WORDS AND THEIR STORIES(24) - Tinpan Alley

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Tinpan Alley By Susan Kelen Broadcast: Sunday, October 10, 2004 Now, the VOA Special English Program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression, tinpan alle

哈利波特与魔法石12-Diagon Alley

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Successful People 'Take the World by Storm'

Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. Every week, we explore common expressions in American English. Thunder storms. Rain storms. Snow storms. Electrical storms! If conditions get bad enough, almost any kind of weather can become a

美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-02-07

That feeling, he's a real card. Alright, first up today, an issue that's getting a lot of attention in Washington, immigration reform. President Obama talked about it yesterday, he says it's a top priority for his second and he thinks the time is rig

国家地理-2008-05-19 Tornadoes 龙卷风的形成

Call them twisters or tornadoes. They are nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of

国家地理-2008-07-05 Surviving the Tornado 龙卷风来袭大难不死

A tornado rips across the Missouri Plains. Winds over 150 miles per hour shred everything in the twister's path. When it smashes a trailer home, one man is sucked into the heart of the storm, spun and shaken horrifically. His limp body drops out of

国家地理:Tornadoes 龙卷风

Call them twisters or tornadoes. They're nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of th

VOA慢速英语20060523b

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Weather: Tornado Science, in a Land With Plenty of ExperienceBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special Engli

CNN 2010-06-07

AZUZ: Around 25 percent of those tornadoes form in an area that's called Tornado Alley. Colorado is part of that, and it's where this tornado showed up on Monday. These pictures are amazing; look at this. Twisters like this one can sometimes do a lot

学个词Learn a Word 第1386期　up someone's alley

今天我们要学的词是up someone's alley。Alley, 是小径的意思，而up someone's alley意思是正合某人的胃口。今天是美国感恩节后的第一个星期一，店家在网上大打折扣，叫做网络星期一。 If you hate wa

美国习惯用语:532 up one's alley

今天要学的几个习惯用语都有一个相当简单而常用的词：up。 Up这个词有好多不同的用处。一种解释是：沿着什么运行。例如在第一个习惯用语里：up one's alley。 Alley这个词最普通的解释是小巷

VOA标准英语2013--Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster

Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge in the sturdiest

2017年CRI Resettlement almost done on tornado anniversary

A tornado hit the city of Yancheng in Jiangsu province on June 23rd last year. [Photo: jschina.com.cn] On June 23rd last year, a rare tornado flattened or damaged more than 30,000 rural homes in regions administered by the City of Yancheng, in Jiangs

2018年CRI From Slush Alley to Financial District

A narrow and shabby alley called Lan-Ni-Du has been recreated at the Exhibition of Pudong New Area's Development and Opening-Up in Shanghai. In Chinese, Lan-Ni means slush and Du means ferry. The name paints a mental picture of the original location

英语听力：自然百科 Tornadoes 龙卷风的形成

Call them twisters or tornadoes. They are nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of t

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Tornadoes

ENVIRONMENT REPORT – June 7, 2002: Tornadoes By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Every year in the United States people watch for dangerous windstorms called tornadoes.

学个词Learn a Word 第1258期 tornado

今天我们要学的词是 tornado, tornado is spelled t-o-r-n-a-d-o; tornado. Tornado龙卷风。最近美国先后多次遭受龙卷风的袭击，其中 The tornado that carved through the city of Joplin, Missouri is the deadliest to hit American

美国俚语:up one's alley 得心应手

up one's alley 得心应手 alley这个词最普通的解释是小巷、通道，但是在这个习惯用语里alley有特定意思。它来自棒球运动，特别指棒球场上好球区的中线。 这条存在于人们头脑里的中线从投手板

趣味青春英语电台 第292期:Right up my alley

Idiom: Right up my alley ( someone's expertise ) Hit the book: Metro Revenue Concession Lift ban Prohibit Interior Overkill Controversy Denizen Metro, struggling with declining ridership and revenue, is considering allowing retail and food concession

音乐咖啡厅:Lea Michele - Tornado

Lifting up off the ground Like a tornado spin me 'round Shine a light through the storm If the rain comes down let it pour I know what I'm doing here 2020 crystal clear Bring it on bring it on I'm ready You can steal my every tear Keep them as a souv