疯狂英语听力 Wisdom Life

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate.He was the type of person who was always in a good mood, [00:02.77]杰里真是个招人恨的家伙。他是这样一种人总是心情快乐、情绪高涨， [00:05.54]always up,always had something posit

疯狂英语听力 Wisdom Life 2

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people [00:01.61]积极人生从七个习惯开始 [00:03.21]Habit number two :Begin with the end in mind.That literally means to begin today with an image or picture of the end of your life as your frame of reference

疯狂英语听力 Wisdom Life 3

RAGE OF ANGELS [00:00.95]天使的愤怒 [00:01.91]The hunters were closing in for the kill at the Criminat Courts Building of downtown Manhattan. [00:04.38]在曼哈顿闹市区的刑事法庭大楼里，猎手们四面包围过来，捕杀即将开始

英语课程计划-National Condom Day

February the 14th is National Condom Day. It aims to raise awareness of safe sex and the reasons for it. Today we live in a world where unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS, are on the increase. This incre

新西兰英语 658 Maori water rights

The Waitangi Tribunal met for two weeks to discuss Maori water rights. The Tribunal gave an interim report because the full report would not be available until September. The interim report asked the government to postpone the sale of Mighty River Po

新西兰英语 806 Maori By-Election results

First listen to April 29th 2013 to hear about the death of Parekura Horomia and the need for a by-election. As a result of the death of the Labour MP Parekura Horomia, a by-election was held on Saturday to elect a new Member of Parliament for the eas

VOA慢速英语2011--Wising Up About Wisdom Teeth

Health Report - Wising Up About Wisdom Teeth This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Wisdom teeth are normally the last teeth to appear. This usually happens when people are in their late teen years or early twenties -- in other words, when th

2007年VOA标准英语-Normal Life Returns to Philippine Town Once Dom

By Douglas Bakshian Jolo, Philippines 21 February 2007 An island of about 300,000 people in the southern Philippines has been part of the front line in the war on terror. Jolo island just a few years ago was a launching pad for kidnappings and bombi

美国国家公共电台 NPR This New Zealand Band Is Trying To Save Maori Culture One Head Banger At A Time

DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is kind of sad. Did you know that nearly half of the world's 6,000 or so spoken languages are endangered? That's according to the United Nations. Well, in New Zealand, a group of teens is trying to save their endangered tongu

新西兰英语 643 Maori want to own rivers

More than 200 Maori attended the Waitangi Tribunal today to argue that they own the water in New Zealand rivers. They want the Tribunal to stop the government selling 49% of the electricity companies. On June 26th the government passed the law to sel

新西兰英语 636 Maori Language Week

This week is Maori language week. The theme this year is Arohatia te Reo, which means cherish te Reo (the Maori language): love it, honour it and speak it. Why should we honour te Reo? This year celebrates 25 years since te Reo became the second offi

新西兰英语 75 Maori Party Holds Hui

After talks with John Key, the co-leaders of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples, have agreed to hold many hui (meetings) throughout New Zealand. It is likely that John Key has offered the Maori Party a chance for one or two of their mem

新西兰英语 176 Maori Language Week

This is Maori Language week, from July 27th to August 2nd. Every year, for the last 30 years, we have celebrated Maori Language week. This is the time to learn Te Reo Maori. You can learn 100 Maori words from the website: www.koreromaori.co.nz Maori

新西兰英语 294 Maori and the Sea

We have heard a lot of talk in the last six years about the foreshore and seabed. The foreshore is the beach up to the high tide mark. The seabed is the ocean as far as New Zealands limit, 200 miles out to sea. This is the part of the ocean which New

新西兰英语 224 Maori Flag

The Prime Minister, Mr Key, announced that a Maori flag was chosen for Waitangi Day. It will fly on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and Parliament along with the New Zealand flag. The Maori flag is black, red and white with a koru design. The koru is a y

VOA标准英语2010-Key US Senator Warns of Potential for Dom

Senator Joseph Lieberman, right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, 11 Feb. 2010 (file photo) The Chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee says extreme partisan anger on the left and right is increasing th

新西兰英语 150 Maori protest against Auckland super-city

At midday today, about 6,000 Maori and other supporters held a protest march in Queen St in Auckland, in the rain. The march was called a hikoi. The hikoi was organised by a young Maori man, Ngarimu Blair, who controlled the crowd to make sure that i

新西兰英语 464 Maori Moko used by French man

The photo of a French rugby player with a moko design on his face and back, upset many Maori. The moko is a tattoo on the face and other parts of the body. Originally, it was done with a chisel, not a needle, to make grooves in the skin. Soot from bu

CCTV9英语新闻：Pro-singledom ad goes viral

Women in China who don't get married after a certain age are often called 'leftover women'. By telling what many of these single women are really thinking, a cosmetics ad has gone viral. Be independent and lead a wonderful life, that's what I want. I

新西兰英语 313 Maori Language week

This is Maori language week, a time to think about the survival of the Maori language and to encourage more people to use it. Listen to more about the purpose of Maori language week: July 29 2009 About 18,000 people are fluent in Maori but the number