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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the complex-compound sentence. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Most writers worth their fingertip calluses begin as avid readers. We read books, magazines, and websites indiscriminately until we start to notice the w

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(234) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Estranged Family Gets Sports Fix in 'Trouble With The Curve' In Trouble With The Curve, Gus Lobel knows more about scouting new talent for baseball teams than anyone else in the business; but his failing eyesight and old-fashioned attitudes may end h

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(239) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(一月)

After suffering a life-threatening illness, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter had time to reassess her priorities. She came to believe in more fully appreciating the blessings each day brings From NPR News, this is weekend edition. I am Liane

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年NPR美国国家公共电台

P: Hey Yang Chen why are you playing Hail to the chief? I thought we were a sports show - are we going political? Y: Not really. You see, Patrick, the presidential election is in its final stretch - the home stretch - the final lap - just like in长跑

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 体育美语

Intonation can indicate completely different meanings for otherwise similar words or phrases. For example, an English teacher teaches English, but an English teacher is from England; French class is where you study French, but French class is Gallic

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 美式英语正音训练

Grammar Girl here. Today, Bonnie Trenga will help us choose better transition words. This article could make you a tad hungry, because today were comparing the art of writing to the art of making a sandwich. In fact, just for today, we might need to

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(189) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

In 1963, President John Kennedy gave a famous speech at American University. In the speech, Kennedy said the following lines: Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human desti

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(192) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(九)月

to throw a curve to throw for a loop 美国人在打棒球时经常喜欢发曲线球,使球的方向会发生突变,这样给对方造成错觉,不能回击那个球。这和其他球类运动,

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(321) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Monday's meeting at the White House between President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama is the latest symbol of a presidential transition that appears to be moving ahead smoothly, at least initially. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(218) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Scientists Find Compound in Smoke that Helps Seeds Grow By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A di

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(223) / 评论(0) 分类 农业与发展

Both U.S. President George Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, are emphasizing the importance of a smooth transition, so Mr. Obama can tackle the country's economic problems as soon as he takes office on January 20. VOA's Kent Klein reports from W

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(169) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

The United Nation's World Food Program says rogue members of Somalia's extremist al-Shabab group attempted to raid its compound late Sunday in the Somali town of Wajid, about 300 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu. World Food Program spokesman, Peter

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(256) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(八月)

What do these five words have in common: hotdog, fireworks, well-being, waistline, sunset and ice cream? They could all describe a fun holiday celebration. For example: My holiday was wonderful! I went to a friends party and we laughed, ate and had a

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(274) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

今天我们要学的词是transition。 Transition, 是过渡的意思。A smooth transition, 就是平稳过渡。古巴总统卡斯特罗宣布辞去国务委员会主席的职务。美国总统布什表示,希望古巴能由此开始向民主过渡

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(207) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

By Elizabeth Carlassare. Todays topic is compound interest. Albert Einstein is often quoted as having said something to the effect that compound interest is the greatest wonder of the universe. Its an urban legend, but it packs some punch! In todays

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(241) / 评论(0) 分类 货币英语

今天我们要学的词是transition。 Transition, 是过渡的意思。A smooth transition, 就是平稳过渡。古巴总统卡斯特罗宣布辞去国务委员会主席的职务。美国总统布什表示,希望古巴能由此开始向民主过渡

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(193) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

By Al Pessin Pentagon 19 October 2007 The U.S. military's effort to rebuild major infrastructure in Iraq will be winding down during the coming year, leaving the Iraqi government to fund the effort and to find engineers capable of handling the projec

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(212) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

今天又要学两个在总统大选年里新闻界时常会用到的习惯用语,而且这两个习惯用语还是从美国人最心爱的消遣活动: 棒球赛中借用来的。 这两个习惯用语都和用牛皮制成的结结实实的棒球有

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(515) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

NATO's secretary-general says foreign forces in Afghanistan will remain on combat duty during the scheduled transition to Afghan security control in 2014. That statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen came after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Ame

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(190) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The living compound of the former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan's northwest city of Abbottabad is being demolished, said one local media report. Local Urdu TV channel Express said that the front part of bin

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(186) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻
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adulterises
advanced technology attachment packet interface
aerooxidase
Afrindian
air communications officer
alternating current/direct current
alumina foam
auxiliary line of sight
awareness
be careless with
Beag, Loch
built-by
continuous composite servo
cytochrome c reductase
decreolization
Deltin
digital nerve block anesthesia
disjasket
distribution of errors
dow-jones industrial averages
Echinosteliaceae
electric wave science
embedded database
enough to make a saint swear
eukaryocyte
euodynerus dantici nigrescens
fatty acid amide
FERUNGULATA
formatted image
frame and brick veneer construction
Fresnel rhombus
have no words for sth.
heliolatries
HEOS
hepatic congestion
hereditary progressive nephritis
hopper chute washout drum
hyperconical horn
invariety
judgemental
juniperic acid
keyboard input simulation
kronecker product of designs
kufis
Lafite
land transportation radio services
lending of development funds
let in for
lightning call
Lindernia ciliata
lithophotogravure
luckite
macrosociologists
mechanical method
mergerless
Mumbaikars
nassarius dealbatus
Neurocil
nomis
over-strength
overwearing
Pararotalia
pillionwise
Pinus strobus L.
pipracils
pivot point layout
plug in card
porou
positive space
pryer
pyrolytic-graphite semiconductor
quasi market
radiant heat
reciprocating conveyor continuous centrifugal
reversibly
scara manipulator
scatter gap
shirey
simple selsyn motor system
sleeper tamping
solderless breadboard
state-of-the-city
stern gland bearing
streaking lineation
take a shoot
take legal proceedings against someone
tefft
tovi
trende
tuelfed
turnkey investment
twat-hole
two position three way directional control valve
unconditional liquidity
Unna's mulls
van der waalss
variable speed v belt drive
velour leather
Verde Island Pass.
vibration cylinder barometer
walk out the door