This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a reader's question about two common verbs. Here it is: 本周的名师答疑节目，我们回复读者关于两个常见动词的问题。问题如下： Question: 问题： Hi, I'm Zachary. I would like to kno...
We present the second of five parts of the short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by VOA Learning English. It was in Paris in the summer of 1840 that I met August Dupin. Dupin was...
The large, brightly colored circles and pumpkins at the New York Botanical Garden are part of a new show called Kusama: Cosmic Nature. They are the works of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Tired of staying home during the year-long pandemic, people are...
Las Vegas city officials have found that a lot of grass is useless. 拉斯维加斯市政府官员发现，许多草坪没什么用。 The plant is never laid on, played on or even stepped on. The grass is only there to look nice. 这些植物永远不...
International Competition for Wind Energy Production Growing Governments worldwide are expected to seek more proposals for wind power stations to produce electricity in coastal areas this year. The new international wind power developments could prod...
Cooking can be tricky when you can not find the ingredients you normally use to make a meal. Many people face that very problem in Cuba, where the COVID-19 crisis has worsened food shortages in the country. But now, they can find help just a computer...
In Ethiopia: Their Aim Is to Erase Tigray Seid Mussa Omar is Tigrayan. He said only 10 Tigrayans remained of about 400 who worked with him at a hospital in northern Ethiopia. The rest were killed or fled. Seid's original paper showing his Tigrayan et...
A top ruling party official in Japan said Thursday it is still possible that the Tokyo Olympics could be canceled. 日本执政党高级官员周四表示，东京奥运会仍有可能被取消。 The comment came from Toshihiro Nikai, secretary gene...
'This Ain't It' and Other Short Forms By Dr. Jill Robbins 15 April 2021 If you often use online social media, you will see many examples of informal English. One expression that you may wonder about is: This ain't it, chief. It is used to tell someon...
Bitcoin rose to record highs on Wednesday as a major digital currency company went public on America's Nasdaq stock exchange. Going public means a company sells shares of stock to raise money. It also means that the owner of the company must now answ...
Women now have many of the jobs controlling the world's largest economy. And they are trying to fix it. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai hold top positions in President Joe...
A man who made millions from selling fake wine bottles to collectors was expelled from the United States last week. 上周，一名向收藏家出售假酒获利数百万美元的男子被驱逐出美国。 U.S. Customs and Immigration officials said...
Clowning Is Serious Business for Brazilian Doctor Doctor Flavio Falcone could not get homeless drug addicts to talk to him on the streets while wearing his white medical coat. But with face paint and a big, red ball for a nose, the mental health doct...
American health officials called for a pause in the use of the COVID-19 vaccine made by drug maker Johnson Johnson, known as JJ. They said six people developed rare cases of blood system blockages, known as blood clots, after receiving the vaccine. 美...
US Colleges Divided Over Requiring Student Vaccinations American colleges and universities hope to return to pre-COVID life in the autumn. Some schools are urging students to get the vaccine but others are wondering if they should or legally could re...
