欢乐美语:The Heart of Country Music 乡村音乐胜地

INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., Richard Stewart and his friend Andreas Pappas are in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is the center of the country-music industry. Outside a famous country-music theater, they meet a musician. Jim C

缅怀蓝草音乐大师吉米·马丁

Remembering Bluegrass Great Jimmy Martin 缅怀蓝草音乐大师吉米·马丁 (Music) Born in a small Tennessee town, Jimmy Martin grew up poor on his parents' hog farm. He purchased his first guita

CNN 2010-10-02

And some would say if you haven't heard of the Grand Ole Opry, you're not a true country fan. It's the name of a radio show that kind of introduced America to country music. And of course, the Grand Ole Opry is also the name of the building where tho

英语听力：2012-01-20 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—2

The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasurea single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. There is no food and no water for them. And they will not see the sun

26-Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 最后一美元

Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 最后一美元 Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers. Both of us liked rock'n'roll, and several years after we left high schooll, Cam became a disc jockey. Recently he told me the story about t

THIS IS AMERICA - Grand Ole Opry Celebrates its 80th Anniver

THIS IS AMERICA - Grand Ole Opry Celebrates its 80th Anniversary on Radio By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, October 31, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'

VOA慢速英语2010年-THIS IS AMERICA - Record-Breaking Stor

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we tell about Nashville, Tennessee, and its efforts to recover from severe flooding. (MUSIC) SHIRLEY

双语美文：最后一美元

Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 最后一美元 Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers. Both of us liked rock'n'roll, and several years after we left high schooll, Cam became a disc jockey. Recently he told me the story about t

美语听力 English Cafe 104

Topics: American cities: Nashville, Grand Ole Opry; school fund-raisers, to hold on to your hat, to be put inside, a blow-by-blow account Words: Hall of Fame to be inducted into dialect fund-raiser funds raffle to grow weary to do away with to get ri

英语听力：2012-01-22 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—3

But they are hungry and eager to reach their mother whos delayed feeding them on this special day. Now she lures them with the promise of milk, the only food the cubs have known since they were born, deaf and blind beneath the snow some two months ag

英语听力：2012-01-29 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—6

Midsummer on the tundra and the sun does not set. At these altitudes, the suns rays are glancing and not enough of their energy reaches the ground to enable trees to grow. Youll need to travel five hundred miles south from here before that is possibl

英语听力：2012-02-01 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—7

As we travel south, so the suns influence grows stronger. And at 50 degrees of latitude, a radical transformation begins. Summers here are long enough for broadleaf trees to replace conifers. Broadleaves are easier to eat and digest, so now animals c

英语听力：2012-02-05 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—9

The advance of the seasons brings constant change. As the suns influence diminishes in the north, so the deciduous forests of America begin to shut down, losing their leaves in preparation for the dark, cold months ahead. One season hands over to ano

英语听力：2012-02-03 从南极到北极 From Pole To Pole—8

Deer are frequent casulties of the harsh winter. And these leopards are not above scavenging from a corpse. African leopards could never survive here. But the Russian cats have thick fur to shied them from the cold. There are only 40 Amur leopards le

Music 美国人的音乐爱好

James Fenimore Cooper, an early American writer, once said, The Americans are almost ignorant of the art of music. If that was once true, you would never know it today. Most Americans--even those without a musical bone in their bodies--have a favorit

英语杂谈：25 Jackson Hole - Part 2

Some of the ways of the Old West cowboy are kept alive in Jackson Hole. In the summer, visitors can go to a rodeo to see competitions based on traditional cowboy skills. Some people say it is the truest of American sports. The rodeo usually begins wi

英语杂谈：24 Jackson Hole - Part 1

This beautiful valley was named after the nineteenth-century explorer and hunter David Jackson. After he spent a winter in the area, his friends started to call it Jackson's Hole. The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surro

英文乡村歌曲：Mark Wills - Phantom Of The Opry

Around midnight A shadow appears on center stage And sings a haunting melody While a distant fiddle plays Look closer And you can almost see a rhinestone Shinning in the dark He's still a living legend Living right here in my heart He's the phantom o

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-11-28

November 28th, 1520Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. The Portuguese navigator crosses the Pacific and is killed in the Philippines in the following years. But Magella

历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-11-28

November 28th, 1520Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. The Portuguese navigator crosses the Pacific and is killed in the Philippines in the following years. But Magella