HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program: We listen to music by several bluegrass award nominees And answer three listener questions about the United States. But first, we tell about

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(九)月

US National Spelling Bee Has a Surprise Winner Fourteen-year-old Karthik Nemmani of Texas won the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. His victory was a surprise even to him. 周四晚,德克萨斯州14岁的卡西克(Karthik Nemmani)赢得了

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(六)月

A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen. It has been said that history is written by the victor

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The 2007 Berlin marathon for males over 55 was unusual in that the winner cheated. Hank skipped two checkpoints during the race. The electronic tracking chip that all runners must wear confirmed that Hank had run only 17 miles of the 26-mile marathon

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The Best Film of the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards goes toCold War The 2012 Hong Kong police drama Cold War won most of the big awards. In addition to Best Film, it also won Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor, among others. Cold War was the first

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

Jessica 在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是杨琳要问的:海选,甄选。 YL: Jessica! 送你一张我的签名照!快拿着! Jessica: Your autograph? why

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Joice: OK. Here's the final drawing! It's for the trip! Emily: And the winner is...Vivian, again! I don't believe it! Joice: Our red underwear didn't do any good at all! Emily: Well, there are still some consolation prizes. We can go up to the front

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VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Shirley Griffith with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we finish the story of the first American program to send a person into space. It was called Project Mercury. (MUSIC) VO

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(六)月

I'm Tommy Andrey from CNN radio; I'm filling in for Carl as we start a new week of CNN student news. First up, we're heading to Kenya; it has the largest economy in East Africa. It's a relatively stable country in there gion, that isn't always stable

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(三)月

Victory isn't defined by wins or losses. It is defined by effort. If you can truthfully say,I did the best I could, I gave everything I had; then you're a winner.--Wolfgang Schadler 胜利不是用赢输定义的,而是用努力定义的。如果你能

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 Daily English-2017.03

A Nobel Prize-winning U.S. economist says the U.S. protectionist measures against China would harm its own economy and undermine a rule-based international trading system. Joseph Stiglitz spelt out his opinion in New York on Thursday at a gathering o

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By Michael Bowman Lima, Peru 10 April 2006 Partial election results in Peru are showing a tight three-way presidential contest that all but assures a second round of balloting to determine a final win

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今天我们要学的词是clear-cut。 Clear-cut, 是清楚的,明确的。There was no clear-cut winner in the debate, 这场辩论没有明确的胜利者。Last year's championship team is not the clear-cut favorite for this season, 去年的冠军

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The 11th Asian Film Awards were held at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on Tuesday evening. The Chinese film 'I am not Madame Bovary', directed by Feng Xiaogang was the big winner of the night. Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (L) and director Feng Xiaogan

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2017年

Canadian author Alice Ann Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canadas Governor Generals Award for fiction. 加拿大女作家艾

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The All Blacks beat the Australian Wallabies tonight and won the Bledisloe Cup. Lord Bledisloe, who was Governor General of New Zealand, gave this cup in 1931 for the winner of a rugby game between Australia and New Zealand. Now, the winner has to wi

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Last night was the annual sports awards for the best sports man and woman for the year. Nominations included people from these sports: rowing, basketball, netball, cycling, sailing, surfing, cricket, rugby, football, Paralympics (for disabled people)

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Security forces in Gabon have stepped up patrols ahead of the expected announcement of a winner from Sunday's presidential vote. Three of the candidates are already claiming victory. Supporter of Ali Bongo Ondimba holds poster of their leader during

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(九月)

Voice 1 Hello. Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 2 Have you seen the p

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight