Remembering Earl Scruggs Before Earl Scruggs, most banjo players used a two- fingered picking style. But all that changed after the 21-year-old North Carolina native joined Bill Monroes Bluegrass Boys in 1945, and brought his three- fingered rolls to

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(三月)

Remembering Davy Jones Most of his fans first heard of Davy Jones in 1966, when the Monkees television program invaded living rooms worldwide. In reality, the then 21-year-old actor and singer from Manchester in the United Kingdom was a show business

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'Freedom Riders' Remembered 50 Years Later The American South was a segregated society 50 years ago. In 1960, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in restaurants and bus terminals serving interstate travel, but African-Americans who tri

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

For the first time in Nigeria's history, an incumbent president has been defeated in an election. Welcome to CNN Student News. One major challenge facing the African nation is the Boko Haram terrorist group. Nigerian voters apparently felt that the n

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Chet and Eliot had been running around all day. It had been hot. They were unshaved, and wearing shorts, T-shirts, and flip-flops. At about 6 p.m., they felt like eating something. They were on south Lake, which had several restaurants. Eliot suggest

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Remembering Don Cornelius and his Soul Train JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. Today, we remember Don Cornelius, the creator of the influential American television show, Soul Train

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Technology Report - Steve Jobs Remembered 科技报道 - 缅怀一代巨头乔布斯 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Steve Jobs made technology fun. The co-founder of Apple died last

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By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 19 April 2006 A police personnel stands next to a car that was burnt during a demonstration against King Gyanendra in Kathmandu Diplomatic efforts to stop Nepal from fallin

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch G8 Democracy report Russia recently assumed the rotating presidency of the G-8, prompting a discussion in the United States about whether that c

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A shop owner sits in front of his shop waiting for customers at the Bab el-Yemen old city market of the capital Sana'a, 03 Jan 2010 Officially, Yemen's economy is growing. Unofficially, the nation appears to be trapped in a disastrous downward econom

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Remembering Hazel Dickens Trailblazing bluegrass and folk singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens recently died at the age of 76. Dickens was a performer whose childhood in a West Virginia coal mining town led her to become a labor activist and inspired a li

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Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators in Ukraine are vowing to keep up their street protests until opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko is recognized as the new president of Ukraine. The official announcement from Ukraines Central Electoral Co

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By Naomi Schwarz Freetown 09 August 2007 In a densely populated, ramshackle neighborhood of Freetown, in Sierra Leone, Hariatu Turay is battling for a seat in parliament, one of only 64 women running out of more than 500 candidates. Naomi Schwarz vis

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HARI SREENIVASAN: For much more about today's voting in Ukraine, we're joined now from Kiev by NewsHour's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Warner. She's inside the Central Election Commission there. We've heard about Poroshenko's win. Why

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

During a visit to an isolated desert settlement outside Yemen's capital Sanaa, VOA's Heather Murdock reports on the despair of some of the thousands of people who have fled their homes since the war in northern Yemen began in 2004 Heather Murdock | S

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

今天我们要学的词是charity。 Charity, 是慈善的意思。A charity organization, 是慈善机构,a performance for charity, 是义演。Many people tend to give to charity at the end of the year, 很多人都喜欢在年底前向慈善事业

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Randal: Hurry up. Rob will be here any minute. Marjorie: I cant remember the combination to this lock. Randal: I thought you knew it by heart. Marjorie: Its on the tip of my tongue, but I cant seem to remember the last two digits. Its 73 or 63 or 38.

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you wont find him drinking at the tables rolling dice and staying out til 3 you wont ever find him being [w]unfaithful [/w]you will find him, youll find him next to me you wont find him trying to chase the devil for money, fame, for power, out of gri

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President Obama has warned Americans that democracy itself is on the ballot in November's presidential election. Speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton, he condemned the threat by the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, to jail Mrs. Clinton if he we

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Artist: Mariah Carey Song: Triumphant (Get'Em) Get Em, Get Em, Get Em (Go) Hit Em, Hit Em, Hit Em (Go) Get Em, Get Em, Get Em (Go) Hit Em, Hit Em, Hit Em (Go) Get Em, Get Em, Get Em (Go) Hit Em, Hit Em, Hit Em (Go) They told me get em, I got em, I sw

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