2019-04-23 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

Early Tuesday, firefighters were still dousing potential hotspots in the Cathedral with water. Several hours earlier, the inferno was bringing down the Gothic Spire. Hours after th

2019-04-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

World leaders congratulated comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy Monday on being elected president of Ukraine.The country's Central Election Commission reported that Zelenskiy received 73

2019-04-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Measles is only found in human beings. There is a highly effective and safe vaccine for the disease. So, in theory, measles could be destroyed.Yet the number of measles cases is on

2019-04-23 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency following bomb attacks at hotels and Christian religious centers in the country Sunday. The attacks killed almost 300 people and wounded hun

2019-04-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Iraqi city of Basra is struggling to deal with a growing problem: illegal drugs.The drug problem has led to overcrowded prisons and increased pressure on police to find the dru

2019-04-22 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

Burger King launched its plant-based burger on Monday, and accompanied it with the release of an April Fool themed video ad, showing customers eating meatless hamburger and not tas

2019-04-22 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

My Name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete. I’m a proud son of South Bend Indiana and I’m running for the president of the United States. 37-year-old Pete Butti

2019-04-22 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

We’re incredibly lucky that in California, there are such strict mitigation so that there is requirement for there to be a paleontologist anytime you’re digging in nati

2019-04-22 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

While measles persist in other parts of the world mostly because of a lack of resources to vaccinate people, in the United States, a growing number of people are reluctant to vacci

2019-04-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Vietnam could be one of the biggest winners or biggest losers in a changing global economy. That finding comes from Moody's Investors Services, a financial company.Recently, Moody

2019-04-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Israeli researchers say they have created the world's first three-dimensional ,or 3D-printed heart using a patient's own cells.The researchers, from Tel Aviv University, recently

2019-04-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Is it possible for a business to legally own a word from a native culture and prevent its use by members of the native community?This question is being considered in the American s

2019-04-22 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

At a dusty playground in southwest Nigeria, school children line up to return to their classrooms. Many of their faces have exact matches within the group. That is because an unusu

2019-04-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Ten years ago, the Macuxi people won a legal battle to expel rice planters from their homeland in northern Brazil. Now, their control over ancestral lands is under attack, this tim

2019-04-21 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Today, a different kind of Words and Their Stories - an examination of the word redaction.This week, United States Attorney General William Barr released the long-awaited report by

2019-04-21 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

With more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the Unites States, it may seem like students have plenty of access to higher education.But that is not always the case for student

2019-04-21 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

A new study released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science aims to define "a range of relationships between people and birds" across the United States.Those are the

2019-04-21 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Visitors may soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down the world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco, California.Lombard Street winds down a hill and is often overrun by tou

2019-04-21 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The number of women working in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM fields in South Africa has not been very large.But programs aimed at girls there are be

2019-04-20 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

In today's Ask a Teacher, our reader Hoang asks:Question: What is the proper use of look, watch and see?Answer: Hello, Hoang!You are asking about the differences between three wor

2019-04-20 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Scientists say that the brains of animals and humans risk severe damage without blood flow and oxygen. But, researchers say they were able to restore some activity in the brains of

2019-04-20 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Jordan Peele is an African American filmmaker. His newest movie, "Us," is the second-most popular movie released in 2019 so far. The first movie he directed, "Get Out," won an Acad

2019-04-20 所属栏目:VOA慢速英语|美国之音慢速英语听力下载

Editor's note: This is the fourth in our series of programs called “A Princess of Mars.” The story is from a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Last week, we t

2019-04-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Arturo Balbino works as a builder in Texas. On a recent day, he walked into the U.S. consulate in the northern Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez for his visa interview. He was n

2019-04-19 所属栏目:voa标准英语|美国之音常速英语下载|在线收听

Sexual penetration of minors is punishable by life in prison. Sierra Leone’s president says the numbers are staggering. Each month, hundreds of cases of rape and sexual haras