VOA慢速英语2011--Social Scientists Rethink City Living

THIS IS AMERICA - Social Scientists Rethink City Living SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell you why an economist has written a

VOA慢速英语--Does City Living Hurt Mental Health?

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Are people happier in nature with blue skies overhead and fresh green grass underfoot? Could noisy streets, crowded with cars and people, make us unhappy? The possible mental health effe

新西兰英语 789 The cost of housing

A new OECD report shows that New Zealanders pay more for their housing than most other developed countries. On average, New Zealanders spend 26% of their income on a place to live either paying rent or paying a mortgage. The average for all OECD coun

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First, the good news: the cost of raising kids rose at a slower rate between 2014 and 2015 than any typical year since 1960, says government data released this month. The bad news? Well, you make want to take a seat. If you're planning to have any mo

租房好还是买房好

After nearly twenty years of homeownership, Ive spent the past ten months renting an apartment. I like it. And I dont. There are pros and cons to renting a place, just as there are pros and cons to owning a home. For me, one of the biggest cons is th

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Suburban Area 郊区 An urban area is a city or a town. 城区是指城市或市镇。 A suburban area is a place around the city or town. 郊区在城镇周围。 An urban area usually has a lot of people. 城区一般人口密集。 It also has man

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 June 2007 The United Nations warns that a doubling of urban populations in Africa and Asia by 2030 will have harmful consequences if governments do not prepare now for the coming growth. In this year's State of World Populat

Urban-rural income gap gets bigger: report

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of income earned by urbanites to that of rural residents is about 5.2, said a blue paper released by a major government think tank on Tuesday. According to The Urban Blue Book: China City Development Report No.

双语文摘：把一个孩子养大需要多少钱

Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的：大约25万美元。 A new government report estimated that a middle-

把一个孩子养大需要多少钱

把一个孩子养大需要多少钱 Our children， of course， are priceless． But they do have a cost： about a quarter－million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的：大约25万美元。 A

City Living Can be Bad for Your Health

The vast majority(大多数) of Americans live in cities and urban life carries special health risks. Overcrowding leads to greater stress, which can lead to violence, according to Dr. Jo Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine. And t

世卫:低收入国家空气质量低

UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (Xinhua) -- More than 80 percent of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN spokesman said here Thursday.

The cost of living

What's the minimum amount you could earn to have a reasonable standard of living? A recent report in the UK has come up with some figures. 你觉得要有一个合理的生活水平，你最少挣多少钱？英国最近的一次报告提供了一些数据。 How much do you think is sugg

VOA标准英语10月-UNHCR: Thousands of Refugees in Camps, Urban Area

A new report finds nearly a third of refugees and other people cared for by the U.N. refugee agency are not getting their basic needs met. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. Congolese refugee's take shelter, at the Nyaka

养大一个孩子需要多少钱？

养大一个孩子需要多少钱？

为什么更多的美国人搬到较小城市

President Ma Ying-jeou has agreed to a request from the opposition to invite the Dalai Lama next week, to comfort victims（受害者） of deadly Typhoon Morakot. China usually voices anger at nations that welcome the Dalai Lama, whom it views as a d

China's parliament convenes as new leadership expected

BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The 12th National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliamentary body, opened its first annual session Tuesday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. NPC deputies will elect new president and vice president,

China starts construction on 5.8 mln low-income housing units

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China started building 5.8 million low-income housing units in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction on 3.6 million affordable homes has been ba

办公英语 要出租车

Key Sentences(重点句子) 190．Golden Taxi Service here．Can I help you？ 我是黄金出租车公司。能为你帮忙吗？ 191．I'd like a taxi in about ten minutes'time． 十分钟以后我需要一辆出租车。 192．Well，but there is

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 1944 cost of living

1944 cost of living 今天我们要学的词是 cost of living. Cost of living 生活费用。New York is the most expensive city to live in, according to an online cost of living index. 根据一项网上的生活费用指数排名，纽约是美国生