2021-02-08 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

American scientists say they have developed a way to grow wood material in a laboratory. The method could create different wood products indoors in a single process, greatly cuttin

2021-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The head of Britain's vaccination deployment effort says the world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.As a result of new mutated versions, vaccine manuf

2021-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Bosnia's most popular rock music band, Dubioza Kolektiv, has a new member who sings and plays musical instruments — a humanoid robot called Robby Megabyte.The band wanted a

2021-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. Army leaders have eased restrictions on a number of hairstyle and other personal appearance rules for soldiers.The changes are set to take effect in late February.One of the m

2021-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The U.S. Department of Justice withdrew a lawsuit last week against Yale University over how it accepts students. In October 2020, the department accused the school in New Haven, C

2021-02-07 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.On this program we explore words and expressions in the English language a little more closely.Often, our expressions co

2021-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Lunar New Year holiday is usually a busy time for flower farms in Hong Kong. The farms prepare to sell plum blossoms, orchids and daffodils at flower markets during the cheerfu

2021-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The 55th Super Bowl is Sunday.It is the championship game of the National Football League.While the American football game will look mostly the same for sports fans watching on tel

2021-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Ramiro, who is in Brazil.Question:Hello!Could you tell me the difference between a task and an assignment? And how do we use t

2021-02-06 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Today's story is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. The story was written by Frank Stockton in 1882. It was adapted for VOA Learning English by Shelley Gollust. The s

2021-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would halt the withdrawal of American troops stationed in Germany and end support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen as top foreign pol

2021-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.Scientists in Beijing, China have developed a new gene therapy that can turn back some of the effects of aging in m

2021-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Vietnam launched preparations for the Lunar New Year with a fish release on Thursday. The tradition involves releasing fish called carp into rivers and lakes in the country a week

2021-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Environmental activists and labor unions have worked together in the past, but are now on opposite sides of a heated dispute. The disagreement partly involves the building of an oi

2021-02-05 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In a recent report, we explored how the present perfect was playing in a kind of language competition.In today's report, we will continue our journey with the present perfect. But

2021-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The complete list of nominations for the 78th Golden Globe Awards was announced on Wednesday. This year's list surprised many critics who wondered about many of the nominations.Th

2021-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A Hong Kong-based robotics company says it plans to mass produce thousands of humanoid robots in 2021.Hanson Robotics says four different humanoid models will start leaving factori

2021-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

A new study suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine cuts transmission of the virus by two-thirds and prevents severe disease. Oxford University released the results on Wed

2021-02-04 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Police in Myanmar announced their first charge against the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of her political party said Wednesday. The military removed Suu Kyi fr

2021-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The coronavirus worldwide health crisis forced the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics to this year. It remains unclear if the Games will take place as planned in July 2

2021-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Russian scientists say the country's Sputnik V vaccine appears safe and effective against COVID-19. The news will help sell the vaccine to other countries in the race against the

2021-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Decatur, Georgia school system, near the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is in a community full of health professionals.Decatur is a politically liberal

2021-02-03 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In a yearly American tradition, a famous groundhog has predicted there will be six more weeks of winter.The animal, named Punxsutawney Phil, climbed out of his hole Tuesday morning

2021-02-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Myanmar's military has taken control of the country, ordering a one-year state of emergency. Reports say State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and other government leaders have been d

2021-02-02 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Scientists have known for decades that the numbers of some shark species are decreasing. But a new study shows just how severely worldwide populations have dropped in the past 50 y