The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte 《扑克滩的遗弃人》 by 布雷特哈特 We present The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte. Here is Jim Tedder. John Oakhurst was a gambler. He had lived in the small western town of Poker Flat for onl...
AS IT IS 2016-04-02 Google's 'Minion' Joke Not So Funny This is Whats Trending Today Friday was April Fools Day. Googles search engine has become famous for its April Fools' tricks over the years. This year, however, one trick Google played did not h...
AS IT IS 2016-04-02 Australias Great Barrier Reef Threatened 澳大利亚大堡礁受到白化威胁 Australias National Coral Bleaching Task force says the countrys Great Barrier Reef is facing the worst mass bleaching event in its history. 澳大利亚...
AS IT IS 2016-04-02 North Korea Jams GPS, Launches Missile 朝鲜干扰GPS并发射导弹 North Korea has jammed GPS signals in South Korea and launched another missile into the Sea of Japan. The action came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama me...
Changing Prepositions With 'Provide' English learners know that prepositions can be difficult to master. There are 94 one-word prepositions in English, and about 56 prepositions with two or more words, called complex prepositions. This adds up to 150...
AS IT IS 2016-04-01 Some New Words for VOA's Word Book Some big news today here at VOA Learning English. We are adding new words to our 1,500-word Word Book. The first edition of the Word Book came out in 1962. Every now and then, we update it. Some...
AS IT IS 2016-03-31 Pakistan Detains More than 200 Suspected Militants 巴基斯坦拘捕200余名疑似武装分子 Police and security forces have arrested more than 200 suspected Islamist militants after a suicide bombing in Lahore on Sunday. The...
AS IT IS 2016-04-01 New Drones Could Improve Weather Predictions 小型无人机可以提高天气预报准确性 Scientists are developing unmanned planes -- called drones -- that can gather weather information from the atmosphere. The drones could...
AS IT IS 2016-04-01 Instagram Launches 60-Second Videos Instagram测试60秒短视频 This is Whats Trending Today The media-sharing application Instagram will soon have 60-second videos. Instagram announced its plan to have longer videos earlier thi...
AS IT IS 2016-04-01 Palmyra May Be in Better Condition Than Expected 帕米尔拉的状况可能比预期中好 When the Islamic State militants blew up the Temple of Bel in the ancient city of Palmyra in August 2015, experts feared they would destro...
AS IT IS 2016-04-01 Security Summit Focuses on N. Korea, Terror Threat 核安全峰会聚焦朝鲜核威胁 U.S. President Barack Obama opened his final nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, expressing concerns over North Korea's nuclear...
Want to Choose Better Words? Our words matter. Our words have always mattered, but they matter more now that the Internet gives us the power to make our words permanently public. Words might help or hurt someone. Our words may have more power than we...
