FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to People in America in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. Today, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell about one of the most famous opera singers of the twentieth century, Maria Callas. (MUSIC: March From Norma) SHIRLEY GR

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Roam Rome on Fleet Feet 2 We’re off again For the fast track to the Colosseum, our son advises us to take a tour with one of the Englishspeaking hawkers who approach tourists outside this 82 A.D. am

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夏奇拉(Shakira),1977年2月2日出生于哥伦比亚巴兰基亚,哥伦比亚歌手。 1991年,夏奇拉发行了个人首张专辑《Magia》。1998年,夏奇拉凭着唱片《Donde Estan Los Ladrones》夺得了第44届LatinGrammy的最

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Berlusconi's wife to divorce him 贝鲁斯科尼的妻子与之离婚 Ms Lario is the PM's second wife The wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that she will file for divorce. Veronica Lario reportedly said she could not be with a man

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Todd: So Marion, you've lived in Italy. (Yes) Italy has many favorite cities. Can you talk a little bit about them? Marion: Sure, well the first city I lived in was Genoa. And Genoa is on the Riviera, so it's a very beautiful place. It's a port city,

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今天我们要学的词是strip。 Strip, 做为动词,有剥夺的意思。上星期五, The Wisconsin assembly voted to strip bargaining rights from most public employees, 威斯康辛州众议院投票决定,剥夺大多数政府雇员的谈判

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Todd: OK, Deanne, so you are a translator? Deanne: Interpreter. Todd: Interpreter. Deanne: Yeah. Todd: What's the difference between a translator and an interpreter? Deanne: The interpreter serves as a medium between two different people and it's don

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1. From the UK to the US, fans of music icon David Bowie are mourning the loss of the music legend. A memorial with flowers and notes lined the streets outside Bowies NY City apartment, while in south London, fans flocked to the artists birthplace in

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1. UK Prime Minister, David Cameron proposed new measures that would give British Police the power to seize the passports of Britons suspected of travelling abroad to fight with terrorist troops. The plans to widen the Britons anti-terror laws are li

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Italian Entrepreneurs Turn to Chinese for Help When Renato Bianchi founded the company in the late 1960s the Italian economy was booming. Over the next four decades his company grew from a handful to about 160 employees. But when the global economic

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开拓人还是掠夺者 美国哥伦布日引发争议 October 12 is significant as the date explorer Christopher Columbus landed in what became known as the New World. 为了纪念克里斯托弗哥伦布于1492年10月12日首次登上美洲大陆,

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Elementary - Where should we eat? (B0024) A: Do you two have any plans for the evening? B: We were thinking of checking out a restaurant in the neigbourhood. Do you have any suggestions? A: I know this really nice Italian place. The food is fantastic

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剧码: 黑手党的女儿 Sophia: You got that right. They're supposedly good in bed, too. Acheng:Is that true? Sophia: I guess so. Now Anna's got four kids and another on the way. Acheng:Wow. She looks good for having had that many kids. She's pr

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My name is Alessandra and I'm the owner of Dolce Vici. Dolce Vici is kind of a way of saying Guilty Pleasures in Italy and this is the way we do our things here because we really really really love Italian food and we are passionate about the Italian

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195 八国首脑会议场外的示威者试图突破路障 Activists to Try to Break Through Barriers at G-8 Summit Roger Wilkison Genoa, Italy 19 Jul 2001 20:10 UTC World leaders will soon begin arri

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I admit it. Im a player. I work in an office where there are a lot of attractive women. Take Debra, for example. I heard that she just broke up with her boyfriend last week so I decided to ask her out. Liam: Hi, Debra. Hows it going? Debra: Okay, I g

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上次我们学了两个由hour这个词组成的习惯用语,the eleventh hour解释最后时刻, zero hour意思是关键时刻。 今天我们再讲两个也是从hour发展而来的习惯用语,但和上次不同的是今天学的都表示欢

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The American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered an aircraft carrier to move into the Gulf. A Pentagon official said this was to provide President Obama with flexibility should military options be required to protect American lives and interest

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How to learn English well? 如何学好英语Find something you like and do it in English挖掘你喜欢做的事情,然后用英文去做可可电台The second advice I want to share with my fellow students is this: find something you really like

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Todd: OK, Deanne, so you are a translator? Deanne: Interpreter. Todd: Interpreter. Deanne: Yeah. Todd: What's the difference between a translator and an interpreter? Deanne: The interpreter serves as a medium between two different people and it's don

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