Time again for StoryCorps. This traveling oral history project records America's talking to each other about their lives. Today the story of Jo Ann and Bob Chew. They married late in life both for the second time. He is 70 years old, she is 82. And

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年NPR美国国家公共电台

第52期 吃石头的滋味 1“biting off more than you can chew” 首先 bite,咬,而chew咀爵的意思。咬的东西太多都嚼不了了吗?这只是字面上的意思。 实际上这句话

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26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

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Listen and chant. I'm in a foreign city with busy streets. There are lots of people and things to eat. Wow! These things are all very new. What do I say and what do I do? Say, Excuse me, and Pardon, And Nice to meet you. Take messages, shake hands A

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Unlikely Pair Find Solace in Traditional Chinese Music A Chinese musical program near Oakland, California's Chinatown has been offering a safe haven for children of working class Chinese American families. It's a place where students can spend free t

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Teachers might want to think twice about posting 'no gum chewing' signs in the classroom. It turns out that the sticky substance might help students concentrate. Researchers had two groups of 20 people each listen to a 30-minute recording that includ

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中国雇员Cathy忧心忡忡地去找美国同事Mark请教。 Kathy: Hey Mark...do you mind if I ask you a couple of questions? Mark: No problem, I've got time. K: Great! Well, I'm going to Seattle for half a year. I'm attending a course at a unive

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Topics: Table manners in the U.S., Washington, D.C., easygoing, down to earth, to put someone in harms way, to take a shot at someone, inquiry Words: to say grace forearm napkin lap to slurp to burp to chew delicious mayor judicial veteran easygoing

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On the subject of reading, Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Shakespeare, wrote these words: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. This good advice shows how it is possible to re

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刚到公司的Catherine做的不是很顺利 不时的出些小错误 偏偏她的顶头上司又是个要求严格的人 因此Catherine时常挨骂 这天她又被上司批评了 心情很不好 同事看见了 对她说 follow the rules and you w

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经典语境背诵 May:Daniel casually spits the gum around which makes me angry. Only in Beijing, people consume 300,000 pieces of gum every day. If all the people spit out the gum like Daniel does, the city would become a big trash can. The 2008

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Flight attendant: What's the matter, sir? You look pale. Benjamin: I feel dizzy and weak. And I'm having this pain in my ear. I think I am sick. Flight attendant: Are you often traveling by plane? Benjamin: No, this is the second time. Flight attenda

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6 恐龙谷 安妮,看看这个!杰克大喊着,看看我找到了什么! 安妮已经上了山顶。 她正在忙着从木兰树上摘一朵花。 安妮,看!一块大奖牌! 但是安妮没有留心杰克。她正盯着山的另一侧的

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 15 May 2008 Growing enough food to alleviate shortages in African countries is not easy, but an agro-ecologist in Ethiopia thinks he has the answer: bio-farming. The technique uses animal waste products to produce energy

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本杰明出差去洛杉矶,长途飞机上感觉头晕、耳朵疼痛。到底怎么回事呢?他是病了吗?在请求空姐帮助后情况如何? Listen Read Learn Flight attendant: What's the matter, sir? You look pale. Benjamin: I feel dizzy and weak. And I'm having this pain in my ear.

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I have recently been conducting interviews with people in town who have businesses. Why? Because I am beginning to build a website of interviews and dialogues. I hope to launch it before Christmas;....let's see if I can get it ready in time. It sound

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图片1 If you bite off more than you can chew things might be difficult for you. This expression might sound like it is talking about eating but dont be fooled it is not. Another expression with a similar meaning is to get in over your head. You can

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The last time I went to the doctor for a checkup, she told me that I needed to start taking some dietary supplements that had the vitamins and minerals that my body needed to stay healthy. I told her that I ate a balanced diet, but she said that many

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: You consume fewer calories each day if you chew gum when you feel hungry. And go for fruit flavored gum because mint flavor makes some healthy food taste strange. 饿的时候嚼口香糖能使你吃

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When traveling by plane what makes our ears pop, and what is it exactly that pops? Most of us are familiar with this phenomenon of travel: it usually happens on takeoffs and landings. Our ears pop because of the change in air pressure as the plane as

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