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The Glover Park Community Garden Association started around 1939 and then it slowly grew to become a victory garden in 1942 when the US was at war. 格洛弗公园社区花园协会大约在1939年成立，随后在1942年美国二战时期，它逐渐发展成为一个“胜利花园”。 It became essential for the folks that lived in the area here to grow their own vegetables as they were not able to purchase these things in the grocery st...

When the US government forced more than 60,000 native Americans to relocate to Oklahoma to make way for white settlers in the 1830s, their slaves came with them. 19世纪30年代，美国政府迫使6万多名美洲原住民迁往俄克拉荷马州 ，为白人定居者腾出土地 ，他们的奴隶也一同前往 。 After emancipation, the freed slaves, known as freedmen, settled and built their own towns. 解放后，获得自由的奴隶，即所谓的自由...

France has been gripped this month by the so-called Charlie Hebdo trial against the alleged accomplices of Islamists, who attacked a French satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in 2015. 本月，法国正深陷所谓的《查理周刊》案审判之中，该案针对2015年袭击一家法国讽刺报纸和一家犹太洁食超市的伊斯兰主义者的涉嫌同谋者。 It was the first of a string of terror attacks along with the Islamist insurgen...

Would you like to speak with a British accent? What if I told you that there is no singular 'British' accent? In fact, linguists estimate that there are 40-60 regional accents across the UK, some of which exist very close together geographically. For instance, you can listen to Manchester's 'Mancunian' accent and then Liverpool's distinct 'Scouse' accent after just a 50-minute car or train ride. S...

More hostages might be released in Gaza. VOA's Jeff Caster reports. 加沙可能会释放更多人质。美国之音记者杰夫·卡斯特（Jeff Caster）报道。 The U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas said in a statement Friday it is willing to release an American-Israeli hostage, Eden Alexander, along with the bodies of four dual nationals who died in captivity. 被美国认定为恐怖组织的哈马斯周五在一份声明中表示，愿意释...

Britain's leader encouraged his global counterparts to continue pushing for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at the start of a virtual meeting Saturday intended to end the fighting between the two countries. 英国领导人在周六旨在结束两国战斗的虚拟会议开始时鼓励全球同行继续推动俄罗斯和乌克兰停火。 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a virtual meeting of mostly European leaders that "soone...

Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby. 游客们来到美国国家植物园观赏各类植物，享受大自然带来的和平与宁静。这位女士在附近工作。 "Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for almost for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice." “感觉就像城市里的森林，这样我能有大...

Candles, flowers, and handcrafted signs surround the United States Supreme Court in memory of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died Friday. It just kind of crushed me. 蜡烛、鲜花和手工制作的标语环绕在美国最高法院周围，以纪念周五去世的大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格。这真的让我心碎。 While Ginsburg's health had been deteriorating for the past several years, her death stunned many Americans including presid...

Good news this week for explorers seeking extraterrestriallife. 本周对于寻找外星生命的探险家来说是个好消息。 Scientists say they have detected a gas called phosphine swirling in the highly acidic clouds of venus. 科学家表示，他们在金星酸性极高的云层中探测到了一种名为磷化氢的气体。 But the European Southern Observatory's Itziar de Gregorio says it is probably too soon to say life exists on the plan...

Anyone who watches team sports may be familiar with the sight of players joining a huddle before a big match. Researchers studying chimpanzees and bonobos in African sanctuaries found our closest ape relatives do something similar before feeding time, one of the most competitive moments in their day. 经常观看团队体育比赛的人，对赛前队员们围成一圈加油打气的场景应该不会陌生。在非洲多家灵长类动物保护...

It was initially valued at $30 million, but Gus, as the T-rex has been affectionately named, went for much more after a bidding battle that lasted over 10 minutes. Cassandra Hatton, worldwide head of natural history at Sotheby's, said the price reflected the time to excavate and reconstruct the specimen and its quality. 这具霸王龙化石被亲切地命名为 “格斯”，最初估价为 3000 万美元。然而，在持续十多...

It's a topic people usually avoid, yet it's a universal human experience. Flatulence, affectionately known as farting, is simply the releasing of gas from the backside. The word itself traces back to the Latin 'flatus', which literally means 'a blowing' or 'wind.' While it is often the butt of the joke, we do it for very practical reasons, which boil down to digestion. Most mammals have a complex,...

Today's youth are reinventing what it means to be cool. A surprising number of Gen Zers are actively looking to the past. They are choosing to romanticise old-school tech relics like CDs, wired headphones, and weighty digital cameras. This love for all things vintage extends into their wardrobes with a massive resurgence of Y2K (year 2000) fashion. Friday nights are increasingly filled with board...

