VOA标准英语2011--President Obama's Speech on Libya

Explaining his decision to authorize the use of U.S. military force as part of international operations in Libya, President Barack Obama said Monday night that the United States must act when its interests and values are threatened. The president rul

CNN 2011-02-14

I'm Carl Azuz, and Fridays are awesome, especially when they start with a former NFL star.What's up! I'm Warrick Dunn, and this is CNN Student News. Check it out! Scenes of celebration turn to shouts of anger as the crisis in Egypt takes a new turn.

CNN 2011-03-01

There are roughly 6,000 Americans in Libya, and the U.S. government is trying to get them out. A ferry that was chartered to take hundreds of U.S. citizens from Libya to Malta was held up for a while yesterday. U.S. officials said everyone onboard wa

Daily English-2015年06月03日

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. 过去无法改变，未来仍可掌控。(Mary Pickford) 图片1

SSS 2009-05-21

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Can you name those notes? Probably not. Perhaps one in ten thousand speakers of European languages has perfect pitch - the ability to recognize a note without having hea

SSS 2009-05-22

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. If you ever got picked on in the schoolyard, you might have wished for some sort of superpower, like unbeatable speed or maybe just the ability to completely disappear. Now scientists

亲子英语029

scene28 停电 The power went out. 停电了。 Dad，I'm scared. 爸，我好害怕喔。 Take it easy,honey.It's just raining cats and dogs. 亲爱的，放轻松。外面只是下着倾盆大雨。 But, dad,it's stormy outside. 可是，爸，外面

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SSS 2008-11-10

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Every year, scores of manatees are killed by boats in Floridas waters. Their plight is an ecological concern. And everyone from marine biologists to Marg

SSS 2009-05-13

This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Hybrid cars are good for the environment, but scientists say that they might be bad for pedestrians. Because hybrids are so quiet that can be hard for wa

SSS 2010-11-17

We humans are pretty good at communicating with sounds other than words. But how much of this is hard-wired, and how much do we pick up from others? To find out, researchers recorded the nonverbal sounds of people born deaf, as they responded to a ra

SSS 2010-08-09

Blue whales off the California coast make calls that, sped up 10 times, sound like (sound of two-part call). The original is a wall-rattling frequency too low for us to hear. Scientists analyzed around 2,500 of those calls, and found that the second

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VOA慢速英语2016--The Power of Parallelism

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