modern street art is a tradition that dates back to a time before there were streets. 看似现代的街头艺术其实早存在于尚无街道的远古时代。 A teena

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Prisons as Art Studios FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Faith Lapidus. Today on our show, we play music by blues artist Joe Louis Walker We also read from some of your recent comments ...

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Amber: Hello, I'm Amber and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we visit the largest art event in the Arab world - the Sharjah Art Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. (A biennial is an event that happens every 2 yea

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Topic1-My First Half Life, full-time housewife The TV drama, My First Half Life, has collected more than 5 billion hits online, and top ratings on TV. The series has put female independence in the center of discussion, with the perspective of a house

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Topic1-More singles bad for economy or not A recent media report says the population of single people in the Chinese mainland equals to the total population of Russia and the UK combined. The general impression goes like this: single ladies and guys

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Playback of RT's off-line fan meeting: Heyang and Ryan meet RT's hard core fans and talks about studying abroad with a mysterious expert and a representative of oversea returnees, Huang Shan.

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Topic1-Guangzhou offers tenants equal rights as house owners Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, will offer rental tenants the same rights as house owners to educational access, tax rebates and monetary support. What does the policy entail? Wil

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3.Ships in the Desert I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of c

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(239) / 评论(0) 分类 高级英语 上

Jenny went to the lake. She went to the lake with her dad. It was a big lake. It was a big, blue lake. It had a lot of water in it. It had a lot of fish in it. Big fish were in the lake. Little fish were in the lake. Jenny didnt see any fish. I dont

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam. The old South Boston Aquarium stands In a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. The airy tanks are dry. Once my nose crawled like a snail on th

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EXPLORATIONS - At the Vatican, Some of the Worlds Greatest Art FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. MARIO RITTER: And Im Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The Vatican in Rome is the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. Bu

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(四)月

Thirty New US Citizens Swear Their Allegiance Among them was Ashraf Mokhdar from Egypt. Im so proud Im a U.S. citizen. I wish to do my promise to be a good citizen, said Mokhdar. And Jacqueline Frye from the United Kingdom. Its been hard. Its been a

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A: Are you here about your ticket? B: Yes, I am, Your Honor. A: What is your argument? B: Your Honor, the police officer pulled me over for speeding. A: You must've been speeding. B: No, Your Honor, I was not. A: Tell me how many miles per hour you w

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A: You're here today to argue your ticket? B: I am. A: Plead your case. B: The police officer that pulled me over said I was speeding. A: Were you speeding when you got pulled over? B: I was not speeding. A: How fast were you going? B: In a 40 mph zo

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Topic 1-Parents of rural students accompany them to study According to an article written by a middle school teacher in Anhui Province, many parents of rural students accompany their children while they are studying outside their hometown. The parent

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I really wanted to see the new exhibit at the art museum and invited Lucy to come along. We both like contemporary art and this was an exhibition for an artist that we've both liked, ever since she was an up and coming artist 10 years ago. This was a

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

今天我们要学的词是alert。 Alert, 警戒,警报。 The National Weather Service put the area under a tornado alert until 7 o'clock tonight, 国家气象局对本地发布龙卷风警告,晚上七点钟解除。 The police sent out a crim

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Topic 1-China Arrests 14 for Selling 5000 Tons of Irradiated Seafood 14 people have been arrested for smuggling 5,000 tons of seafood into China, a portion of which originated from Fukushima, Japan. Now consumers are worried that irradiated smuggled

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

Topic 1-Chinas Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online With Chinas often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to arguably buy children instead. Lets have a closer look on the issue. Topic 2-30

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