Everyday Grammar: The 'Should' vs. 'Shall' Debate

Everyday Grammar: The 'Should' vs. 'Shall' Debate For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Last week in Paris, leaders from 195 countries reached a major global climate agreement. In the final hours of meetings, one little word made the di

CCTV9英语新闻：More countries support China's stance

More countries have expressed support for China on the South China Sea issue. Tanzania, Uganda, The Commonwealth of Eritrea and the Union of Comoros have all spoken in favour of China's stance on the issue. China has expressed its appreciation and ur

2016年CRI African Countries Speak Highly of China's Efforts in Post-Ebola Era

Wang Yaoping, leading the Chinese medical team in Sierra Leone, has been working in the Ebola-affected country for nearly a year. He says during the most serious period, almost all hospitals in Sierra Leone became paralyzed. They had to concentrate o

英语笑话：God's joke 上帝的玩笑

God's joke Do you know what the cruel joke that God has played on all men is? He gave them a brain and a dick, but only enough blood to run one at a time. Notes: 1. Do you know what the cruel joke that God has played on all men is? 你知道上帝对所

2007年VOA标准英语-West Africa's Cotton Countries Impatient for Do

By Phuong Tran Dakar 06 September 2007 As trade negotiators meet in Geneva on the stalled negotiations known as the Doha round, government ministers from West Africa's biggest cotton producing countries met in Burkina Faso to prepare their demands on

VOA慢速英语2011--Issues Slow Recovery of Kenya's Cotton I

Agriculture Report - Issues Slow Recovery of Kenya's Cotton Industry 农业报道 - 延缓肯尼亚棉花产业复苏的一些问题 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Real estate agen

VOA标准英语2012--Family-Planning Campaign to Aid Millions in World's Poorest Countries

Family-Planning Campaign to Aid Millions in World's Poorest Countries The Margaret Pyke Center is a sexual health clinic in central London that offers provides everything residents need for family planning. Patients can pick up a variety of contracep

VOA标准英语2013--Africa's First Ladies Promote Women's, Children's Health

Africa's First Ladies Promote Women's, Children's Health The risk of death from childbirth is still very real for women in countries throughout Africa. Whether their children will reach adulthood is another worry. The first ladies of Guinea, Mali, Mo

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'On Fire For God's Work': How Scott Pruitt's Faith Drives His Politics

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We're going to hear now about the background of a controversial member of the Trump administration, Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He's facing at least 10 federal investigations into alleged ethics

More Countries Turn down Snowden's Asylum Request

Passengers check flight information at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, Russia, July 2, 2013. Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden aborted his intention to ask for political asylum in Russia, Kremlin said Tuesday. [Photo: Xinhua/Ding

<词海拾贝>To Give One's Eyeteeth For Sth.：巨大牺牲

我们知道eyetooth指人的“犬齿，上颚尖牙”。可是英国首相布莱尔在被问及如何看待英国对美国政府的大力支持时，却说过这样一句话：“I think most count

Europe's Chief Banker Says Eurozone 'Unsustainable'

Europe's chief banker says the current operation of the 17-nation euro currency bloc is unsustainable and that it must create a new vision of how it will manage its affairs in the coming years. The head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, sai

S&P downgrades eurozone's bailout fund EFSF

LONDON, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Ratings agency Standard Poor's lowered the AAA long-term issuer credit rating of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), eurozone's rescue fund, to AA+ from AAA on Monday. The ratings agency cited the now-reduced cre

美国国家公共电台 NPR Finding God, Love And The Meaning Of Life In Messiaen's 'Turangal?la-Symphonie'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This weekend, the thrilling and mysterious Turangalila-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen is being performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The masterpiece is rarely heard. It calls for over a hundred musicians and an unusual elec

2017年CRI China's trade with countries along B&R grows fast: GAC

New data shows China's goods trade remains sound and steady in the first three quarters of 2017. The same set of data suggests the country's trade with countries along the Belt and Road has grown faster than average, contributing a large share to tha

2018年CRI Jia Zhangke's new coproduction with BRICS countries to be released this year

Jia Zhangke's second coproduction with the BRICS countries will be released later this year. Jia is the producer of Half The Sky. He has employed five well known female directors who each have created a segment for the movie, all of which focuses on

China, U.S. hold third women's leadership dialogue

WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- All China Women's Federation (ACWF) president Chen Zhili and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have lauded the progress in ties between the people of the two countries at a women's leadership forum here. The thi

Apple iPhone 4S to arrive in China's HK

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Apple announced on Tuesday that its latest iPhone 4S smartphone will be available in China's Hong Kong, South Korea and 13 additional countries next Friday. Customers will be able to pre-order iPhone 4S beginning thi

Hand of God guides rock singer's new album

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- His skin-fit purple jeans, black T-shirt, that hangs loosely on his strong frame, leather bracelets, and huge finger ring scream the rebellious spirit of a rock singer. But when Vanness Wu begins to talk about his new

英文乡村歌曲：乐观面对生活 God's Will

I met God's Will on a Halloween night 万圣节前夜 我遇见上帝的小威尔 He was dressed as a bag of leaves 他装扮得如同一袋叶片 It hid the braces on his legs at first 叶片起初掩盖了脚上的支架 His smile was as bright as