Three centuries later, shortly before the birth of Christ, Egypt was still ruled by a living goddess, Cleopatra, a Greek 1) descended from one of Alexander’s generals. She looked back to the Golden

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(207) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2002年

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Web browsers first appeared on computers in the early nineteen nineties. Since then, the Internet has greatly changed the way people communicate. But some teachers think the changes are not all for th

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年慢速英语(一)月

(8) It was, as Bill afterwards expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition, but we didn't find that out till later. 恰如后来比尔说的那样,那阵子简直是一时鬼迷心窍.不过,我们直到后来才明白了这个

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 北外翻译笔记

BBC news with John Macintosh. The US vice president Mike Pence has sought to reassure Americas European allies that president Trump is committed to transatlantic cooperation. On his visit to Brussel, he reaffirmed the support from both the European U

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The French are having a huge cultural row over some spelling changes the government's about to put into effect, particularly the elimination of the circumflex - the little hat-shaped accent that sits on certain v

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: With the national observance of Thanksgiving Day coming up this Thursday, we turn to a linguistic mystery about the day after, which traditionally opens the Christmas holiday shopping season in America

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Herb Stahlke to talk about rhythm in English speech. HERB STAHLKE: Learners of English really have to master the rhythms of English early, and the teaching has to be aimed at rhyt

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Since the first web browser appeared on computer screens in 1994, the Internet has radically changed global communication. With instant access to messaging and email, the ability to circulate commentary and opinion has revolutionized the way people c

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. So which is it? Researche

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Who Makes Grammar Rules? 英语日常语法:谁制定了语法规则? If you learned about grammar in school, you were probably taught to think about correct and incorrect ways of using a language. Maybe you had to unlearn some grammar patterns that

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(五)月

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- more about terrorism and language. TAPE: CUT ONE -- BUSHNow is the time to draw a line in the sand against the evil ones.RS: President Bush, speaking this past week. Geoff Nunber

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we talk about regional changes in American English with University of Pennsylvania linguist William Labov [la-BOVE]. Imagine a situation like this: WILLIAM LABOV: Someone says 'gee

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: what to call people who are in the United States without following immigration laws. RS: Sometimes they are called undocumented immigrants or undocumented workers or illegal alien

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sport of conversation. FIRST ANNOUNCER: Not going to stop him!SECOND ANNOUNCER: I tell you, you get him out on the run, Felton's quick, but he's not faster than Brown. Felton

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: age and the economics of learning English. RS: Our guest is Hoyt Bleakley, an economist at the University of Chicago. He and Aimee Chin at the University of Houston have studied t

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: August 29, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: September 1, 2002 MUSIC: Only You/The Platters AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster -- what to do when there's only one you. RS: We're talking abo

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

A four-year-old girl literally stunned audiences when she spoke seven languages fluently on a TV show. 在一档电视节目中,一名四岁的小姑娘一开口就流利地说出了七国语言,让全场观众都惊呆了。 The video of Bella D

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Herb Stahlke to talk about rhythm in English speech. HERB STAHLKE: Learners of English really have to master the rhythms of English early, and the teaching has to be aimed at rhyt

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster: a report from NBC News that caught our attention. RS: It's about a word that is spreading like no other. (MUSIC)FEMALE: Like, I saw these guys who, like, were really cute.MALE: And

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)