2019-09-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories.On this show, we explain where words and expressions in the English language come from, and -- probably more important

2019-09-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American President Donald Trump and his administration have proposed that the United States accept up to 18,000 refugees in the coming year.The State Department said the proposed n

2019-09-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Artists who make pictures of plants are known as botanical illustrators. Today, some may see such a job as something people only did hundreds of years ago.But people who make detai

2019-09-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Millions of Afghans are expected to vote in presidential elections on Saturday.The Taliban is telling Afghans to stay away from voting stations.Violence continues to rise since a d

2019-09-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Officials from around the world have agreed to support a sharp increase in hydrogen technology.Japan announced Wednesday that energy ministers or delegates from 30 countries are su

2019-09-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new project in India and Uganda is aimed at helping health workers save the lives of mothers and babies with information from electronic devices.The $100 million project is funde

2019-09-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American colleges and universities are fast becoming training grounds not only for members of the U.S. Olympic team, but Olympians from other countries.A recent example of this was

2019-09-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Cubans wait hours for buses to arrive. In Havana, drivers wait in long lines at gasoline stations.Both are signs of the effect of the United States' sanctions on Cuba and its main

2019-09-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For the past 10 years, the number of Chinese students at U.S. universities has been rising. But university officials are starting to see a sharp drop in Chinese students.Several un

2019-09-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

New York's Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Plácido Domingo had agreed to cancel plans to perform at the opera house.Domingo has been accused by several women of s

2019-09-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg's shaming of world leaders and air travelers over climate change has won her millions of supporters. She has also gained many new followers to her

2019-09-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Britain's highest court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson violated the law when he asked Queen Elizabeth to suspend parliament.The Supreme Court said that Johnson's

2019-09-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Australia's most populous state is setting up cameras as part of an effort to reduce the number of people preoccupied with wireless devices while they drive.Andrew Constance is Mi

2019-09-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Technology is widely available to students in classrooms across the United States, a new study shows.The study comes from the non-profit NewSchools Venture Fund and Gallup, a compa

2019-09-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President Donald Trump has suggested that he spoke to the leader of Ukraine about former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter.Trump told reporters that he spoke wi

2019-09-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In Austria, researchers are drilling into mountain glaciers in the Alps in search of data about the Earth's climate thousands of years ago.Glaciers are huge areas of ancient ice o

2019-09-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle Report.Bees are major pollinators of fruits, vegetables and nuts. Without these helpful buzzing insects, our food supply w

2019-09-24 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

What do Taraji P. Henson, Zoe Kazan, Susan Kelechi Watson, Mandy Moore and Marisa Tomei all have in common other than acting?A favorite color combination, apparently.The four actor

2019-09-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

"The last English city of France" are the words Francois Lavallee uses to describe the French port of Calais.Lavallee is president of the Chamber of Commerce for the Hauts-de-Franc

2019-09-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists blame greenhouse gases for being a major cause of climate change around the world. This is because greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere and make the planet warme

2019-09-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Wyoming is, by far, the largest coal producing area in the United States. In 2017, mining operations across the state dug out more than 316 million tons of coal.The town of Gillett

2019-09-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Many African Americans are visiting Ghana because of its historic links to the slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of years ago.A professional cook who goes by the name

2019-09-23 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Tanzanian traditional healers have been using special plants, religious writings and massages to treat the sick for generations. Now officials on the islands of Zanzibar want to re

2019-09-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A low-cost, daily pill that combines four drugs has been tested for the first time in the United States to reduce the danger of brain or heart attacks.Researchers wanted to know if

2019-09-22 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English.On this program, we talk about the stories of ... words.Did you know I was going to say the word "words"? If you did, you may