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今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:come down on like a ton of bricks。Ton,是一吨两吨的吨; brick,是砖头的意思。A ton of bricks一吨重的砖头砸下来,想想都让人不寒而栗。Come down on like a ton of bricks,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

经济学人音频版 Unit21:United States-Lexington

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人音频版

From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting. You have just presented a plan to your business partners. They want to give suggestions for how to make your plan better. The conversation might sound like th

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By Doug Levine Washington 28 October 2006 Saxophonist Michael Lington became a fan of American jazz while growing up in his native Denmark. It was a passion so strong that he eventually settled down in the U.S. and launched a recording career. In a

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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THIS IS AMERICA -April 29, 2002: Washington Monument By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: The tallest structure in America’s capital city is the Washington Monument. It is named for George Washington, the f

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- American Andy Roddick eased into third round of the ATP Washington Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Roddick, a three-time Washington champion, defeated Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-4, 6-4 in just 84 minutes. I accompli

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec

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Billy Currington是一位美国乡村歌手。他从2003年起至今推出了五张专辑,其中有十支单曲都登上了Billboard的乡村音乐流行榜和乡村之声榜。这七支冠军单曲Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right, Good Directions, Pe

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in the United States have grown genetically engineered crops since the late nineteen nineties. Now, a federal agency is deciding whether to let a genetically modified animal into the food su

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Aging New York Piano Virtuoso Looks Back NEW YORK The peaceful atmosphere in the Upper West Side apartment where 92-year-old Walter Hautzig plays his piano amid family photographs and framed honors is many worlds away from the pre-war Vienna where he

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-When you made your offer, I thought you might be a great lady nurse and faint at the sight of blood, but I see you're made of sterner stuff. -It's definitely the heart. It's almost too quiet to hear at all. -I'm afraid so. -I've been thinking about

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Lady Mary: O'Brien told her Bates can't do thejob properly. Why was he taken on ? Anna:Oh, he was Lord Grantham's batman when he was fighting the Boers. LadyMary: I know that, but even so. Anna:I think it's romantic. LadyMary: I don't. How can a vale

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英文歌词: We took the long way home, you held my hand, The days so full of all the things we had planned. We walked beyond the green, beyond the day. We shared a dream that i let slip away. I had to find myself. I had to find myself. No use looking

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I only slept for a couple of hours In the back of my buddy's truck I must be runnin' on solar power 'Cause I'm ready to crank back up And the boys are all bangin' on cheap guitars And the girls are all rockin' their bikini tops And that big ball's wa

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Greg Watson has promoted solar power around the world for years. I work in green [technology] for an international development bank, [and] Im always saying, Look, the costs are down, there are all these incentives, really it makes ec

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Today we visit the Channel Islands. The Channel Islands are a group of islands in the English Channel, close to the north coast of France. But they are not part of France. And they are not really part of Britain either. The British Queen is also rule

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The inter-island ferry between the North and the South Islands at the moment travels between Wellington and Picton. The ferry carries people, cars, trucks and trains (without the engine). It takes about three hours. The government is looking at chang

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

Don't you hate hearing that clock on the wall chimming saying its time and Don't you just wish we could stay right here together all day long You know it wouldn't be a crime if we crawled back into bed got as close as we could get Tried to figure out

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The way you stumble in the kitchen Looking for that first cup of joe How you put on your mascara Starin' in the mirror on your tippy-toes And if you wonder why I love you baby I can boil it down to just one thing Chorus Yeah everything Every little t

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a skeleton in the cupboard
accident operating condition
achromatic map
action of subrogation
adherent desmosome
air seperation plant
aircraft flutter
alacriousness
allowed energy bands
anonymizations
automatic speed control
axonapraxia
ball bearing socket
bifid pelvis
buckplate
cherrington
closing arguments
cold-storage
combustion train
complex systems
cornus ulotricha schneid et wagner
crystal controlled converter
deep punching
differential perpentuation
digital read-out
dual spoll van
edpm
elatetrometer
electrical wiring plan
electrically-powereds
enhanced lateral mode confinement
extraterrestrial meteorite
float around
fuck-ups
glasscock
Goumbati
grady
grasped the nettle
gross distortion
hepatogastric
hexacosyl alcohol
hexanitride
idle man hours
implements of production
infibred
interaction of magnetic dipoles
kelyphyte
Kommunarsk
large-volumes
lattice orientation
levable
load line convention
lps
luminous efficacy
memory gradient method
Molothrus
monospora
Mozilla Firefox
Myōkō-san
nearly ready
neilds
neophiles
neutral nitrogen
night watchman state
Notikewin R.
OBSPL
orifice aerator
palter with someone
pareleidin
parrel truck
part shape
Pilas Grp.
pimeluria
porphyras
possibility by volume
poststructuralism
private(patient)
profusely
querida
re-entrant syncline
review lessons
rhinopomatids
ridge fold
rotating guide vane
sakuranomiya
seductress
set points
shirron
shortage
souragne
stub acme thread
tankian
thermogravimetric work
truncated process
Tymabulak
vacuum plant
vein of aqueduct of vestibule
vexillarius
wanapums
weather observation
whigs'
wholetail