VOA慢速英语2018 美国出现首位米其林三星女厨

Michelin Guide Awards First US Female Chef with Three Stars Dominique Crenn has become the first woman in the United States to receive Michelin Guides highest honor of three stars. 多米尼克是美国第一位获得米其林指南三星最高荣誉的

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Time to 'Sing Like a Canary' Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. There are thousands of different kinds of birds. They come in all sizes and colors. And they each make their own sound. That was a robin singing. Here is a ni

VOA慢速英语2018--George H.W. Bush: Cautious

VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about George Herbert Walker Bush. Before he became president in 1989, Bush had a lot of experience in government. He spent four years in the United States House of Representative

VOA慢速英语--音乐理论教授从奥斯维辛集中营寻找囚犯之音

Professor Finds Prisoners' Music from Auschwitz Two years ago, music theory professor Patricia Hall traveled to Polands Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. She hoped to learn about the music performed by prisoners in World War II death camps. Hall, who teache

VOA慢速英语2018 雷鬼音乐加入联合国文化遗产名录

UNESCO Names Reggae International Cultural Treasure This week, the cultural agency of the United Nations UNESCO added reggae music to its list of international cultural treasures. The purpose of the list is to teach about and protect many internation

VOA慢速英语2018 美国宇航局:私人公司即将登月

NASA: Private Companies to Make Next Moon Landing The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, has announced that private companies will make Americas next moon landing. 美国宇航局宣布私营公司将完成美国的下一次登

加沙唯一大钢琴10年来首次亮相演出

Gaza's Only Grand Piano Makes Public Comeback The only grand piano in the Palestinian territory of Gaza was played in public this week for the first time in 10 years. Palestinian and Japanese musicians played the piano for 300 people at a November 25

VOA慢速英语--乌克兰在与俄罗斯问题上寻求北约帮助

Ukraine Seeks NATOs Help in Dispute with Russia Ukraine is asking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, for help after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged NATO countries to

随着药物过量,美国人的预期寿命下降,自杀率上升

Suicides and Drug Overdose Deaths Push Down US Life Expectancy Suicides and drug overdoses were two reasons for an increase in the number of deaths in the United States last year. They also were partly to blame for a continuing decrease in how long A

VOA慢速英语2018--'Luck,' by Mark Twain

Our story today is called Luck. It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. I was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and ti

VOA慢速英语2018--The Preposition 'By'

If you can write or speak even just a little English, you have surely used prepositions -- words like to, in, on, at and by. A preposition is a word or group of words that shows direction, location or time. Today on Ask a Teacher, we have a question

VOA慢速英语2018--Do You See What I See?

It was beautiful in Washington, DC, this morning! I could see the sun shining and hear birds singing. So, I decided to walk to work. As I walked down 6th Street, I smelled a delicious scent. I followed it and found a lovely French bakery! There, I sa

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Rural US School Has Just One Student, One Teacher A rural area in the western United States has a very unusual school. The school, in the state of Wyoming, has just one student and only one teacher. It is called Notch Peak Elementary. The only studen

VOA慢速英语--专家们开会了解夏威夷附近座头鲸数量减少的原因

Experts Meet to Understand Decrease in Humpback Whales Off Hawaii Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warmer waters near the Hawaiian Islands. There, they have sex and give birth before making their return trip north

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第一部分 一个英语单词可分为三部分：前缀（prefix）词根（root）后缀（suffix）。位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀，可以改变单词的意思。 a- ① 表示处于状态下的 ahead = a + head（前端）

英语悠选脱口秀 第164期:拖延症的单词这么长!一会儿再背吧

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早安英文 第372期:教你一秒辨别单词意思的小方法

英语学习笔记： unprecedented adj.史无前例的 destruction n.破坏；毁灭 forest n.森林 deforestation n.砍伐森林 102 million dead California trees unprecedented in our modern history,' officials say. 说是这个加利福利亚州出现

早安英文 第354期:你一定需要的快速记单词的小诀窍

英语学习笔记： antiwar adj. 反战 antipathy n. 憎恨，反感 antithesis n. 正好相反 antibacterial adj. 抗菌的 antibacterial soap 抗菌皂 antibacterial agent 抗菌因子 antibody n. 抗体 He committed himself to the antiwar moveme