修辞手法(figure of speech)修辞手法是通过修饰、调整语句,运用特定的表达形式以提高语言表达作用的方式和方法。修辞不仅仅在中文里很常见,在英文里也是多种多样。这篇文章里,我们就来

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Lucky to be alive, a mother, her son and his friends survived a tornado strike on a home in Darlington, South Carolina. Twister picked up a house, flipped it, and it was only with a little warning. Power cut off, and if it wouldnt have, I would have

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(四)月

安德鲁买了一个大乐透,但是没中奖。他和苏珊这期讨论的是拉斯维加斯的赌场.....里面都有哪些规定呢? Andrew: Hey, I bet you cant guess what I did last week. Suzanne: What did you do? Andrew: I bought a lottery

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Wealth and happiness Wealth has always been what some people long for. It is true that most of them try to acquire wealth by means of honest labor. Their efforts contribute to the welfare of society and at the same time to the accumulation of their w

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191. Don't you think that's wrong M: I have a lover. W: Don't you think that's wrong? M: My wife and I don't love each other. W: I sold sth in my family without telling you. M: Don't you think that's wrong. W: No way out. I owe a lot of money because

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Task 2: A Professional Gambler Script In a bar a guy told the bartender, Im a professional gambler; Ive made of lots of money from gambling. The bartender answered, I can hardly believe it. Your odds are fifty-fifty at best, right? Well, I only bet o

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Obituary;Wynne Godley; 讣告;韦恩戈德利; Wynne Godley, British economist, died on May 13th, aged 83; 英国经济学家韦恩戈德利于五月十三日辞世,终年83岁; A certain ambiguity marked Wynne Godley. Was he at heart an aesthete,

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SCENE① B 十分钟后 唐又走过来 【我在冒冷汗】 Don: Herb, why are you still sitting here? 唐: 赫伯特,你怎么还坐在这边? Herbert: I'm too 1) nervous. Look! 2) I'm in a c

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 网络社交

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - More Money: Money Can Make People Do Strange ThingsBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Sunday, September 24, 2006 Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Many peop

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Japanese Officials Investigate Explosion Amy Bickers Tokyo 1 Sep 2001 10:02 UTC In one of Tokyo ' s worst fires in decades, 44 people died Saturday when an explosion and fire tore through a crowded bu

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But you have to be very creative in such a situation. Luckily we do idea -- we do have a large presence in the Peshawar. And we do have emergency stock available, of course this emergency stock will last for a couple of days or weeks ahead. And now w

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闪孕 (shan3 yun4)quick pregnancyIt refers to some white-collar women who get pregnant in a hurry to avoid being fired. Chinas labor law prevents a company from firing a pregnant employee unless the company isinsolvent。 闪孕,即突击怀孕、将

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29. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori:remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. 【分析】复合句。

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From VOA Learning English, welcome to This is America! Im Christopher Cruise. The American city of Las Vegas, Nevada, is known around the world. Las Vegas is famous for excitement, entertainment and casinos -- businesses where lots of money can be wo

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Congress Acts to Limit Internet Gambling by AmericansBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, October 06, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Congress has voted to ban

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Guo Meimei, the 23-year-old woman who landed the Red Cross in China in a credibility crisis, has been investigated for being deeply involved with illegal gambling and the sex trade, and for spreading rumors, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. 据周

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What do the Big Apple and Sin City have in common? According to a recent survey, they're both among the hippest places in the world. In fact, New York City and Las Vegas are the two coolest cities in the US, tied for the No. 1 spot in annual measure

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For me, Chinese New Year used to be fun. 对于我来说,过去感觉过年很有意思呢。 When I was a kid, I was excited during Chinese New Year when I got lai see and I could stay up late. I even had access to candy, a once-a-year treat while

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China's Cyberspace Administration has released a blacklist of websites, channels, and WeChat accounts which have been shut down over the past two months. 24 websites, 9 channels, and 17 WeChat accounts have all been closed due to serious violations o

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BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese soccer fans witnessed another year of fiascos, but this time, they accept it more peacefully as both players and fans feel nothing unusual for they've tasted so many failures in recent years and some of them even

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