A major new exhibition in the heart of Washington celebrates the artistic achievements, of Native American women with more than 80 works of art. 华盛顿市中心的一个大型全新展览展出了八十多件艺术品， 以此庆祝美国土著妇女的艺术成就。 Parts of our people, Native women artists is the first exhibit of its kind, says Anya Montiel,curatorof American and Native American Women's Art and Crafts, at the Renwi...

So far,this thriving and unique coral reef in Red Sea waters off Egypt is a climate change survivor. 到目前为止，埃及红海水域中这片繁茂而独特的珊瑚礁是气候变化的幸存者。 While warmer waters bleach reefs everywhere, the ecosystem in the Gulf of Aqaba stands strong, and may hold the key to receding other reefs if it can survive the crowds of tourists. 虽然水温上升导致全球珊瑚礁白化， 但亚喀巴湾的生...

In a fantasy world, a celebrity chef like Aaron Sanchez would prepare all of your meals, and use only sustainably sourced organic produce. 在幻想世界里，像亚伦·桑切斯这样的名厨会为你准备所有餐食，并且只使用原料来源可持续的有机农产品。 Reality is everyone has to shop for and prepare our own food at some point. 现实是每个人在某个时刻都得自己去采购和准备食物。 How can you be sure that you're getting...

Welsh born designer Lucy Jones says she's been interested in fashion since she was a child, starting when her parents gave her a sewing machine. 威尔士出生的设计师露西·琼斯表示她从小就对时尚感兴趣，这始于父母送给她一台缝纫机的时候。 When I was 19 years old, I was really feisty, fiery, brave. I thought moving all the way to New York from Wales, where there are more sheep than people. 当我十九岁的时...

A nine-to-five office job isn't for these women. 朝九晚五的办公室工作不适合这些女性。 Instead, they work construction and they do it for the same reasons the men do, because they find construction work more fulfilling. 相反，她们从事建筑工作，她们从事该行业的原因和男人一样，因为她们觉得建筑工作更有成就感。 Being able to see the bigger picture, being a part of something bigger, so driving by the bu...

I was watching the world news of all these statues coming down and all this national attention to these iconic figures of history and what they represent and the energy and power that it generated through Black Lives Matter. 我当时正在看全球新闻，看到所有这些雕像被推倒，看到全国都在关注这些具有标志性意义的历史人物以及他们所代表的意义，还有“黑人的命也是命”运动所引发的那种能量和影响力。 People who a...

It's the slave man talented. That's the problem. That's the heart of the problem. 有才华的是那些受压迫的人。这就是问题所在。这就是问题的核心。 We are inclined to do the things that we do because we don't feel like there's anything else we can do. 我们倾向于做那些我们正在做的事情，是因为我们觉得别无选择。 According to the documentary, Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans 15 years ago, exacer...

Since this past February, VOA has talked toscores ofrefugees in Turkey who have tried and failed to get into Greece. 自今年二月以来，美国之音采访了土耳其境内数十名试图进入希腊但失败的难民。 Back then, the Turkish government was openly encouraging them to make the trip. 当时，土耳其政府公开鼓励他们进行偷渡。 But the Greek government has told them not to come and many refugees report being beaten, r...

The ten-centimetre-wide fossil was unearthed during an expedition to James Ross Island four decades ago. 这块宽约 10 厘米的化石，是在四十年前一次对詹姆斯·罗斯岛的科学考察活动中出土的。 Its discovery was recorded in a field notebook with a tiny sketch of the fossil and a note saying vertebra from a large reptile. But that was as far as the identification went, until the fossil was spotted amongst t...

We've all been there. Ending up with a worse exam result than you had hoped for or expected, a friend cancelling a plan you were really looking forward to, or your favourite sports team losing a game. Disappointment is an unhappy feeling when there is a gap between your expectations and reality, when something you desired failed to materialise. It's a normal and natural reaction, but what to do? I...

This is an autonomous robot. It operates essentially on its own. It's on a program. 这是一个自动机器人，基本上是自主运作的，内部自带写好的程序。 Well, it's extremely useful because it frees up our officers to concentrate on, you know, other important community policing matters. 它非常有用，因为帮我们的警员减轻了负担，让我们集中精力处理社区中其他重要的警务。 It is a live monitoring system, so we ar...

According to the National Center for Health Statistics of the United States, roughly 37 percent of US adults consume fast food on a daily basis. 根据美国国家卫生统计中心的数据，美国约有37％的成年人每天食用快餐。 The center found a significant rise in the number of severe obesity cases in very young children aged 2 to 5. 该中心发现，在2至5岁的幼儿中，严重肥胖的病例数显著增加。 Thank you so much for...