双语阅读:Fallacies about Food 关于饮食的几种错误观

Many primitive peoples believed that by eating an animal they could get some of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, for example, that eating deer would make them run as fast as the deer. Some savage tribes believed that ea

VOA慢速英语2011--Experts Link East Africa Drought to La N

Agriculture Report - Experts Link East Africa Drought to La Ni?a in the Pacific 农业报道 - 专家认为东非干旱与拉尼娜现象有关 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 East

英闻天下——592 Environmentalists: HK Shark Fin Shops Try to Hide Their Trade

A former housing official in central China's Henan Province has been detained after being found to own 29 properties. Zhai Haifeng, the former director of the local housing administration bureau in Zhengzhou city has been accused online of being enga

英闻天下——63 Environmentalists: HK Shark Fin Shops Try to Hide Their Trade

Photos shot in Hong Kong this week show more than 18-thousand shark fins drying on the roofs of industrial buildings. The fins are spread neatly in patterns under a warm sun. The images present just a fraction of the shark finning that takes place ev

【突破英文词汇】fin -- end, boundary

1. affinity /əˈfɪnɪti:/ -- (literally, condition of being near the boundary or a neighbor) kinship; sympathy; liking; attraction He intends to establish some kind of an affinity between himself and the public. 他希望在自己和公众之间建立

简单慢速英语阅读：Don't Be a Racist

Ray called up the newspaper reporter. You wrote about a bank robbery. You described the bank robber, he said. Why did you describe him? The reporter said, We want the public to help find him. If someone sees him, they can call the police. Ray said, B

VOA标准英语 Asia Pacific Travel Industry Sees Recovery By End of

The top travel industry group in Asia expects a modest recovery in travel to the region late this year, despite the global financial downturn. Travel analysts say the industry faces business closures as part of the economic rebound. The Pacific Asia

VOA标准英语2010年-Greeks in America React to Greek Finan

The almost $1 trillion EU bailout package has not quelled the Greek financial crisis, nor has it erased the memories of last week's deadly demonstrations in Athens, in which hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets to protest the governmen

VOA标准英语2011--Pacific Northwest Looks to Jump-Start Gr

Pacific Northwest Looks to Jump-Start Green Jet Fuel Industry The U.S. Navy's F-18 fighter planes ran test flights last year using jet fuel partially made from plant oils. In May the U.S. Air Force's famed Thunderbirds unit of F-16 fighter/bombers be

VOA标准英语2010年-Swaziland to Get New TB Testing Facili

Swaziland has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world - 26 percent for those between the ages of 15 and 29. But to deal with the epidemic, health officials must do more than increase treatment, care and prevention efforts. They must also

VOA标准英语2013--Shark Fin Consumption Declines in Hong Kong

Shark Fin Consumption Declines in Hong Kong Harvesting is what fishermen call the brutal act of cutting the fins off of living sharks and throwing the torso back into the ocean. Around 50 percent of all shark fins worldwide are traded through Hong Ko

2018年CRI Yangtze River says no to finless porpoise extinction

The Yangtze River is a major habitant for finless porpoise, an aquatic marine mammal close to dolphins. However due to increasing human activities the number of the animal has been declining in China over the years. Provinces along the Yangtze River

ECONOMICS REPORT - United Airlines Will Have to Seek New Fin

ECONOMICS REPORT - United Airlines Will Have to Seek New Financing Without U.S. Loan Guarantees By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 09, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Econom

Iraqi Officials Ask Donors to Speed up Distribution of Finan

Iraqi Officials Ask Donors to Speed up Distribution of Financial Assistance Kerry Sheridan Representatives from some 40 donor countries financing Iraq's reconstruction program open a two-day meeting i

VOA标准英语10月-Houston Weathers US Financial Crisis

The sub-prime mortgage collapse that led to the current U.S. financial crisis has not had as deep an impact in the middle of the nation as it has had on the east and west coasts. But economists say a credit crunch will affect all regions of the coun

VOA标准英语2011--California Bans Shark Fin

California Bans Shark Fin People in California can no longer eat the Chinese delicacy of shark fin soup. The Governor of California officially made it illegal to sell or possess shark fin. The ban is a part of a growing movement worldwide to save the

Greek FinMin receives bullet in envelope

ATHENS, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras received a bullet in the post, Greek media reported on Monday. Stournaras' aides alerted security forces, when they opened the envelope at his office and discovered the enclosed bull

VOA标准英语2009-Singapore Calls for Asia Pacific Free Trade

By Mil Arcega Washington 11 November 2009 The venue of the APEC summit, in Singapore, 08 Nov 2009 Singapore has called for the creation of an ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade zone that it says would comprise nearly half of all global trade. The cal

新西兰英语 169 John Key’s visit to the Pacific

Last week, John Key visited four Pacific Island countries: Tonga, Samoa, Niue and the Cook Islands. He spent one day in each country. New Zealand gives financial aid to each of these countries and one reason for the visit was to find out what each co

新西兰英语 99 Pacific Islands Forum 2009

The leaders of the Pacific Islands, including the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, are meeting in Papua New Guinea. Once again, the military leader of Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama, has not attended. At the last Pacific Islands Forum, (see August