AS IT IS 2016-10-07 US Security Agency Contractor Arrested 美国安局承包商雇员被捕 The United States Department of Justice says a man employed by a private company that was performing work for the National Security Agency has been arrested....
Chess Rules in Film ＂Queen of Katwe＂ 非洲电影《卡推女王》讲述国际象棋故事 Many films about Africa tell about violence and war. But the new movie Queen of Katwe tells a story about a chess expert. 许多谈及非洲的电影都讲述...
Google Launches New Pixel Smartphone Google has announced its first smartphone designed in-house, the Pixel. The company showed the new phone to the world during a launch event Tuesday in San Francisco, California. So today, Im very excited to introd...
AS IT IS 2016-10-06 Report Says Yahoo Scanned Emails This is Whats Trending Today... It has not been a good month for the American Internet company Yahoo. In late September, Yahoo announced that everyone who uses its email service should change his o...
AS IT IS 2016-10-06 US Vice Presidential Candidates Debate Policies of Trump, Clinton 美副总统候选人辩论:互批对方阵营主帅 Two men seeking to become vice president of the United States were in Virginia Tuesday night for their only pla...
AS IT IS 2016-10-06 Wildlife Convention Protects Animals Great and Small Delegates from around the world met this week in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss how to stop the trade in endangered animals. Representatives from 183 countries attended t...
AS IT IS 2016-10-05 Nobel in Chemistry Goes to Makers of Worlds Smallest Machines 2016诺贝尔化学奖:世界上最小的机器 Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in developing tiny machines. The three men are Jea...
Study: Do Fitness Trackers Help You Lose Weight? 研究：健身追踪器能帮你减肥吗？ From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. 这里是美国之声慢速英语《健康与生活》报道。 We begin with bad news for...
'Achievement Gap' Closing Slightly for Young Students in U.S. It is no surprise that within many education systems, wealthier students often test better than poorer students. To education experts this is often called the achievement gap. What is a su...
AS IT IS 2016-10-05 Coming Soon to the Office: Facebook at Work Facebook recently estimated that each of its users spends an average of 50 minutes a day on the companys online social network. But the company wants to find ways to increase the time sp...
AS IT IS 2016-10-05 Maria Sharapova's Doping Ban Reduced This is Whats Trending Today Maria Sharapova will be able to return to competitive tennis next April, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her doping ban from 24 months to 15 months...
AS IT IS 2016-10-05 India's Dalits Seek an End to Social Barriers 印度的贱民寻求结束社会等级壁垒 Nearly every day, there is a news story about an attack on members of Indias Dalit community. A few days ago, for example, six men beat a...
AS IT IS 2016-10-05 Nobel in Physics Awarded for Strange States of Matter Three British-born scientists have won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award on Tuesday. The academy is recognizing David...
Scientists Explore Underwater Volcanoes 科学家探索海底火山 What covers nearly 29 million square kilometers of this planet beneath the sea? The answer is seamounts. Seamounts are mountains, usually volcanoes, that rise up from the sea floor....
Brainwash: Not as Clean as You Think 词汇典故:洗脑:不像你想的那么干净 Hello and welcome to another Words and Their Stories. Today we are talking about expressions to describe people who are not in their right minds. People who are not...
