AZUZ: Scientists said Imperial College London recently studied world blood pressure statistics between 1975 and 2015, and here's what they found: 1.13 billion people, more than 15 percent of the world's population now have high blood pressure. That's

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年11月

Voters in Appalachia Struggling to Identify With Presidential Candidates Rural Roane County Tennessee sits in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. It's really the heart of the bible belt, says Gary Johnston of Roane County Tea Party. A lot of

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

From NPR news in Washington, I'm Paul Brown. Officials say the strong storms and tornadoes that killed 55 people this week in several states including Tennessee and Arkansas were the deadliest in more than two decades. Dozens of tornadoes swept acro

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Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. This week: We play music by Somali-born hip-hop artist Knaan, And answer a listener question about the nations capital, Washington, D.C. ... But first, we report about a rec

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(三)月

People in America - Sam Houston, 1793-1863: One of the Most Famous Leaders of Texas STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. PHOEBE ZIMMERMAN: And Im Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Today, we tell the story of Sam Houst

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Blues, Country and Soul Mix in Memphis 在孟菲斯蓝调、乡村和灵魂音乐融合 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. Im Steve Ember. This week, we learn about a city in the South that helped give the world many kinds of Amer

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At DNC, Undocumented Aliens Push for More Immigration Reform For most of her life in the United States, undocumented immigrant Ireri Unzueta-Carrasco has lived in the shadows. There are a lot of obstacles when you are undocumented and you are trying

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(九月)

Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

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Scott Joplin played the piano at clubs and bars throughout Sedalia. He wrote 44 original rags that put an emphasis on the off-beats within scores. He also wrote a complete ragtime opera. Here's one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, y

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Tobacco Farmers Harvest Shrimp Its harvest time in Tennessee, but the Corbin family matriarch isnt gearing up to harvest the typical corn, cotton, or soybeans. Jane Corbin and her sons are draining a pond to gather the fresh water shrimp, or prawns,

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: House Speaker Paul Ryan has called every member of the House of Representatives to an important meeting next week on election security. Top intelligence and law enforcement officials will brief Congress on the risks and threats t

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

美国总统大选前选民情绪 Outside the growing city of Charlotte, North Carolina - host to the 2012 Democratic National Convention - a different section of America watches. Kane Farabaugh looks at how people who live just a few hours west of t

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2012年9月

The next morning Grant attacked in his turn and slowly but surely pushed the Confederates off the field. 第二天早晨他反攻南方军,当然,他击退了南方军。 Halleck then united Grant's, Buell's, and Pope's armies and captured Corint

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In Appalachia, Putting a New Spin on Marbles HILHAM, TENNESSEE On a warm, late-summer Saturday morning in the tiny community of Etoile, Kentucky, a small crowd gathers under a shade tree to watch a game of marbles. The playing field is a flat piece o

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By Larry London Washington 08 August 2007 Country singer Darryl Worley signed his first major record deal in 1999 and made his debut on country music's most famous stage, The Grand Ole Opry, the following year. Since then, he has become known for ser

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By Greg Flakus Chicago 06 February 2008 In a display of natural fury unusual for this time of year, tornadoes and violent thunderstorms have killed at least 50 people in five south-central states. VOA's Greg Flakus reports. Rescue crews are hard at w

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Scott Stearns White House 08 February 2008 President Bush has toured areas of the south-central United States hit by a series of tornadoes this week. The storms killed at least 57 people and ripped apart houses throughout the area. VOA White House

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump has signed a revised travel ban. It temporarily halts entry to the US for people from six Muslim-majority nations or seeking new visas, and it also suspends the countrys' refugee program. The new directi

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2017(三)月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Tennessee, community college is already free for graduating high school students, something many other states have done or are looking at as a model. But recently, Tennessee became first in the country to offer community

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

今天我们要学的词是 overturn. Overturn 动词,有推翻,废除的意思。U.S. President Barack Obama called for North Carolina to overturn a state law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms according to the sex on their

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