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Topics: Movie The Shawshank Redemption; The Pentagon; to go ahead versus straight ahead; cheesy and quirky; a few quarters short of a buck Words: redemption to be convicted sentence parole inmate tax warden diploma swamp stable Cold War mission to go

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(273) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

《肖申克的救赎》(The Shawshank Redemption)取自斯蒂芬金《不同的季节》中收录的《丽塔海华丝及萧山克监狱的救赎》而改编成的《肖申克的救赎》剧本,并由弗兰克达拉邦特执导,蒂姆罗宾斯

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年ESL之商务英语

‘How can you be so obtuse?‘ Andy said, so low that Chester could barely hear. But he heard the warden just fine. ‘What? What did you call me?‘ ‘Obtuse? Andy cried. ‘Is it deliberate?‘ ‘

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

By World Series time of 1950 - this was the year Bobby Thompson hit his famous home run at the end of the season, you will remember - Andy was having no more trouble from the sisters. Stammas and Hadl

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著

影片对白 ANDY: My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She's beautiful. God, I loved her. But I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(236) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

影片对白 RED: He's got his fingers in a lot of pies , from what I hear. ANDY: What you hear isn't half of it. He's got scams you haven't dreamed of. Kickbacks on his kickbacks. There's a river of dirty money flowing through this place. RED: Can be a

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(185) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

影片对白 RED: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in word

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(221) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

影片对白 RED: What the hell's going on? SNOOZE: You tell me. One second he was fine, then out came the knife. RED: Brooks, Brooks, we can talk about this right? BROOKS: Nothing left to talk about! It's damn all talked out! I'm gonna kill him, cut hi

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(225) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

影片对白 RED: And that's how it came to pass, that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of '49 wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning, drinking icy cold Bohemian sty

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(240) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

影片对白 MAN #1: Sit. MAN #2: We see by your file you've served twenty years of a life sentence . RED: Yes, sir. MAN #3: You feel you've been rehabilitated ? RED: Yes, sir. Absolutely. I've learned my lesson. I can honestly say I'm a changed man. I'

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(231) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英语

Finance and economics 财经商业 Monetary policy in America 美国的货币政策 Taper tiger 逐渐变弱的老虎 The Federal Reserve surprises everyone by changing nothing 美国联邦储备委员保持政策不变让人们感到惊奇 SHORTLY a

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(171) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Lesson 55 Needles and Pins 第55课 缝衣针和大头针 Let us take a needle in your hand and look at it carefully. What do you see? There is a sharp point at one end. This makes it easy to push the needle through the cloth when you are sewing. 小朋

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 英国学生科学读本

Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. 生命就像一盒巧克力,结果往往出人意料。 《阿甘正传Forrest Gump》 Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 希望是美好

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(177) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

今天我们要学的词是taper off。 Taper off, 是逐步减弱,逐步停止的意思。The number of tourists in the beach area tapered off after the peak season, 旅游旺季结束后,到海边来玩的游客慢慢减少了。Sales are expec

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(211) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Love them or hate them, Crocs the rubber clogs that started out in 2002 as boater-floaters for Jimmy Buffett types in Florida but have now sold more than 300 million pairs in 90 countries are here to stay. 卡洛驰于2002年创建在佛罗里达,当

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

今天我们要学的词是taper off。 Taper off, 是逐步减弱,逐步停止的意思。The number of tourists in the beach area tapered off after the peak season, 旅游旺季结束后,到海边来玩的游客慢慢减少了。Sales are expec

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

Where there was discord, Donald Trump has remarkably brought harmony. 哪里有不和谐之处,唐纳德.特朗普(Donald Trump)便引人注目地带来了和谐。 He has brought peace between the markets and Janet Yellen, as traders at last appea

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

I may not be a good BFF, I may not throw a great party, 或许我不是个好死党,或许我不懂怎么办好派对 but I do know where to find a free bus to prison. 可我知道去哪里坐免费监狱巴士 Hey, everybody. We got a birthday gir

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 打工姐妹花第一季

Divorce 离婚 Work to rule 依法力争 England becomes a slightly worse place for idle ex-wives 英格兰不再是那些懒散前妻们的理想之地 ENGLAND has long been the jurisdiction of choice for wives who have the luxury of being able to c

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(209) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Italy's labour market 意大利的劳动市场 Marching to a different tune 变奏进行中 A bold move to free up employment 开放就业市场的大胆举措 WHILE many people's eyes were on Greece, another southern European country was taking a ve

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列
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adult rickets halisteresis
agape love
armed service electrostandard agency(asesa)
auriphone
averroist
bay crossing
BCG vaccine
biological damage
blematogen
bright-line spectrum
caincas
caramiphen
cargo ballast handling simulator
catalog data base
clip-on microphone
collection charge
component family
condensation of ester
cooked cured meat
cooked food
Crassius auratus
creeping spike rush
cross-computer software
dacher
descater
distribution entry
dobutamines
dominant nation chauvinism
drop testing machine
EPR spectrum
espringale (mediaeval europe)
extraction ventilation system
falciparum
food reservoir
formosan field mouse
Frerichs' theory
fringe trees
Gnetatae
hardcovers
hewest
hydaulic vertical ship lift
infundibuloneurohypophysitis
inter-domain sharing
internal sort
job input queue
kidney governing reproduction
mangan-uralite
megalodactyly
methylene imine
microautoradiography
Misratah(Misurata)
momo
multiple-instruction flow computer
Nambale
NEBST
network integrity
noctilionids
Nocton
nonfamiliar
ovarian angiodystrophy
parnahibas
phillis wheatleys
photistor (photo transistor)
photron
piehole
plastices
potassium ethylsulfate
preventive attacks
proneuromast
put-up on
raise to life
re-brand
recursive grammar
residuary devisee
rock-pop
Salvia prionitis
semi-changeable ROM
semiautomatic welding
silent attrition
slantling
soil discharge
stand along
stone peat
Strunian Age
tennis match
Trisuli Bāzār
umd
unifloral
uniterminal
unmastered
uptilts
Useneter
user defined function
vertical center line
volatile laurel oil
waiata ngahau (maori)
water spindle
wind erosion
wing bollard
woldercan
wunderkammers
YMMD