A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

On the second anniversary of the abduction of five Britons in Baghdad, their families remain hopeful they will be released. The British government has renewed its call for the men to be set free. Dealing with two years of uncertainty has been incred

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Spains Economic Crisis Sparks Catalonia Independence Drive On the shores of the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a beautiful and prosperous city. Polls indicate its people are increasingly unhappy, however, about having their tax money go to support poore

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary defective: doesnt function normally; imperfect agreement: when the subject corresponds with the correct version of the verb panties: female underwear boxers: male underwear that is shaped like shorts wordsmith: a person who i

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本单元是关于朋友的朋友的对话 Helen:Well, you see, I have this friend. And, she has a problem. She saw a friend of hers doing something wrong and now she doesn't know what to do. If she reports him, he'll know it was her and probably won't ever spe

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本单元是关于Tim 爱的忠告的对话 Michal: Tim, can I talk to you? Tim: Sure, what's on your mind? Michal: It's about Helen and her family. Tim: Yeah, how was that visit you had to her folks' place? Michal: It was difficult. Tim: Why? Michal: Well, I th

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Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us get along with the word get. Dont let others use of it get your goat. Get is a perfectly normal word. It just happens to have many meanings and is used in many idioms and colloquial expressions, some of

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Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to cover two short topics. So while I was home sick and listening to Undead and Unappreciated and Undead and Unpopular I had two happy little surprises when the main character asked the kind of questions that you li

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archive:1. n. A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest. Often used in the plural: old land deeds in the municipal archives 2.vt. To place or store in an archive On Friday we bring you moments fro

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Topics: Famous Americans: Tyler Perry; NASA; to think on (ones) feet; plural for iPod Touch and other proper nouns; recognition versus acknowledgement Words: musical adapted uninhibited recurring to cross-dress no-nonsense to be nominated space in or

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