AS IT IS 2016-01-05 Saudi Arabia Ends Diplomatic Ties With Iran 阿拉伯结束与伊朗的外交关系 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan have cut off diplomatic relations with Iran. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed a well-known Shiite Muslim leader....
Plant Your Mobile Charger in the Dirt 智利学生研发植物充电设备--花草也可做电源 Three university students in Santiago, Chile have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones. 在智利首都圣地亚哥, 3名智利大...
Victories Noted in Fight Against Islamic State Group Iraqi and Kurdish forces supported by United States airstrikes have regained territories controlled by Islamic State militants in the past month. The U.S. military believes the loss of leadership i...
AS IT IS 2016-01-04 Fatwa Explains IS Rules About Sex Slaves The leaders of the Islamic State terror group have written a detailed memo about how female sex slaves should be treated by their IS captors. A document was written in January 2015 but was...
AS IT IS 2016-01-04 Wishes and Resolutions for the New Year 2016新年愿望与计划 What do you wish for 2016? At the beginning of the new year, it is common to say what we will do better in the coming year, or what we hope will happen to improve o...
AS IT IS 2016-01-04 Zimbabwe Switches to Yuan as Reserve Currency 津巴布韦将采用中国人民币作为其法定货币 Zimbabwe announced last week that it would shift to the Chinese yuan as its reserve currency. A reserve currency is a foreign...
Have You Ever 'Stolen' A Kiss? 偷吻? Hello! Welcome to the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories, where every word has a story. 欢迎收听美国之音英语学习栏目，单词故事。 And Happy New Year! 新年好! The start of...
Flying Robots Are Coming to US Universities Flying devices, called drones, may be one of the most important technologies of the future. The number of jobs for people who know how to design, build and control them is increasing. Because of this increa...
AS IT IS 2016-01-03 Cemetery Goats Eat Weeds, Save Planet 国会公墓邀请山羊除草 A burial place in Washington, D.C. is using goats instead of poison to remove weeds. Congressional Cemetery, which opened in the early 1800s, is near Capitol Hil...
AS IT IS 2016-01-03 Suicide Attack Kills 26 in Pakistan 自杀式袭击血洗巴基斯坦一政府办公区 26人丧生 A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan killed at least 26 people and left more than 40 wounded last week. The explosion occurred i...
Secret to Life? Dance, and Don't Procrastinate! Hello! Here is a VOA Learning English Feel Good for you. There is a woman named Tao Porchon-Lynch. She was born in India in 1918. So, if you do the math shes 97. And at 97 years young, she has been reco...
Coffee May Help You Live Longer 咖啡可以帮助你活得更久 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Today we have more good news for all our coffee drinkers around the world. Another new study finds that drinking coffee...
'The Ransom of Red Chief,' by O. Henry 红毛酋长的赎金by欧亨利 We present the short story The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. It looked like a good thing. But wait till I tell you. We were down south, in A...
AS IT IS 2016-01-02 Nairobi Residents Turn to Community Currency 内罗毕居民社区货币 At the Sifa Primary School outside Nairobi, Kenya, students pay their tuition with a new, local currency called the pesa. The school is one of several instit...
An Introduction to Verb Tenses 英语日常语法:动词时态 For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to give you a basic overview of the verb tense system in English. Verb tenses tell us how an action relates to the f...
