Home is the only hiding place of human shortcomings and failures in the world, it also hides the sweet love. --Bernard Shaw家是这个世界上唯一能隐藏人类缺点与失败的地方,它也隐藏着甜蜜的爱。(萧伯纳) 图片1

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 Daily English-2015.7

The years may have gone by, but time has not eroded the honesty or the work ethic of James Jimmy Shaw. Jimmy turned 100, Thursday. He was born in Johnston, still lives in Johnston and works at his family owned Shaws Garage in Johnston. There was noth

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2008年

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Today we meet Howard Scott Warshaw, the man behind one of the early failures of the computer era. HOWARD SCOTT WARSHAW: I did the E.T. video game, the game that is widely held to be the worst video game of all time. SIEGEL: The A

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Building with Wood and Metal Hugo: Wow, when you said that you did some woodworking on the weekends, I thought you meant refinishing furniture. But this! This is a real workshop and youre actually building furniture. Shawna: Yeah, this is what Im wor

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As they rode along, Benny said, The girls are lucky. They already have jobs. They each have their own, but so far we just know of one job and there are two of us. Henry asked, What would you really like to do if you could do anything you wanted? I li

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 19 Benny Uncovers a Mystery

By Jessica Berman Washington 04 May 2006 Members of teamsters union local 1150 protest at the United Technologies Corporation annual meeting over the issue of health care in New York As the wealthiest

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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We hear music by performers at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas Answer a listener question about the documentary film Sharkwater And report about

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Civil War Songs Reset for 21st Century The U.S. Civil War may be a century and a half behind us, but American emotions about the conflict can still be raw. Director Peter Sellars has taken music by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Crumb and upd

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Nearly 7,000 service members have lost their lives since the U.S. went to war in 2001, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq and other countries. Every death is followed by an elaborate choreographed ritual that requires a very human

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Tonight, the 2018 Tony Awards, Broadway's highest honors, will be handed out at Radio City Music Hall. They'll go to lead and featured actors in plays and musicals but can't go to some performers who shared the stage with t

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. 我年轻时发现,我所做的十件里有九件失败,所以我增加十倍的努力。(George Bernard Shaw) 图片1

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 Daily English-2015.11

New Study Profiles Rhino Horn Buyers 简要描述犀牛角购买者的新研究 One of the biggest markets for illegally poached rhino horns is Vietnam. Now, a new study profiles the consumers driving that demand and how they view the horns as symbol

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(九月)

By CCTV reporter Li Jiejun Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong media mogul whose studio took Chinese movies global, has died at the age of 107. Shaw was a great pioneer of Chinese film, and a generous philanthropist who donated billions of Hong Kong dollars

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Hong Kong media mogul Run Run Shaw has died at the age of 107. Shaw was a great pioneer of Chinese film, and a generous philanthropist. He donated billions of Hong Kong dollars to various social projects. Zhang Xiaoming, director of the Liaison Offic

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Shawna: Hello, Shawna Davis. Monty: Hello, Shawna. This is Monty Lofti at BMC. I need to talk to you about our ad that ran in your newspaper yesterday. Shawna: Sure, Monty. Was there a problem? Monty: Yes, there certainly was a problem. Instead of th

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Shaw, listed by Forbes as a billionaire, was also a generous philanthropist who was knighted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in 1977 for his public service as a long-time backer of the Red Cross. 40 years ago he established the Shaw Foundation which is

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2014年01月

By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 02 April 2007 From Bombay to Beijing, a newly affluent Asian middle class is increasingly adapting Western lifestyles. Many city dwellers opt for high calorie fast food instead of healthier traditional meals and are becomin

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(275) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(四月)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In a little room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, there's a scientific collection like no other, a room full of animal eyeballs. Want to see an eyeball from a duck-billed platypus - and who doesn't? Let's face it - o

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月