AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Increasingly, the VA and other organizations are recognizing that women leaving military service have unique needs which aren't being met. Here's one telling statistic. Female veterans are nearly 2 1/2 times more likely than civi

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Military Moms Sing Wartime Blues Away Walking into a rehearsal of the Swingin Blue Stars feels like stumbling across a group of best friends. They meet about once a week in one of their living rooms in a San Francisco suburb. They push aside the furn

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SUBTITLE: The place where Vietnam memories are collected. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located on the south end of the National Mall and receives around 3 million visitors each year. When anyone leaves a memento, it travels 12 miles here, to the

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年7月

以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 NPR边听边练

Memorial Day Honors Military Service and Sacrifice Welcome to This Is America with VOA Learning English. Steve Ember and Barbara Klein tell about Memorial Day. We Remember The last Monday in May is a national holiday. Memorial Day honors those who di

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(六)月

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC)I'm Doug Johnson. This week we play new music from Taylor Swift And, answer a question about Veterans Day But first, a report on a group that has built hundreds of playgrounds in

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Anniversary Holds Memories for Japanese Americans War Vets 美国退伍军人举行活动纪念二战结束70周年 LOS ANGELES This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and American veterans of the war have been holding commemo

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For Veterans with PTS, Battle Is Just Beginning 对于PTS退伍军人战斗才刚刚开始 Veterans can spend an entire lifetime dealing with the trauma of war. While those with severe physical injuries can get help rehabilitating into society, those

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The love story between Isabell and Preble Staver came quietly to an end last month. The couple was together for more than seven decades. The Stavers were two of the hundreds of World War II veterans who are dying each day. NPR's S

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

AILSA CHANG, HOST: We're now going to talk about something pretty sensitive. So if you have small children around, you might want to listen to this later. We're going to hear about what happens to sexual relationships after servicemembers return from

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THE PRESIDENT: Hi everyone. As you gather with family and friends this weekend, Michelle, Malia, Sasha and I and of course Bo want to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. THE FIRST LADY: This is such a wonderful time of year. It's a time

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July 28th, 1914Start of World War I as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia and the rest of Europes major powers soon join the fighting. War breaks out a month after a Serb nationalist assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in

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July 28th, 1914Start of World War I as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia and the rest of Europes major powers soon join the fighting. War breaks out a month after a Serb nationalist assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in

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July 28th, 1914Start of World War I as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia and the rest of Europes major powers soon join the fighting. War breaks out a month after a Serb nationalist assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in

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今天我们要学的词是privatize. Privatize 私有化。David Shulkin, who President Donald Trump fired as Veterans Affairs secretary, warned that privatizing Veterans Affairs services could hurt veterans. 被川普总统解除职务的前退伍军

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ANZAC poppies are made of fabric. They represent the red poppies that were flowering when so many soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were killed at Gallipoli during World War I. Listen to April 24th 2010 for more background to ANZAC day. These p

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Across the country, service members are being honored for their sacrifice on Veterans Day. President Obama laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown in Arlington, and said he is devoted to providing better care for veterans. All 9 people on board a pl

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And that leads me to my third question 这就引出了我的第三个问题 Who are you gonna include in your life? 你生命中将包括谁 Then EKU community's outreach to veterans 东肯塔基大学社区将援手伸向退伍军人 offers part of

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See here at Eastern, you have an extraordinary culture of service 这是在东部 你们有非比寻常的服务传统 Many of you spent your spring break volunteering in places 春假时 你们很多人都到新奥尔良 like New Orleans and Washing

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Michael Seslavinsky, head of Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications of Russia, says the commemorative activities have expressed a respect for history. China suffered huge losses during the WWII. We should remember and respect the history and

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