美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1118-Feature
I arrived in America one sunny morning. But I did not feel I was here yet. Flying on an airplane from Lagos, Nigeria to New York City, to Los Angeles, California did not carry my mind with me right away. I had to catch up with my body. The United Sta
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Elizabeth. Betty Talen turned to her best friend Debby, I hate it when my mother calls me Elizabeth, it always means I have to do some work. Betty made her music louder and the two girls laughed. Betty and Debby are 12 years old and live in Fairbanks
美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1202-Feature
Before I was born, I went on the road. The road was highway 17. It went from the city of Jacksonville to the city of Whelmington in North Carolina, that is where the hospital was. My father back the car out of his place in the barn. He helped my moth
美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1209-Feature
Father, what are the men digging over in the field for? The old man shut his mouth and continued getting his horse ready to ride. They were in the barn, standing before the wide open doors. The spring air was full of the smell of growing grass. Adoni
美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1216-Feature
Ben was awakened by a gunshot. The sharp noise came through the thick stonewalls of the house. It was cold in the bedroom. Ben Newman was shaking as he got out of bed. He put on his eyeglasses and went over to the window. The field was covered with w
美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1223-Feature
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it were smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the man at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotiating until one's face b
美国故事 SENEWS-2006-1230-Feature
Jane got up from under her warm bedcovers and faced the cold of her room. It was another New Year's Day. In the bathroom she looked at herself in the mirror. Nothing had changed except the lines around her eyes and mouth looked deeper. Jane was 49 ye
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0106-Feature
Mr. Dow's store was widely known throughout the neighborhood. It sold many different things. Both old and young came here to shop for special items. They could find kitchens, large and small wallets to hold coins and paper money, packs of playing car
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0113-Feature
As a boy Knute Axelbrod always wanted to be a student. But he never had time to learn. He married young and had to work to get money to educate his children. But a lifetime of hard farm work did not destroy his love for books and beauty. His wife die
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0127-Feature
Abel Halleck was 59 years old when his wife Estelle died. Her death was sudden and unexpected, the kind of death you cannot forget. Abel Halleck buried his wife, then, he stopped doing anything. His work, the world, life and all its possibilities wer
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0203-Feature
Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Mr. Black. It was written by American reporter Charles Kuralt. It is from his book A life on the road. For many years, Charles Kuralt travelled across the United States t
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0210-Feature
Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Charles. It was written by Shirley Jackson. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. The day my son Laurie started going to school, he began wearing blue jeans with a belt. I wat
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0217-Feature
Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Mute Singer. It was written by Stanislav Szukalski. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage t
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0224-Feature
Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is A Jury of her peers. It was written by Susan Glaspell. Here is Kay Gallant with our story. Martha Hale, like all good farmwives, like to finish any job she began. But when Sheriff P
美国故事 SENEWS-2007-0303-Feature
Now, the Special English program American Stories. Today we begin a new series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is called A Princess of Mars. It is the first book in a series that Mr. Burroughs wrote about a man who trave
