A weaker pound in the wake of the Brexit vote has led to a 7% year-on-year increase in tax free shopping in the UK by overseas tourists in July, according to new figures by tourism shopping tax refund company Global Blue. 旅行购物退税公司环球

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Beijing's traffic may now be the worst in the world, but natives have long known the capital's streets aren't as hard to navigate as its housing. 北京的交通可能是世界上最糟糕的,但北京人长期以来就知道,北京的街道还不像

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

1. Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens will be arraigned in federal court in Washington today. The former pitcher is accused of lying to Congress about his alleged steroid use. Clemens has denied any wrongdoing. 2. The National Hurricane C

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(九月)

Business 商业报道 Motivating workers 激励员工 Ranked and yanked 评级与封杀 Firms that keep grading their staff ruthlessly may not get the best from them. 那些总是无情地把员工分个三六九等的公司或许并不能得到最好的

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Well, just to close, I want to suggest to you 好,说到这里,我想提醒大家 that I've been talking a lot about the fathers. 我已经谈论了很多前人的事情 And I want to think about the possibilities 我还想考虑一下 of what de

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Something called the Danish Twin Study 一个叫丹麦双胞胎的研究表明, established that only about 10 percent 普通人在生物学允许的限度内的寿命, of how long the average person lives, 仅仅有百分之十 within certain bi

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

4.Disputes over Insurance 保险纠纷 As you may recall the June consignment arrived at India seriously damaged. 你也许记得,6月份发运到印度的那批货破损严重。 The loss through breakage was over 30% of the consignment. 破碎损失

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 外贸英语话题王

Discussion about shipment 装船谈判 We hope you agree to ship by installment. 希望你们能同意分批装运。 How many times? 分几批? 4 times. The loading term is from March to July next year. 分四批,装船期限为明年3月到7月,

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Idiom: Reduce to ashes ( destroy ) Hit the book: Staggering Amnesia Log into Social page Surrogate Pathetic Golden retriever Conflict On average we check our phones a staggering 1500 times per week according to a UK study by Tecmark. We also spend th

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(136) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味青春英语

模仿文本: The Mona Lisa is gazed at by an average of 6 million people a year. Now scientists think they may have found the final resting place of Leonardo da Vinci's muse for the picture, and they want to open her grave to carry out DNA tests.

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

斯洛文尼亚军方警方抱怨预算削减 LJUBLJANA, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia's military and police authorities have frowned upon the government-sponsored supplementary budget for 2014 that will remarkably decrease funds for the Armed Forces

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The average person in the United States watches almost five hours of television a day, more than an hour greater than the average of people in the world's biggest economies, new research says. 一项新研究发现,美国人平均每天看电视的时

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Study the following graph carefully and write an essay in which you should 1) analyze the graph, and 2) give your comments on the trend. In recent years there has been a dramatic rise in the cell phones, which are now essential to millions of people

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

看颜的世界里,碰上颜值不高的妹纸,小伙伴们私下里会咋说?如果你的字典里只有beautiful和ugly两个标准,那可真要当心啦!因为提起ugly,老外的真实感受是看一眼就糟心、颜值低爆表,基本都

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

别了,100分!日前,清华大学宣布将用等级制取代百分制。 From this September, students at China's Tsinghua University will be graded by an A-through-to-F scale instead of the traditional out of hundred mark system. 从今年9月份

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

When it comes to your wages, do looks matter? A new study says yes. 谈论到你的收入的时候,外表有那么重要吗?一项新的研究告诉你:是的。 The researchers found that overall, men and women who were considered more attractiv

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

本期内容: BiggerdiscountsthannormalareexpectedinthetraditionalBoxingDaysales, asshopstrytomakeupforweaktradinginthelead -uptoChristmas. Ontopofwidespreaddeductionsalreadyofferedbyretailers, theywillbeforcedtocutpricesfurthertogetridofunwantedst

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on November 22nd, and having gorged on turkey and cranberry sauce, 美国人在11月22日庆祝感恩节,享受火鸡和小红莓果酱, will take the next day off as well to do some Christmas shopping. That repre

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Making a call is now only the sixth most common use for a mobile phone, a study has found. 一项研究发现,在智能手机的常用功能中,打电话只能位居第六。 Sending and receiving text messages, reading emails, browsing the inter

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A: How much does it cost for a bus pass? B:It'll be $65 for a monthly pass. A: Is there anything cheaper than that? B: If you're in school, you can get a student pass. A:How much will that cost? B:The pass is free. A: I don't have to pay for anything

发表于:2019-02-27 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 乘公交-Taking the Bus