An Indiana teen's family used throwing the state Athletic Association a curve ball. 14-year-old Logen Young wants to try out for the boys' baseball team without any preconditions; A state rule says she can't, so her parents have filed a lawsuit. It s

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2008年

The Olympics are about sports, fair play and national pride. 22 July 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the two thousand eight summer Olympic games. They op

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American actress Emma Stone admits she has never played tennis. So to play the role of tennis champion Billie Jean King in the new film Battle of the Sexes, she prepared her body using a different exercise: dance. Battle of the Sexes tells the story

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Todd: OK, Sophie, we're going to talk about high school. What was high school like? Sophie: It was great. Lots of fun. Lots of friends. Learned quite a bit at school. Todd: So, what did you study in high school? Sophie: I studied mainly sciences actu

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 英语第3级听力-English Level 3

The auction began at 10 am on March 29th on Taobao.com, a Chinese website for online shopping operated by the Alibaba Group. The online auction lasted for a period of 24 hours, ending at 10 am the next day. The auction items include a 117,000-square-

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英闻天下

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer a sports question. RS: A listener from Ivory Coast, Marius Meledje, would like to learn more about the language of basketball. This is a good week to answer that questio

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Todd: Well, actually speaking of sports, actually when I was in Thailand they played a sport I think you have in Indonesia called takaw - sepak tekaw - I think. Santi: Oh, yes. Todd: Have you ever seen that? Santi: I tried it once in university and i

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(232) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Having all kinds of people in class, I am learning from people with different experiences, Steve said. No matter where Steve Maina Muchiri has gone to study, he finds his way right back to the university he calls home, Eastern Kentucky University. I'

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Roller Skating Becomes Popular US Sport for Women Roller derby was once a popular sport for men and women in the United States until it fizzled out a few decades ago. Then, about ten years ago, it was revived in Austin, Texas, as an amateur sport for

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Uncle Speaks Out About Boston Bombing Suspects Who are Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Both lived near Boston and are of Chechen origin. Friends described them as smart and athletic. The youngest, Dzokhar was a wrestler. The oldest, Tamerlan, a boxer

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Imagine a world in which you see numbers and letters as colored even though they're printed in black, 想像这样一个世界,你从中看到的数字和字母是彩色的,尽管它们是用黑色写下的, in which music or voices trigger a s

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

AA: This is Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of peace. Robert Johansen is a professor at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He says peace has a guarded place in the American voca

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周末,雪莉要帮简去明星健身房询问一些详细的情况。那她有没有达到自己的目的呢? Listen Read Learn Receptionist: Is there anything I can do for you? Shirley: Yes, my best friend is a little out of shape now. She wants to join a fitness club. And I come

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语大赢家

我的心忽然卜卜地跳起来,他真是我的爸爸吗?看见他翻找抽屉的匆忙样子,他是不是冒充爸爸的贼? 我立即拿起电话,打算问问爸爸公司的同事,但却

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

But he didn't start out an outlier. He started out just a little bit better. 但他并不是一开始就是一个出类拔萃的人,他起初只不过比他人稍强一点罢了。 The second implication of the hockey example is that the systems we

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 异类:不一样的成功启示录

研究称学会走路早长大身体好 根据《公共科学图书馆综合》(PLoS ONE)上一项对9,000名1966年生于芬兰的人的研究,在很小的时候就能在无人帮助的情况下站立行走的孩子进入青春期后,会比那

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

MADRID, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Spain coach Vicente del Bosque named his squad this Monday for the side's two friendly matches over the coming 10 days. The Spanish, who have already qualified for the European Championships next summer, will play England i

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

9. What kind of exercises do you like to do? 你平时都喜欢做什么运动? 还能这样说: What sports do you like to do? What exercises do you like to play? 应用解析: take exercise 做体操,做健身活动; exercise oneself in 练

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 情景会话口袋书人际篇

When it comes to the Rome Empire, most of us will think about the ancient Roman Corps with bravery, fighting skills and relentless discipline which really impress people of generations. Have you heard about the story of Roman Ninth Legion who mysteri

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

To the east coast, NYC, Washington, D.C., Miami, and down through the Caribbean It was when I returned home to Oregon, immediately after I returned home. 到东海岸 纽约市 华盛顿特区 迈阿密 还去了加勒比我一回到俄勒冈的家中

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