TEXT: I'm Adam Phillips, sitting in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble this week on Wordmaster. Today, it's the language of bicycle, or bike, messengers. Businesses in every major American city rely on bike messengers to zip in and out of traffic at

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: E-mail is just one of the benefits of the Internet. Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER we look at learning English online. RS: Charles Kelly is an English professor who has devoted countless hours to three Web sites

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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 Entertaining Journal of Law. David Franklin is a visiting

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- slang on campus. RS: Our friend Dianne Gray, an English teacher in Moscow, has a student who would like to know some of the slang used by students at American colleges and unive

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the art of rap. This form of music sprang from the hip-hop culture of young, urban African Americans. RS: But, as often happens with black music, it is a white artist who is gett

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on Wordmaster we talk about a few of the differences between American English and British English. RS: Its a question we often get. After all, some differences can lead to embarrassment, others to pl

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Just in time for those unattainable New Years resolutions, the art -- and danger -- of making excuses. SCHLENKER: What excuses do is try to diminish personal responsibility.RS: Bar

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

一个英语单词可分为三部分:前缀(prefix)词根(root)后缀(suffix)。位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀,可以改变单词的意思。 sur- 表示超过,外加 surcharge = sur + charge(收费,负担) n

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

一个英语单词可分为三部分:前缀(prefix)词根(root)后缀(suffix)。位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀,可以改变单词的意思。 trans-表示横过,越过 transmit = trans + mit(送) 送出去 vt. 传

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