VOA慢速英语2012 Agriculture Report - US Farmers Struggle With Drought

Agriculture Report - US Farmers Struggle With Drought This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A drought across much of the United States is forcing farmers to make difficult decisions. Damage to corn and soybeans is already severe in the

VOA标准英语2012--Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggles to Rebuild

Seven Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggles to Rebuild In the aftermath of Katrina, the city of New Orleans was in ruins. One hundred twenty of the citys 200,000 homes were destroyed. Eighty percent of the city was flooded. It wasnt the hu

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A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it

2006年VOA标准英语-African Youth Struggle to Survive West Afr

By Nico Colombant Abidjan 23 May 2006 Hawker with little skyscrapers in background in Abidjan A new term being used to describe economic realities in West Africa is de-development. Life in cities buil

2007年VOA标准英语-Bangladesh Trying to Exile Battling Begums

By Steve Herman New Delhi 22 April 2007 The fate of the women who lead Bangladesh's two main political parties remains uncertain. Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to Bangladesh to face murder and corruption charges, but she has

2013年美国好声音 Wasting All These Tears - Lexi Luca

I tried to found you on the bottom of a bottle Laying down on a bedroom floor My loneliness was a rattle in the windows You said you don't want me anymore And you left me Standing on a corner crying, Feeling like a fool for trying I don't even rememb

VOA慢速英语2011--America and the Struggle for Jobs

THISISAMERICA-AmericaandtheStruggleforJobs FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. DOUG JOHNSON: And Im Dough Johnson. This week on our program, we look at the job situation in the United States. There was

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Refugees Struggle on Lebanese Border

Syrian Refugees Struggle on Lebanese Border The men are clamoring for a signature on their ration cards. For them, it is the difference between feeding their families tonight, and not. The refugees here support the Syrian revolution, and they have fl

VOA标准英语2011--Charities Struggle to Cope With Rising U

Charities Struggle to Cope With Rising US Poverty Recent U.S. Census Bureau figures show that more than 46 million Americans now live in poverty. Thats the highest amount on record since the agency began tracking poverty rates in 1959. Additionally,

VOA标准英语2012--Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx

Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx Early afternoon at the Bab al-Salama Camp on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. Aid workers are distributing food to people waiting to become refugees in Turkey. The Turkish government is al

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Refugees Struggle in Jordanian Camps

Syrian Refugees Struggle in Jordanian Camps Up until August of this year, Ahmad was a colonel in the Syrian Army. But when his village in Daraa was attacked by the Syrian air force, he decided to cross the border into Jordan with his wife and five ch

VOA标准英语2012--Afghan Resort Struggles to Recover from Taliban Attack

Afghan Resort Struggles to Recover from Taliban Attack Like many of the Taliban's high-profile sieges, the Qargha Lake attack played out on TV. Viewers who witnessed it will never forget the images of people clinging to the wall of the Spozhmai resta

VOA标准英语2012--Residents of War-Battered Aleppo Struggle to Survive

Residents of War-Battered Aleppo Struggle to Survive Government snipers have been shooting people in the streets. Thousands have been killed in Aleppo in the past few months. Parts of the Old City, a UNESCO heritage site, have been heavily damaged as

VOA标准英语2011--No-Fly Zones: Hidden Complexities

As forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ramped up their offensive against opposition strongholds Tuesday, diplomats from Lebanon, France and Britain presented the U.N. Security Council with a resolution that includes authorization of a no-fl

VOA标准英语2013--Obama Visit to Soweto Seen as Bow to Struggle for Freedom

Obama Visit to Soweto Seen as Bow to Struggle for Freedom The images from a 1976 student uprising in the township of Soweto remain searing to this day: apartheid police firing at, and beating back, black students rebelling against a deliberately raci

VOA标准英语2013--Turkey Protests Reveal Wider Political Struggle

Turkey Protests Reveal Wider Political Struggle The protests have been focused on Istanbuls Taksim Square, sparked by a government-backed development plan. But analysts say thats not what its about anymore. The real agenda behind the protests is to s

VOA标准英语2013--US Colleges Struggle to Keep Up with New Technical Skills

US Colleges Struggle to Keep Up with New Technical Skills Northern Virginia Community College near Washington has several campuses and 75,000 students. It offers a two year associate degree. Many of its students, including Marc McCarthy, hope to turn

2006年VOA标准英语-Chadians Struggle Despite Oil Wealth

By Joe Bavier N'Djamena 15 May 2006 It has been three years since Chad became an oil-exporting nation. The promise of petroleum revenues had fueled hope that the central African country, long one of t

2007年VOA标准英语-Complexity Marks Pakistan-US Relationship on Co

By Gary Thomas Washington 12 January 2007 Remarks by outgoing U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte have sparked an angry reaction from Pakistan. Testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday, Negroponte said al-Qaida has proved to be resilient, and is forgi

学个词Learn a Word 第1161期 Exile

今天我们要学的词是exile。 Exile, 流亡。 Former Haiti dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier returned to Haiti after nearly 25 years of exile, 人称宝宝医生的海地前独裁者杜瓦利埃经过近25年的流亡生涯后，如今已