Surprising Origin of 'To Keep at Bay' Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore everyday expressions that we use in conversation. Americans often use the first saying we will talk about today. B

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(七)月

This is not a word for word transcript. William: Hello and welcome to 6 minute English. I hope you're ready for another five minutes and fifty-five seconds of wonderful English language conversation about an interesting topic from BBC News. I'm Willi

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

President Obama has met with the bipartisan leadership of Congress at the White House. They discussed financial re-regulation legislation. As NPRs Mara Liasson reports, the parties sound as though they are moving farther apart, not closer together on

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

1. Libya's opposition says troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi are bombarding Misrata, the only city in western Libya not under Gadhafi's control. The artillery and tank fire comes despite a barrage of missiles and air strikes from U.S. and European forc

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2011(三月)

1. Fears of unrest have been growing in Haiti but survivors of Tuesday's earthquake are beginning to get relief supplies. Hundreds of US troops have arrived in the capital, where they've been helping distribute food and water. Meanwhile, workers have

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EXPLORATIONS - International Red Cross Helps Victims of Natural Disasters The Red Cross is leading efforts to help victims of the cyclone in Burma, earthquake in China and starvation in Ethiopia. Transcript of radio broadcast: 20 May 2008 VOICE ONE:

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(五)月

AS IT IS 2016-01-24 Nearly 19,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed in Two Years 过去两年伊拉克有19000平民死亡 The United Nations says that nearly 19,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the fighting with Islamic State militants in the past two y

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AS IT IS 2016-03-12 The Japanese Tsunami Five Years Later 日本海啸五年之后 Five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, recovery remains years away. More than 16,000 people died in the disaster and more than 470,000 were displa

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Some 300 Holocaust survivors returned to Auschwitz on Tuesday for a memorial event at the former site of the Nazi death camp, joined by world leaders including the presidents of Poland, France, Germany, Austria and Ukraine. They gathered under an eno

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Nicole Lapin. Thanks much for checking in with us today. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. California Supreme Court has just struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage. In a 4 to 3 ruling, t

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Two men who were climbing Mt Taranaki on Sunday, were caught in an avalanche but survived. They saw the snow above them racing towards them. The snow caught them and carried them about 500m down the mountain, stopping on the edge of a cliff. They wer

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Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights from The New York Times. In this piece, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a Times correspondent based in Beijing who has Anglo-Irish, German-Swedish roots, travels to Munich and unpacks a lot more than her suitcas

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In the year 1893, James Hilton described an eternally peaceful and quiet place among mountains in the East Shangri-La in one of his novels for the first time. In the novel Lost Horizon, an English diplomat Conway and his brother Gorge scattered the E

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

A passenger plane has crashed after a failed emergency landing in Taiwan, killing more than 40 people, local officials say. 台湾官方报道,一架客机在台湾迫降失败后坠毁,超过40人死亡。 The domestic flight crashed near Magong

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The U.S pleaded to deepen cooperation with South Korea and Japan on deterring the North Korean nuclear threat. President Obama also met with China's President on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington. A police traffic camera caught

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The Kogalymavia airline flight came down just 23 minutes after taking off from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh for the Russian city of St. Petersburg. It's believed the plane had 224 people on board, 7 of whom were crew members. The Russian embassy is still

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The Ebola virus can persist within the eyeballs for months after a patient recovers from the potentially deadly disease, researchers have found. A report released this week by the U.S. journal New England Journal of Medi

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

DAVID GREENE, HOST: On the night of October 19th, 1984, Erik Vogel was uneasy about flying. But the young pilot was behind schedule and he felt like his job was on the line. So he took off, as he did most days, shuttling between remote communities do

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

For Moms This is for all the mothers who DIDNT win Mother of the Year last year, all the runners-up and all the wannabes, in- cluding the mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care. This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bl

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

一艘客轮在海上遇到暴风雨而翻覆,只有两个人游泳到一个荒凉的小岛上。在无计可施的情况下,这两个人都认为只有向上帝祷告才是唯一之道。但是为了看谁的祷告比较有效,他们协议把小

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