2019-06-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hello and welcome to another episode of Words and Their Stories.On this show we explain common expressions in American English – where they come from and how to use them.Toda

2019-06-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Yesenia D'Alessandro added a global positioning system, or GPS, recording program to her mobile phone before entering a hard-to-reach Hawaiian forest.She was joining more than 100

2019-06-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In the summer of 2005, Drexel University's Music Industry program got a strange phone call.The caller was the owner of a storage center in Philadelphia. He asked if the school wou

2019-06-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The head of Instagram said this week that the social networking service was not spying on conversations among Instagram users.Some people have accused the company of listening to t

2019-06-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week we answer a question we received in an email from Mohamad:Question: Could you explain more about the meaning of the word "alternative?" Thank you.Answer: Dear Mohamad:In

2019-06-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. President Donald Trump says his North Korea policy is "doing great."South Korean President Moon Jae-in says talks with North Korea are making "progress."Yet the North's gover

2019-06-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The United States Supreme Court issued two rulings Thursday that will affect how Americans elect public officials for some time.In one ruling, a majority of justices said federal c

2019-06-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New data shows that air quality across the United States is dropping after many years of improvement.Over the last two years, the U.S. had more polluted air days than just a few ye

2019-06-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Brazilians generally love to eat beef. The country is known for its all-you-can-eat steak restaurants. It is a leader in meatpacking. In fact, there are more cows than people in Br

2019-06-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The International Olympic Committee is promising changes to how the Olympic Games are awarded.This week, the IOC voted to give the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina the 2026 Wint

2019-06-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Electric vehicles currently make up a small percentage of overall car sales worldwide. But 2018 saw a big jump in international sales. And the market is expected to grow quickly in

2019-06-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's self-portraits made her world famous. She and her husband, the painter Diego Rivera, revolutionized Mexican art in the first half of the 20th century

2019-06-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The bodies of a man and his 2-year-old daughter lay face down in the water along the bank of the Rio Grande, the river that runs between Mexico and the United States.The young girl

2019-06-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to obliterate parts of Iran if it attacked "anything American."His comment came after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemn

2019-06-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American space company SpaceX has successfully launched its large Falcon Heavy rocket on a flight to deploy 24 satellites.The rocket lifted off early Tuesday morning from Florida'

2019-06-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

At a comedy night at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, members of the school's Stand-up Comedy club bring lots of laughter to their classmates.They give funny speec

2019-06-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A court in Cambodia said that seven people, including four Chinese nationals, have been charged with crimes related to a deadly building collapse.The collapse killed 28 constructio

2019-06-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American President Donald Trump on Monday announced new sanctions on Iran. The move comes after the Iranian shoot-down of an unpiloted U.S. military airplane, or drone, last week.

2019-06-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Processed foods like chips, soda and frozen pizzas are full of salt, sugar and fat. Now, scientists are trying to understand if there is something else about such foods that may be

2019-06-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scamp the Tramp will never win a beauty competition. But he has won an ugly competition.Scamp's eyes stick out like balls on the top of his face. His fur is very disorderly &ndash

2019-06-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and is considering its contents.North Korean state media reported on the letter Sunday.T

2019-06-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

On a warm spring morning in the city of Seattle, Washington, City Council candidate Pat Murakami walks from house to house. Murakami greets voters in an economically-mixed neighbor

2019-06-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Rich French business people have promised hundreds of millions of euros to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Catholic religious building that partly burned.But so far, most of the

2019-06-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Dog lovers are well aware of the ability of a dog to communicate with its eyes. Now, scientific research suggests this ability developed over time as dogs learned to live with huma

2019-06-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hundreds of small-town newspapers across the United States have been forced to close down. But, The Berkshire Eagle has been revived.The western Massachusetts daily newspaper has a