- voa慢速英语:泰坦尼克号中永不沉没的莫莉·布朗2010-03-08
- Margaret Brown lived an interesting life, but not all the stories about her are true. For example, a Denver newspaper reporter named Gene Fowler wrote that she survived a tornado as a baby, refused to attend school and chewed tobacco.
- voa慢速英语:A Crowded Field for Best Picture at ...2010-03-01
- The eighty-second Academy Awards ceremony takes place March seventh at the Kodak Theater. Actors, directors, writers, producers and others will gather in Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.
- voa慢速英语:Music Spotlight:Reba,Zac Brown Band and More2010-02-22
- Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we have music from the latest albums by country singer Reba McEntire and saxophonist David Sanborn.
- voa慢速英语:Tombstone, Arizona:“The town too tough to die”2010-02-18
- The town that is now Tombstone, Arizona was first a mining camp. Silver miner Ed Schieffelin named the town. In eighteen seventy-seven, Mister Schieffelin was searching for silver in the Arizona territory. The area at the time was extremely dangerous. Apache Indians considered it to be their land and were all too ready to fight for it.
- [VOA今日美国]Valentine's Day Offers a Chance to 'Refocus on What Love Is All About'2010-02-09
- These are important days because soon it will be February fourteenth, Valentine's Day. This week on our program, we ask three generations of people what the holiday for love and romance means to them.
- voa慢速英语讲解:聚焦情人节:什么是爱2010-02-08
- These are important days because soon it will be February fourteenth, Valentine's Day. This week on our program, we ask three generations of people what the holiday for love and romance means to them.
- voa慢速英语讲解:伸出援手,帮助海地人民2010-02-01
- The January twelfth earthquake in Haiti killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people. The quake also left hundreds of thousands homeless as it destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince. This week on our program, we look at some of the efforts to assist Haiti and its people.
- voa慢速英语:Seeking 'Cultural Equity' in Musical Traditions2010-01-25
- We talked last week about John Avery Lomax and his work collecting American folk songs. He collected thousands of songs in the nineteen twenties, thirties and forties to save for future generations. His son Alan soon joined him, and continued collecting music after his father died in nineteen forty-eight.
- voa慢速英语:How a Family Helped Save American Folk Music2010-01-18
- John Avery Lomax was born in eighteen sixty-seven. He came from the state of Mississippi but grew up in Texas. His interest in cowboy music led him to research and collect examples of cowboy songs.
- voa慢速英语:美国的交通变迁史2010-01-11
- Jefferson proposed that a group of explorers travel across North America in search of such a waterway. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the exploration west from eighteen-oh-three to eighteen-oh-six. They discovered that the Rocky Mountains divided the land. They also found no coast-to-coast waterway.
- [VOA今日美国]White Sands National Monument: A Wonder of Nature2010-01-07
- One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand dunes cover more than seventy-thousand hectares of desert.
- voa慢速英语讲解:自然界奇迹:白沙国家纪念碑2010-01-04
- One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand dunes cover more than seventy-thousand hectares of desert.
- voa慢速英语讲解:告别2009,希望明年会更好2009-12-28
- Hotels in many cities have special deals for New Year's Eve: dinner, Champagne and a party. Then people get a room for the night. That way, no one has to worry about drinking and driving home.
- [VOA今日美国]Christmas 2009 in America: A Joyful Season in Not So Joyful Times2009-12-21
- This Friday, millions of American Christians will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, their lord. Many families will sing traditional Christmas carols and exchange gifts around decorated trees. And many will attend special church services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
- voa慢速英语:2009年圣诞:艰难时期的欢乐时光2009-12-21
- This Friday, millions of American Christians will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, their lord. Many families will sing traditional Christmas carols and exchange gifts around decorated trees. And many will attend special church services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
- [VOA今日美国]The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US2009-12-14
- The small city of Colma, California is just a few kilometers south of San Francisco. Many people visit the city each year to see the burial place of one very unusual man in Colma's Woodlawn Cemetery. These visitors come to see a memorial stone placed on his grave.
- voa慢速英语讲解:自封美国皇帝的约书亚·诺顿2009-12-14
- The small city of Colma, California is just a few kilometers south of San Francisco. Many people visit the city each year to see the burial place of one very unusual man in Colma's Woodlawn Cemetery. These visitors come to see a memorial stone placed on his grave.
- voa慢速英语讲解:地下另一个世界:卡尔斯贝洞窟国家公园2009-12-07
- Huge. Incredible. Inspiring. Words like these come to mind as visitors enter a world of silence, darkness and cold, almost two hundred thirty meters under the ground.
- [VOA今日美国]Kennedy Center to Honor Five in the Arts2009-11-30
- Opera singer Grace Bumbry earned starring roles as a soprano and mezzo-soprano in some of the world's most famous opera houses. Her warm voice and wide range brought roles including Carmen, Salome, Aida, Tosca, Medea and Bess.
- voa慢速英语讲解:5人因艺术贡献获肯尼迪中心表彰2009-11-30
- Opera singer Grace Bumbry earned starring roles as a soprano and mezzo-soprano in some of the world's most famous opera houses. Her warm voice and wide range brought roles including Carmen, Salome, Aida, Tosca, Medea and Bess.
- [VOA今日美国]What Thanksgiving Day Means to People in US2009-11-23
- My name is Jim Oldham and I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didn't get to have Thanksgiving together. And I remember when I was about twelve, her work and his work permitted us all to do that. And we had brothers and sisters, and the traditional turkey and all the trimmings.
- voa慢速英语讲解:感恩节对美国人的意义2009-11-23
- This Thursday is a day for families and friends to share a special holiday meal and think about what they are thankful for. This week on our program, we ask some people to share their favorite memories of Thanksgiving Day.
- [VOA今日美国]North Carolina’s Biltmore Estate Takes Visitors Back in Time2009-11-17
- Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. This week, Rich Kleinfeldt and Shirley Griffith are your guides as we take you to the Biltmore Estate. This huge home was built more than a century ago near the mountains of North Carolina.
- voa慢速英语讲解:畅游北卡罗来纳比特摩尔庄园2009-11-16
- An estate is a property, usually large, owned by one person or a family. The man who owned the Biltmore estate in North Carolina was George Vanderbilt. He was born in eighteen-sixty-two and died in nineteen-fourteen. His father and grandfather were two of the richest and most powerful businessmen in America. They made their money in shipping and railroads.
- [VOA今日美国]What Is Your Favorite Song About Autumn?2009-11-09
- People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about autumn. Many of these songs express sadness that summer is over. The days are shorter. It is getting darker earlier each day. The weather is cooler. The skies are gray. Birds fly south because they know winter is coming. The leaves turn colors of red and gold and then die, falling to the ground. Some songs about autumn also express the sadness of lost love.