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Technology Report - How the Edsel Became 'an Edsel' This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. ANNOUNCER: Theyll know youve arrived, when you drive up in the nineteen fifty-eight Edsel -- the car thats truly new, from nameplate to taillight.

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(十)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Grammar Girl here. The grammar authorities are going to battle it out today. For they all have a different opinion about our topics: the merits of using the word for to mean because, and whether its OK to start a sentence with the word for. Now, gues

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Career and Fans 'Rise Up' for Singer Andra Day Andra Day's life changed when Stevie Wonder called her on the telephone. The music superstar asked Day if he could work with her. That was almost six years ago. Stevie Wonder had heard about the singer f

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(二)月

The director of governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says he expects a change in approach following Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharikas election as chairman of the African Union over the weekend. Peter Clottey | Washington

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

Indians have joyously greeted the news of the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal in an individual event. The milestone at the Olympic Games in Beijing has resulted in an outpouring of national pride. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi that

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(八月)