INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., Robbie Stewart is in the kitchen with Alexandra Pappas. She is teaching him to make stuffed grape leaves, a traditional Greek dish. They are getting ready to go on a picnic with some friends, and t

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 欢乐美语

A: You ran into my car. B: That was my fault. I'm sorry. A: You messed up my car. B: I don't see any damage. A: My rear bumper is messed up. B: I don't see anything wrong with it. A: It's smashed in. B: That's not my fault. A: The same thing is wrong

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People in America - Jesse Owens, 1913- 1980: He Was Once the Fastest Runner in the World GWEN OUTEN: This is Gwen Outen. STEVE EMBER: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was imp

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Animal Safety on Movie Sets Still a Concern PAT BODNER: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Pat Bodner. Today we listen to new music from folk musician Pieta Brown and answer a question about the people in

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A: Hey man, you hit my car. B: I really didn't mean to. A: It doesn't matter, because you damaged my car. B: It looks okay to me. A: Look what you did to my rear bumper. B: What's wrong with it? A: My bumper is smashed in. B: I didn't do that. A: You

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【句子对照】 July 4th is the Independence Day in the United States. Happy Birthday, Uncle Sam! 7月4日是美国的独立日,生日快乐,山姆大叔! 【关键俚语】 Uncle Sam 英:The U.S. government; a patriotic figure who symbolizes the United States. 中:山姆大

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Good evening, my fellow Americans. Ten days ago, in my report to the nation on Vietnam, I announced the decision to withdraw an additional 150,000 Americans from Vietnam over the next year. I said then that I was making that decision despite our con

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By Zulima Palacio Washibgton, D.C. 19 April 2007 Watch Chesapeake Bay report The Chesapeake Bay has the longest coastline in the eastern United States -- nearly 19,000 kilometers long, stretching through and bordering six states. Thousands of rivers

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The samba rhythm developed from percussion styles used in Candomble, an African influenced religion which was banned in the slave era. In Candomble ceremonies, drummers call down different gods, or orixas who are said to act as guides and guardians f

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Everybody came from everywhere else in the country to live here, so even if the original bits of samba may have come from Bahia, from Africa and such and such, uh, Rio, being a more cosmopolitan place, would incorporate all influences and create diff

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The man who transformed Samba was President Getlio Vargas, who seized power with military help in 1930. Vargas controlled Brazil for 18 years, first as a dictator and later as a democratically elected president. He was both an authoritarian and a pop

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The unlikely duo of Carmen Miranda and President Vargas had not always found favor within Brazil for their music ideas. But between them, they transformed the international image of Brazil and the Rio music scene by promoting samba and carnival. Duri

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I would say bossa nova is a kind of soft samba, maybe played a little bit slower, just with the guitars, simpler, and very light singing, soft singing, and soft guitars doing the rhythm. Not a lot of drums like the big samba schools, maybe just a few

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It is a true story, you know, he used to play his to, to study his guitar and he would study the part of the thumb like this, ting, ting, he would go like that. The thing is there was a cat watching that. And poor cat was justand he would look at the

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Tom Jobim wrote many of his songs here in the countryside outside Rio. Jobim lived and worked in the house that his son and grandson are now restoring. He studied a lot Chopin, Debussy, Brahms also. He liked to wake up very early. And hes in this hou

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He was the best lyricist. He never made a mistake with a song of mine. And he would come later with the perfect lyric for the song. He was very successful with women and he was not exactly a good-looking man. He was fat, short, bald. But women, I've

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Garota de Ipanema, Girl from Ipanema, had been written by Jobim and Vinicius in 1962 as they sat in this bar off Copacabana, watching the girls walk by. They wrote that song just because they saw the same girl passing by the bar, going towards the be

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 06 December 2007 A Philippine court has convicted 14 militants of kidnapping 20 people in a 2001 incident that eventually left two Americans dead, including one who was beheaded. Douglas Bakshian reports from Manila. A Mani

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