VOA慢速英语2012 Health Report - What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness?

Health Report - What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness? 健康报道 - 年龄和幸福度之间的联系 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 Are people less happy or more happy t

VOA标准英语2013--Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed

Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed At a Los Angeles center, Catholic Charities provides food and other assistance to the poor, unemployed, and homeless. A homeless man, John Wood, is sitting with his belongs in a grocery cart

CNN 2012-01-20

Controversy involving pardons issues by the governor of Mississippi.A pardon releases criminals from guilt.The President can grant pardon to federal criminals and many states governors have that power as well.Mississippi governor Haley Barbour handed

Take Away English-Viking Ship Discovered 刚被发现的海盗船

The Viking longship might have looked like this. A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside. The vessel is believed to lie beneath 2 metres to 3 metres of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols,

Lesson 160 - SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT / ROCK THE BOAT

To shape up or ship out To rock the boat 今天我们要给大家介绍两个和船有关的习惯用语。船在英文里就是: Ship. 船员或者和水上生活有关的人创造了一套他们自己

CNN 2011-05-11

They were with former president George W.Bush on one of the most faithful mornings in US history. We are the today. You are gonna find out this Monday edition of CNN Student News. I'm Carol Lezus, let's go. First up, the Mississippi river is going up

VOA标准英语2012--US Unemployed Become Jobless, Homeless, Hopeful

US Unemployed Become Jobless, Homeless, Hopeful Jobless Robbyne Sudduth became a statistic - unemployed, homeless. Laid off from Xerox in 2007, she left Michigan and came to New York looking for work. I was putting out resumes and doing what people d

VOA标准英语2011--Hundreds Hold Prayer Vigil for Unemployed on Capitol Hill

Hundreds Hold Prayer Vigil for Unemployed on Capitol Hill Thousands of jobless workers from around the country, community members, and clergy held a prayer vigil on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to extend unemployment benefits. Millions of jobless wo

VOA标准英语2010年-Unemployed US Professionals Grapple wi

President Obama signed a bill last week extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. The extension will affect 1.4 million unemployed Americans and help ease the longest bout of joblessness since the great Depression. Our reporter visited a career co

VOA标准英语2010年-For Unemployed New Yorkers, No Recover

Over 10 percent of New Yorkers, nearly 425,000, are unemployed and looking for work, the highest rate in the three decades that records have been kept. The city's jobless numbers are expected to stay at ten percent or above through next year. And tha

VOA标准英语2011--Unemployed Look to President, Congress f

Unemployed Look to President, Congress for Help Job hunters around the United States are struggling to keep up their spirits as they look for work, despite the poor economy. Many watched President Barack Obama's Thursday speech to a joint session of

VOA标准英语2010年-Unemployed Find Comic Relief in New Bo

Sometimes, the best way to deal with a bad situation is to laugh at it. That's the idea behind The Adventures of Unemployed Man, a parody of classic superhero comics, written for America's current economic meltdown. In it, writers Erich Origen and Ga

VOA标准英语2014--Long Term US Unemployed Face Difficult Year 美国长期失业者新年更艰难

Long Term US Unemployed Face Difficult Year 美国长期失业者新年更艰难 Five years after the financial crisis, many indicators suggest a recovery is finally taking hold in the worlds largest economy. U.S. gross domestic product is growing at

VOA标准英语2014--Washington Week: Focus on US Unemployed 聚焦华盛顿:关注美国失业

Washington Week: Focus on US Unemployed 聚焦华盛顿:关注美国失业 The U.S. Congress gets back to work this week after a holiday break. Whether to restore jobless benefits for more than one million long-term unemployed Americans will be among

Lesson 154 - RUN A TIGHT SHIP / SIT TIGHT

To run a tight ship To sit tight 今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语里一个关键的字就是: Tight. Tight 就是「紧」的意思。这个字有的时候具有好的含义,但也有

VOA常速英语2007年-Georgia's Unemployed Silent About Predicament

By Peter Fedynsky Tbilisi, Georgia 12 December 2007 During recent anti-government demonstrations in Georgia, a pro-government member of parliament expressed surprise that protesters demanded electoral reforms rather than action on a bread-and-butter

VOA标准英语2011--Hundreds of Unemployed Storm Capitol Hill to Meet with Congress

Hundreds of Unemployed Storm Capitol Hill to Meet with Congress Thousands of Occupy Congress activists have decended on Washington this week to press their agenda of jobs and a fair economy for all. The three days of protests and events was kicked of

每日一词【1029】jump ship：跳槽

今天我们要学的词是jump ship。 To jump ship, 意思是跳槽。 LeBron James decision to jump ship was not unexpected, 勒布朗.詹姆斯决定跳槽并不意外。 John didn't like his new boss and jumped ship the first chance he got, 约翰

Italy Says US, British Forces Freed Italian Ship

Italy says U.S. and British forces have freed an Italian vessel that was hijacked off Somalia on Monday. The MV Montecristo had been seized 1,000 kilometers off Somalia's eastern coast, carrying 23 crew members from Italy, Ukraine and India. The Ital

Unemployed Test Work in New Job Fields

More than 12 million Americans are out of work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Looking for a job similar to the one that was lost can be a frustrating and futile exercise, but an employment program in the northeastern state of New Hampshi