Also: Reduction in snow hurts Switzerland's winter-sports industry. Transcript of radio broadcast: 07 July 2008 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus. Hot weather has returne...
By Jim Teeple Washington 05 March 2008 During his recent visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in January, President Bush called on Israel to honor its commitment to remove unauthorized settlements and outposts from the West Bank. But with...
By Gary Thomas Washington 20 February 2008 The stinging rebuke Pakistani voters delivered to President Pervez Musharraf has reverberated in the corridors of power in Washington. Since 1999, the United States only had to deal with one single figure in...
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For most of us, the season evokes a kind of universal memory. My strongest memory of Christmas is the tree with all of the presents underneath it. And usually in the morning I wake up really early like at five o'clock. And when you come downstairs Ch...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 29 March 2006 Experts say they believe the ongoing crackdown against foreign organizations in Uzbekistan is due to Uzbek government fears of what they call "outside interfer...
今天我们要给大家讲的两个习惯用语是由两个很简单的字组成的。我们先来讲第一个:Ups and downs. 在一般情况下,up 和down都用做副词,但是在这个习惯用...
在今天的节目里,我们再来讲两个以stand这个字为主的习惯用语。To stand就是站立的意思。Stand这个字往往跟别的字合在一起用,最普通的就是:to stand up...
blow up blow out 对于学英语的人来说,英语的基本词汇和语法也许并不是最困难的。难的是许多英语字和词汇有好几种不同的意思。就拿blow这个字来说吧,它...
今天李华和Larry 在图书馆看书。Larry 注意到 Li Hua 和平时有点儿不一样。Li Hua会学到两个常用语:out of whack和goofy。 (Library SFX) LL: Hey, Li Hua, what's wrong? You...