Nearly everyone knows that countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are primarily English-speaking countries; that is, English is the moth

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(494) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄高级美国英语

Giving Praise Where Praise is Due By Ethan White This Father’s Day, consider who your true heroes are “ W ho do you want to be like when you grow up?” I can remember being asked this question ti

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When the musical Miss Saigon first opened in New York City in 1991, critics questioned the choice of Jonathan Pryce to play a French-Vietnamese engineer. Miss Saigon is a love story between a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier. Pryce, a white a

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(七)月

The Virgin Queen 女王未出嫁 by Matthew Brown Like many historical figures that keep people fascinated, Elizabeth I remains somewhat enigmatic. No one knows the whole truth about the personal aspects of Elizabeth's story. Of course, these things

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AS IT IS 2013-10-26 Alice Munro Wins 2013 Nobel Literature Prize 艾丽丝门罗摘得2013年诺贝尔文学奖 Hello again, and welcome. This is As It Is, a daily magazine show from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. In 2016, the world will celebr

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Have Your Heard of the Golden Rule? 词汇典故:你听过黄金法则吗? Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. 现在是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故节目。 Throughout history, gold has been a sign of purity, beau

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Much Ado about Shakespeare’s Hometown By Anne Chalfant 2004 Contra Costa Times , Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services 1 T he man peppered his writing with unspeakable viol

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Weep no more, no sigh, nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone. 别哭泣,别叹息,别呻吟;悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。 John Fletcher, English playwright 约翰弗莱彻,英国剧作家 Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a m

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And theres nothing else you can do? You cant temp, or live with your parents orsomething? I need to be in London, I need flexible hours . . . Why, whats your stroke? My what? Your stroke. Everyone who works here has a stroke. Waiter-stroke-artist, wa

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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is taking care of clichs. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes, clichs can be a writers worst enemy, and the reader usually doesnt like clichs much either. Writers from Jonathan Swift to George Orwell have ranted against the

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -July 26, 2002: Our New Theme Music / Question About a Book on American Indians, 'Hanta Yo' / A Celebration of American Theater HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magaz

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1. Rescue and relief efforts continue in Pakistan. The UN's emergency relief chief fears they are running out of time to get help to remote villages cut off by blocked roads. 2. Scores of Islamic mili

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2005

'Beware the Ides of March' 留意古罗马历中的三月 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. People who believe in luck and bad luck -- that is to say, those considered superstitious maythink that some days or events are u

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Feng Xiaogang, one of most promising directors on the Chinese mainland, has turned to dramatic disaster movies in recent years. And his latest work Back to 1942 is about to hit the market soon, joining a fearsomeforce of new blockbusterreleases set f

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The One With The Triplets, aka The One Hundredth 本集简介: The gang arrives at the hospital for Phoebe's labor. Joey makes a video documentary of the occasion, until he is beset with pain; what is thought to be sympathy pains turns out to be kid

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November 27th, 1978, in San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, are shot to death at City Hall. Former City Supervisor Dan White who pulled the trigger goes on trial for murder, but hes convicted of

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Chapter 14 第十四章 The Greek cities 古希腊城邦 The Greek cities that were really states. 古希腊的城市其实是独立的国家 We modern people love the sound of the word big. We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong to the bigg

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This new form of dramatic entertainment demanded a proper setting, and soon every Greek city owned a theatre, cut out of the rock of a nearby hill. The spectators sat upon wooden benches and faced a wide circle (our present orchestra where you pay th

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Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, is the most important public holiday for the Chinese people. On New Year's Eve, families have the tradition of staying up late into the night. Ever since 1983, the Chinese have added watching the Spring

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There seems to be some subtle connection between the werewolf and the vampire. In Twilight series, which do you prefer? Or who do you like better? Taylor Lautner or Robert Pattinson? Last year, Time came out the title Jacob is hotter than Edward. In

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