tend to, Oliver: 当英国人用 tend to 的时候,表示通常是什么样子或者通常做什么事情。 British people tend to be 他们本来的样子。 Jo: To blow your own trumpet. Oliver: 这可是一个非常有用的成语。字面上讲是

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: A situation is only ironic if what happens is the exact opposite of what was expected. 唯有在发生的事和预料的完全相反的情况才叫讽刺

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 留美老师带你每日说英文

Pre-Listening Vocabulary evolve: to change over time drastic: very noticeable; extreme appealing: likeable satisfactory: acceptable sarcastic: not sincere; opposite of ones true feelings tasteful: having an appropriate sense of style or fashion clich

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当有人称赞你是一个出色的歌手,可他心里却不是这样认为的,这时tongue in cheek这个词组就派上用场了,它的意思是“不诚恳的、言不由衷的、讽刺的、不

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

文本: Illidan: So, Warden Shadowsong, youve made it at last. I knew you would. Maiev: You have much to pay for, Illidan. Im taking you back to your cell. Illidan: ____(1)____. When I consumed the power of Guldans skull, I inherited his memories,

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We have always wondered how it would be to have a partner who is sensationally good looking with a drop down attractive personality, tall and charismatic in nature and of-course, how to make him desire you. In this article, we have gathered some unde

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Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. 法国讽刺漫画杂志《查理周刊》位于巴黎的办公室遭持枪歹徒袭击,12人死亡,这明显是

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Maverick actor-director Jiang Wen continues to jab at Chinese history with a satire about the fallout of an over-the-top beauty contest in '20s Shanghai. 不按常理出牌的导演,同时也是演员的姜文,用20世纪20年代上海言过其实的

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在美剧或者电影中,常常会听到其中的角色的对白中会出现一些象声词。可能不刻意去想的话也能通过上下文了解它们所要传达的意思或语气。但在平时的对话中,你会想到用它们吗? Oops! 表

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That was sarcasm. Sarcasm is where people say the opposite of what they mean, and they use it to talk about things they don't like - it can be confusing. 那是种讽刺。讽刺就是指人们在说反话,他们用这些话来谈论自己不喜欢的

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在美剧或者电影中,常常会听到其中的角色的对白中会出现一些象声词。可能不刻意去想的话也能通过上下文了解它们所要传达的意思或语气。但在平时的对话中,你会想到用它们吗? Oops! 表

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多数考生都十分发愁应该如何背诵新GRE词汇,的确,面对浩瀚如烟的词汇长城,我们确实没办法短时间内攻克,只能凭借耐心与毅力来慢慢将之拿下。不过,并不是所有的新GRE词汇都十分难背

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名人名言-文化 A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight (P.B.Shelley, British poet) 伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱 P B) A novel is a mirror walki

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This did not please Amelio. 这话让阿梅里奥感到很不爽。 Apple's chief technology officer, Ellen Hancock, argued for going with Sun's UNIX-based Solaris operating system, 苹果的首席技术官埃伦汉考克赞成采用Sun公司基于Un

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By the mid-1990s Jobs was finding some pleasure in his new family life and his astonishing triumph in the movie business, 到20世纪90年代中期,乔布斯在他新的家庭生活和在电影产业的惊人成功中找到了一些快乐, but he

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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long 缪斯,你在何方?为什么许久以来 To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? 你沉默,竞把你力量的源泉忘怀。 Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, 你徒费狂放

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United States 美国 Donald Trump and Satire: Super Soaking 特朗普与讽刺:全方位包围 Lessons in civics from comedians. 从喜剧中获得的公民经验。 Barack obama was bad for satirists, even if few seemed to mind. 讽刺作家很难拿

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The Satiric Literature Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness,its originality of perspective.Satire rarely offers original ideas.Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new p

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为娱乐圈操碎了心王思聪近日在微博上麻辣直言,讽刺蹭红毯上瘾的女明星为毯星。 请看报道: Red carpet moochers refer to those actresses dressing glamorously and walking the red carpet of international film festiva

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary mock/ridicule: to make fun of; to make someone feel ridiculous, bad, or stupid sarcastic: not literal; meaning the opposite of what one says intention: purpose Sarcasm Means To Tear Flesh Sarcasm is a remark that is used to m

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