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Welcome back to Everyday Grammar from VOA Learning English. Today we return to a very common verb form in English phrasal verbs. You will find one phrasal verb in every 192 words of written English. They will make your English sound more natural once
K: No. Not particularly. I’m trying to hear everything on the radio, French, French news in the morning, every morning, gradually one may gets an ear perhaps for the language. C: What about the pron
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage--figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but
Try frugal gift-giving 送礼从简 Giving people gifts is one of the most wonderful traditions, as it shows generosity and caring. Until it becomes commercialized. Then it's just really really expensive. Instead, try giving the gift of spending time
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
Todd: Lois, I noticed that you have a poster of David Beckham by your desk. Lois: I do. I think that David Beckham is quite a handsome man. I also think that he is a very, very talented footballer, although his recent performance in Euro 2004 was may
Our first story on this Monday edition of our show. Every 48 minutes, someone in the U.S dies in a car wreck that involves a driver who is either drunk or in some way alcohol-impaired, works out to more than 10,000 debts every year. Police say Jerry
So David you noticed some similarities there between Window's Vista and Apple's operating system OS 10. Oh, well, kinda like kicks you between the eyes. I don't mean to imply that Vista is nothing but copies from Apple. But there are some certain sim
President Obama signed a bill last week extending unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. The extension will affect 1.4 million unemployed Americans and help ease the longest bout of joblessness since the great Depression. Our reporter visited a career co
Dialogue 1 Mark: Jingjing, check out what I got at the supermarket near your office. 马克: 京晶,看看我在你办公室附近那间超市买到了什么。 Jingjing: Pistachios? Those are my favorite nuts. That big jar must have cost a lot. 京晶
I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilful
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing. So I studied the character I imagined I wanted to be that of the generically pretty high school girl and I
Then the errors startand not just one error. 问题往往从这里开始,通常单个错误不会造成重大事故。 Typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. 典型的事故都会涉及七个连续的人为失误。 One of the pi
'What plastic products do you currently use?' 你们目前用的是什么塑料产品? 'What products would you like us to make in the future?' 您希望我们未来可以为您制作出什么样的产品? 'How do you feel about the idea of selli
Jim和Emily是一家跨国公司从中国聘用的新雇员,公司人事部的Paula对他们进行文化差异的培训。Emily说, E: I know that we will be expected to chat and make small talk with our customers, but I'm worried I'm going to pu
I have a vivid memory of what happened next, and it was not what I expected. 我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么,而那是我意料之外的。 I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. 我本期待着小聪明和算术
Finance and economics: Free exchange: Hard bargains 财经:自由交换:艰苦的讨价还价 Two economists win the Nobel prize for their work on the theory of contracts. 两位经济学家因其对于契约理论的研究获得诺奖。 Economi
讲解 Todays key word is Choice Choice 选择 抉择 If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want. Here is an example At lunchtime, there's a choice between Rice or Noodle. 午餐可以在大米和面条
很多时候,说英语,话到嘴边,却突然卡住; 其实就算native speaker也会出现这种情况。今天就分享一组美国人都爱用的常用语,卡住的时候不仅能救急,还能给人不慌不忙、沉着的感觉! 关键词
Even with an invitation to the White House, it can be tricky to get through the heavily guarded perimeter. So the revelation that a couple of aspiring socialites were able to talk their way into the state reception for India's prime minister last wee