INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., we are in the Stewart home. Ellen is playing the piano when Philip enters the room. He has found an old horn in an upstairs closet. It was a wedding present many years ago. Tomorrow is the annivers

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(186) / 评论(0) 分类 欢乐美语

A U.S. Marshal investigates a crime at an isolated asylum for the criminally insane; but not everything is what it seems to be at first in Shutter Island, the new film from acclaimed director Martin Scorcese. Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Ben Kingsley co

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

By Parke Brewer Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic confirmed his status at the world's best all-around athlete when he won the Olympic decathlon gold medal Tuesday night. Most Olympians specialize in

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--雅典奥运

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine Nobel Prizes for discoveries in science. We also will tell about progress against acqui

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Once a young man from India was flying around the world on a magical horse. He landed on a palace of the Persian Sultan. The Sultan was an adventurous person. So he was always attracted by strange feats. He wondered when he saw a young man on the hor

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Exercise is something most of us love to hate. A lot of us avoid it altogether. I do a lot of exercise, but not because I like it. I do it because it helps me stay slim and healthy. I always feel great after exercising, so there are good parts to it.

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Todd: Hello, Daniela, how are you tonight? Daniella: Hi, Todd. I'm fine, thanks. Todd: Now, you were showing me a picture of a horse. Daniella: Yes. Todd: And you were saying that female horses and male horses are different. Daniella: They behave dif

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Can I ride my horse, Mommy? Sara asked her mom. Sara loved to ride her horse. She rode her horse almost every Saturday. Okay, honey, get ready to go, her mom said. Sara was happy. She went into her bedroom. She put her pink socks on. She put her pink

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 超级简单英语阅读

Today were going to get a bit negative by looking at the various times you can use the word nor. Nor with Neither Everybody knows that neither and nor are bosom buddies. They require balance. A nor usually follows a neither when they're used in the s

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us how one little comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Should we write, He has the ball too with no comma or He has the ball, too? Well, you can write the sentence either way

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us choose better transition words. This article could make you a tad hungry, because today were comparing the art of writing to the art of making a sandwich. In fact, just for today, we might need to

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is helping us talk about two sets of words that listeners get confused: pleaded guilty or pled guilty, and use or utilize. Plead Versus Pled Mike from Georgia is transitioning from law enforcement t

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Deborah Tate The U.S. Army General investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops blamed a failure of leadership for the scandal. Army Major General Antonio Taguba, who wrote a report detai

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

A man for all seasons 电影《憨豆特派员》片头曲 - 孤胆英雄注定孤单 演唱者:Robbie Williams 这首歌是电影憨豆特派员的片头曲,可以翻译为四季之人、全年无休的人比喻随时随地都会出现来保护你

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U.S. and Iraqi officials inaugurated a portion of the country's new border security fence along the Iraqi-Syrian border, as efforts are stepped up to improve security before March parliamentary elections. Sunni and Shi'ite political leaders also cont

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Rumours about when the iPhone 7 will launch have been circulating for months. However, the latest puts a new twist on the mystery, claiming it won't be called the iPhone 7 at all. 有关iPhone 7何时发售的传闻已经流传好几个月了。但是最

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to make Southeast Asia his first overseas destination. Abe is expected to visit Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam later this month. The second-time premier said on Monday he meant to visit the US first to stren

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The new iPhone SE failed to impress with its sales the first weekend after its release, according to statistics from Localytics. 根据Localytics近日发布的数据显示,新机型iPhone SE上市后首周末的销售表现不佳。 The sales in t

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