AS IT IS 2015-04-20 US-Japan Relationship: Strong and Getting Stronger 美日关系:强大且欲变更强 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making plans to visit the United States later this month. His visit will come at a time when relations bet...
AS IT IS 2015-04-20 Indonesia Expected to Become Asias Next Trillion Dollar Economy 印度尼西亚将成为亚洲下一个万亿美元经济体 The World Economic Forum on East Asia is taking place this weekend in Indonesias capital, Jakarta. IHS Gl...
Early American Railroads Shape Modern Language 美国早期铁路塑造了现代语言 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we tell about American expressions and where they come from. Today we talk about railroad...
Rolling Stone's Mistaken Story of a Rape 'Was Avoidable' 《滚石》误报强奸案本可避免 In December of last year, a well-known American magazine retracted a major story. The story reported on a sexual attack at the University of Virginia. A...
New Movie Shows an Unseen Underwater World 新纪录片展示一个未知的水下世界 Jean-Michel Cousteau has spent a lifetime exploring the seas, like his famous father, the ocean explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau. Now, Jean-Michel Coustea...
World Bank Head Sees Other Development Banks as Allies 世界银行行长称将其他开发银行视为盟友 Slowing economic growth around the world is endangering the World Banks goal of ending extreme poverty by the year 2030. That is what World...
AS IT IS 2015-04-18 Brazil Working to Clean Dirty Olympic Bay 巴西为迎奥运清理河岸垃圾 Around the world, people are excited for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The host city for the events is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The city is known as Ci...
Mother, Son, Co-Write Childrens Book on Autism 母亲与儿子共同谱写自闭症儿童图书 Eighteen-year-old Burnie Rollinson has Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. People with Aspergers have difficulty with communication, eye conta...
Everyday Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives Welcome to another episode of Everyday Grammar on VOA Learning English. English learners have difficulty with gerunds and infinitives. A gerund is the ing form of a verb that functions the same as a noun. For...
Officials Plan Expanded Search for Missing Malaysian Plane 马来西亚官员计划扩大搜寻失踪飞机 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been missing for more than 13 months. The airplane, a Boeing...
AS IT IS 2015-04-18 San Francisco Artists Make Art from Trash 旧金山艺术家利用垃圾进行艺术创作 Trash and garbage are other words for waste things that people no longer want or need. In San Francisco, they are also words for art. A loc...
AS IT IS 2015-04-18 Women Seek to Join US Army Rangers 女性加入美国游骑兵 About 20 women will enter the U.S. Army Ranger School for the first time on April 20. The school has one of the most difficult training programs for soldiers. But a ne...
Ukrainian Reporter Shot Dead in Kyiv 乌克兰基辅记者被枪杀 Two gunmen shot and killed a leading Ukrainian reporter Thursday. Ukraine's interior ministry reported that Oles Buzina, chief editor of the newspaper Segodnya, was killed near his h...
AS IT IS 2015-04-17 War in Yemen: The Players and the Goals 也门战争的交战双方与目标 Have you been following what is happening in Yemen? Are you wondering exacting who is fighting who and for what? Some Yemenis living overseas say they ar...
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Part Two 赫尔曼麦尔维尔著《贝尼托塞莱诺》Ⅱ Today, we continue the story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. Last week, we told how African slaves on a Spanish ship rebelled in seventee...
