THIS IS AMERICA - Six Men, a World War, a Pacific Island and an Image for All Time STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Barbara Klein. This Monday is Memorial Day in the United States. The holiday honor...
US Libraries Launch Ad Campaign to Boost Image, Funding Public libraries are an integral part of American communities - offering not just books, but free Internet access, programs for toddlers and teens, meeting rooms for local organizations, and mor...
The U.S. space agency(代理中介) has released the first ever image taken of the surface of Mercury from a spacecraft orbiting the planet. The black and white image, posted on the NASA website Tuesday, shows a surface pocked with craters of varying...
今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语有同样的意思。它们都用来说某一个人非常像另一个人。第一个习惯用语是：dead ringer。 Ringer原来意思就是酷似某人的人或者很像某物的东西. Ringer有时可以指冒名...
BBC Learning English Weekender Body image survey results Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we listen to a report about a BBC survey of 25,000 young British people, asking about their body imag...
Do you resemble someone famous? Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 嘿，你好吗？我是孙晨。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你是不是已经发...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 05 July 2007 Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wa...
大家都知道spit的意思是“唾液”。可奇怪的是，有一个和spit相关的词组spit and image的意思却是“和……一模一样的（人或东西）”。 语源学界普遍接受的...
By Jessica Berman The U.S. space agency has released the first close-up pictures of Titan, Saturn's secretive, giant moon. Photos from the international Cassini spacecraft show the orbiting object shr...
By Ted Landphair Big corporations use memorable slogans or symbols -- like the "swoosh" logo on Nike shoes or McDonald's "golden arches" -- to establish positive identities and attract new customers....
