The Coliseum

The Coliseum Rome, that great 1) witness to a past rich in history, that great collection of 2) artistic masterpieces, which together, form the most complete 3) unmatchable expression of human achieve

TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(3)

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有声英文阅读-巨蛋始祖：罗马竞技场

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VOA慢速英语2012 Technology Report - Caine’s Arcade Video Brings Creative Boy Fame

Technology Report - Caines Arcade Video Brings Creative Boy Fame 科技报道 - 凯恩的游乐场小男孩网络爆红 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 An Internet video called Caine

Paintings on the streets of London 伦敦街头油画

The script of this programme 本节目台词 A famous painting is hung in a London street. Sun Chen: Hello, 欢迎收听BBC的都市掠影节目, 我是孙晨。 Helen: Hi, Im Helen. This is the programme where we keep you informed of whats going on around London. Sun C

365个英语简短小故事-89. In Harm’s Way

A new invention, called Arm Yourself, is in arcades in Japan. It is a mechanical arm-wrestling machine. In the old days, fairs and carnivals usually had a Test Your Strength contest that required a player to swing a small sledge hammer as hard as he

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夏日清新英文歌曲:Owl City-On the Wing

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为视频游戏申辩：养虎为患？(Defending video games: Breeding e

There's no solid evidence that video games are bad for people, and they may be positively good 没有任何可靠证据证明电玩游戏有损于人们的身心健康，相反他们或许还能发挥一

CNN 2012-02-13

Ambassador Rice ,the second youngest person to hold that position.She's the first African American woman to be America's representative to the United Nations so she did perfect in the theme of this year's Black history month,black woman in the Americ

Roman Colosseum 意大利罗马大斗兽场

The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, inaugurated by Titus in 80 A.D. and completed by Domitian. Located on marshy land between the Esquiline and Caelian Hills, it was the first permanent amphitheater to be built in Rome. Its

音乐天堂：Owl City - On the Wing

Breathe and Ill carry you away into the velvet sky And well stir the stars around And watch them fall away into the Hudson Bay And plummet out of sight and sound The open summer breeze will sweep you through the hills Where I live in the alpine heigh

VOA标准英语2012--Dickens' Fans Mark 200th Anniversary of his Birth

Dickens' Fans Mark 200th Anniversary of his Birth This is Portsmouth, about 100 kilometers south of London. It's a city with a proud past, one of the main homes of the British Navy. Tourists come here to see the historic port. But though the cultural

Who Was Thomas Alva Edison 爱迪生Chapter 4 His Invention Factory

In the mid 1800s, a man in France and a man in Massachusetts both came up with ways to record soundbut as a pattern on paper much the way the dots and dashes of Morse code look on paper. Nobody had figured out how to record sounds and play them back

VOA标准英语2008年-Astroland Amusement Park in New York's Coney Is

An icon of New York's Coney Island, the Astroland amusement park, is closing its doors after nearly 50 years. Victoria Cavaliere reports that Astroland's owners and the residents of Coney Island say the shutdown marks the end of an era and also brin

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR Japan's 'Purikura' Photo Booths Offer Snapchat-Like Filters

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, where almost anybody can have the equivalent of a photo studio in their hands, some people still use old-style photo booths. That's especially true in Japan, where the photo booths are called

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, where almost anybody can have the equivalent of a photo studio in their hands, some people still use old-style photo booths. That's especially true in Japan, where the photo booths are called