2016-07-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Filmmaker John Rowe discovered a secret after many visits to the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia: people there thought some children were “cursed.”Villagers blamed the chi

2016-07-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Now, VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories.On this show, we are like word detectives. And like a good detective, we uncover the stories behind common phrases in Ame

2016-07-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In the digital age, copying someone else's words is easy, but getting caught copying is even easier.When Melania Trump recently spoke at the Republican convention, she used some o

2016-07-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

No one seems to know what to expect in the 100 days before American voters elect a new president.“There’s never been an election like this,” said presidential his

2016-07-31 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Health experts have a new warning about Zika virus. They say the virus will keep spreading before the Zika epidemic finally ends.The experts say a new model shows a very large numb

2016-07-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

When the Australian athletes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived last weekend for the Olympic Games, they got a surprise.The team’s housing in the athlete’s village was

2016-07-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted the presidential nomination at the Democratic Party National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She spoke to the cheering crowd about the nee

2016-07-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Last week the latest movie in the “Star Trek” series was released. “Star Trek Beyond” made close to $60 million in ticket sales. Although it led movie openi

2016-07-30 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

We present the short story "The Furnished Room," by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State.Restless, always moving, forever passing

2016-07-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

This is what’s Trending Today…People in the western United States could not believe their eyes Wednesday night when, high in the sky, a bright streak of light appeared

2016-07-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

After losing the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton said, "Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks

2016-07-29 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English.Today we look at a very common verb form in English – phrasal verbs. There are over 5,000 verbs that fall in this c

2016-07-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

President Barack Obama is asking voters to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton or risk dangerous policy changes by Republican Donald Trump.But Clinton, who made history as the first wom

2016-07-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Pokémon GO is the most popular app in the world right now. But another new app is also getting a lot of attention. And it’s free. Prisma lets users add filters to phot

2016-07-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Billy Shreve was surprised by the talent and imagination of the student films he watched at a Maryland Film Festival last year.The festival inspired him to start a competitive film

2016-07-28 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Wednesday appeared to ask Russia to find and make public missing emails from Democrat Hillary Clinton.“I will tell you this, Ru

2016-07-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Three Kenya-born long-distance runners will be competing at the Rio Olympics this August for Team USA.Paul Chelimo, Shadrack Kipchirchir and Leonard Korir will be wearing the USA u

2016-07-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

It is late afternoon in the small village of Fandene, Senegal. Students begin to arrive at the local school. They arrive on bicycles, motorbikes, and donkey carts. Under the shade

2016-07-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The Democratic Party that is set to nominate Hillary Clinton for president is not the same party that twice nominated her husband, Bill Clinton, for president.The party’s 201

2016-07-27 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

For the first time, a solar-powered airplane has completed a trip around the world.The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi before sunrise on Tuesday, after a trip that took 17 mont

2016-07-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

The International Olympic Committee, known as the IOC, will not ban all Russian athletes from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August.The World Anti-Doping Agency, also known as

2016-07-26 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.The Italian actress Sophia Loren reportedly once said, “Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”What we

2016-07-26 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Efforts to unite the Democratic Party behind Hillary Clinton suffered a setback as the party began its four-day convention in Philadelphia.The release of emails, hacked from the De

2016-07-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

In American English we have an expression: “A dog is a man's best friend.”A dog can also be a child’s best friend, especially if that child is having difficulty

2016-07-25 所属栏目:慢速英语|慢速英语听力下载

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 160 million years. Then they disappeared.Scientists have argued for years about what killed off the dinosaurs.Was it the huge volcanic eruption