AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with linguistics professor Pamela Munro, editor of the latest edition of a dictionary of slang used at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of the terms may be exclusive to the ca

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

A Unique Job A father's job is unique. If parents had job descriptions mine would read: organize bills, playmates, laundry, meals, laundry, carpool 1 , laundry, snacks, outings and shopping, and laund

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Olena: We need to keep pace with changing technology, but how are we going to raise capital to upgrade our equipment? Joel: Im not sure. Maybe we can find a supplier who will extend credit to us. We can pay in installments. Olena: Thatll be hard to d

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is ain't and a few other troublesome contractions. To quote the famous opening lines of the first-ever talking picture, The Jazz Singer: Wait a minute, wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet! You may have been chi

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Lesson-9 1. They spent many years ______ for oil in this small island . A. exploring B. exploding C. exposing D. exploiting explore 探索,研究 lore 知识文化, 学问 folklore 民俗学,民间

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One Love Blue It's kinda funny how life can change Can flip 180 in a matter of days Sometimes love works in mysterious ways One day you wake up gone without a trace I refuse to give up. I refuse to gi

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? After a bad day at the office, were more likely to flip on a nature channel than find a flower-filled meadow or sunny beach to lower our stress. But if you cant head

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Writers of the most spine-tingling horror stories and thrillers create a feeling of suspense and of dread, and one online thread proves it only takes a few words to give readers the chills. 最吓人的恐怖故事的作家和惊悚片的编剧能营造

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今天分享的是最后一只鸡的英文故事。 重点词汇 butcher n.屠夫,屠户; flip vt.轻弹,轻击; 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥; scale n.天平; faintly adv. 微弱地;模糊地;虚弱地 hesitate vi.犹豫,踌躇;不

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You flip a coin. Fifty percent risk. That's quite a lot. 这和掷硬币的几率一样。 50%的风险,不是一般的高。 If he instead would go to Hamburg, 如果他换而选择去汉堡, and to a clinic called the Martini-Klinik, 去一个叫

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It is not easy to look radiant, but Wilbur threw himself into it with a will. 让自己看上去光彩照人很不容易,可威尔伯决心来一下。 He would turn his head slightly and blink his long eye-lashes. 微微转动它的头,眨动它的

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Six Flags is building what it says is the world's first first 'four-dimensional free fly' roller coaster at its park in San Antonio, Texas. 六旗(世界上最大的主题公园连锁品牌)正在美国德州的圣路易斯六旗乐园打造据称是

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2016美国总统选举的初选正在如火如荼的进行中,各种政治术语也在媒体上泛滥成灾。如果你关注美国大选,就会发现下面这12个用语在各种报道中出现的频率很高,赶快学起来吧~~~~ 1. flip flo

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Love them or hate them, Crocs the rubber clogs that started out in 2002 as boater-floaters for Jimmy Buffett types in Florida but have now sold more than 300 million pairs in 90 countries are here to stay. 卡洛驰于2002年创建在佛罗里达,当

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10 Tips for Embracing Your Flaws Are your so-called flaws getting you down? It's time to start loving yourself for who you are right here, right now. Here are ten tips for embracing your flaws and accepting yourself completely. 1 Acknowledge what's b

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(228) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Adele's new hit song 'Hello' has become much more than just a comforting break-up anthem for women wounded by past relationships. 英国歌手阿黛尔(Adele)的全新热门歌曲《Hello》,对于在以往恋情中受伤的女性而言,已经不

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Forget flip flops and sun tan lotion, it's coffee and ketchup that holidaymakers consider their packing essentials, according to a new study. 一项最新研究显示,度假行李中的必备物品根本不是人字拖和防晒霜,而是咖啡和番

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It's kinda funny 这儿有点有趣 How life can changeCan flip 180 in a matter of days 几天之中会有180度的转变 Sometimes love works in Mysterious ways 有时爱有许多神奇的方式 One day U wake up Gone without a trace 某天你醒来便

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Nokia has officially made its triumphant return to phone-making. Most mobile phone users remember the Finnish company as the former number one cell phone manufacturer in the world, before Apple and Samsung handsets took over. 诺基亚已经正式成功

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1. flip flopper 改变立场的人,政策骑墙派 flip-flop是平底人字拖,但flip flopper这个词却与拖鞋没有任何关系,而是指骑墙派,反复无常者,改变立场的人。在表示翻转、突然转变意义时,flip-flo

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