VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA IN VOA Special English. Today we tell about jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Shirley Horn performing in 2003 Shirley Horn was considered one

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十二)月

STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the history of radio and the latest technology. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Our story begins in Britain in eighteen seventy-three. A scientist named James Max

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14 Using a Smartphone GLOSSARY to unbox to take something out of its box for the first time; to open a newproduct* When you unbox the microwave, be sure to save the packaging so we canreuse it when we move. smartphone a cell phone that can access ema

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In this Business English Podcast lesson, were going to look at the language of presenting your products and services to potential clients in informal situations. Following on from our episode on hosting a site visit, we return to our friends at the r

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He was a dummy to agree. 他竟会同意,真是笨蛋。 在口语中dummy表示笨人,傻瓜。 It is not nice to call someone a dummy. 把别人称为dummy(笨蛋)是不礼貌的。

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Section C Great Ideas Some of the most important inventions of the past 2,000 years may surprise you. Want to get rich? Become famous? You don't have to be a film star or a basketball player or a musi

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – How to Make a Solar Water Heater By Gary Garriott Broadcast: Monday, November 29, 2004 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Solar water heaters save o

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mike Henry has a two-hectare farm in Palmer, Alaska. About a year and a half ago, his goat Millie was giving him a hard time. She did not want to be milked. She kicked her back legs and stepped into

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Motor-Free Device Reduces Stress from Walking 新型可穿戴附加设备有效减轻腿部肌肉的负荷 Devices that help people walk were once thought to be difficult, if not impossible, to design. Until recently, such a device required electrici

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AS IT IS 2016-01-10 Warm Winter Gives Ice Fishermen the Cold Shoulder People usually think of fishing as a warm-weather pastime. But some fishers say the activity is best when it is freezing outside. Those people are called ice fishermen. When it get

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A man sustained a hand injury when he detonated a firecracker-like device outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday afternoon. Photos on social media showed a large amount of smoke and police vehicles surrounding the embassy shortly after the i

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Imagine being able to insistently see what location you happen to be at, looked like 575 or a hundred years ago. A team of app developers wants to use today's ubiquitous digital camera culture to meet such appearing into the past possible. The app ca

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Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest. A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day. It has a stick or other object that rises above a flat surface. The stick, blocking s

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It was three o'clock. She was learning how to roller-skate. She had always wanted to learn. She could not afford to buy roller-skates before. Now, she was older. She had a job. She bought her first pair of roller-skates yesterday. It is never too lat

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Subsoiling Increases Soybean and Cotton Production in Clay Soil By Avi Arditti Broadcast: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture R

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At this time of year, the schools have tests of all kinds for the children. Reading and writing tests, math skills tests, and tomorrow, there will be hearing and vision tests for the whole school. If you think about it, the two last mentioned tests a

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Part 2. The Times capsule. Keywords. time capsule, future, be passed on. Vocabulary. copper, aluminum, stainless, non-rusting, leakproof, humidity, Zimbabwe. A. Do you know what a time capsule is and what it is for? Listen to the following explanatio

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The market for smartphones and tablet computers has boomed over the last few years, with over a quarter of adults and nearly half of teenagers owning one in the UK. But as our appetite for technology increases, so does the risk of our devices being s

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Up until now, a trip to the toilet for most men has been limited in its potential for entertainment. Standing at the urinal there's not much to do but stare blankly at the wall tiles, whistle and relieve oneself. But for those who can't bear the bore

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for Spotlight. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Lucy Parry was ge

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