2016-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LESBOS, GREECE—From human smugglers to bus services to the sellers of life jackets, new businesses have popped up everywhere along the routes migrants take from the Middle Ea

2016-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

WASHINGTON—An Israeli company that manufactures devices for making fizzy drinks at home was forced to lay off its Palestinian workers after relocating from the West Bank to I

2016-03-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In coming days, Americans could have a much better sense of who will be this year's Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.Democrats and Republicans are competing in prim

2016-03-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

CHISINAU, MOLDOVA—Corruption scandals have tainted Moldova's pro-European leadership and boosted support for pro-Russia parties that argue for closer ties with its Soviet-er

2016-02-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

CHISINAU, MOLDOVA— A financial crisis in Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe, has exposed deep-rooted corruption that is boosting pro-Russia parties and threateni

2016-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

We’re counting down the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending February 27, 2016.It’s another active chart, welcoming o

2016-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LONDON— Football’s (soccer's) world governing body FIFA has elected a new president after its former leader, Sepp Blatter, was forced to step down last year after bein

2016-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LONDON— Greece has recalled its ambassador to Austria, following a dispute over the migrant crisis. Recall followed a Vienna-hosted meeting with Balkan states that excluded G

2016-02-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LONDON—A team of investigative journalists claims to have evidence showing that the missile that shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in July 2014 belonged to a Russia

2016-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A clear skin patch called TEPI delivers the painkiller ibuprofen right where it hurts. While pills can cause stomach upset, the patch does not.Scientists at the University of Warwi

2016-02-25 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Gang graffiti still defaces some of the walls in Panama City's once-impoverished neighborhood of San Felipe, but many of the beautiful old homes have been refurbished.The area now

2016-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The real-time counter on the GSMA Intelligence website shows the constant rise of mobile phone subscribers worldwide.The market is huge and there's plenty of money to be made, but

2016-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

SITTWE, MYANMAR—As Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy steps into power in Myanmar this month, one of the big questions is whether the Nobel Laureate&rsquo

2016-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The smartphone is king.

And it’s reign in on full display in Barcelona at the annual Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest mobile shows.

"The smartphone

2016-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

LOS ANGELES— Ever since the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, names of his possible successor have been circulating in Washington and throughout the legal commun

2016-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

WASHINGTON— Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton were the big winners Saturday in the latest round of U.S. presidential primary voting.It was a clear victory

2016-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"Green" cars, powered by electricity from either rechargeable batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, are already on the market, but still too expensive for most consumers.

While big

2016-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

WASHINGTON— As if we didn’t have enough of it, the new must-have gadget - the consumer-grade 3-D printer - works with plastic. Researchers in Belgium say they have deve

2016-02-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

We’re counting down the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Chart, for the week ending February 20, 2016.

Our trend of one-song debuts continues&

2016-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When U.S. track star Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, it damaged Adolph Hitler's propaganda on Aryan supremacy. Yet, despite his triumphant wi

2016-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Climate change is the defining issue of our time, because it affects nearly every aspect of human lives.Floods, droughts, heat waves and other types of extreme weather reduce harve

2016-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

KAMPALA, UGANDA— It has already been dubbed Uganda's first social media election.Many people, young and old, have taken to Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp to give their opini

2016-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

KAMPALA—As Ugandans get ready for Thursday's presidential and parliamentary elections, people of faith have been praying for both the elections and their leaders. Some voter

2016-02-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Speaking in Kigali, Rwanda, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker at the beginning of her visit to that country in late January, discussed the commitment of the United States t

2016-02-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since World War II, the Holocaust has been the subject of countless films. Son of Saul by Hungarian Laszlo Nemes and Labyrinth of Lies by German – Italian Giulio Ricciarelli