AS IT IS 2015-12-14 Museum of American Diplomacy to Open in 2017 美国外交博物馆将于2017年开放 Consider this: There are more than 400 museums in the U.S. that celebrate the history of the military. But not a single one devoted to American...
AS IT IS 2015-12-14 Arizona: The Spirit of Route 66 亚利桑那州:66号公路的精神 Arizonas stretch of Route 66 contains some of Americas most impressive - and famous - landscapes. Parts of Arizonas Mother Road wind through the Petrified Forest...
Old Sex Comedy Gets Modern in Spike Lees Chi-Raq 斯派克李的'芝拉克'使性喜剧焕然一新 The musical is a modern, urban telling of the ancient Greek comedy, Lysistrata. In that story, wives stop having sex with their husbands to try to sto...
Climate Change Talks Move Beyond Deadline 气候变化谈判已过 最后期限 Leaders in Paris negotiating a climate change agreement missed their deadline Friday. Representatives from 195 countries have spent two weeks in Paris trying to reach agr...
'A White Heron,' by Sarah Orne Jewett 《白苍鹭》by 萨拉朱厄特 The forest was full of shadows as a little girl hurried through it one summer evening in June. It was already 8 o'clock and Sylvie wondered if her grandmother would be angry with...
AS IT IS 2015-12-12 More Violence in Syria as Diplomatic Push Continues 外交努力持续之际叙利亚暴力再起 A series of truck bombs in northeast Syria has killed at least 22 people, a human rights monitoring group said Friday. 一家人权监...
AS IT IS 2015-12-12 #WelcometoCanada, X-Men, and a Laughing Orangutan This is Whats Trending Today. Syrian Refugees in Canada Justin Trudeau became the Canadian Prime Minister in November, and on Thursday night he may have made his biggest social med...
Kendrick Lamar Leads Grammy Nominations 肯德里克拉马尔获提名格莱美奖 Kendrick Lamar has had a good week. The hip-hop artist led the music industry in nominations for its most important awards, the Grammys. The Recording Academy honored...
For or Since: What Is the Difference? Have you ever wondered how to talk about an event that began in the past and continues into the present? In English, we often use prepositions to place a noun, pronoun or noun phrase in time. This way, we can com...
AS IT IS 2015-12-11 Children Drown After Boat Packed With Migrants Sinks 移民船沉没儿童溺亡 Five children are among 11 people who drowned after a migrant boat sank near a Greek island on Wednesday. 周三，一艘移民船只在希腊一座岛...
AS IT IS 2015-12-11 Planned Parenthood Slaying Suspect Says He Is Guilty The man accused of killing three people and injuring nine in a shooting in Colorado last month said in court on Wednesday that he is guilty. Police say 57-year-old Robert Dear a...
AS IT IS 2015-12-11 A Long Recovery Ahead for Myanmar Chin State Floods and landslides in the Chin region of Myanmar displaced thousands of people this summer, but recovery has just begun. Almost 20,000 people were displaced by severe weather in west...
AS IT IS 2015-12-11 Rise in Immigrant Population Affecting US Elections 移民人口增长影响美国大选 Between 1990 and 2000, immigration to the United States increased greatly. The immigrant population increased by 11.3 million to 31.1 million...
One School, Five Languages 一个学校,五种语言 In New York City public schools, 176 different languages are spoken among the more than 1 million students. For 160,000 children, English is not their first language. New Yorks Department of Educat...
AS IT IS 2015-12-09 Deaths, Damage As Storm Hits Great Britain 致命风暴袭击英国 Two people died. Roads and highways are closed. Homes are without power. And travelers are stranded in Great Britain because of record rainfall. The rain set reco...
