VOICE ONE: I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we travel south to one of the coldest, windiest and least populated places in the world, Antarctica. The word Antarctica comes from a Greek

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2009年(六)月

U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in employee bonuses paid by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive came

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Volunteers Help Revive LA's Concrete River Thousands of volunteers turned out on a recent weekend to remove the trash that has been deposited by winter rain storms. The Los Angeles River was lined with concrete in the late 1930s and 1940s, after year

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Long-Life Concrete Bridges By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, June 07, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Each year, road accidents kill a mil

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今天我们要学的词是concrete。 Concrete具体的,实质性的。美中战略与经济对话星期二结束。美联社报道说,The United States and China ended two days of high-level talks with few concrete results, 美中结束了为期两

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 08 January 2008 U.S. Senators Tom Harkin and Bernie Sanders and Congressman Elliot Engel are in Abidjan, Ivory Coast'scommercial capital, for a two-day visit related to child labor in cocoa production. They are set to meet with

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