- voa慢速英语:Todd Duncan,1903-1998:He Opened Doors for Other...2010-03-07
- Todd Duncan is on the stage. He had just become the first African American man to sing with this important American opera company. No one was sure how he would be received. But the people in the theater offered loud, warm approval of his performance.
- voa慢速英语:Billie Holiday,1915-1959:The Lady Sang the Blues2010-02-28
- That was Billie Holiday singing one of her famous songs. She and Arthur Herzog wrote it. Billie Holiday's life was a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experiences and her feelings.
- voa慢速英语讲解:波洛克发明了新型油画2010-02-21
- Until the twentieth century, most paintings were representational. This means that artists "represented" their subjects in a way that was realistic and recognizable. However, during the first half of the twentieth century, artists like Jackson Pollock started to explore other methods of representation.
- voa慢速英语:Her Activism Helped Shape the Look and Feel of Cities2010-02-18
- Jane Jacobs was an activist, writer, moral thinker and economist. She believed cities should be densely populated and full of different kinds of people and activities. She believed in the value of natural growth and big open spaces.
- [VOA美国人物]Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993: Tennis Champion and Civil Rights Activist2010-02-09
- He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty. He was honored for his bravery and honesty as well as his strong support of just causes.
- voa慢速英语讲解:亚瑟-阿什:网球冠军和民权活动家2010-02-07
- He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty. He was honored for his bravery and honesty as well as his strong support of just causes.
- [VOA美国人物]Pioneers Who Shaped the Sounds of Radio2010-02-03
- Some people say radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi of Italy. Marconi sent the first radio communication signals through the air in eighteen ninety-five. In fact, no one person can be called the inventor of radio. Many people, including several Americans, helped to develop radio. You may not know their names. However, their work affected many people.
- voa慢速英语讲解:影响收音机发展的先驱2010-01-31
- Some people say radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi of Italy. Marconi sent the first radio communication signals through the air in eighteen ninety-five. In fact, no one person can be called the inventor of radio. Many people, including several Americans, helped to develop radio. You may not know their names. However, their work affected many people.
- [VOA美国人物]Scott Joplin, 1867-1917: The King of Ragtime Music2010-01-25
- That song is called "Maple Leaf Rag." Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago. The song changed Joplin's life. It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music. He also became famous.
- voa慢速英语:Scott Joplin,1867-1917:The King of Ragtime Music2010-01-24
- That song is called Maple Leaf Rag. Scott Joplin wrote it more than one hundred years ago. The song changed Joplin's life. It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music. He also became famous.
- [VOA美国人物]Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: A Public Face of Anthropology2010-01-18
- People around the world mourned the death of Margaret Mead in nineteen seventy-eight. A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.
- voa慢速英语:Margaret Mead:A Public Face of Anthropology2010-01-17
- People around the world mourned the death of Margaret Mead in nineteen seventy-eight. A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.
- [VOA美国人物]William Faulkner,1897-1962: He Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 19492010-01-10
- In nineteen forty-five, all seventeen books William Faulkner had written by then were not being published. Some of them could not be found even in stores that sold used books.
- voa慢速英语讲解:威廉-福克纳获1949年诺贝尔文学奖2010-01-10
- The critic Malcolm Cowley says, Faulkner's early novels had been praised too much, usually for the wrong reasons. His later and in many ways better novels had been criticized or simply not read.
- [VOA美国人物]William Faulkner, 1897-1962: He was America’s Greatest Southern Writer2010-01-07
- William Faulkner was born at the end of the nineteenth century. It was a time when there were two Souths in the United States. The first was the South whose beliefs had existed from before the American Civil War which began in eighteen sixty-one. This South did not question rules, even when those rules did not satisfy human needs. It was a South filled with injustice for black people. It held the seeds of its own destruction.
- voa慢速英语:William Faulkner:America's Greatest Southern Writer2010-01-03
- William Faulkner was born at the end of the nineteenth century. It was a time when there were two Souths in the United States. The first was the South whose beliefs had existed from before the American Civil War which began in eighteen sixty-one.
- voa慢速英语讲解:几年六位有趣的美国人2009-12-27
- John Updike once said that people read fiction because it makes them feel less lonely about being a human being. This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.
- [VOA美国人物]Irving Berlin, 1888-1989: He Wrote the Songs that Made America Sing2009-12-20
- Irving Berlin lived to be one hundred one years old. He died in nineteen eighty‑nine. During his long life, he wrote more than one thousand songs. Many of his songs have become timeless additions to America's popular culture.
- voa慢速英语:PEOPLE IN AMERICA-Irving Berlin:He Wrote the Songs ...2009-12-20
- Irving Berlin lived to be one hundred one years old. He died in nineteen eighty
- voa慢速英语:路易斯·康定义了现代建筑学2009-12-13
- Louis Kahn helped define modern architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and building structures such as houses, museums, and office buildings.Kahn's architecture has several defining qualities.
- [VOA美国人物]Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962: America's Most Famous Sex Symbol2009-12-06
- On August fourth, nineteen sixty-two, Marilyn Monroe died alone in her home. She was thirty-six years old. Reports said taking too many drugs killed her. But people who knew her said failed marriages, and the failure of her latest movie also led to her death.
- voa慢速英语讲解:玛丽莲-梦露,1926-1962:美国最著名的性感演员2009-12-06
- At age sixteen Norma Jean married a sailor. But she soon ended that marriage. She changed her hair color from brown to shining gold. And she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
- voa慢速英语:Arthur Miller:1915-2005:One of the Greatest ...2009-11-29
- Several plays by Arthur Miller will probably be performed for many years to come. That is because critics say Miller was able to dramatize the emotional pain that average people suffer in their daily lives.
- [VOA美国人物]Hank Williams,1923-1953: He Wrote Songs About Love and Heartbreak2009-11-23
- That was the record Hank Williams made when he first tried to interest recording companies in his music. None of the companies liked it at the time. But a few years later, the high sharp voice of Hank Williams would cut like a knife through the music world. When he sang his songs, people listened. They are still listening, long after his death.
- [VOA美国人物]Helen Keller, 1880-1968: She Became the Most Famous Disabled Person in the World2009-11-21
- Although deaf and blind, Helen Keller graduated from college. She wrote about her life and became an activist for the disabled. Second of two parts.