VOA慢速英语2009-AMERICAN MOSAIC - The Empire State Building Goes

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We go to a birthday party for folk singer Pete Seeger, who turned ninety this month ... And we will answer a question about religion and government in Amer

Gadhafi Says Other Nations Should Follow Libya's Example

Roger Wilkison Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hailed his first visit to Europe in 15 years as historic and followed up his renunciation of weapons of mass destruction with a pledge to work for worl

VOA标准英语2009-Libya's Gadhafi Lashes Out at US

Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi has lashed out at the United States by likening the 1986 U.S. Strikes on Libya to Osama bin Laden's terror attacks on the United States in 2001. He was speaking Thursday in Rome, where he is on a three-day official visi

Murdoch British Media Empire Chief Resigns

A key British executive of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire has resigned amid the firestorm over the phone-hacking and police bribery scandal that has triggered investigations on both sides of the Atlantic. Rebekah Brooks stepped down Friday as c

学个词Learn a Word 第259期 Empire

今天我们要学的词是empire。 Empire, 是帝国的意思。历史上曾有辉煌的Roman Empire,罗马帝国，美国纽约有着名的Empire State Building, 帝国大厦。Empire也可以用来形容个人、家族、集团或是公司所控制

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-10

And they put it into this tank here. Now this tank has already got water in it. So as they pour the olive oil in, it flows to the surface, all of the impurities go down to the bottom. And see this little trench here? A vital piece of gourmet equipmen

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-9

Just like the people of modern Istanbul, the Byzantines loved fresh bread and fresh vegetables. While the bread，at least the grain for it, they brought from their province of Egypt, the vegetables they grew themselves, in little plots beside their

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-8

This was once a marble square on a highway at the middle of Constantinople. I didnt suppose the Turks on modern Istanbul think much about ancient Byzantine victories. Yet, therere still some fragments here of that great memorial column that made it a

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-6

Once though, Constantinople held the palace of all palaces, the palace of the Christian empire. Church, hippodrome and palace, Constantine had made a sacred engine that would power Byzantium for ever. To protect the holy city of Constantinople, the e

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-5

Its only a little building, but it was actually the heart of ancient Palmyra. Its the senate, the Oval Office where government was conducted, where the town elders met, where plots were hatched, all that sort of thing. Of course, in Constantine's gre

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-4

This was the extent of Constantines ambition, the late Roman Empire, with Constantinople, not Rome, as its capital, and in the far north, in Germany, the city of Trier, a great imperial garrison. It still shows something of what ancient Constantinopl

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-3

A lonely ancient relic in a modern city. In the year of our Lord 330, on a lovely May morning, A great procession came down this road whichs the highway of an ancient city called Byzantium, and the procession was led by the great Roman Emperor Consta

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-2

Istanbul, one of the very greatest of Islamic cities, the monuments of the conquering Turkish Sultans whod ruled here since 1453, dominating its skyline. Underneath there are much older ghosts, brushed each day by people of the living city, the ruins

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-1

The eye of all the world， the ancients called it, the heart of a lost empire that had lasted for a thousand years and more. Saint Sophia, the church of the divine wisdom, this was their crowning glory---the glory of Byzantium. The vanished empire o

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-11

But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-15

Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-12

The man there is Justinian, the emperor who 200 years after Constantine completely remade the Roman Empire, the man who made Byzantium. He was a man, they said, who was gentle and approachable, a man who never showed his anger, a man who in the quiet

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-14

Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s

英语听力：Byzantium-The Lost Empire 拜占庭：失落的帝国-13

Each man stands inside his own mysterious inner space, for each one of them was occupied. And from that space they look outwards, from the soul towards the heavens. As you might expect, if you should move around them, solid bulk of marble in the huma

名人演讲 "The Evil Empire"

Moderator : Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. President Reagan : Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And , Reverend Clergy all, Senator Hawkins, distin