AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we meet two English teachers from Haiti. But first, an update on how schools are trying to reopen following the earthquake in January. VOA's Jeff Swicord was there as some students returned to classes

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词汇大师-- Top Banana Run Around Like a Chicken

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: English teacher Nina Weinstein explains some common idioms in American English. She likes teaching idioms in categories to help her students remember them. NINA WEINSTEIN: Often w

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词汇大师-- Feeling Burned Out

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: The Olympic flame may be out in Vancouver, but we're just getting fired up over terms related to fire. RS: We lit on the idea after our friend and fellow master of words Grant Bar

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词汇大师--A Valentine's Day Test

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: With Valentine's Day coming up this Sunday, we have a subject to set the mood. It's an interview we did a few years ago with the author of The Joy of Text. RS: Kristina Grish base

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词汇大师--If 'the' Dictionary Doesn't List a Word

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We continue our conversation with Rutgers University English professor Jack Lynch. RS: His latest book is The Lexicographer's Dilemma. In it he challenges the idea of treating dic

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词汇大师--Have the Rules of English Changed

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Our guest is English professor Jack Lynch, author of the new book The Lexicographer's Dilemma. RS: Why did you write this book? JACK LYNCH: Well, because I have a number of guides

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词汇大师--Now We're Past the, Uh, First Decade

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W

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词汇大师--Some Online Words to Help Remember a Year

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some words to help us remember 2009. RS: The American Dialect Society, a small scholarly group, just chose its Word of the Year as well as a Word of the Decade. Wordsmith Ben Zimm

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词汇大师-- Five New Year's Resolutions for Learners

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year. LIDA BAKER: My first resolution that I would recommend people ma

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词汇大师-- Happier People Spend Less Time on Small Talk

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a psychologist says well-being is related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations. RS: Matthias Mehl of the University of Arizona led a study in which 79 under

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词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Law and Language

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 21, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster -- language and the law. RS: That's what our guest today writes about in a column for The Green Bag, which calls itself An Entertainin

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词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Listener Questions

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 14, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: November 17, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, English teacher Lida Baker answers some of your questions. RS: Starting with this fro

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词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Language of Terror, Part 1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- language and the impact of the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the United States. RS: Start with something as simple as the date. September eleventh, or 9-11 as American

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词汇大师--How to Avoid Being Seduced by Words

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Our guest is the author of a book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspaper

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词汇大师-- 'House' or 'Home'?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: using the Internet to help make sense of words that are closely related. RS: Like house and home, for example. Both describe a living situation. But house refers to the building,

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词汇大师-- Terms to Chew Over

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: Rosanne Skirble and I serve up a feast of idioms related to health and gluttony, as we present the classic children's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel -- retold by Slangman David Burke. MUSIC: Hansel and G

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词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Race Terms

AA: This is Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- as delegates in South Africa discuss racism, we discuss the language of race. RS: About thirteen percent of Americans are African American. They are now rivaled in number by

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不择手段背单词(728):bawdy淫猥的,下流的

bawdy, ['b?:di] adj 卖淫的，妓女的，好色的＝indecent＝obscene 【例】bawdy house 妓院【记】读：body，body，body。想象，想象，再想象妓女的。【参】bawd（n 鸨母，娼主）【反】decorous（adj 正派得体

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不择手段背单词(726):bauble美观而无价值的饰物

bauble, ['bɔ:bəl] n 花哨美观的小玩意儿；没价值的东西＝trinket 【例】The jester brandished his bauble 小丑挥动着木棒。【记】读：抱吧！反正是一些不值钱的花哨小玩意儿，随便拿

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不择手段背单词(725):battalion营,军队,集团

battalion, [bə'tljən] n 营，大队（军队单位，包含一个指挥部，多个班、连等下属单位）【记】1）读：扶他林。主治：扭伤、拉伤、挫伤和各种关节肌肉疼痛，不仅是刘旋等奥运选手指定用药，

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