AZUZ: If NASA were to track American shopping habits through the seasons, it'd be expecting the whole country to light up in the days ahead. The traditional holiday shopping season used to start with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and cont

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年11月

OK's beginnings had become obscure but it didn't really matter anymore -- the word was embedded in our language. Today, we use it as the ultimate neutral affirmative. OK的由来到后来已经演变到很难理清,不过这其实也不再那么重要

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Eton College Jin Lu: What did these famous people have in common? Helen: The Duke of Wellington, the writers Shelley and George Orwell, Prince William and Prince Harry? Jin Lu: Any ideas? Well they were all educated in the boys only school Eton Colle

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country. 感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日,而且它和早期美

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力小短文走遍全世界

(GENEVA,Reuters) Canadian Tire Corporation lost a battle for a web page called crappytire.com. (路透社日内瓦电)加拿大轮胎公司在争取crappytire.com这个网页的争夺战中打了败仗。 A judge said Canadian Tire could not clai

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Utahraptor is the largest known member of the early Dromaeosaurids, which were birdlike meat-eating dinosaurs. 犹他盗龙是最大的已知早期驰龙成员,它们是类鸟的肉食恐龙。 It killed by pouncing onto the back of its prey. 它们跳

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 侏罗纪搏击俱乐部

Pre-Listening Vocabulary self-proclaimed: decided or claimed (a title) on ones own sponsor: to support a person or cause with funding or assistance deter: to prevent vandalize: to purposely cause damage to property kick off: to start something festiv

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Fathers Day, contrary to popular misconception, was not established as a holiday in order to help greeting card manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a fathers day was first proposed there were no Fathers Day cards! 父亲节与普遍的误解不同的是

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 白领英语晨读

Influenza is a common infection of the nose and throat, and sometimes the lungs. It is caused by a virus which passes from one person to another.The flu causes muscle pain, sudden high body temperature, breathing problems and weakness. It is most com

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

皮酥松脆、口感甜糯的英式蛋挞是众多食客的最爱甜点,这种美味的蛋挞还有着几百年的历史渊源,不少英国皇室成员也是它的忠实拥趸者。配上一杯浓郁的伯爵茶,回味英式甜点带来的味蕾

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