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The toaster, toaster, is a place where you put bread and you heat it up so that the bread becomes brown. 你可以把面包放进烤箱(toaster)然后把它加热到变成棕色。 We would say, you toast the bread, using toast as a verb. 我们说
By the time I'm finished rinsing off my breakfast dishes, my coffee is ready and so I pour myself a cup. 等到我冲洗完了吃早餐时用的碟子后,咖啡就煮好了并且我会先倒出一杯。 Notice the use of that verb, pour. 注意倒这
Who has a straight face? Vicki: This is Real English from BBC Learning English. Im Vicki. Chen Li: 我是陈鹂。 在今天的节目中, 我们要学的是什么呢? Vicki: Todays new expression is keep a straight face. Chen Li: Keep a straight face. 你能解释一下吗?
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sentence fragments. I often imagine that listeners are writing articles and essays and books, but I was recently reminded that some people make their living writing shorter things like headlines and ad copy, and th
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how a verb and an adverb messed up the inauguration. I took a break from work Tuesday to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and like millions of other people, I saw a bit of confusion between Chief Justice John Rob
Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, a strange ceremony happens in Washington, DC. The president stands outside the White House, gives a brief speech and then officially pardons a turkey. A pardon is a declaration that someone will not be puni
1. Lebanon's industry minister was shot and killed in a Beirut suburb this morning. Thirty-four-year-old Pierre Gemayel was in a car when another vehicle slammed to a stop in front of him causing his
1. A claustrophobic woman got into a confrontation with a flight crew, causing a United Airlines jet from London to divert to Boston. The flight was escorted in by fighter jets and all 182 passengers
1. A deputy press secretary for Homeland Security was arrested for trying to seduce a 14 year old on the Internet. 55-year-old Brian Doyle faces charges of using a computer to seduce a child and trans
1. 4 US governors made a surprise visit to Iraq this Easter weekend. The governors of Florida, Iowa, Indiana then West Virginia are visiting troops station ed in Iraq's war zone. It is part of a 2-day
1. For the second time, NASA was forced to scrub the launch of the space shuttle Discovery because of weather. NASA says they'll try again on the 4th of July. 2. The CIA says the recently released aud
1. After weeks of wildfires, the first tropical storm of the season is welcome news for fire crews in Florida and Georgia. Andrea, the first named storm of the year is spinning off the coast. Fire crews hope rain from the storm will help them battle
Georgia's Attorney General's Office will appeal the court decision today that released the man convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The judge voided the original ten-year prison sentence, instead finding the man guilty of
1. A third test for TB bacteria turns up negative for Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer quarantined in Denver with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. His chances of spreading the disease are low and he could soon leave his isolation room. 2. It's
1. It's been called the deadliest shooting rampage in the country's history. At least 30 people were killed when a man opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then in an academic building before he was killed. So far investigators have not offered a
1. We are learning a little more about the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre. Authorities say Cho Seung-Hui was accused of [B]stalking two female students in 2005. They also say he was taken to a mental health facility that year after his parent
1. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to persuade Abbas government to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Tomorrow the two will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Israel will not
句子成分(members of the sentence) 英语的句子由主语部分与谓语部分组成。具体地讲,主要有下列六种句子成分: 1)主语(subject)它是句子所要说明的人或事物,是一句的主体。如I study English(我学习
[ti:UNIT 2 Plant a Plant! Lesson 16: Unit Review] [0:00.193]UNIT 2 [0:01.853]Plant a Plant! [0:03.512]Lesson 16: [0:05.287]Unit Review [0:06.831]Ⅰ. Building Your Vocabulary [0:10.111]A. Fill in each blank with the proper word from the list. Use the