Do lucky numbers really bring good luck? Some people think lucky numbers like 6 or 8 would bring them good luck. Because they bare similar pronunciation to the related Chinese characters which mean good luck. As a result, some young couples choose a

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语易背作文

Daughters, Sons and Dogs Get a Day at the Office This past Thursday, we saw a lot of fresh new faces at our Voice of America Headquarters Building. It was Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, not just here but at job sites nationwide. This annua

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In 1945, the people of southern New Mexico saw the flash of the first atomic bomb when it was tested at a place called the Trinity Site. They weren't warned, and they weren't protected from fallout. Six years later, the composer Jo

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: another interview from this year's convention of the group TESOL, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. ABOUBAKAR OUEDRAOGO: I'm Aboubakar Ouedraogo. I'm a teacher-educator from Burki

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called Sir). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Webs development. A leading B

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 各国名人英文介绍

It was a big apartment building. The building was in a big city. Delivery people left packages at the front desk. The front desk held the packages for apartment tenants. Mr. Smith was expecting a package. He stopped at the front desk. Had his package

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Grammar Girl here. Your hostess with the mostest, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga, is back for more on comparisons. In a previous show, we talked about when to use more and most or the suffixes -er and -est to make comparisons using adjectives and adverbs

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. I'm on vacation this week, but before I left I updated one of the early episodes that I took down a few months ago. I hope you enjoy this new and improved version. Today's topic is addictive versus addicting, and we'll get to use a

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By Melinda Smith Washington 24 April 2007 One of the largest groups of milk producers in the United States has set an August first deadline for its members to stop treating their cows with a growth hormone, or pay more to get their milk to market. Th

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(四月)

By Paula Wolfson Washington 11 July 2006 President Bush makes remarks on the mid-session review in the East Room of the White House, July 11, 2006 The Bush administration says the U.S. budget deficit for this year will be much less than expected. Th

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

By Bill Gasperini Moscow 10 June 2006 Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in Russia say world economic growth continues, but they warned it is threatened by soaring costs for oil and gas. The ministers met in Russia's second city of St. Petersb

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

From the moment Spaniards -- or was it Vikings? -- first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians (because they thought they had landed in India), the land now known as America has been a multicultural place. And of

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 Bilingual News

This week, a major finance company, Hanover Finance, announced it is in trouble. They have decided to freeze all investor funds. This means that people who have invested money in their company cannot take it out again at the moment. The company hopes

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

On Friday, Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First Party, announced that he was stepping down from his job as Minister. He said this is a temporary move because the Serious Fraud Office is checking on money that some people said they gave him

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By Barry Wood Washington 16 May 2006 Citizens of Montenegro, the mountainous, sparsely populated former Yugoslav territory, will vote Sunday in a referendum on severing its remaining links with Serbia

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Sylvia: How would you like to take my sister, Donna, to the movies this weekend? Youd be doing me a favor. Joon: Why? Whats wrong with her? Sylvia: Nothing is wrong with her! She just broke up with her boyfriend of four years and shes down in the dum

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 06 October 2006 West African leaders are meeting in Abuja to discuss how war-divided Ivory Coast should be run, after a U.N.-backed transitional government expires at the end of this month. The meeting is viewed as a crucia

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

艾斯米丹特斯,荷兰女歌手,歌曲创作人。以翻唱时下的流行歌曲而大受欢迎,被Justin Timberlake旗下的Tennman唱片挖掘,并与OneRepublic的Ryan Tedder、Natasha Bedingfield、Enrique Iglesias等当红明星合作。现已发行了她的首张个人唱片《Outta Here》。 Artist:Esm

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅

美国名人100大演讲mp3下载 My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against y

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