If you have ever sat on a tack by mistake, you'll know that tacks are very sharp. Used correctly, they are quite useful for posting notices on bulletin boards, for example. However, if touched incorrectly, their sharpness can hurt you. When we say th

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Hello to you, I'm Creshon Saunders at the CNN.com Newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NOWS. Israel is pounding Gaza with airstrikes for a second day in a row. Hamas militants are the target and Israeli Prime Minister E

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尤德思‧巴克提兹娜是俄罗斯本土艺术家,她用照片幽默地讽刺社会规范。这场演说展示了俄罗斯的青少年文化,简短有趣地提示大家,不必太严肃,多些戏谑的趣味。

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A quarter of million teenagers are running the risk of potentially fatal skin cancers by using sunbeds. Two big surveys done by scientists from cancer research UK, show that girls as young as eleven succumb to peer pressure, may using tanning palace.

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Kenyan Political Satire Show Prepares for Electi The XYZ Show, now in its seventh season, satirizes Kenyas politicians and other personalities using puppets. No well-known figure is spared, and right now, political candidates are being lampooned in t

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Another difficulty with giving a Harvard commencement address is that some students may disapprove of the fact that I will borrow material from previous speeches, as well from others. I ask that you forgive me for two reasons. 在哈佛大学毕业典礼

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《奇爱博士》(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)是美国导演斯坦利库布里克根据彼得乔治小说《红色警戒》改编的一部黑色幽默喜剧片,于1964年在美国上映。本片是一部

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He wanted a one-stop digital music store. 他希望有一站式的数码音乐商店 What Steve needed to do to launch iTunes, 乔布斯推出iTunes was convince the record companies 要做的是说服各大唱片公司 and the music publishers, 和音

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acerbic刻薄 acrid呛人的 affront侮辱 betray背叛 conscience良心 despise蔑视 disdain不屑 descent高雅 exaggerate夸张 insult侮辱 irony讽刺 ludicrous荒谬 mature成 mock嘲笑 provoke挑拨 passive消极分子 perverse反常 persecu

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Indeed, despite its efforts, despite the powerful methods it used to split this ice, the Nautilus was reduced to immobility. 的确,不管它怎样努力,不管它用来冲破冰块的力量有多强大,诺第留斯号终归弄得纹丝不动。

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1. More violence in Iraq after gunmen stormed a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing at least three people and wounding several others. The cause of the clash is not known. 2. Al-Qaeda's second-in-command

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Online Video Service Targets Infants These days it seems like American television and videos have us in their clutches from cradle to grave. On the grave side, the Home Box Office cable-TV show Six Feet Under, about a family-owned funeral home, ran f

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儿童早教节目,是对是错? These days it seems like American television and videos have us in their clutches from cradle tograve. On the grave side, the Home Box Office cable-TV show Six Feet Under, about afamily-owned funeral home, ran for

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Lesson 44 Lay 1.We've got no time to lay back. 2.I won't lay a finger on them. 3.Let me lay it on the line. 4.Let's lay our cards on the table. 5.The flu laid me up for tree days. 6.The monitor's been laying for you. 7.Lay off the sarcastic remarks,O

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Getting started is easy, simple, and doable. Yet procrastinating is also easy to do. Ironic isn't it? But the truth is, delaying what you've been dying to do isn't going to benefit you. 开始行动其实很简单,也是可行的。 然而拖延也很

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Xiaogao:Hey, JingJing! Happy New Year! 小高:嗨,京晶,新年快乐! Jingjing:Hey, XiaoGao! The same to you! I can't believe it's already 2016! My, how time flies! 京晶:嗨,小高,新年快乐!真不敢相信已经到2016年了,天

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Jo: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Jo. Lily: And I'm Lily. 两分钟的地道英语专门为大家介绍一些英语课堂上学不到的新词新语,那 Jo,我们今天要学什么呢? Jo: It's cheeky C.H.E.E.K.Y

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英语幽默小短文 I work for 7up! 我可是在七喜公司工作呀 Four best friends met at the hospital since their wives were giving births to their babies. The nurse comes up to the first man and says, Congratulations, you got twins. The man

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The Divine Comedy是英国流行乐坛的鬼才音乐人Neil Hannon化名的一人团体,这首A Lady Of A Certain Age是一首很诗意的轻松小品,伴奏是典雅的弦乐,掺杂着民谣的味道。这首歌选自专辑Victory For The Com

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One of the Nautilus's men presented me with a streamlined rifle whose butt was boilerplate steel, hollow inside, and of fairly large dimensions. 诺第留斯号船上的一个船员拿一支很简单的枪给我看。枪托是钢片制的,中空,体

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