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This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about the costs of higher education for students who want to study in the United States. Today, as our Foreign Student Series cont

NPR 2009-03-27

From NPR news in Washington. I'm Jack Speer. A key Senate committee has sighed off on President Obama's budget blueprint setting the stage for debate on the 3.6 trillion dollars spending package some time next week. Approval by the Senate Budget Com

英语博客：Get it built.

I volunteered this year to build my mother an arbor in her back garden. She has a small patio at the back of her house with three borders(1) for planting. Because it gets so hot from late spring to the middle of autumn, she decided that she'd like a

NPR 2009-6-18

President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

Stonehenge turned into fire garden to mark the Olympics

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- When the sun withdrew its last drop of sunshine on Tuesday, the ancient Stonehenge was transformed into a carnivalesque fire garden to mark the London 2012 Olympics. Lit up with fire sculpture, the megalithic monuments wer

SSS 2008-02-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to

NPR 2010-05-02

President Obama plans to get a close-up look at the oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House says the president plans to head south tomorrow, but aides are not saying exactly where or what time Mr.Obama plans to arrive. The news came as Pr

NPR 2010-03-07

At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

比蒙障碍 Beamonesque

Bob Beamon established himself as the favourite in the 1968 long jump by winning 22 of 23 meets in the pre-Olympic season. He almost met with disaster in the qualifying round. After fouling his first two attempts, he had only one try left. His teamma

VOA慢速英语2009-EXPLORATIONS - Arabesque Celebrates the Arts and

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

清明节英文简介

清明节英文简介 Qingming Festival 清明节英语介绍 The Qingming (Pure Brightness) Festival is one of the 24 seasonal division points in China, falling on April 4-6 each year. After the festival, the temperature will rise up and rainfall in

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Arbor Day / The F.B.I. / Eric Clapton Play

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Arbor Day / The F.B.I. / Eric Clapton Plays Robert Johnson By Broadcast: Friday, April 30, 2004 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (THEME) This is Doug Johnson

VOA慢速英语2010年-EXPLORATIONS - Arabesque Celebrates th

VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This three-week event brings eight hundred

Arbor Day（植树节）

In many countries it has long been the tradition to hold an annual tree or forest festival. The origin of such celebrations dates back to antiquity and is in the dawn of religious feeling and awe for what trees represented. However, Arbor Day, as it

如何用英语表达植树节？

春暖花开去植树!今年的植树节，你那里放晴了么?要是阳光明媚风和日丽，那就赶紧为这个春天再加上一抹绿色吧!Happy Arbor Day!小编今天为大家带来植树节(Arbor Day/Tree Planting Day)百科知识，你不

用英语表达植树节

明天是植树节，让我们来学习关于植树节的英语词汇吧！ 植树节：Arbor Day 植树首先要挖坑，挖坑的英语是：dig holes 坑挖好后要把树苗放进去，树苗的英语是：young trees或sapling 浇水water (the t

经典双语笑话 第23期:好投入啊

True Dedication! 好投入啊! Mrs. Fortesque was getting more and more worried. 福特斯克太太越来越担心。 Her husband had left for a round of golf early in the morning and by mid-afternoon he still wasn't home. 因为她先生一早出去打

【英语语言学习】抑郁症

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Many subjects that were once considered impossible to talk about are now dinner table conversation. The taboo of mental illness can still be difficult. Eva Rosenfeld and Madeline Halpert are hig

中国传统节日的英文表达

元旦(1月1日)NewYear'sDay 春节(农历一月一日)theSpringFestival 元宵节(农历一月十五日)theLanternFestival 国际劳动妇女节(3月8日)InternationalWorkingWomen'sDay 植树节(3月12日)ArborDay 清明节(4月5日)ChingMingFestiva

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic?

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re