Topics: Ask an American: Father Damien and leprosy; bring versus take; And you?; trustworthy versus honest Words: beacon to despair faith to exile to shun legacy affection on (ones) behalf bottom line to bring to take trustworthy honest

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: An activist in Spain who has no experience in office is now the mayor of Barcelona. Ada Colau was swept into office on a wave of anti-establishment anger. And now almost two years into her term, she spoke to reporter Lauren Frayer

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First, today, we're taking you to southwestern Europe. There are about 49 million people who live in the nation of Spain. Sixteen percent of themlive in Catalonia. This is a wealthy region of Spain that held a referendum, a vote yesterday on whether

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年10月

Jim: Hey Michelle. Good to see you. Are you at lunch? 嘿,米歇尔。很高兴见到你。你吃过中饭吗? Michelle: Oh hi Jim. No I just got back. I thought you were on vacation now. 哦,嗨,吉米。没有,我刚刚回来。我以为你

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正地道美语

文本: So, what have they done to supermarket bread to make it stay softer than home-baked bread? To reveal what they're really doing to our food, I've come up with a surprising idea. I've set up my own food factory inside this barn. So, it's the

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Today's topics: Lunar New Year, British English, Quincenera, Schools in the US, Well, Good, and Bad, Effect versus Affect, Maybe versus Perhaps. Words: Sweet 16 Latino Dropout Grade School Tuition Kindergarten Diploma Tracking Electives

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At least 15 would be migrants, many of them young children, have died off the coast of Spain in an attempt to reach Europe from Africa in a small boat. The incident is the second this week in which would-be migrants to Spain have perished, and comes

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

Police in Thailand say they have coordinated with Spanish authorities to bust a passport forgery ring that allegedly supplied terrorist groups, including those blamed for deadly attacks in Madrid and Mumbai. Thai police say they arrested two Pakistan

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十二)月

The head of Spain's civil aviation said the Spanair plane that crashed in Madrid Wednesday must have suffered more than one kind of failure. Meanwhile, grieving relatives are continuing efforts to help identify the remains of the 153 people who were

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)

THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Columbus Discovers the New World STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC) Generations of schoolchildren have been taught that Christophe

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Optimism Over Euro Crisis Eases Market Pressure Eurozone finance ministers had a spring in their step Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for talks on the debt crisis as market pressure eases on the single currency. Spain - whose debt threatens the who

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(九月)

Amid Economic Gains New Trouble on Horizon Gasoline prices are on the rise, but it doesn't seem to be slowing down American consumers. Retail sales rose in February at the fastest pace in five months - fueled by higher demand for automobiles. Actuall

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(三月)

Inspired by Arab Protests, Spain's Unemployed Rally for Change Thousands of demonstrators are occupying squares in major cities across Spain, protesting high unemployment and lack of opportunities for youth, ahead of municipal elections on Sunday. Ma

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

EU Claims That Crisis Is Over Premature, Analysts Warn The budget deal agreed to after marathon 25-hour talks in Brussels will see total EU expenditures cut by $45.9 billion or 34.4 billion euros over the next seven years. It was seen as a victory fo

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(二月)

By Lisa Bryant San Sebastian, Spain 12 May 2006 With the recent declaration of a permanent cease-fire by the Basque terrorist group ETA, many believe Europe's regional independence struggles are dying

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One of the things that we enjoyed most about our vacation this Summer was the beach. I've always been an inland person; I love forests and mountains. However, this Summer we were in very beachy places. It was the first time that I had been on the Cos

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

By Lisa Bryant Paris 10 January 2007 The Basque separatist group ETA is warning it may launch new terrorist attacks, following its December 30 bombing at a Madrid airport that killed two people. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the blast has shattere

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(一月)

Todd: OK, now Keren, we're talking about staying healthy, and you live overseas,, and we both know it's quite hard to actually sometimes stay healthy overseas. Keren: Yeah. Todd: First of all, can you talk about Spain? When you lived in Spain was it

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Washington 12 November 2007 Venezuelan officials are blasting Spain's king after the monarch told President Hugo Chavez to shut up at the close of the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, the verbal

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

By Phuong Tran Nouadhibou, Mauritania 05 September 2007 As West African youths continue to attempt illegal Atlantic ocean crossings to Europe, those who stay behind have mixed reactions. Some say the crossing is suicidal; others say it is everyone's

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)