EXPLORATIONS - Apollo's Final Missions: The Last Footsteps on the Moon SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the flights that followed Apollo Eleven to t...
今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是to get one's foot in the door。Foot是一只脚, door是门。要注意的是,to get one's foot in the door说的是某人先把一只脚伸到门里。所以它的含义就是:先获得一个有利于将...
When did you last look around a corner? Did you do it thoroughly? If you think that question is a little odd, youre not alone. Every year the Plain English Campaign collects perplexing examples of English usage as part of a drive for language that ev...
Tu: Do you travel by car in Iran? Amir: Well, you know, when I was in Iran it was just like your case. I felt like this is natural. This is how I saw the traffic. This was how it is supposed to work. When you go abroad, and like me right now, I'm liv...
Travel on Foot The past ages of man have all been carefully labelled by anthropologists. Descriptions like Palaeolithic Man. Neolithic Man, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twe...
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By Carol Pearson Washington 09 May 2008 A new type of artificial foot is the latest in smart prosthetics that are changing people's lives. The artificial foot and its ankle can move like a human foot and ankle. The new prosthetic is on the market now...
Recording technology has changed a lot over the years, but you can still do one essential thing. You sit in front of a microphone and you tell a story, which here we are again this Friday morning because it's time for StoryCorps. It's an oral history...
Transcript of the Prime Minister's broadcast on Foot and Mouth Disease This weekend will see the traditional start to the tourism season in Britain - when hundreds of castles, historic houses, wildlife centres and other attractions open their doors...
Transcript of the Prime Minister's broadcast on Foot and Mouth Disease I want to speak today about the devastating outbreak of foot and mouth disease, to say what we are doing to control and eradicate it, and how everyone can play their part in ensu...