Tsipporah

A few weeks after my eighth birthday, my grandmother took me to visit her friend Naomi. The rooms Naomi lived in could have been called a 1) flat, I suppose, but it wasn’t a flat in a modern block.

英美人天天都在说的4000句 13:at loggerheads (with sb

[00:00]P：Never will I sign that paper. Never will the United States ever surrender! [00:05]L：Well, well, we're at loggerheads then, aren't we? [00:08]And I suppose the threat of death to someone with your valorous war record would mean nothing. [

英美人天天都在说的4000句 1、a feather in sb.’s c

[00:17]R：Louis,I'll make a deal1 with you. [00:19]Instead of this petty charge you have against him, you get something really big, [00:22]something that would chuck him in a concentration camp for years. [00:26]Be quite a feather in your cap, would

出国旅游口语一本通 第48期:Having sb Paged 广播找人

第48期:Having sb Paged 广播找人 X:Yes，sir? X:请问先生您有什么事吗? Y:Can I have Mr.J.Smith paged?He said he'd be in the main dining room.Im Mr.J.B. White. Y:你能不能利用广播替我叫一下史密斯先生?他说他会在大餐厅

出国旅游口语一本通 第47期:Looking for sb 找人

第47期:Looking for sb 找人 Y:I just called Mr.Smith in Room 201，but there was no reply.Would you find out if hes still staying there? Y:我刚才打电话给住在201号房的史密斯先生，但没有人接电话。请你查一下他是否还住

趣味青春英语 第123期:Not sb's keeper

Idiom: Not sb's keeper 不是某人的监护人 Hit the book: Quibble Consensus Absolve Conspiracy Coverup Retrofitting Flaw

新西兰英语 794 GCSB

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) is our spy organisation. At the moment, it can only legally spy on foreigners in New Zealand. However this organisation made a mistake spying on Kim Dotcom because he is a permanent resident. Also,

美国俚语:Beat sb to the draw什么意思?

Beat sb to the draw 意思是：比别人抢先一步 例句： We lost the project. Rainbow Company beat us to the draw. 这个项目我们没有拿到，因为彩虹公司抢先了一步。 Mary wanted to buy that painting by Picasso, but another m

美国俚语:Make it up to sb什么意思?

make it up to sb补偿 对进行弥补（指对人） 例句： I don't know what I can do to make it up to you. 我不知道该怎样补偿你。 Ill make it up to you, I promise. 我会补偿你的，我保证。

美国习惯用语:541 call sb. on the carpet

我们今天要学的习惯用语都包括这样一个关键词汇，call。 Call这个词最主要的意思是大声呼唤，但是大家一定知道call 用在不同的习惯用语里意思也会发生相应的变化。例如在今天要学的第一个

英美人天天都在说的4000句 38: carry a torch for sb

[00:00]R：You carry a torch for a girl you dated in high school. [00:03]In high school! For God's sake. You're 22! [00:05]D：Leave me alone! [00:06]R：If you want Caitlin, then talk to Veronica and be with Caitlin. [00:09]If you want Veronica, the

英美人天天都在说的4000句 36: call sb. names

[00:01]F：Why do you do that? [00:02]S：What? [00:04]Call him names. Run him down all the time. [00:07]S：Because, because that's what he is, Mr. Frodo. [00:10]There's naught left in him but lies and deceit. [00:13]It's the Ring he wants. It's all

英美人天天都在说的4000句 199:worth sb.’s salt

[00:01]D：Hey, you're getting good at this! [00:03]They're gonna think you like it! [00:04]E：Pays the bills. How are you, Don? [00:08]D：Huh, it's...day to day. [00:13]E：If she saw how good you look right now, she'd be back. [00:16]I read the O

英美人天天都在说的4000句 155:sb.'s name is mud

[00:00]J：Shit! Hey, get down! Hey! [00:07]C：Hey! Is this what they call copping a feel? [00:09]J：What? No! Get up. Jesus! [00:13]C：What's your name? [00:14]J：My name? Mud... if anybody sees you.

英美人天天都在说的4000句 121:not know sb. from adam

[00:00]N：That does it! Out, you two pixies! Go through the door or the window! [00:04]G：Nick, what's wrong? [00:06]N：What do you call me? You calling me Nick? [00:09]G：Well, Nick, that's your name. [00:10]N：I don't know you from Adam's off

阿里与软银成立合资公司SB Cloud

Alibaba and SoftBank have announced a new joint venture targeting Japans competitive cloud computing market. 阿里巴巴(Alibaba)和软银(SoftBank)宣布成立一家新的合资公司，瞄准日本竞争激烈的云计算市场。 The new company,

英美人天天都在说的4000句 166: stand sb. up

[00:00]C：So what happened? [00:03]K：He never came. [00:05]C：He stood you up. [00:06]K：I wouldn't exactly characterize it in that way. [00:09]I think something happened. Something terrible and unexpected that made it impossible for him to... [

英美人天天都在说的4000句 180:the cat gets sb.’s t

[00:00]S：Cat got your tongue? You weren't so silent this morning. [00:04]A：This morning... yes, I wasn't quite myself. [00:07]S：Well, it's a shame whoever you were couldn't be here tonight. [00:09]A：Cut it out, Susan. We've got to talk.

【简明语法】7.4 It's for sb.和 It's of sb.

1）for sb. 常用于表示事物的特征特点，表示客观形式的形容词，如easy, hard, difficult, interesting, impossible等： It's very hard for him to study two languages. 对他来说学

老外最常用的英文短语 第728期:set somebody up (with sb)

set somebody up (with sb) 将某人介绍给某人 I'm not asking you to set me up. 我不是让你给我介绍对象。 You set me up with the woman that I've dumped twice. 你给我介绍的女人是我甩过两次的。 Is it okay with you if I se