Improve Your Writing with Contrast and Concession For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about words that connect opposing ideas. We call these ideas contrast or concession. Some of these adverbs are but, altho

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月

标点符号是一门语言中不可或缺的组成部分。但是,本蟹发现,很多的英语学习者并不能用英语说出非常常见的标点符号,今天我们就一起来学习吧。 Punctuation Marks 标点符号 01. , 逗号 comma 0

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

I hope you enjoy this April Fools' Day show. It was created by Will Ross, host of The Traveling Avatar's Quick and Dirty Tips for a Better Second Life. [I quick-posted the transcript for the listeners stationed in Iraq. I didn't realize they can't li

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to treat URLs when you have to use them in text. Also, keep listening through to the end of the show because I have another writing contest for you. Web addresses are strange beasts; they seem more like equatio

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Mignon Fogarty I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published by Crown. Over three years ago, when he was publishing an earlier version of the book with a smaller publishe

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Mignon Fogarty Today I'll explain the difference between dashes, commas, and parentheses. Stever Robbins, the host of the Get-It-Done Guy podcast, has been writing a book, and his birthday is today. He told me that his birthday wish would be for m

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Today I have a special show for you because it's September 24: National Punctuation Day, a holiday created by an educator named Jeff Rubin. To celebrate the day I had a punctuation contest and today's show highlights two of the winners. Other winners

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to talk about how to format Web addresses for print documents and websites. URLs and Terminal Punctuation A listener named Aileen recently asked how to deal with a Web address at the end of a sentence. Should she pu

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to format vertical lists. Most of the grammar books I own only partially address vertical lists. One book discusses capitalization, another partially discusses punctuation, and so on. Only the Chicago Manual of

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to format questions. You think you already know this, don't you? I wonder if you're right. Everybody knows how write a plain vanilla question: What's new? They're called direct questions. But there are trickier

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Oops! I spilled some coffee. Hmm Let me think about it. Woohoo! Thats great news. Lets celebrate. To the untrained ear, sounds like oops hmm and woohoo may seem like nonsense. But in English, these sounds carry a lot of meaning. We call them interjec

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月

Analog - Transmitting information that is characterized by continuously variable quantities (such as with AM or FM). This is different from digital transmission, which is characterized by discrete bit

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 电信英语

Everyday Grammar: Make Your Writing Smoother with Transitions 英语日常语法:让你的写作更流畅 For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about important transition words in English. We will focus on how

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

And that's where texting comes in. 这时短信就出现了。 And so, texting is very loose in its structure. 所以,短信在结构上非常松散。 No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, 没有人在写短信的时候在

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

The reasons we laugh, including

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 奥运英语

Key Sentences(重点句子) 733.What kind of cable do you want to send, ordinary or urgent? 你想发哪一种电报,是普通电报还是加急电报? 734.What are the rates? 费用怎么算? 735.I'd like to send an express telegram.

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Brief Introduction to Business LettersWords and expressions: LetterheadReferenceSalutationComplimentaryAttention lineSubject lineEnclosureCarbon copyFull block style(齐头式)Indented styleSection A Parts of Business LettersMost business letters

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

No matter how carefully we examine a text, it seems there's always one more little blunder waiting to be discovered.But these 10 tips should help you see (or hear) your errors before anybody else does. 不论检查文章是有多仔细,总是还有其

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

David Cameron refused to answer a maths question - in case he got it wrong. 为了防止自己回答错,英国首相卡梅伦拒绝回答一道数学题。 The Prime Minister backed plans for every child to be tested on their times table when they

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