He needed to blow his nose. He pulled four sheets off the roll of toilet paper. What's this, he wondered. The first two sheets were 2-ply. The next two sheets were mostly 1-ply. He pulled six more sheets off the roll. The first four sheets were mostl

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

You're walking along the street. You need to go to the washroom desss...perately. What do you do? If you can't control yourself, you could be embarrassed to no end. Don't worry. Someone in San Francis

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄中级美国英语

Now for our What In The World segment. Here's what got my attention this week - a roll of toilet paper. Certainly not the normal subject for us here at GPS, but this is special toilet paper - Cuban toilet paper. It turns out Cuba may be running out o

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2009年

Two Palestinians attacked a synagogue in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The assailants killed 4 Jewish worshippers, and then were killed themselves in a shoot-out with police. Wedding bells are ringing for 80-year-old prisoner Charles Manson. Afton Elaine Bur

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月

November the 19th is World Toilet Day (WTD). This day celebrates the importance of something we never really think about too much the toilet. Imagine life without one. There are many world issues regarding toilets. WTD is a global day of action to ra

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语课程学习计划和讲义

Mildreds sister called. She was going to drop by. And whenever she visited, she usually made at least one trip to the bathroom. That meant one thingMildred needed to clean her toilet bowl. This was the household chore that she hated the most. It was

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

Henry went out to the front of the apartment building and turned off the main water valve. No one was home in the building except Stanley, so Henry didnt have to warn the neighbors about the shutoff. Back in the bathroom, Henry flushed the toilet. Th

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Stanley had just finished brushing his teeth. He noticed water flowing into the toilet bowl. That's strange, he thought. The water continued to seep into the bowl. Stanley lifted the toilet tank top. The tank was half full, but the water was slowly r

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At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers are getting ready for a new toilet system. The Russian-designed system will be installed next year, well in time for the expansion of the International Space Station in 2009. NASA has signed a contra

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻视频

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? You might think that the World Toilet Summit was a meeting of Wall Street bigwigs. But no, its actually about toilets. The three day conference opened on November 4th

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

People have been traveling by car for 100 years. My invention is long overdue. Who hasnt had an emergency while traveling? Sometimes youre miles from the nearest gas station or McDonalds. Everyone knows that when you gotta go, you gotta go, said Phil

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 365个英语简短小故事

DAVID GREENE, HOST: To truly see Japanese innovation, look no further than the bathroom. Japan's high-tech, toilet-bidet combos have these menu panels that are full of rinsing and drying features, and NPR's Elise Hu is going to explain one noisy inno

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

厕所怎么说 事实上,人们在日常生活中很少会使用WC这个词: WC: water closet的缩写,指厕所。 在北美人们常用下面这三个词来表示厕所: Bathroom: 厕所,这个词就是厕所的意思,家里的bathroom可

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

By Claudia Blume Singapore 27 October 2007 For many people, toilets are not a particularly pleasant topic. Not so for Singaporean entrepreneur Jack Sim. He founded the World Toilet Organization to draw attention to the devastating health problems poo

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA常速英语(十月)

By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 November 2007 Sanitation experts, town planners and economists are among those gathered in the Indian capital for the 7th World Toilet Summit. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that those attending the four-day su

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

By Greg Flakus Mexico City, Mexico 07 April 2006 watch Waterless Toilet report At the recently held Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, hundreds of governmental agencies, international organizati

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(四月)

除了toilet,如何用英文表达上厕所? 说起去厕所,你会想到哪些英文单词? Toilet、bathroom太普通啦~ 外国小伙伴们还有哪些不一样的表达?人家说了,你可千万别反应不过来哟~ 1. Go to the john 你

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight. Im Rebekah Schipper. Voice 2 And Im Joshua Leo. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Eve

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

Let's talk dirty. A few years ago, oddly enough, I needed the bathroom, and I found one, a public bathroom, and I went into the stall, and I prepared to do what I'd done most of my life: use the toilet, flush the toilet, forget about the toilet. And

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

One of the worlds richest men has taken a close interest in one of mans most basic functions: visiting the toilet. Bill Gatess charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future, w

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