英美文化：圣诞饼干和姜饼小人儿究竟是怎么来的？

Like many Christmas traditions, the origin of this delicious custom lies ages ago, in solstice ritualsconducted long before Christmas became the huge commercial holiday it is today. Winter solstice festivals have been held for eons, across the world.

英美文化：说说英国皇室的备胎继承人

In royal families, the crown goes to the oldest child. That's theheir. The spare heir is the next child who would ascend thethrone should something happen to the heir. In the UK, whenWilliam becomes King, Prince George is the heir. His brother orsist

英美文化知识：揭秘复活节和彩蛋的关系

Easter is the Christian commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus as a religious holiday. Over the past year the spring equinox, the first full moon of the first Sunday after Easter. Church of Christ in the early years of the date of Easter, there h

英美人天天都在说的4000句 112:make waves

[00:01]G：That's what it's all about, isn't it? [00:04]Gifts! Gifts! You want to know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me. [00:11]In your garbage. I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump! [00:18]The av

英美人天天都在说的4000句 115:monkey business

[00:01]G：I'll have a Mojito and a menu. [00:03]C：Here's your menu. You can have my foot or my fist. Either one comes with a side of claw marks... [00:10]If I find out there's another woman, I swear La Llorona will get you. [00:15]P：Ay, you know

英美人天天都在说的4000句 119:nosy parker

[00:00]R：Where the hell were you? I wanna know right now or I'm calling your mother! [00:06]Why did you sneak back in? Angela, listen, I think It'd be better... [00:11]for you, most of all, if tomorrow morning I took you back home. [00:15]A：What

英美人天天都在说的4000句 71:get the blues

[00:04]M：Maybe you know the way with her, then. I'm just an old woman. [00:08]C：But Mrs. Parker, this here is the way we know best how to make money. [00:11]But we're going to be quitting all this, as soon as hard times are over. [00:14]M：You b

英美人天天都在说的4000句 65:forty winks

[00:00]D：What's happening? [00:02]What is it? [00:04]I can't run anymore. [00:06]I'm so sleepy. [00:08]S：Yes, give us your hands. We'll pull you along. [00:10]D：Oh, no, please. I have to rest for just a minute. Toto! Where's Toto? [00:16]S：Yo

英美人天天都在说的4000句 78:give sb. the cold shoul

[00:03]J：Adam Smith needs revision. [00:05]M：What are you talking about? [00:08]J：If we all go for the blonde we block each other. Not a single one of us is going to get her. [00:20]So then we go for her friends but they will all give us the co

英美人天天都在说的4000句 98:in the pink.

[00:04]G： Major, to your knowledge, have any other ex-members of your patrol had similar dreams? [00:12]M： No, sir. Not to my knowledge. [00:15]Doesn't it strike anyone as curious that Mavole was one of the two men lost. [00:20]In my dream, he's.

英美人天天都在说的4000句 97:in the driver’s seat

[00:00]Da：So we need a new assistant manager. I'd like to offer the job to you. [00:05]De：Are you serious? [00:06]Da：Yeah. Now I'm not gonna lie to you. The job comes with more responsibility, but it offers a lot more rewards. [00:11]A hefty pa

英美人天天都在说的4000句 94:hold your horses

[00:01]M：Come on, Jimmie Sue. We're hungry over here too. [00:04]Ji：I'm coming. I'm coming. Hold your horses！ [00:12]B1：Uh-oh. We'd better walk it. There comes her mama. [00:25]JM：Jacy, we're having supper at home tonight. I expect you ther

英美人天天都在说的4000句 157:sell one’s soul

[00:00]F：You sold your soul to Satan, your grace. [00:05]You accused innocent man of witchcraft and let them die. [00:11]B：But brother Friar, you would not strike a fellow man of the cloth. [00:17]F：No, no, I wouldn't. In fact, I'll help you pa

英美人天天都在说的4000句 156:second thought

[00:00]C：I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me, and on the same day you lose your job! [00:05]L：Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like Oops, where' d my job go? I quit. [00:08]C：Oh, oh, oh, oh, and I want to thank you for putting me

英美人天天都在说的4000句 158:shake a leg

[00:00]J：That's Governor Pappy O'Daniel. [00:02]Wish you appreciate it if you ate his farina and voted him a second term. [00:06]Ain't you gonna press the flesh, Pappy? [00:07]Pl：You don't tell me how to court the electorate. [00:10]We're mass co

英美人天天都在说的4000句 146:reap the whirlwind

[00:00]G：Uh, Frank, uh,we're havin'a few problems with the account transfer. [00:04]F：Don't tell me problems, tell me solutions. [00:06]G：Now, we've spoken to the president. I know that you're well aware of his stance on terrorism. So what we'd

英美人天天都在说的4000句 169:strong suit

[00:00]J：What do you think the Russians are using the base for? [00:03]T：At one point, we once suspected Severnaya might be the ground station for a secret space-based weapons program called Goldeneye, but uh [00:10]M：Our statistical analysis s

英美人天天都在说的4000句 179:the call of nature

[00:00]D：Wake up and smell the coffee. You've got to give your divorce time. [00:03]M：How long after Mr. Doubtfire passed away did you feel any desire... [00:12]D：Never again. Once the father of your children is out of the picture, [00:17]the o

英美人天天都在说的4000句 186:throw in the sponge...

[00:01]C：Tell me, how much longer are you going to go on making films? [00:05]I：I suppose that rather depends on how much longer the public want to see me in them. [00:08]C：Yes, it must be hard to know when it's time to throw in the towel... [0

英美人天天都在说的4000句 189:touch wood

[00:01]V：Well, actually, this'll be my first foray into the trial process. [00:05]I haven't had to go to court yet. Knock on wood! [00:09]W：But...you graduated from law school six years ago. What have you been doing since? [00:14]V：Sludying for