VOA慢速英语2011--Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy a Piece of the Empire State Building?

AMERICAN MOSAIC - Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy a Piece of the Empire State Building? DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. On our show today we play music from rock band Nickelback We also answer a questio

VOA标准英语2011--Want to Buy the Empire State Building?

Want to Buy the Empire State Building? Selling the Brooklyn Bridge in New York refers to an American expression about gullible individuals who would buy it from scam artists offering bogus shares in the publicly-owned landmark. But shares in another

英语听力文摘 English Digest 615、制造属于你自己的月球陨石坑

Create Your Own Moon Craters! What makes science really fun is when you get to do things yourself, so today were going to be making moon craters. Theyre the roundish blast-marks left on the moons surface by ancient meteorites. The moons surface is co

英语听力文摘 English Digest 607、气泡制造

Even as adults we still enjoy blowing bubbles, dont we? If youve ever wondered why blowing on a thin film of soapy water creates bubbles, this is your lucky day. All liquids have a property called surface tension. Take water, for example. Water molec

英语听力文摘 English Digest 547、气球不见之后发生了什么？

High Inflation Fairs, carnivals, festivals or anywhere you can buy helium-filled balloons, youre sure to see at least one balloon rising into the sky after someone accidentally lets it go off. What happens to the balloon after it rises out of sight?

英语听力文摘 English Digest 554、岩石怎么会出现在你的花园？

How Rocks Appear In Your Garden I wonder how many of us went out this past spring to get our gardens ready for planting, smug in the thought that last year we got rid of all the rocks. Theres that nice big mound of them in the corner of the garden wh

英语听力文摘 English Digest 589、挡风玻璃为何如此牢实？

What Makes Windshield Glass So Tough? We tend to think of glass as fragilebut in fact, glass is pretty strong stuff. A flawless fiber of glass pulled lengthwise is five times stronger than steel! Although glass is quite strong, its also very brittlea

2006年VOA标准英语-Building Better Levees Before the Next Hur

By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 07 March 2006 watch New Orleans Levee report New Orleans levee repairs are to be finished before hurricane season begins June 1st In New Orleans, where recovery f

VOA慢速英语2011--Six Building Designers Who Are Redefinin

EXPLORATIONS - Six Building Designers Who Are Redefining Modern Architecture STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about six building designers widely considered

Debating the Display of Ten Commandments in Public Schools a

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. In Giles County, Virginia, the school board has removed displays of the Ten Commandments in its schools. The county thought that posting the Ten Commandments, along with the first part of the United S

VOA慢速英语2012 AMERICAN MOSAIC - After Long Fight, DC Wins Right to a Statue in the Capitol Building

AMERICAN MOSAIC - After Long Fight, DC Wins Right to a Statue in the Capitol Building JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play some songs from a new album by Dwight Yoakam. A

VOA标准英语2012--Building Relationships in LA Brings Down Crime Rate

Building Relationships in LA Brings Down Crime Rate A quiet afternoon is interrupted with the sound of helicopters as dozens of officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and California Highway Patrol capture a suspect in a robbery and shooti

英语听力文摘 English Digest 475、打针一定会痛吗？

Microneedles 微针疗法 Female: From flu vaccin es to tetanus booster s , injections are a must in modern medicine. But do they always have to make you say Ouch? Male: Eh,no? F: No,indeed.If new microneedle technology is successful, we may soon hav

英语听力文摘 English Digest 477、地球为什么是圆的？

地球是太阳系从内到外的第三颗行星，也是太阳系中直径、质量和密度最大的类地行星。它也经常被称作世界。英语的地球Earth一词来自于古英语及日耳曼语。地球已有44～46亿岁，有一颗天然

英语听力文摘 English Digest 489、船尾那条温柔的尾流带

A Smooth Wake 平静的尾流 （A smooth wake on today's moments of science） Female: Donne and I are on a fantacy cruise . The sun has set and were standing on the rear deck. Look at the reflection of the moon. Male: You might expect a ship's wake

英语听力文摘 English Digest 138、BBC儿童新闻

Hi there, I'm Ore with the BBC World News for Children. Coming up: Japan's mission to super hot planet. A new survey says kids care more about computers than animals. And Inter Milan face Bayern Munich in the Champion's League final. First up, after

英语听力文摘 English Digest 342、无辜的嘴唇

Why lips go dry？ 为什么嘴唇会干呢？ Lets start by reviewing the ways in which the surface of our lips is different from the surface of the skin on the rest of our bodies. Basically, our lips are made of the same mucus membrane that coats t

英语听力文摘 English Digest 152、下雪打雷？

It's a common enough sound in summer, after the wind finally picks up on a hot and humid afternoon, as the rain starts spattering down in big, fat drops--you're in for a full-blown thunderstorm. It's much less common in winter, even during a snow sto

美语听力 English Cafe 231

Topics: Ask an American: social media and job searches; go ahead, make my day; years old versus year old Words: to scratch the surface theres no telling wild, wild west tremendous social media to enhance credibility thought leadership buddy to dictat

英语听力文摘 English Digest 280、飞盘为何会飞？

Why Frisbees Fly With a gentle flick of the wrist on a warm summer day, you can launch a frisbee on a long and graceful flight. Why do they fly so well? One reason is something called gyroscopic force. This is the tendency of a spinning object to mai