Learning Fire Safety The apartment manager asked all of the tenants to come to a short meeting to learn about fire safety. I didnt want to go, but the manager said that there would be free food, and who am I to turn down free pizza? ... Apartment man

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 2012年ESL之日常生活

A: Where can I buy an inexpensive cashmere sweater? B: Maybe you should look around for an outlet. A: That is a wonderful idea. B: Outlets have more reasonable prices. A: Thank you for your help. B: No problem. Good luck.

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Item Eight. Vocabulary. popularize. A number of big chain stores in China are trying to popularize cotton shopping bags to reduce the amount of plastic ones being thrown away. However, the China Youth Daily reports that the cotton shopping bags are n

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 Step by Step 3000 第二册

Toward the end of the war there were absolutely no medicines for the Southern soldiers, and guns were so scarce that it was proposed to arm one regiment with pikes. 到战争结束的时候南方士兵已经彻底没有药品可用,他们尤其缺乏

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303. The North and the South. 303.北方和南方 The South was now a great cotton-producing region. 此时,南方是一个巨大的棉花种植区, This cotton was grown by negro slaves. 黑奴在这里种植棉花, The North was now a great

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I agree. We need more Republicans to act that way because this is more important than politics. 说得好。我们需要更多的共和党议员用这种思维行事,因为这比政治更重要。 It's about young mothers like Ashley. Today, her ne

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Host: welcome back, now hold the Grande Cappuccino, the coffee chain Starbucks has been forced to close its branch in Beijing's Forbidden City. The company said the decision to close had been congenial, but since the caf opened 7 years ago, it's bec

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

1. Police in Baltimore say Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was not to blame for a fender-bender he had Thursday night. Phelps will be cited for driving without a license and failure to establish residency in Maryland. Phelps lived in Michigan f

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2009年(八)月

1. Federal officials are denying that a suspect is in custody in the Boston Marathon bombings. A law enforcement official had told several media outlets that a suspect was in custody. But the FBI and the US Attorneys office in Boston dispute that. 2.

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The Revolution Continues on Chicago Blues Tribute Album A tribute album to Chicago blues wouldn't be complete without an appearance by two of the city's most beloved bluesmen, Buddy Guy and James Cotton. Both appear on the all-star recording, Chicago

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This is Scientific American Sixty Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? You've probably noticed that synthetic t-shirts stink more after a work-out, compared to cotton. But hey, it's not the fabric's fault, it's the microbes that

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年Scientific American(九)月

You have probably noticed that the synthetic shirts stinks more after a workout, compared to cotton. But hey, it's not the fabric's fault, it's the microscobes that hang out on synthetics that create the characteristic stach. That's according to a st

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The United States has joined China and South Korea in criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine. In an email interview, a US State Department spokesperson told CCTV that although Japan is a valued ally and friend

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年12月

Allegations that Shanghai Husi has supplied fast food outlets with stale meat has sparked great concern over food safety. For the latest, we are joined by our correspondent Shi Wenjin in Shanghai. Q1. Hi Wenjing, anything from the local food and safe

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2014年07月

今天我们要学的词是 retaliation. Retaliation 报复。Russia designated nine U.S. media outlets as foreign agents, in retaliation for similar U.S. moves against the Russian network RT. 俄罗斯将9家美国媒体定为外国代理人,报复美

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

Jesse McCartney 热单 《Beautiful Soul》 (Citadel Outlets Tree Lighting) 现场版!但有了不一样的面孔,我们都在变老。听他新歌看了他演的电影,都觉得杰西还是能够有很大的发展的。 歌词: I don't want

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 流行英文歌曲

The Ministry of Public Security and several state media outlets have done a survey on the most annoying and dangerous driving habits. Nearly 30,000 people took the survey. More than 90% of those surveyed ranked cutting others off or merging suddenly

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 CCTV9英语新闻2013年12月

今天我们要学的词是stress。 Stress, 是压力、紧张的意思。Emotional stress, 是情绪紧张,mental stress, 是精神压力。I experienced a lot of stress before the tournament, 是说比赛开始前,我紧张极了。Yoga is a v

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 Franklin's parents were both pious Puritans. The family attended the old South Church, the most liberal Puritan congregation in Boston, where Benjamin Franklin was baptized in 1706. 富兰克林的双亲皆为虔

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 名人认知系列 Who Was

今天我们要学的词是 uptick. Uptick 作为名词,是增长,上扬的意思。U.S. officials suggested that drought and famine could be the cause of the uptick in piracy off Somalia. 美国官员表示,干旱和饥荒可能是索马里沿海

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