2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"Ajax! My name is a sad song," intones the voice of actor Bill Kemp. "Who would have thought it would someday become the sound a man makes in despair?"

Ajax is the title character in a tragedy wri

2010-08-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Days after hopes were raised at the Southern Africa Development Community summit that Zimbabwe is set to make substantial political progress, President Robert Mugabe has once again turned his back on

2010-08-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hundreds of thousands turned out for the final procession of a traditional penitential rite that takes place in the southern Italian town of Guardia Sanframondi every seven years. It is the largest s

2010-08-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Obama is crisscrossing the nation, speaking about the economy, campaigning for Democrats ahead of November's congressional elections. Political experts say he needs the diversion to steer

2010-08-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid come pouring into Pakistan to help with the flooding crisis, Islamabad has accepted a pledge from an unlikely source, longtime rival India.Officials w

2010-08-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia is in political deadlock after national elections seem almost certain to deliver the country's first hung parliament since World War II. Exit polls and partial results show that neither sid

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday issued a formal invitation to Israel and the Palestinians to re-commence direct peace negotiations early next month in Washington after a break of nearly two

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi is saying Friday that Tehran has test-fired a new surface-to-surface missile called the Qiam-1. The announcement comes amid a flurry of alleged new military devel

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over a 10-day period in late June - two weeks before the damaged seafloor wellhead was successfully capped the researchers measured a massive plume near the wellhead site.

The oil plume was approx

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The heat wave that gripped Moscow and surrounding regions is over Friday as a cold front hit western Russia sending temperatures plummeting into the low teens. This after temperatures averaged in the

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"The Book of Khalid" was published in 1911, but the issues it explores are still timely, says May Rihani, an Arab American poet and the author's niece. Arab-American author Ameen Rihani in 1916"The

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"I want you to play my numbers for me on the way home …and don't let anybody copy them either, all right, because those are my numbers. I dreamt them up last night and they're right out of the Holy

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a controversy that is sweeping the country, many Americans oppose a plan to build an Islamic Center just two blocks from the site where al Qaeda terrorists toppled the twin towers of New York's Wo

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

National Football League legend Brett Favre, 40, has decided to play for a 20th season following off-season ankle surgery. The Future Hall of Fame quarterback returned for a second season with the Mi

2010-08-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

They were chosen from among 800 candidates to receive a special agricultural fellowship for African women. And among this year winners -- a plant pathologist, a catfish breeder, a soybean specialist.

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two weeks ahead of a schedule set by President Barack Obama, the last large U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq. Pentagon officials stress that some American combat forces remain in the country ahead o

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As an international tribunal in Cambodia prepares to charge four Khmer Rouge leaders with genocide, some people are looking ahead to what will be left behind when the court finally closes its doors.

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Combating malnutrition and making food more affordable are pillars of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' socialist program. Food prices have soared, however, amid shortages of basic staples, forcing

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The reputation of blueberries as a so-called "super-food" has created a boom in South Korea. People here are increasingly consuming the vitamin-rich fruit because of research contending blueberries ma

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

History says that the party that controls the White House usually loses congressional seats in a new president's first midterm election. Combine that with a struggling national economy and you have t

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.N. officials in the Kenyan capital paid tribute Thursday to humanitarian aid workers in Somalia, describing them as heroes who risk their lives to deliver aid to millions of Somalis affected by both

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees warned this week that the Palestinians are facing a serious cash crisis because aid donors have not lived up to their pledges. At the Paris Donor Conference i

2010-08-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 1935, during the heart of the Great Depression, whole sections of the American Midwest suffered through a terrible drought that produced monstrous dust storms. They sucked up what little topsoil ex

2010-08-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce another increase in U.S. flood aid to Pakistan at Thursday's special U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. Officials said they see the U.N. sess

2010-08-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama is concluding a three-day, five-state trip around the country, defending his administration's progress in repairing the economy. Support for the president's economic pla