VOA慢速英语20061228a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. We talked last week about the costs of higher education for students who want to study in the United States. Today, as our Foreign Student Series cont

NPR 2009-03-27

From NPR news in Washington. I'm Jack Speer. A key Senate committee has sighed off on President Obama's budget blueprint setting the stage for debate on the 3.6 trillion dollars spending package some time next week. Approval by the Senate Budget Com

英语博客：Get it built.

I volunteered this year to build my mother an arbor in her back garden. She has a small patio at the back of her house with three borders(1) for planting. Because it gets so hot from late spring to the middle of autumn, she decided that she'd like a

NPR 2009-6-18

President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

简单慢速英语阅读:A Pizza

Daddy, lets order a pizza, Billy said. That sounds like a good idea, said his dad. They looked at a menu they had at home. What kind do you want? his dad asked. Billy wanted a large pizza. He wanted a pizza with four toppings. He wanted cheese, peppe

SSS 2008-02-08

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month the journal Science reported that a Swedish company was planning on using the body heat generated by commuters in a Stockholm train station to

NPR 2010-05-02

President Obama plans to get a close-up look at the oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House says the president plans to head south tomorrow, but aides are not saying exactly where or what time Mr.Obama plans to arrive. The news came as Pr

NPR 2010-03-07

At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o

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Police in Sweden say they believe they have identified the man who blew himself up in the country's capital on Saturday. The man is Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who has been living in Britain for the past decade. Sweden's Chief Prosecutor To

VOA标准英语2015--Young Muslims Radicalized Online

Young Muslims Radicalized Online LONDON Young Muslims are being radicalized in their bedrooms through direct contact with Islamic State fighters via the Internet, according to terror experts. There are growing concerns authorities and Internet provid

美国国家公共电台 NPR To Syria And Back: How 2 Women Escaped Their Radicalized Husbands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Over the years, hundreds of people left the U.S. to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Only 14 of them came back. Two of them are women with extraordinary and similar stories. Both say their husbands forced them to

清明节英文简介

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Arbor Day / The F.B.I. / Eric Clapton Play

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Arbor Day / The F.B.I. / Eric Clapton Plays Robert Johnson By Broadcast: Friday, April 30, 2004 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (THEME) This is Doug Johnson

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I'd like to sit around and dream you up a perfect miracle 我愿静坐一旁，与你一同设想一个完美的奇迹 I'd part the clouds and have the sun proudly shining on you 我愿驱散层云，让旭日之光芒骄傲地照耀着你 I'd take t

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In many countries it has long been the tradition to hold an annual tree or forest festival. The origin of such celebrations dates back to antiquity and is in the dawn of religious feeling and awe for what trees represented. However, Arbor Day, as it

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春暖花开去植树!今年的植树节，你那里放晴了么?要是阳光明媚风和日丽，那就赶紧为这个春天再加上一抹绿色吧!Happy Arbor Day!小编今天为大家带来植树节(Arbor Day/Tree Planting Day)百科知识，你不

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明天是植树节，让我们来学习关于植树节的英语词汇吧！ 植树节：Arbor Day 植树首先要挖坑，挖坑的英语是：dig holes 坑挖好后要把树苗放进去，树苗的英语是：young trees或sapling 浇水water (the t

Khizr Khan Says He Would Live This Week A 'Hundred Million Times' Over

Khizr Khan Says He Would Live This Week A 'Hundred Million Times' Over KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Khizr Khan can't go anywhere without being noticed. People hold doors for him, cry when they see him, even jump out of cars to hug him. He became known around

中国传统节日的英文表达

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Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic?

Is Less Reading Making Americans Less Empathetic? A new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor shows that Americans' levels of empathy have dropped significantly in the last three decades. Using a questionnaire called The Interpersonal Re