France's center-right government has launched a national debate about what it means to be French. The discussion on national identity is being described as a way for citizens to take stock of who they are and of France's place in the world. Critics a

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)

The U.S. population is increasing at nearly one percent a year, making the United States the world's fastest growing industrial nation. 美国人口正以每年将近1%的速度增长,这使美国成为世界人口增长最快的工业化国家。

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

Therell be a new person behind that desk in the Pentagon soon. On Monday, President Obama announced his nominee to be the next secretary of Defense, former Senator Chuck Hagel. Hes a Republican who served 12 years in the U.S. Senate and hes also a ve

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(一)月

The US Postal Service 201 A postal office is a place where people buy stamps and send letter in paclkages. 202 You can also buy money orders from the post office. 203 I need to send the payment to immigration for my aunt's citizenship application. 20

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(184) / 评论(0) 分类 标准美国英语口语

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Americans talk a lot about illegal immigration but not as much about legal immigration. Legal immigrants who want to become citizens must learn English and show a knowledge of American history and gov

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Pope Urges Hispanic Immigrants to Cling to Faith 教皇敦促拉美裔移民坚持信仰 PHILADELPHIA Standing at the birthplace of the United States, Pope Francis on Saturday urged the countrys immigrants especially the largely Catholic Hispanic pop

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(九月)

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Philadelphia is ending a major contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Federal immigration agents have long had access to an arrest database maintained by local authorities there. But activists and now top city officia

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Today is Monday, January, 28th, 2013, a day immigration gets another look. For the first time ever, there is more political risk in opposing immigration reform than in supporting it. A day at the U.S housing market, signal is finally getting better.

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(二)月

A: 欢迎大家来到这期的美语训练班! 我是杨琳! B: 大家好,我是Mike! 我来接替Kat的任务,从今天起我会跟杨琳一起为大家主持这档节目! A: 欢迎Mike来到我们的节目! 我们一定尽力为大家推出更棒

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Waiting, waiting, waiting. It's difficult to do sometimes. I found myself waiting a couple of weeks ago at Seattle International Airport. My sister and my two nephews were coming for a two week visit, so I made the three hour drive over the mountains

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

US Agency Changes Nation of Immigrants Mission Statement The United States government agency that oversees immigration has changed its mission statement. The new version no longer describes the U.S. as a nation of immigrants. 负责监督移民事务的

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(二)月

Topics: Ellis Island; The Rat Pack; lots of versus a lot of; sleep versus asleep, wake versus awake, rise versus arise; alpha male Words: immigration to undergo inspection unsanitary family tree pop culture desegregation impromptu to sell out to rule

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(208) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

今天我们要学的词是flashpoint。 A flashpoint, 是事件的爆发地点。 An Iowa town has become a flashpoint in the debate over immigration, 爱奥华州的一个小镇成了有关移民问题辩论的热点。 Energy turned out to be a fl

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's May Day. Demonstrators will march in support of workers rights around the world today. Here in the U.S., those marches are expected to draw larger than usual crowds because of President Trump's efforts to crack down on illeg

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

European Union ministers reached broad agreement on a common immigration and asylum policy during a meeting in France. France holds the rotating EU presidency, wants the proposal to be formally adopted in October. 欧盟各国部长在法国开会期间

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2008年7月

Australian Peter Greste is among 20 Al Jazeera journalists who go on trial in Egypt on terrorism-related offenses. Mr. Greste is accused of aiding members of a terrorist organization. He and two of his colleagues have been in custody in Cairo since l

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

Thanks Michael. The future of Sydney Roosters' captain Mitchell Pearced is in doubt now after an alleged alcohol fuelled incident on Australia Day. Footage aired on Channel Nine shows Pearced forcing a kiss on a woman and simulating a nude act with a

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2016年

主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

今天我们要学的词是blast。 Blast, 做为动词,有强烈批评的意思。 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick blasted Arizona's new immigration law, 麻萨诸塞州州长帕特里克对亚利桑那州新出炉的移民法提出强烈谴责

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们要学的词儿是debate。 Debate是辩论,讨论的意思。a heated debate是激烈的辩论;a policy debate是有关政策的辩论;a debate on abortion rights是说关于堕胎权利的辩论。如何解决伊拉克问题是这次

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