VOA标准英语2010年-Soup Swap Adds Variety to Winter Menus

As the days in the northern hemisphere, get darker and colder, hot soup sounds pretty inviting. A homemade pot of soup can be healthy, economical and delicious. But by day four, it can also get kind of boring. So people are coming together to get mor

Telephone facilities

How do I get an outside line? Operator: Operator. May I help you? Paul Ryefield: Yes. How do I get an outside line, please? Operator: Just dial 0, wait for the dial tone, and then dial the phone number you want to call. Or we can place a call for you

英语大赢家 下册 194.Scene 9.Topic 2残疾人专用设备Handicap Facilities

Listen Read Learn Daniel: Mom, the road is so strange! It is different from the common roads. Mom: Oh, it was done for the blinds. They can feel and find their way to any place they want. Daniel: Is that really so? Oh, great. It's unnecessary for the

VOA标准英语2014--Analyst: Ukrainian Separatists Aim to Swap Hostages

Analyst: Ukrainian Separatists Aim to Swap Hostages KYIV, UKRAINE Ukrainian officials are accusing separatists in Eastern Ukraine of using hostages as human shields to prevent the military from taking action against them. But some observers in Kyiv d

儿童故事集：Katie and the Cat Swap: Part 1

Katie and the Cat Swap Part One Hello, this is Natasha, and Im here with a story about Katie the Witch. You may have heard an older story we have on Storynory called Katie and the Witchs Swap, in which Katie swapped identities with her best friend Is

儿童故事集：Katie and the Cat Swap: Part 2

Hello, this is Natasha, and Im back with the second part of our story about the time Katie swapped bodies with her cat, Solomon. Solomon has been doing all sorts of catty things at school, and everyone is blaming Katie for his bad behaviour. But even

VOA双语新闻 Some Oil, Gas Facilities

Several oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have resumed operations following Hurricane Katrina. However, an industry analyst says the full extent of damage to generating facilities is still unknown. 美国墨西哥湾地区的几个炼油厂在

英语口语大赢家Topic194:残疾人专用设备 Handicap Facilities

马路上丹尼尔对盲道感到新奇，经过妈妈对盲人专用设备的解说，他明白了很多，也试着触摸盲文，可是他却什么也没感觉到。 Listen Read Learn Daniel: Mom, the road is so strange! It is different from the common roads. Mom: Oh, it was done for the blinds. They

每日一词【1050】Swap：交换

今天我们要学的词是swap。 Swap, 交换。 The new website helped parents swap children's clothes and save money, 这个新网站帮助家长互换孩子的衣服，节省开销。美国加州一个17岁的孩子用旧手机换保时捷。 He

CCTV9英语新闻：China, UK agree currency swap

China and Britain have agreed on a currency swap deal, allowing exchanges of up to 200 billion RMB or 20 billion pounds. The agreement will involve a reciprocal 3-year currency swap line. The deal was announced in an online statement by the Bank of E

Pakistan, India swap nuclear sites lists

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan and India exchanged lists of nuclear installations（核设施） and facilities on Saturday in spite of a tension over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that has disrupted the dialogue process between the two countries,

学个词Learn a Word 第1050期 Swap

今天我们要学的词是swap。 Swap, 交换。 The new website helped parents swap children's clothes and save money, 这个新网站帮助家长互换孩子的衣服，节省开销。美国加州一个17岁的孩子用旧手机换保时捷。 He

Lindsay Lohan comes back

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan will host Saturday Night Live on March 3, marking her first return to the show since 2006, according to foreign media reports Tuesday. The former Disney darling rose to fame between 2003 and

BP, Russian company sign deal on share swap

LONDON, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- British Petroleum（石油） (BP) signed an agreement with Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft on Friday evening, under which BP will swap 5 percent of its stock, valued at 7.8 billion U.S. dollars, for 9.5 per

Greek PM Hails Achievement of Bond Swap Deal With Lenders

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has hailed the success of the bond swap deal with private lenders to keep the country solvent. During a speech on state television Friday, Papademos said, for the first time, Greece is not adding, but taking debt

VOA标准英语2010年-US, Russia Swap Spies

Sketch shows 10 Russians in US courtroom before being ordered deported in spy swap with Moscow A U.S. judge has ordered 10 suspects in a Russian spy ring deported as part of a swap between the United States and Russia. Judge Kimba Wood handed down he

英闻天下——93 48 Iranians Released as Swap for Prisoners

Some 48 kidnapped Iranians were released Wednesday as part of a prisoner swap between rebels and the Syrian government under the mediation of several regional countries. The released Iranians were abducted by Syrian militants in the capital of Damasc

Prison Swap Begins Today

Israel's Supreme Court has now backed a prisoner swap with Hamas, rejecting petitions against freeing more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the captured soldier Gilad Shalit. The victims of militant attacks had requested a 48-hou

VOA常速英语2007年-Disabling of N. Korea Nuclear Facilities Going

By Kurt Achin Seoul 06 November 2007 A senior U.S. envoy who spent this weekend in North Korea says authorities there are cooperating in the process of disabling the country's nuclear facilities. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the shutdown i

China vows to increase sports facilities

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- China has vowed to increase the nation's expanse of public sporting areas to 1.5 square meters per head of population by 2015, according to a five-year plan released on Monday. Under the plan drafted by the National Devel