Besties, Buds, BFFs ... Friends! Now, the VOA Learning program Words and Their Stories. Language changes over time. Many words and expressions have changed over the centuries. But the word friend has stayed the same. It is a rare example in the Engli

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Tunisians are savoring new media freedoms announced a week ago by the country's caretaker government following the toppling of autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. However, for the Al-Kitab bookstore in downtown Tunis, the fight for free ex

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(一月)

Sometimes a Chinese idiom has a perfect match in English, as I said in the previous column. And if you happen to know the English expression in question, translation becomes easy. Then, of course, you dont know if you should call it translation or so

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语俚语天天说

Sometimes a man has to surrender to fate. See what it has in store for him. 语音讲解: 单词发音 surrender /səˈrendə(r)/ fate /feɪt/ 连词发音 sometimes a man /ˈsʌmtaɪmzəmn/ what it has in /wɒtɪthəzɪn/ 轻读重读 重读:fat

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Common Errors in English, from a professor who wrote the book. RS: Paul Brians began with a Web site. It got so popular, it led to a book called Common Errors in English Usage. No

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

He got the plates in silence. I hoped he would let it drop now. 他沉默着走过去拿盘子。我希望他现在不要再提这件事了。 So who was it? he asked, setting two plates on the counter next to me. 那么,他是谁?他问道,把两

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 暮光之城•暮色

He lifted his eyes; his expression was wistful, pleading. 他抬起眼,他的神情里充满了渴望和恳求。 Even the strongest of us fall off the wagon, don't we? 即使是我们中最坚强的人也会旧瘾复发,不是吗? What are you

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 暮光之城•暮色

He dreamed that one of his teeth had fallen out. He told his classmate. She said, In my country, such a dream means a relative is going to die soon. He asked, Really? Any particular relative? She said, Yes. It depends on which tooth falls out. He sai

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

Sit down. 坐吧 Where's Claire? 克莱尔在哪 Not here. 不在这儿 So what is this, tying up loose ends? 这是什么意思,除后患吗 I wouldn't presume. 我可不敢 People like you can't be neatly tied up. 你这样的人怎么可能除干净

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 纸牌屋第一季

吃过必胜客吧?那你听说过必剩客吗?知道这个词儿是什么意思吗?不知道,那你可就out了。提示一下,这个词跟现在很惹眼的剩男、剩女有关系。现在,大概猜到是什么意思了吧?对,就是

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

All around me are familiar faces 周围全是一成不变的面孔 Worn out places worn out faces 破落的周遭 疲惫的神情 Bright and early for their daily races 天一亮就早早开始他们日复一日的追逐 Going nowhere going nowhere (

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英乐时空

I never cease to wonder at the thought that any day the course of my life could change with just one chance encounter. 语音讲解 单词发音 cease n. 停止 wonder n.惊奇;奇迹;惊愕 course n.科目;课程;过程 change vt.改变;交换

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 跟着Gwen学英语之每日早读

This is slow? 这叫慢? Enough commentary on my driving, he snapped. I'm still waiting for your latest theory. 就我的驾驶而言,相当中肯。他忽然改变了话题。我还等着听你的最新理论呢。 I bit my lip. He looked down a

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 暮光之城•暮色

I'm right? I gasped. 我是对的?我喘息着说。 Does it matter? I took a deep breath. 这要紧吗?我深吸了一口气。 Not really. I paused. But I am curious. My voice, at least, was composed. 不怎么要紧。我顿了顿。但我很好

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 暮光之城•暮色

Four Efficient Ways to Improve Your Speech精通发言四大招数Use More Facial Expression多用面部表情One psychologist feels that our facial expression is responsible more than anything else for the impression others have of us. In fact, more

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

You know how to talk about the future in English. You use words like will or shall or going to. In English, we also have a way of talking about things which are in the future but very close to the present perhaps ony a few minutes into the future. We

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Sometimes, when we talk about something which we think has happened, or which we think will happen, we use the expression it looks like. There are dark clouds in the sky. You think that it will soon start to rain. What do you say? I think it is going

发表于:2019-03-01 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Jo: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Jo. Sun Chen: 还有我,孙晨。这里就是我们的地道英语。 Jo: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Sun Chen: 你要是经常

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

Jo: Hello, I'm Jo and you're listening to Real English from BBC Learning English the programme where we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your textbook or your dictionary. With me today is Helen. Helen: Hi Jo. 大家好。在我们的

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

FIFTY-THREE Chapter 11 ON entering his studio the artist again cast a glance at his visitors and took note of Vronskys face, especially his jaw. Although his artistic perceptions never slept, and although he was growing more and more excited as the m

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英语文学名著