Look After Your Voice Often speakers at a meeting experience dry mouths and ask for a glass of water. You can solve the problem by activating the saliva in you mouth. First gently bite the edges of your tongue with your teeth. Or, press your entire t

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 四级晨读英语美文

A: Hello, how are you doing today? B: Great. What can I help you with? A: I need to make an appointment for a haircut. B: Okay. What day would you like to come in? A: How's Saturday? B: Let me just check the books. A: Okay. B: Yes. We have openings o

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 英语情景对话-日常生活

Lesson 25:The Cutty Sark 卡蒂萨克号帆船 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 What piece of bad luck prevented the Cutty Sark from winning the race? One of the most famous sailing ships of th

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(529) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第三册

Hospital emergency rooms treat injured fingers all the time. Without treatment, a bad cut can lead to permanent damage. But how should a person know when a bleeding cut is serious enough to require medical attention? We asked Dr. Martin Brown, chairm

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(一)月

I wonder how many times we have our hair cut in our life. Hundreds. It would also be interesting to know how many different hairstyles we have. I know the styles I had when I was younger would look silly today. I really like haircuts. Its interesting

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face是一项警告:不要因为愤怒冲动行事,用伤害自己的方式来复仇。打个比方说,如果你因为太痛恨电视节目里的某个政客而

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Tom: Hey, Joel, you got your hair cut. Joel: You can notice that. I don't have much hair left. You can see that it got cut. Tom: Yeah, why don't you grow it out? Joel: Actually, you can't notice right now cause it's cut so short but my hair's curly,

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's ask if a Republican tax cut really does what's advertised. The centerpiece of the GOP plan is a tax cut for corporations, a rate that's now 35 percent and would fall to 20. Various tax deductions would go away to help finan

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War opens this weekend. Advance ticket sales are topping even those for Black Panther. The film brings together storylines from all over the Marvel Universe, and it's being advertised with a cert

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台4月

【俚语】 cut corners 抄近路,走捷径,偷工减料 注意:To cut corners. Corner就是角,比如一张台子有四个角的角,或者是马路的拐角。当然,用刀来切台子的角,切马路的拐角是不可能的。但是,

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语俚语天天说

英文歌词: It was a hot and sultry afternoon Sometime at the end of June We had collapsed ourselves in shade somewhere To conclude our love affair But it was too damn hot to speak that much It felt easier to touch So we forgot to fall apart that day

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英文摇滚歌曲

在这次节目里,我们要给大家讲两个以dry这个字为主的习惯用语。Dry就是:干,也就是干和湿的干。我们首先要讲的一个习惯用语是:Dry run. Dry是干,ru

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

NEW YORK U.S. President Barack Obama travels on Sunday to Newtown, Connecticut, in an effort to comfort a shattered town reeling from a school shooting that left 20 young children and six adults dead. A White House statement released Saturday said Ob

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Global financial markets continue to drop sharply in reaction to an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating and lingering concerns about European debt problems and global economic growth. In early Asia trading Tuesday, Japan's

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天要讲的习惯用语都有一个关键词run。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是:run like clockwork。 Cclockwork意思是钟表的机件,发条装置。钟表的机构当然该是精确无误的;run like clockwork这个习惯用语起

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Computer chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Thursday said it plans to cut its global workforce by about 10 percent in a move to reduce operational costs. The layoff will occur across all functions globall

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Russia has stopped delivery of natural gas to Ukraine after the failure of last minute talks to reach agreement on a price for 2009. Both sides offer assurances that gas will continue to transit from Russia through pipelines in Ukraine to consumers

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(一月)

She was in Staples. She told the clerk behind the counter, I need to order some Pilot red gel pens. You never have them in stock. Pointing, he said, Okay, just go over to that computer. You can order them there. She said, Please help me. I don't want

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

The wildfire raging in Canada is forcing a reduction in the countrys oil output. The energy sector accounts for 10 percent of GDP and has already been hit hard by low crude oil prices. With authorities warning the blaze could continue to burn for mon

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 cctv9英语新闻2016年

After a tense impasse on Capitol Hill, lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives passed legislation to extend a payroll tax cut for two months and continue unemployment insurance for nearly 2 million jobless Americans. The renewal comes ju

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