Any day now there is going to be a uniquely American political crisis when Congress must raise the limit on how much the federal government may borrow. If it fails to do so, the Treasury department loses the legal authority to issue new bonds. 眼下，...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition...

Indonesian President Sets Economic Priorities for Second Term 印尼总统把经济列为头等大事 During his first term in office, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono oversaw a period of robust economic growth based on exports. This yea...

Clinton: US is Not Shelving Missile Defense Plan 美国务卿为奥巴马新导弹防御计划提出辩护 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a policy speech Friday defended the Obama administration's new approach to missile defense in Europe...

泥石流导致菲律宾超过160人死亡 Landslides Kill More Than 160 in Northern Philippines 菲律宾官员说，菲律宾北部多山省份遭遇暴雨袭击，并引发泥石流，导致超过160人死亡。省长梁文华说，最严重的泥石...

奥巴马：对于获得诺贝尔奖表示惊喜和愧不敢当 Obama: Surprised, Humbled by Nobel Peace Prize Win 上任不到一年的美国总统奥巴马说，他接受诺贝尔和平奖，并将它视为行动的召唤。总统奥巴马在星期五...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with an expert on children and handwriting. RS: Virginia Berninger is an educational psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. She tells us about a...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER: choosing the right language for advertising. The December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research contains a paper by Rohini Ahluwalia at the University of Minnesota and Aradhna Krishna at the Unive...

下载音频MP3 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: with Major League Baseball's championship series delayed by rain -- no World Series game has ever been suspended before -- we thought we'd step up to the plate and...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: prepositions for the perplexed. RS: The other day, our colleague Julie Taboh told us about a friend of hers, a non-native English speaker. It seems he once tried to tell someone t...