Surprising Origin of 'To Keep at Bay' Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore everyday expressions that we use in conversation. Americans often use the first saying we will talk about today. B

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(七)月

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Charles Rioba is an engineer and inventor in Kenya. He and his company, Solar World Limited, have developed a product called the PowerPack. The PowerPack is a small solar-lighting system. The devic

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(十一)月

What do you do when you have time to kill? It's a bit of a violent phrase, isn't it? It really means to use up spare time, or extra time. That is just(1) what I was doing this weekend, while I was waiting for my son's basketball game to start. We had

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

Johannesburg Leads Africa in Twitter Usage 推特使用方面南非冠绝非洲 From VOA Learning English, this is the Tech Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Johannesburg is tweeting up a storm. The South African city leads the

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Dictionaries range broadly in purpose, size, and price; and choosing one is a very personal decision. The best advice is to make note of the things you and your family look up in a dictionary over a few weeks' time, and then go to a comprehensive boo

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

How to Use the Word 'Ever' Have you ever noticed the number of times that a native English speaker uses the word ever? Ever is an adverb that we Americans say a lot. Heres todays question, from Zanoni in Venezuela: Question: Hello. I would like to ge

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月