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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Face By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Sunday, October 03, 2004 Now Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English program about American expressions. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt. with e
WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Financial Expressions By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Sunday, December 05, 2004 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English Program about American expressions. I'm Rich
WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Teflon By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Sunday, December 12, 2004 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English Program about Amercian expressions. I'm Rich Kleinfeldt wit
词条 含义 近义 词组 compile vt. 汇集,编辑 work over, gather , collect complacence n. 自满,自以为是 arrogance, satisfaction complaint n. 抱怨,怨言 grievance, criticism compl
释义: give (somebody) one's word 约定 give sb one's word 表明约定的意思,主要用作 I give you my word (我向你保证)的形态。换句话说,可以理解成 I'll promise you,对于被承诺的一方,则是 take one's word。
put in a good word for 举荐(成语) 英文释义 To recommend someone to a person of authority. 例句 To help him get a job, I promised to put in a goodword for my nephew before he spoke to my boss about working for our company. 为了帮侄子找
Amazon's Tool for Reading, One Word at a Time Last week Amazon announced Word Runner, a new tool for reading Kindle books. Word Runner is a software update that shows one word at a time, instead of words, sentences and paragraphs on one page. Amazon
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- winning words for 2003 as voted by a small group of linguists and other scholarly observers of the language. RS: More than seventy members of the American Dialect Society voted
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thought of a sentence -- or something that looks lik
Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 10, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- a way to find out what people are talking about. First, though, a story. (SOUNDS OF RUSHING WATER) RS: Imagine a waterway. Fish rush b
I'm a man of my word I mean what I say My pledge is my bond Well,that's just my way When you've made a promise To someone who's gone Well,that's when forever Seems a little too long I'm a man of my word And I made you a vow I swore that I'd love
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: reduced forms in spoken American English. RS: We're talking about forms like whaddaya -- meaning what do you, as in whaddaya say? Whaddaya Say? is also the title of a popular teac
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: our guest is Wayne Glowka, an English professor at Georgia College and State University. RS: He also chairs the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, which publishe
Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 19, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, p
Broadcast: December 22, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year. LIDA BAKER: My first resolution tha
First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f
In English, syllable stress is hugely important for communication. The word stress here means saying part of a word louder and holding the sound a little longer than other parts. For example: movie. I said MO- a little louder and longer than -vie. If
释义: give (somebody) one's word 约定 give sb one's word 表明约定的意思,主要用作 I give you my word (我向你保证)的形态。换句话说,可以理解成 I'll promise you,对于被承诺的一方,则是 take one's word。
释义: take one's word for it 相信某人的话 表示接受某人的话(sb's word),即相信某人的话。take it from sb 也可以表达相同的含义,另外,have one's word (for it)也是同义句。如果说成 give one's word 的话就会