M: have you thought of moving at all Sarah? S: weve thought about it, but my husband and I cant afford it right now. The only thing we could afford would be living in the slums, which is something I dont want to do. M: buying a house can be expensive

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(175) / 评论(0) 分类 生活英语情景口语

Sierra Leone to Sell Multi-million Dollar Diamond to Help Poor Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by selling a large uncut diamond. It is believed to be one of the largest diamonds in the world. The public sale w

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十)月

1. Police say a wounded man is the sole suspect in the shooting of six drug squad police officers who were serving a search warrant in Utah. One officer was dead and the rest of the wounded are in the hospital. 2. A deadly wave of explosions has stru

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2012(一月)

Getting the Most From Online Shopping Even the most enthusiastic shopper has a bad day sometimes: You can't find what you want, every second person in the crowd seems intent on bumping into you, and y

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Well, well, here comes the sun, and the moon is looking great too. 哎哟,哎哟,阳光美女驾到,身后两轮满月丰臀也美丽动人。 Oh, Earl, your flirting is just the right amount of dirty, and that's not easy. 厄尔,你那七分调

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 打工姐妹花第二季

And sold. Wow, you're getting everything. 成交。东西都被你买走啦。 Yes, we are. Aren't we, Miss Pickle? 是啊,都被我们买走了。对不对啊,泡菜小姐。 I'm Hamish Mcdonough, by the way. 我叫哈米斯麦克唐纳 Oh, I'm

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纽约上流社会的一位妇人被人杀害并将尸体塞进了墙上的保险箱。警局接到命令要求调查真相,但是他们得到的结果是一起劫杀案。为了调查真相,Castle 和Beckett不得不改变思路。Castle决定去参

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 灵书妙探 第一季

A collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia that includes a lock of the slain president's hair has been sold for more than $800,000 at auction Saturday in Dallas. 美国前总统亚伯拉罕林肯的一批遗物于1月24日在美国达拉斯拍卖,并

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

They would have to go steerage on the ship, but it was only three days after all, not too bad. Not like the weeks and weeks between England and the Antipodes. All they could afford to take with them were clothes, china, cutlery, household linens, coo

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 荆棘鸟

This is a mistake. 这是误会 I'll be asking you a few questions, 我要问你几个问题 standard stuff for the report. 只是为了写报告的例行公事 Have you been arrested before? 以前被抓过吗 That's OK, I know the answer to that on

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 绿箭侠第一季

Ahem. Felicity Smoke? 是费利西蒂斯莫克吗 Hi. I'm Oliver Queen. 你好,我是奥利弗奎恩 Of course. 当然 I know who you are, you're Mr. Queen. 我知道你是谁,你是奎恩先生 No, Mr. Queen was my father. 不,奎恩先生是我

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 绿箭侠第一季

Rural post boxes are being fitted with electronic tags to deter criminals from stealing them to sell for ?5,000 or more. 英国乡村地区的邮筒近日被装上电子标签,以遏制罪犯偷盗邮筒并将其以5000英镑或更多的价钱卖掉。

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

A crumpled banknote issued by the first Ming emperor has been discovered hidden within a cavity inside a 13th-century Chinese wooden sculpture. 一张由明朝开国皇帝发行的皱巴巴的纸币,被发现藏于一座13世纪雕刻的中国木雕内

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A humble wooden deckchair recovered from the doomed Titanic has sold for ?100,350 at auction. 上周举行的一场拍卖会上,泰坦尼克号上的一张沙滩椅以以100350(约合93.1万元人民币)英镑的高价成交。 The Nantucket wo

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(193) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. Rick Santorum surprised just about everybody, winning all three Republican presidential contests on Tuesday. Santorum took home wins in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. Back in 2008, Minnesota and Colorado voted for Mitt Romney. 2. House Republic

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2012(二月)

As he struggled with ill health, however, his equilibrium became more and more central to the discipline. 然而,就在他与病痛搏斗时,他的均衡之于这门学科变得越来越核心了。 The share of economics papers citing the Nash e

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Oh, my god. You said you were going to pull your punches! 天啊。你说你会注意力度的。 I did. Let me get you an ice pack for... everything. I'm fine. 我注意了。我给你拿个冰袋敷一下。我没事。 I need you to dig up everyth

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 绿箭侠第一季

The secret of numbers A: I noticed that some people like to use 001 for their personalized licence plates, such as BTV 001 and CRC 001. why does everybody like 001? B: because, in Chinese, the number one represents the fist or the most original. Its

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 英语畅谈中国文化

释义: be up 结束,心情好,想出点子,准备好做某事 be up 表示时间到或心情好,be up for 表示做好了做某事的准备,而 be up to something 表示想出。比 It's up to you 里的 be up to sb 表示某人来决定

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 老外最常用的英文短语

honorable a.光荣的;可尊敬的 John wants to be a singer, but his father doesn't think it's an honorable profession. 约翰想当歌手,可是他爸爸却认为唱歌不是光荣的职业。 Honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen, I m honored

发表于:2019-03-17 / 阅读(316) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄进阶英语词汇3500