美属维尔京群岛,美国海外属地,为美国“未合并领土”。 面积 347平方公里,位于大西洋和加勒比海之间,在加勒比海小安的列斯群岛,西距波多黎各64公里,由圣托马斯、圣约翰和圣克鲁斯3个主岛和约50个小岛组成。 英语为官方语言,广泛使用西班牙语和克里奥尔语。居民多信奉基督教新教。 首府夏洛特·阿马里(Charlotte Amalie),位于圣托马斯岛。

Three sovereign, self-governing Pacific island nations are joined with the United States in Compacts of Free Association. The three are the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Palau. They are sometimes

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Virgin Islands National Park: America's Paradise 维尔京群岛国家公园:美国的天堂 This week on our national parks journey, we leave the United States mainland and travel down to the Caribbean. There, you will find three islands that make u

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: The War in the Pacific 建国史话- 太平洋战争 STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. (MUSIC) American military planners had to make

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the U.S. Virgin Islands so hard. Let's travel there now with NPR's Greg Allen to see how people on the islands are doing. GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: At the beach in Magens Bay, the party is back on. (SOUNDBI

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They wouldn't work for a thousand dollars a day, but they would work for a ten-cent string of beads. 即使一天给他们一千美元,他们也不愿意,但是他们却愿意为得到一串廉价的珠子而干活。 They were very fond of jewel

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Fighting World War Two: The United States Forces Japan to Retreat From Islands in the PacificBy David Jarmul Broadcast: Thursday, November 30, 2006 VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 23, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Six-million people in the United States belong to 1)parent-teacher associations, or PTA

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Trade Drives America's Foreign Policy in the Late 1800's By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, December 15, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Sp

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. The United States has had fifty states for fifty years. Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the fi

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Many parts of the United States were first territories with the plan that they would someday become states. Former territories include Oklahoma, which became a state in 1907; New Mexico and Arizona, which became states in 1912; and Hawaii and Alaska,

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's been many months since hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Virgin Islands, but hospitals there are still recovering. Even now, patients are being flown to the U.S. mainland for certain surgeries and specialized care, as

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - May 23, 2002: The War in the Pacific By David Jarmul VOICE 1: THE MAKING OF A NATION, a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (Theme) American military planners

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Martin, The United States speaker The one country I would most like to visit would have to be New Zealand. Mnay reasons, the number one being it looks like an absolutely gorgeous country, especially having seen Lord of the Rings and that is one of my

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This is your NOW IN THE NEWS update; I'm Reggie Aqui, from the CNN center in Atlanta. Worldwide recession fears sent many world stock markets going down today. The Dow opened down sharply before recovering some of its losses. Tokyo's Nikkei downed m

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. The United States has had fifty states for fifty years. Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the fir

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Meanwhile, across the Caribbean, at least three dozen people are dead in Irma's wake. Officials are struggling to get aid to the region's islands devastated by what was then a Category 5 storm. In the British Virgin Islands, thousands have no electri

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In the day's other major story, Hurricane Irma is now the most powerful storm ever recorded in the open Atlantic Ocean. It has winds of 185 miles an hour, and it's closing in on the Northeast Caribbean. That has one forecaster warning that the Leewar

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Explanation: When most people think of the United States, they think about the 50 states, but they often forget that other parts of the world are part of the United States, too. A U.S. territory is an area of land that belongs to the U.S. government

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Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easy for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 War. What does that w

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The U.S. State Department says the U.S. stance on the Diaoyu Islands has not changed. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki says U.S. maintains it is not taking sides on the sovereignty dispute. The United States does not take a position on the und

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