Carmakers from the United States and other countries are thinking about ways to manufacture and improve a technology called an e-axle or e-drive. This technology is fast becoming an area of competition in the automobile industry. 美国等国的汽车制...
Pennsylvania Becomes a Battleground over Election Security Throughout the United States, people are concerned about voting and ballot counting in the presidential election next month. But it is hard to top the levels of concern in the eastern state o...
Three-Wheeled Classroom Comes to Philippine Tribe The Aeta people live in distant mountainous parts of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The coronavirus pandemic forced their schools to close earlier this year. A group of teachers living nearby...
Alexandra Ichim's hands moved quickly, cutting and dropping grapes into plastic containers. Nearby, a few Italian students also working in the vineyard tried to work just as quickly but could not. Alexandra Ichim lives in Romania. She had never worke...
Eleazar Hernndez slept on the side of a road in the light rain as the weather turned cold. 天气转冷，阴雨绵绵，埃莉扎尔赫尔南德斯（Eleazar Hernndez）露宿在街头。 The 23-year-old Venezuelan was trying to get to the Colombian...
The World Bank has approved $12 billion in financing to help poor countries buy and give out coronavirus vaccines, tests and treatments. The aim is to support the vaccination of up to 1 billion people in the developing world. 世界银行已经批准了...
The president of Kyrgyzstan said Thursday he was resigning following protests over a recent parliamentary election. It is the third time in 15 years that a leader of the Central Asian country has been removed by a popular uprising. Protesters in the...
Thousands of Thai activists took to the streets of Bangkok on Thursday, violating a state of emergency order and a government ban on protests. The protest followed a demonstration Wednesday involving tens of thousands of student-led activists who gat...
Today on Everyday Grammar, our subject is indefinite pronouns. The pronouns we will consider today end with words such as thing, body, and one. Think about words such as nothing, something, everyone, and anybody. They are sometimes called expanded in...
The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is recognizing the group for its efforts to fight hunger and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. 周五，联合国世...
I can speak when so many cannot. Jamal Khashoggi wrote those words in The Washington Post in September 2017. It was the first opinion piece he wrote for the newspaper. In it, Khashoggi described the situation in his home country, Saudi Arabia. He sai...
This week, we received the same question from a fan in Italy and another in Brazil. But, we are sure the question is shared by even more English learners-so let's answer it! Question: Could I know the different meanings of take and get? Thanks Bruna,...
Drug maker Eli Lilly and Company said Wednesday it has asked U.S. officials to approve emergency use of an experimental antibody treatment for COVID-19. 制药商礼来公司周三表示，其已请求美国官员批准紧急使用一种针对新冠肺...
I was reading The New York Times newspaper this morning and came across a headline that read Laughter May Be Effective Medicine for These Trying Times. A news headline is a very short summary of a news story that appears above the story, usually in l...
Our story today is called A Municipal Report. It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee -- a slow, gray rain. I was tired so I went straig...
