get one's ass in gear
(US, idiomatic) To exert effective effort; to get going; to get moving; to start producing.

A: Have you bought a bus pass yet? B: I'm not getting one. A: Why is that? B: It's cheaper if I don't buy one. A: Buying a bus pass will save you money. B: How do you figure that? A: There's no limit to how often you can use your bus pass. B: Really?

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(184) / 评论(0) 分类 实用乘车英语

Almost one million primary school children took the 2017 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam, known as the KCPE. Goldalyn Kakuya, a student from Saint Anne's Junior School in Lubao, Kakamega, in West Kenya, received top honors. She received a

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Railways across China are under pressure after the Spring Festival travel rush began on Thursday. To help ensure people make it home for the holiday, the railway authority has added more trains and launched a special ticketing service for migrant wor

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A: Could I buy a bus pass today? B: Which bus pass would you like to purchase? A: What kinds of passes are there? B: There are day passes, weekly passes, monthly passes, and student passes. A: Let me get a student pass. B: Could I see your student ID

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A: I would like to get a bus pass. B: Do you know what kind of pass you want? A: Can you tell me my options? B: There are passes for a day, month, and week, and there are student passes. A: I would like the student pass. B: Let me see your student ID

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A: I need to buy a bus pass. B: What kind of bus pass would you like to buy? A: What are the different kinds? B: You can get a day, weekly, monthly, or student pass. A: Could I get a student pass, please? B: Sure, can I see your student ID? A: Sure,

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 25 July 2007 Country legend George Jones once wrote a letter to Brad Paisley that said, I am counting on you to carry on the tradition and make folks sit up and listen to what good Country music should sound like. As VO

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(七月)

By Jim Stevenson Tianjin, China 24 September 2007 The heavily favored U.S. women's football (soccer) team is getting much needed rest ahead of its Women's World Cup semifinal game with Brazil, VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on this unexpected benefit.

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busting my ass 的意思是让难堪/ 努力工作 例句: I wish the directors just would stop, you know, busting my ass because I already have lots of problems. 我真的希望导演别再为难我,我的麻烦事已经够多了。 Every day I

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参考对话: A: Honey, this is going to be my last cigarette. I'm not gonna smoke again, I promise. A: 宝贝, 这将是我最后一支烟。 我保证不会再抽了。 B: This is going to be your last cigarette, my ass. B: 这会是你的最后一

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As Aesop's lion was going to the forest in company with an ass,who was to assist him with his terrible voice,an impertinent crow called to him from a tree:A pretty companion!Are you not ashamed of yourself to be walking with an ass?Whomsoev

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An ass and an ox,fastened to the same yoke,were draging a waggon.While the ox was pulling with all his might he he broke a horn.The ass swore that he had got no help whatever from his weak companion.Exerting himself in the labour,the ox b

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By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 04 August 2006 Deep divisions within the transitional government of Somalia appear to be worsening, with four more ministers defecting from the administration. International observers fear rising tension in Somalia could engu

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Details about Samsung's next big smartwatch have been trickling out for weeks. But now a new report gives us the most detailed look yet Samsung's next wearable. 关于三星下一代智能手表的细节已流传数周。但现下有一份新报告向我

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今天我们要学的词是gear up。 Gear up, 做好准备。The police are gearing up for a crackdown on drunk driving, 警察正在积极准备采取行动,严厉打击酒后驾车。九月一到,学校就要开学了。Schools all over the co

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The sixth FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off in Germany in June, with the team from the host nation as the two-time defending champion. The United States women's soccer team won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and is ranked number-one in th

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GENEVA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Trade Negotiations(谈判,磋商) Committee on Tuesday that the foremost challenge over the next several weeks is to take the engagement on Doha negotiations to a higher ge

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As an ass was quietly dining on thistles,he beheld a shepherd seated beneath a tree,awakening sweet echoes on his flute,and charming the ears of all within hearing,excepting our discontented lop-eared brute,who thus soliloquized:The world

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SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Italy's 19-year-old Matteo Manassero holed a 12-foot putt for eagle on the third play-off hole to win the Singapore Open on Sunday, beating South African player Louis Oosthuizen. It also makes Manassero the first teenag

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By Steve Herman Kathmandu 13 April 2008 The leader of Nepal's Maoists is trying to reassure his country and the world that the former rebels will play a constructive political role as election returns show the far-left party making a much stronger-th

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