未知味觉

之前写过用podcast学英语 ，有网友留言问，voa标准语速的英语到那里下载。其实网络上这样的资料很多，找的人也多，于是生出来好多自作聪明的想借此赚钱的网站，把大家搞的眼花缭乱的找不到正主，今天我就说说voa的几个最原始的来源。
第一个、http://www.voanews.com/，很长时间以来，它不能访问，不过最近一直正常，不能访问的时候，我在告诉你不能访问时的办法。

先看一段介绍：

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,250 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of 134 million people.

我尝试翻译如下：

美国之音，1942年开播，由美国政府通过广播委员会资助的一项多媒体国际广播服务。美国之音每周广播超过1250小时，包括新闻、信息、教育方面和文化方面，估计全世界大约有13.4亿的听众。

大名鼎鼎的VOA慢速英语，也就是voa special english就是其中的一项，地址是http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/。而voa标准英语，也就是voa主页上的一些内容了。 本文下面所附的标准听力原文和听力材料都来自这个网站。
这个网站提供很多方式学习英语，当然也包括我说的podcast方式，具体的很多功能，各位自己挖掘吧。推荐采用feed订阅的方式，这样很方便。但是整站不提供feed，每个分类提供，具体的操作方式还是各位自己琢磨吧。我的firefox最近总是cpu占用率百分之九十多，不知道怎么了。我现在打一个字都费劲。
—-下面为所附标准听力原文——
Sen. Barack Obama walks on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, 27 Aug. 2008
In a remarkable show of party unity, Obama’s one-time opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, asked delegates here at the convention to suspend a roll call vote of individual states.

“With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let’s declare together in one voice right here right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president,” said Senator Clinton.

That led to roars of approval inside the packed convention hall, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called for the historic vote.

Pelosi: “All in favor to the motion to suspend the rules and nominate by acclamation Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate please say aye.

Delegates: Aye

Pelosi: All those opposed please say no. Two-thirds of the delegates having voted in the affirmative, the motion is adopted.”

Delegates then launched a celebration, dancing back and forth in the convention hall to the song “Love Train.”

The nomination sets the 47-year-old Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of an American mother and father from Kenya, on a path to face Republican Senator John McCain in the November election for president.

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the crowd as he takes the stage during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, 27 Aug 2008
Later, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who spent months on the campaign trail questioning Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, pledged to strongly support the nominee.

“Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” said teh former president. “Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.”

Convention delegates also formally nominated Obama’s pick for vice-president, Delaware Senator Joe Biden.

Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed the Republican’s foreign policy, calling it catastrophic.

Sen. Barack Obama, (r), and Democratic VP candidate, Sen. Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, 27 Aug 2008
“I have been on the ground in Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, this administration’s policy has been an abysmal failure,” said Senator Biden. “America cannot afford four more years of this failure.”

Then Obama capped off his historic night by making an unscheduled appearance at the convention, bringing a roar of approval from the delegates.

On Thursday, the Democrat’s choice for president will accept the nomination at a nearby sports stadium, before at least 75,000 people.

“So we want to open up this convention to make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort to take America back,” said Senator Obama.

Obama’s nomination marks an extraordinary rise in American politics and the culmination of what analysts say was a disciplined and brilliant ca