2019-05-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In an initiative to celebrate and bring out more women voters, India’s Election Commission set up pink polling booths. Balloons, roses and rooms with women polling officers s

2019-05-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This painting is Van Gogh’s Vase with Poppies. It was donated by a private collector to the Wordsworth Athenian Museum of Art in Hartford Connecticut in 1957. But the museum

2019-05-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This may look like a typical scoop of ice cream, but these flavors include an extra special ingredient, fly larvae. The larvae is farmed by a South Africa animal feed company, but

2019-05-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When the US first imposed tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing predicted the strategy would backfire. In China’s manufacturing heartland Guangdong, entrepreneurs and workers are

2019-05-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This lucky cat has two legs, and as the saying goes, has nine lives. He was found injured last year and needed parts of his infected back legs amputated. It left him with two diffe

2019-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Up until 2016, Antarctica’s Halley Bay was the second-largest breeding ground for emperor penguins. And then in one year, they were gone. Between 15 and 24 thousand birds and

2019-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The world was watching in April 2018 when the leaders of the two Koreas shook hands, declared a new era of peace and stepped across each border. That meeting happened at the joint

2019-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

To address what it calls the humanitarian migrant crisis at the border, Trump administration is asking Congress for an additional 4.5 billion dollars for emergency funding. Given t

2019-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A show of force and a clear signal to Iran: A Patriot missile battery and the USS Arlington will join four B-52 bombers and the massive USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Strike

2019-05-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For a year, US President Donald Trump has insisted his nuclear talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are progressing. His proof: No North Korean nuclear or missile tests. The

2019-05-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

We already know that traffic pollution is a big contributor to climate change, but new research suggests, it’s also a huge driver of health problems around the world. Recent

2019-05-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

What if a rollercoaster ride looked like this, no rails no trains, just a chair on a mechanical arm and a pair of glasses. VR glasses meaning virtual reality. That’s how it i

2019-05-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

These mild dwarfs are ready to partying. True Los Angeles party animals, they’re set to entertain. Posing for selfies, offering free hugs and even back massages, these cute a

2019-05-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hush money payments allegedly made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the security clearance for President Trump’s son-in-law, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s prob

2019-05-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At Facebook’s developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social media company is shifting focus from the digital town square to a more private place. In addition to t

2019-05-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

50 kilometers outside Kuala Lumpur in the middle of a palm oil plantation, mountains of plastic waste lie abandoned. Much of it has travelled thousands of kilometers from wealthy c

2019-05-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Instead of scaffolding around big buildings, imagine a swarm of drones methodically doing all kinds of chores, from cleaning windows to looking for problems and performing simple m

2019-05-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Classes are over for the day at this Washington DC school, but these kids are in no hurry to go home. They are preparing to take part in a debate over U.S. immigration policy. That

2019-05-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The promise of autonomous vehicles is profound: less traffic, less pollution, fewer deadly accidents, but autonomous vehicles still have a lot to learn, so researchers and engineer

2019-05-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The world was watching as North Korea’s once reclusive leader met with Russian President Putin in Vladivostok this week, and that may have been the point. President Donald Tr

2019-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Today is the United Nations’ International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, which provides an opportunity for the world to reflect on both the progress m

2019-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has sworn in Elan Carr as the new United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. In that role, he will advise Secretary Pompeo

2019-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On March 15, intense Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in south-eastern Africa and caused a disaster in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. In early April, USAID Administrator Mark

2019-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nearly three hundred people were killed and some 500 injured as bombs ripped through churches and hotels on Easter Sunday primarily in and around Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka.

2019-05-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On March 15th, intense Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in south-eastern Africa, killed over 1000 people and caused immense damage in Mozambique, and to a lesser degree in Zimba