From a Small Town to the Top of the World: What Shaped Melania Trump LJUBLJANA Former model Melania Trump will soon become the first foreign-born woman to be first lady of the United States in almost 200 years. Before the election campaign, many Amer

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(321) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(十二月)

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been one month since first lady Melania Trump unveiled her Be Best initiative in a ceremony at the White House. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIA TRUMP: I feel strongly that, as adults, we can and should be best at e

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Australian Olympic diver Melissa Wu has swapped the spring board for the bow of a tallship to launch the International Tall Ship Festival in Sydney. CRI's Australia correspondent Wang Xiao has more. The tallship is berthed at Campbell Cove on Circula

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 世界各地新闻集锦

Doug Levine Renowned classical violinist Joshua Bell was only 14 years old in 1982, when he appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Three years later, he made his Carnegie Hall debut wi

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--艺术专集

Britney Spears is taken to Cedars Sinai Medical Center for a mental evaluation It was sheer craziness, that's how people describe/ the scene outside the studio city home of Britney Spears last night. The pop star was detained by police at 10:30 and

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2008年

Kentucky Fried Chicken announced that it is going to advertise its new $3 lunches through customers nostrils. The company plans to send a fried chicken scent throughout office buildings at lunchtime. The aroma will be dispensed from the mail-cart tha

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

本期《全美达人》精彩呈现:女评审Mel B来势胸胸,现场爆头魔术师;俩壮汉无厘头反串求通过,事与愿违遭淘汰;牛仔男逆天秀绝,大跳火绳引惊呼;鸟人携鹦鹉上场,能说能唱被称鸟神。更

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(257) / 评论(0) 分类 全美达人第九季

听歌学英语:The Closest Thing To Crazy(Katie Melua) Katie Melua 拥有一种独特的嗓音,首支单曲〈The Closest Thing To Crazy〉浪漫至性,以少女的口吻娓娓道来,加上弦乐的编曲,那种举棋不定的不安自然征

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 听歌学英语

今年才23岁的Katie Melua慵懒地唱着there are nine million bicycles in Beijing...................... Katie以拥有900万辆自行车的北京为切入点,讲述着一个钟爱一生的故事,歌曲中似乎也弥漫着一些东方情调。 自称在音乐方面受到皇后合唱团(Queen)、琼妮米歇尔(J

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅

show me how you do that trick 告诉我你是怎么获得成功的 (do that trick -获得成功) the one that makes me scream he said 那个让我尖叫的,他说 the one that makes me laugh he said 那个让我大笑的,他说 and threw his

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英国爵士蓝调歌手Katie Melua拥有一种独特的嗓音,柔媚复古,性感妖娆。 Broken people get recycled and I hope that I will sometimes be thrown over pathways what I thought was my way home wasn't the place I know no I'm certain

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After more than a week of reporting on the earthquake from Port-au-Prince, a team of VOA journalists traveled south of the capital to see how people in other parts of Haiti are surviving. Jeff Swicord reports along the road to Jacmel, a beach town so

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Melania Trump takes the spotlight today. As first lady, she has been seen more often than heard. Last year, she did talk about her job on CNN. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIA TRUMP: It's a very exciting life. And it's a

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released The Producers. It was a movie about a scam to put on a Broadway musical that lost money. Years later, it became a Broadway musical about putting on that musical. And like the fictional musical

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

Katie Melua凯蒂玛露19岁,俄罗斯人,成长于俄罗斯及英国。2003年底,首支单曲The Closest Thing To Crazy发行便强登英国金榜Top 10。不久,广获好评的首张专辑一举挤下英伦人气天后Dido/蒂朵、击退Norah Jones,荣获6周英国金榜后座,成为英国2004开春迄今最畅销专辑

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(171) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization is using a new combination of drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The drugs nifurtimox an eflornithine will be given

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年慢速英语(一)月

By Phil Mercer Sydney 25 February 2008 A simulated refugee camp has been set up in Melbourne to show Australians the sort of hardship suffered by millions of people around the world. Refugee Realities is the work of the charity Oxfam. The camp is set

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

Giles: Do you really think well be able to renovate this place and turn it into a restaurant? Julia: Its not so bad. I know it smells a little stale and musty in here, but all we need to do is air it out . Giles: Air it out? This place needs a lot mo

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

On Sunday afternoons, the clang of traditional Indonesian percussion music known as gamelan wafts down the street, audible on the approach to the Indonesian Consulate on Manhattan's east side. Gamelan is also the word for the kinds of instruments tha

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(七)月

Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy How can I think I'm standing strong, Yet feel the air beneath my feet? How can happiness feel so wrong? How can misery feel so sweet? How can you let me watch you sleep, Then break my dreams the way you do? Ho

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英文特辑精选