The producer was Lawan Daives. The Voice of America invites you to listen again next week at the same time to another American story told in Special English.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

He invites us to hear the sweep of the scythe in those s sounds themselves, I think, and maybe even to hear the workers huff and puff, his rhythmic exhalation in the w's, which alternate and interact with those s's.

他让我们倾听镰刀扫过的声音,我觉得应该是这些s的发音上,也可能是听着劳动者的喘息声，他的有节奏的w似的发声，跟s音交替着互动。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Everything about me invites you in.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Everything about me invites you in, my voice, my face, even my smell.

VOA: standard.other