2016-09-18 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

We're starting our international events coverage with news from the United Kingdom. David Cameron, who was Britain's leader three months ago, has resigned altogether from the Bri

2016-09-14 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

In the U.S., flu season starts next month. It's a time when flu epidemics often break out in the country. The Centers for Disease Control says it can last from October to May. Thi

2016-09-13 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

OK, next story. Air pollution, it's well-documented that it can cause lung problems. But can it hurt the human brain. Researchers at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom

2016-09-12 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

This show's date is Thursday, September 8. That puts it exactly two months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Here are the candidates: businessman and TV personality

2016-09-09 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First up, the remnants of a secret war. We're taking you to the Asian country of Laos. It's a landlocked communist nation located between Thailand and Vietnam. And during t

2016-09-08 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Today's news starts in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. China was the site of the annual G20 Summit.
G20 stands for group of 20, powerful world leaders from 19 countries,

2016-09-07 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Two stories out of the U.S. state of Florida lead things off.
First, a setback for SpaceX. It's a private space exploration company that has a contract from NASA, and one of i

2016-09-06 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

We've got a story out of South America starting things off. The leader of Brazil was officially impeached yesterday. Brazilian lawmakers voted 61 to 20 to remove President Dilm

2016-09-05 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First order of business, we're breaking down an economic story concerning the European Union and a well-known tech company.
Apple, like many global companies, has its European

2016-09-02 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Starting with the drought that's been going on. It's not one you might have heard of.
The Atlantic hurricane drought — it's been more than 10 years since a category t

2016-09-01 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First story today takes us to the Southern European nation of Italy. A powerful earthquake struck there last week, its epicenter in the central part of the country. It killed at le

2016-08-31 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Now, it's time to talk politics. There's this little thing that's been going on, you might have heard something about it. It's called the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
With

2016-08-30 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

The mayor of Amatrice, which is located in central Italy, says his town is no more. When a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck early Wednesday, Amatrice was at the epicenter.

2016-08-29 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Since 2014, we talked a lot about a terrorist group named ISIS. That stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. And that's what ISIS wants to create based on its severe interpret

2016-08-26 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First up, a U.S. federal judge's ruling on the controversial policy of the Obama administration. It concerns gender and schools.
The background: in May, the White House recomm

2016-08-25 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First up today, turmoil in Turkey. It's a country that joins southeastern Europe with southwestern Asia. And for the past year, it's been struggling with political upheaval, dome

2016-08-24 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

We're starting today's ten minutes of news coverage in the U.S. state of California. There are currently nine large wildfires burning there. Tens of thousands of acres have been

2016-08-23 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

One story we've been following this week is the historic flooding in the U.S. state of Louisiana. A by the numbers look helps us explain how bad it is, especially in Southern L

2016-08-22 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

The Obama administration has transferred 15 prisoners out of an American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
We're explaining why this is significant.
First, the facility. The U

2016-08-19 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

We're starting with an update on the civil war in Syria. We've been covering this since 2011 when that war begun. It involves the Syrian government that's fighting to h

2016-08-18 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

Our coverage today begins with severe flooding in part of the southern U.S. Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana. It's in the southeastern part of the state and the area around

2016-08-17 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

A University of Cambridge psychologist has come up with a couple of major categories that people seemed to fit into, and they're based on the kinds of music they listen to. He gav

2016-08-16 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

First up, to the European country of Belgium. After a moment of silence at the Brussels airport yesterday, a jet took off and headed for Portugal.
That was significant because it

2016-08-15 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

SUBTITLE: Kim Chambers is one of the best marathon swimmers in the world.
She is the sixth person to complete the Oceans Seven, the ultimate open water swimming challenge, and the

2016-08-12 所属栏目:美语听力讲解

For years, lawmakers in several U.S. states have debate religious freedom bills. Mississippi recently passed a related controversial law. It takes effect on July 1st. After signing