VOA常速英语2018--布朗纳：一年四季都是圣诞节

Visiting Bronners Christmas wonderland is more than a shopping trip, its an experience. At roughly the size of 8 Olympic swimming pools, its a lot for siblings Rollin and Rain Marturello to grasp. Its huge, totally I can say, its really huge. A trip

VOA常速英语2018--乌干达贫民窟儿童在国际象棋中找到希望

Its the beginning of a two-month school break in Uganda and for poor families in the Catkin Slum getting food for their kids will only get harder.But many children can get meals at the Somme chess Academy funded by Samaritans.The academy provides lun

VOA常速英语2018--意大利因移民问题而爆发政治危机

Thousands of demonstrators marched outside major EU institutions in Brussels to protest the UN agreement setting up a common framework on the management of international migration flows. 无数抗议示威者在布鲁塞尔的多个重要欧盟机构楼

VOA常速英语2018--回顾人类首次近地环月：阿波罗8号

On Christmas Eve of 1968, NASA astronauts Bill Anders Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, boldly went where no one had gone before around the moon. Apollo 8 was originally a mission designed to test the command and lunar modules while orbiting the Earth. Bu

VOA常速英语2018--西班牙迎来大批移民 合法营生是问题

Bank-breaking and badly paid collecting scrap metal is a means to survive for migrants in Barcelona. A cartload can weigh hundreds of kilograms which can be sold to recycling firms for about 35 dollars or 50 dollars if the seller is lucky. Supporters

VOA常速英语2018--运动障碍没关系 头部摆动可操控手机

Online shopping, checking tomorrows weather, sending text messages, just some of the things people do on their phones. But what if you have motor disabilities or cant hold or touch a phone? Today, its almost impossible for them to directly interact w

VOA常速英语2018--从尿液中循环肥料或成未来环保方向

On this hot summer afternoon outside Brattleboro Vermont, farmer Dean Hamilton has fired up his tractor and is fertilizing his hay filled with urine. It takes a bit of time to get used to the idea, says environmental engineer Nancy Love. Ive been sur

VOA常速英语2018--联合国试图调停也门战乱

Nearly four years into the Yemen conflict, an attempt at brokering peace with the parties meeting in a castle outside the Swedish capital Stockholm since December 6th. Expectations have been modest for this first round of talks between Yemens governm

VOA常速英语2018--马里兰州废品场 让旧汽车拥有二次生命

Five thousand square meters of old damaged cars, motorcycles and boats fill this junkyard. For a casual onlooker, this might be a very sad sight. But for Andy Cohen, its a real treasure. Ive been a junk hoarder for my whole life, so I like different

VOA常速英语2018--2018年获盛赞为“女性年”

There will be plenty of new faces on Capitol Hill come January. And a record number of women, 126 will take the oath of office. This is in part because of a major push to get women to vote. From the beginning of US President Donald Trumps Administrat

VOA常速英语2018--女企业家利用互联网经营草药商品

Zara Taimoor is making different herbal products using plants and vegetables she grows in her backyard. She says that social media has made it easy for entrepreneurs like her to create and sell organic products. The market for organic products is ver

VOA常速英语2018--松露价格将因气候变化问题而持续飙升

Products made with truffles are already expensive. For people who love them, these prized lumps of smelly fungus can turn a plate of pasta into a sublime taste experience. 用松露制作的产品十分昂贵。对于喜欢松露的人来说，松露这

VOA常速英语2018--火车模型成圣诞节必不可少的元素

We have 31 different train station models here, and they really cover the breadth of United States all the way from Hawaii to Washington State to Florida. Its gorgeous. Every year they amazed with the beauty that they, you know the ingenuity, the cre

VOA常速英语2018--GIF动图带给现代人无限欢乐

Whether you call them gifs or gifs, theyre short for graphics interchange format, and better known as the looping video animations that are everywhere on mobile and social media. And at the Giffy Film Fest in New York, theyre moving from touchscreens

VOA常速英语2018--蟑螂富含蛋白质 可用作饲料

This is not a business for the faint of heart or the soft of stomach, but in China the ubiquitous cockroach is becoming a big moneymaker. In this facility, American cockroaches are being bred for use in traditional Mandarin health tonics. The whole b

VOA常速英语2018--树农推荐美国家庭使用圣诞真树 而非人造树

For some families like the Villa Reals, theres no substitute for a live Christmas tree. Just you know, watering it every day and just that smell, especially the smell of it in our home, just made it feel more Christmassy to us. But that Christmassy s

VOA常速英语2018--印度藏红花市场遭遇重创

The long and silky saffron filaments are the three deep red threads of the saffron flower. These are carefully picked from the flower by hand. Each kilogram of saffron is derived from about 150,000 such flowers. Pure saffron sells at high rate in Kas

VOA常速英语2018--中美贸易战休战90天

During a two-and-a half-hour sirloin steak dinner in Buenos Aires, US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart discussed their differences on trade that had led them in past months to exchange significant retaliatory tariffs. 在布宜诺斯艾

VOA常速英语2018--缅怀前总统老布什

Well, I wanted to report to the American people and some of the latest development related to the situation is in the Soviet Union. 在此，想向美国人民报告一下苏联形势的最新发展情况。 He presided over the end of the Cold War l

VOA常速英语2018--共和党vs民主党：对立与合作的辩证存在

Thank You, Mississippi. It is great to be here, president Trump campaigning for a Republican Senate candidate in Mississippi, and perhaps offering a preview of his own re-election portion in 2020. 感谢密西西比州。来到这里，我很高兴。这