聘礼

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语1+1

We attended the wedding of an acquaintance's son. Because we did not know the young man or his bride, we decided to send them a practical household gift, a fire extinguisher. Apparently, the couple ma

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(244) / 评论(0) 分类 英汉幽默故事选读

They are hacked out of the earth, cut, polished and bought and sold along the way -- to finally be shown in all their glory. Gems, these tiny bits of mineral formations from the mines of South Africa, Burma, Brazil, Colombia, Russia or Canada eventu

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

DC Exhibit Brings Renaissance Master Out of the Shadows With 44 paintings on display until May 3, the National Gallery of Art is introducing Piero di Cosimo to the public. Piero has never had a major retrospective, ever in the United States or Italy,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(四月)

In the Dong language, Dimen means the origin of spring. 地扪在侗语里的意思是泉水之源。 Dimen Village sits at the origin of Qingshui River. 地处清水江源头的地扪村。 It mostly rains throughout a year. 一年中阴雨天居多。

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(七)月

Being betrothed means she wears the insignia of betrothal: engagement rings, and all the gifts Pilatus has given her -- jewels, earrings, necklaces, and the pendants. She may even wear her myrtle crown. 订了婚就代表着她身上配戴着有订婚象

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

Has she got the gift of the gab? Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Neil. Helen: 大家好,我是 Helen。 Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time, but you probably won't find in your dic

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 地道英语在线听

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it in the smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the men at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotiating until one's face

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(318) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

The rocketing cost of betrothal gifts in China is placing an increasing burden on men and their families. Such gifts are traditionally given by the groom's family to the bride's. 中国彩礼的飞快增长,正在加重男方及其家庭的负担。这

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Shop-assistant : May I help you, sir? Mr. Yung : Er …I wart to buy my wife a gift for Christmas, but I don't know what she would like. Shop- assistant : How about an evening gown? These are all from

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 英文名句短语

A: Man, Im freaking out! You gotta help me! B: Whoa, whoa, take it easy, relax. Geez, youre sweating like a pig! Whats going on? A: I cant go through with this! I just cant! Im not ready for marriage! What was I thinking? Im only thirty five years ol

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正地道美语

今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们要学的词是regift。Regift, 意思是把自己收到的没用的礼物拿来转送给别人。最新调查显示,36 % of U.S. adults will regift this year, 美国36%的成年人今年都会把收到的礼物转送给别人。Regifti

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

这是一篇家长写给老师的感谢信,字里行间透出对老师深深地敬意和感激! It is the last day of the school year and I stand empty-handed with no gift to give you. It isn't that I haven't tried to think of something thoughtfu

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

My son, Cass, has been playing the piano for over a year. He loves it! He practices at home, and attends his weekly class religiously. He really has the discipline thing 'down' as we say, meaning that he understands why and how to be disciplined. I a

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

今天我们要学的词是gift card。Gift card, 就是可以在商场使用的代金卡。新年到了,亲朋好友们通常会互相交换礼物。 If you don't know exactly what to buy, gift cards might be a good idea, 如果你不知道该买什

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

It was at the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist's son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said, I bet I know what it is. Some flowers. That's right the boy said, but

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

In Chinese culture, after engagement, a man has to give the bride's family a betrothal gift, known as Caili in Chinese, to get married. Nowadays, the Caili tradition has become more like a commercial transaction, and can place a heavy financial burde

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 2016CRI中国国际广播电台

不管看影视剧也好,小说也罢,通常要提到订婚仪式,肯定就有男主角给女主角戴戒指的场景,这个订婚戒指叫做engagement ring我们也都知道。不过,最近有个新趋势,女方也开始给男方送订婚

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语
学英语单词
15-Lipoxygenase
acyl species
adenylic acid deaminase
adlumine
air gun pattern
at seasons
atmospheric gases
autostainers
b.c.e
bartonite
bats away
be in the custody of sb.
bind session request
Blumberg sign
bourbon red(turkey)
broad-leaved garlic
broham
campodean
canned food in brine
cauky
cenoscelis lateralis
ceramic metal composite
chromazurine
cock-sucking
cofacter
collecting tray
concrete member
coordinating conjunction
creigh
dashtop
dermatological pharmacology
differential earnings
differential protective device
discrete wave train
dorriet
drug hepatitis
earth-termination system
epileptology
F. B. R.
filly foal
fixed interest loan stock
flat spot
Fordville
Gabriel reaction
gangsta-rap
graeca
grew up
h(a)emochrome
heart function
heat treated casting
hen harriers
high pressure cutout
high-touch
historical stratigraphy
international six-meter class
jockocracies
john xxiiis
korey
large-bore engine
low-birthweight
malicious prosecution
mansios
market information
matched stack
monoptote
mulga scrub
no load relay
nondesigners
nondilating
oxyfuel
page-three girl
Palm's theorem
peninsula effect
plateletcrit
polished condensate
predestinarians
pressure-recording system
pseud(o)acousis
Regular Air Force
Saturday
say nay to
separate lens
shadow masking
silicon on insulator substrate
sucrosic dolomite
sword needle
table syrup
terateslas
the five classics
turret defilade
UCC (universal classification system)
unlayered
unstuff
untruthfulness
UV irradiation
vaportight
vegetable kingdom
Villatobas
wagan
water toughening
werder