Ukrainians Rally for Unity Amid Fear of Division KYIV Ukrainians held a unity rally in the heart of their capital, a day after elite Russian forces stormed and took control of the last major Ukrainian military bases in Crimea. The theme for the rally

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(三月)

Louis Armstrong 路易斯阿姆斯特朗(被称为爵士音乐之王)于1967年演唱了这首歌,他那具有强烈感染力的声音是这首歌充满了激动之情与乐观精神。如今,《多么美妙的世界》已成为20世纪流行音乐

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US Celebrates Osama Bin Laden's Death U.S. President Barack Obama was preparing to announce Osama bin Laden was dead when word got out and crowds started gathering late Sunday outside the White House in Washington and at Ground Zero in New York City.

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

The sounding of bugles pierced through the wintry morning silence in the center of Beijing on the first day of 2018. It also signaled the start of a new daily routine for the Guard of Honor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to raise the nationa

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Topics: Woodstock Music Festival, Affirmative Action, hands-on vs. hand-off, to struggle, how to ask for a taxi, May I vs. Can I, to carpool Words: gathering overdose national anthem shiny affirmative remedy to be admitted race gender ethnicity rever

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

By Greg Flakus Mexico City 01 December 2006 In spite of threats by leftist lawmakers, Felipe Calderon went before the Mexican Congress Friday to take the formal presidential oath of office as required by the constitution. As VOA's Greg Flakus report

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

By Enming Liu Baltimore, MD 27 September 2006 watch report on Fort McHenry The American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, is played at sports events, religious ceremonies, and many other important occasions. But not all Americans know the s

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By Katherine Cole Washington 20 February 2007 Ever since releasing her first album in 1996, critics have been raving about Patty Griffin and her songs. While you're unlikely to hear Patty singing them on most U.S. commercial radio stations, that does

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Americans paused Tuesday to honor the nation's military veterans. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports President Bush remembered their sacrifice in a speech delivered from the deck of an aircraft carrier that first saw combat in World War II. President Bush

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

By Stefan Bos Budapest 24 October 2009 Hungary is commemorating its crushed 1956 Revolution against Soviet domination and the 20th anniversary of its declaration as a republic and the end of communism. The ceremonies come however as opinion polls sh

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

By Larry London Washington 14 September 2007 Huey Lewis and the News was one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s. Their string of hits, including the number one anthem Power of Love, have sold over 20 million records worldwide and can stil

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Experts Puzzled Over Significant Drop In NFL TV Ratings play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:49repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And here's one more item for your gender politics file. For nearly 50 years, credit for this song - Imagine - has gone to one writer - John Lennon. That changed this week. The National Music Publishers Association announced that

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 26 February 2008 North Koreans applauded the historic first performance in their capital by a U.S. symphony orchestra. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin looks at an event some call a watershed in thawing chilled ties between the

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By Jordan Davis Dakar 10 October 2006 This year the French-speaking world has celebrated the life of late Senegalese Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor. He is widely celebrated for his influential writing about panafricanism and African identity b

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By Jocelyn Ford Banda Aceh 08 February 2007 Newly-elected Governor of Aceh Irwandi Yusuf, second from right, and his deputy Muhammad Nazar, right, are congratulated by officials after swearing- in ceremony in Banda Aceh, 8 Feb 8 2007 A former guerill

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By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 16 June 2006 South Africans have been celebrating the role played by young people in the fight against apartheid, three decades after their protests spawned a movement against white minority rule, which was finally ended i

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Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has agreed to head the ruling United Russia Party, whose members voted unanimously in his favor. The selection occurred with remarkable speed after an unusual rule change. 克里姆林宫的领导人普京在俄罗斯执政

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Topics: American Cities: Chicago; The Star-Spangled Banner; just versus only versus mere; to kick butt Words: windy magnificent skyscraper public transportation system gangster Prohibition league anthem dawn twilight patriotic mere to kick butt

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今天我们要学的词是lip sync。Lip sync 是lip synchronization的简称,意思是对口型,假唱。Pop singer Beyonce is alleged to have lip synced the national anthem at President Obama's second inauguration. 流行歌手碧昂丝被指在

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