【英语语言学习】米歇尔奥巴马的演讲（2）

My goodness! You guys are fired up! Well, let me just say hello everyone. I am so thrilled to be here with you all today in New Hampshire. This is like home to me, and this day thank you for a beautiful fall day. You just ordered this day up for me,

【英语语言学习】女权主义者

I am failing as a woman, I am failing as a feminist. I have passionate opinions about gender equality, but I worry that to freely accept the label of feminist, would not be fair to good feminists. I'm a feminist, but I'm a rather bad one. Oh, so I ca

【英语语言学习】世界财富分配有多么的不平衡

This is 'In the News' in VOA Special English. More than half of the world's wealth belongs to just two percent of adults. A new study also found that fifty percent of adults own just one percent of all the wealth. The report is from the World Institu

【英语语言学习】感恩老师

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And on this last Friday of 2012, it is time for Storycorps, recording conversations about the most important moments in our lives. Today, we hear from John Cruitt and his third grade teacher, Cecile Doyle. John tracked down Mrs. D

【英语语言学习】宇宙中神秘的事情

From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in Special English. I'm June Simms. Our program today is about a mystery as old as time. Bob Doughty and Sarah Long tell about the mystery of time. If you can read a clock, you can know the time

【英语语言学习】为什么有的人会超重

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many young scientists are having a difficult time getting their careers going, and the reason is often funding - a lack of it. The National Institutes of Health agrees this is a problem, so it established the New Innovator Award.

【英语语言学习】我感觉很好

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Beach Boys were all California - beach, waves and a sunny, blue sky. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOULDN'T IT BE NICE) THE BEACH BOYS: (Singing) Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long. SIMON: But Bri

【英语语言学习】狗狗其实比你想象中厉害

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are enormous implications in a report this week from a team of Hungarian scientists who say that dogs can understand words, not just the tone in which we may tell them, oh, good boy, good little girl. Scientists at Eotvos Lor

【英语语言学习】当你不再那么出名时

Welcome to the VOA Learning English program This Is America. This week Barbara Klein and Christopher Cruise tell about several American actors who were widely recognized years ago. But they now are not big stars or famous like they once were. We ask

【英语语言学习】窃听丑闻

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, we'll talk about the glaring lack of diversity in Silicon Valley and what one group is trying to do about it. That's in just a minute. But first, the leaks fro

【英语语言学习】数字化的现代生活

I was in New York during Hurricane Sandy, and this little white dog called Maui was staying with me. Half the city was dark because of a power cut, and I was living on the dark side. Now, Maui was terrified of the dark, so I had to carry him up the s

【英语语言学习】关于大猩猩的新闻

Hello there, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today we have news -- a lot of news -- about chimpanzees. A new study has found that as chimpanzees grow, they can recognize emotions in other creatu

【英语语言学习】一次危险的旅程

MICHEL MARTIN: Every year, tens of thousands of Central Americans from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador make a perilous overland journey to the United States. They travel north through Mexico to the U.S. border, riding on top of rusty cargo trains

【英语语言学习】互联网的利弊

This was in an area called Wellawatta, a prime residential area in Colombo. We stood on the railroad tracks that ran between my friend's house and the beach. The tracks are elevated about eight feet from the waterline normally, but at that point the

【英语语言学习】英雄的死亡叙事诗

So I'd like you to come back with me just for a few minutes to a dark night in China, the night I met my husband. It was a city so long ago that it was still called Peking. So I went to a party. I sat down next to a stout, middle-aged man with owl gl

【英语语言学习】隐私

I would like to tell you a story connecting the notorious privacy incident involving Adam and Eve, and the remarkable shift in the boundaries between public and private which has occurred in the past 10 years. You know the incident. Adam and Eve one

【英语语言学习】亚马逊网站

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, my guest Brad Stone chronicles how Amazon became a, quote, innovative, disruptive and often polarizing technology powerhouse, the company that

【英语语言学习】进化、健康与疾病

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Acid reflux, acne, anxiety, asthma, certain cancers, depression, type 2 diabetes, flat feet, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, lower back pain and osteoporosis - that's just a partial list of non-infec

【英语语言学习】信息共享

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. And I'm Melissa Block. This week, we're exploring the many ways you share personal information with the digital universe, whether you know it or not. When you search online, when you shop,

【英语语言学习】数字信息安全

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. And I'm Audie Cornish. To some Americans, revelations about the National Security Agency and how it monitors phone calls, emails and the Internet might not seem relevant to their lives.