I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and solitude to the comfortable but rather noisy household

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

No bones about it. 意思是:真实的,诚恳的(truly, sincerely or exactly),也就是 to make no bones about it.(bone 要加 s, it 是指 something)例如: His wife is beautiful;no bones about it.(他的太太真是很漂亮)Mr.

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

BIRMINGHAM, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Curtains of the All England Open were down on Sunday, with badminton powerhouse China bagging surprises and three titles. At the men's singles event, Chinese player Chen Long beat No. 1 seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

LONDON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The English Football Association has reassured Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson that his striker Wayne Rooney will not play both Olympic Games and Euro 2012. With Rooney also likely to be in England's Euro 2012 squ

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

英国一架民用直升机夜间坠毁 机上4人全部遇难 LONDON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- A civilian helicopter crashed in eastern England late Thursday, with four people aboard believed to have died, local media reported. The accident occurred in

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

模仿句子:Lemn was an official poet for the London 2012 Olympics and works to support new writers. But he's been telling me that he didn't have the easiest start in life. He was born to a young Ethiopian woman who just arrived in England. 翻译:

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

Todd: Sarah , so what sports do you like? Sarah: My favorite spectator sport is football. I support Newcastle United in England. Todd: Newcastle United. Sarah: Newcastle United, Yeah. Todd: Are they a good team? Sarah: Um, yeah, I think they're prett

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1. What the hell is going on? (到底怎么回事?) 说此话之人身份通常为上级,且相处较久。 2. All rise! (全体起立!) 从小学到高中英语课代表在老师宣布上课后一直喊的是Stand up! 这当然没什么不

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

CANNES, France, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Moonrise Kingdom, a 1960s drama by American director Wes Anderson, has kicked off the 65th Cannes film festival here on Wednesday as filmmakers and movie stars from all over the world are preparing for the red-carpe

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

I am totally English but I spent my whole life basically living in other countries, well, my parents spent most of my life living in other countries. I've actually been at school in England for quite a while of it. Living away from your own country i

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Today, we will visit a little village on the south coast of England. Its name is Tyneham, and it is a ghost village. What does ghost village mean? It means that the village is deserted, there is no-one there. Many of the houses, the church and the sc

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

In March, I recorded a podcast about the census in this country that is, the counting of everyone who lives here. Todays podcast is also about a census the very first census to take place England. In the year 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Irene, who lives in Germany, is a regular listener to these podcasts. She has sent me an e-mail to suggest that I make a podcast about bank holidays in England and the way that we celebrate them. Most countries have public holidays at various times o

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

In the last podcast, I said that I would tell you how Birmingham did in their match against Aston Villa. Well, they lost 5-1. Sorry, Birmingham! Birmingham could still stay in the Premiership next season, but things are not looking good. The nail-bit

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

London 伦敦; England 英格兰; Liverpool 利物浦; Manchester 曼彻斯特; Sheffield 谢菲尔德;Birmingham 伯明翰; Coventry 考文垂; Leeds 利兹; Scotland 苏格兰; Glasgow 格拉斯哥; Edinburgh 爱丁堡; Wales 威尔士; Cardiff 加的

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The Danes had been driven away and now (it was early in the eleventh century) another Saxon king, Edward the Confessor, was on the throne. 丹麦人终于被赶走,一个撒克逊人做了国王,他被叫做忏悔者爱德华。 But Edward was no

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The original three.Randy.Yep.What's his name?Help.Okay. 最早的三位评委 兰迪 正确 他的全名是 求助.好吧 Okay. Him. He had a baby,Yeah. You sure he did. not too long ago, him. 嗯 他有一个小孩 你确定吗 是的 不久前刚有的

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I am totally English but I spent my whole life basically living in other countries, well, my parents spent most of my life living in other countries. I've actually been at school in England for quite a while of it. Living away from your own country i

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 英语访谈对话

Books and Arts; Opera Review; Damon Albarns new opera; 文艺;歌剧评论;戴蒙亚邦的新音乐剧; Star light, star bright;A meditation on England; 星光灿烂;英格兰的冥想; In 1572 a new star blazed through the sky. It was a ca

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Todays podcast is about how to make comparisons in English. I am talking to my friend Anna. She comes from Canada and she is going to tell us about some of the differences she has seen between Canada and England. I first came to England in January 20

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语