Some key Congressional Republicans are voicing opposition to President Obama's proposed 825-billion-dollar economic recovery plan in its current form. GOP Senator John McCain of Arizona. The plan was written by the majority in, Democratic majority i

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

[00:04.48]Something free. 自由 自在的梦 [00:08.60]It never works. 都没有用 [00:17.96]Is that the only thing you dream? 你只做了那场梦吗 [00:21.60]I don't... I don't remember. 我不记得了 [00:28.16]Do you dream about the car acci

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 听电影学英语-香草天空

By Alan Silverman Real-life everyday heroes who fight fires and save lives come to the screen in a sweeping drama set at a big city fire station in the new film, Ladder 49. (Movie Snippet) In firehous

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--文化艺术

In sociolinguistics and conversation analysis (CA), politeness strategies are speech acts that express concern for others and minimize threats to self-esteem (face) in particular social contexts. 在社会语言学角度与会话分析角度下,礼貌

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

A: 欢迎大家来到这期的美语训练班! 我是小北! B: 我是Mike! What are we going to teach today, Xiaobei? A: 今天,我们要和大家聊聊旅行计划,看看在家工作的好处,还要告诉你怎么说发疯。 B: But first, le

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 美语训练班

Everyone loves a bargain, as those restaurant chains which offer you special all you can eat deals for a fixed price know all too well. In Pakistan a pizza company had been doing a roaring trade during the Muslim month of fasting. Families who were r

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

The sight of a grown woman lying on the floor, her wrist pinned down by the foot of someone who was supposed to be caring for her was one of the more shocking images that emerged from Winterbourne View, 一个成年女子躺在地板上,她的手腕被

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

12.Be A Risk Taker 12.去冒险吧! I encourage all of you to explore any and all opportunities to pass along the benefits of your experience to those who will follow. This may sound like jargon, but it is not-it will add to your own self-esteem an

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 历史英雄名人演讲

Today, Julie Wildhaber, who trains writers and editors at Yahoo!, will explain what it means when people tell writers to find their voice, and also how to understand the difference between voice and tone in writing. What Is a Writing Voice? Voice is

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Glad you to start your new week with CNN student news, my name is Carr Azuz, we are going to start today at the top of the U.S Central Intelligence Agency. That organization, CIA will be getting a new director, because the previous one resigned. On F

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2012年(十一)月

Remember that damages is not the plural of damage, but actually has a different meaning. 记住:damages不是damage的复数形式,damages有其他的含义。 Damage means loss or injury to a person or property. It is an uncountable singular nou

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

不久前,美国《纽约时报》公布了一项《2015年度最讨厌的10大英语词汇》,其中包括Manspreading,Vape,So等。这些词汇大多是被滥用、误用的,看看哪些词汇是你经常爱使用的吧~ 1.So So the word that

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we have part two of our look at proverbs in American English. RS: We continue our conversation with Wolfgang Mieder, a professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more junk English. RS: Back in 2001, we talked to writer Ken Smith about his book Junk English. In his words, Junk English is much more than sloppy grammar. Most often it is a tri

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(376) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: our guest is Wayne Glowka, an English professor at Georgia College and State University. RS: He also chairs the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, which publishe

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

核心句型: Let's cut to the chase. 我们就开门见山吧。 cut to the chase 这个习惯用语来源于好莱坞电影,许多电影里最精彩的片段都是跟踪追击的场面,导演喊这句话就是让把镜头切换到追踪场面,

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松日记商务职场篇

In our jobs, we may have occasions to communicate with people in other countries or from other cultures.Whether we are buying, selling, consulting, or simply trying to obtain informatoin, we will need to get across ideas to an audience we are not use

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: our guest is Wayne Glowka, an English professor at Georgia College and State University. RS: He also chairs the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, which publishe

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

And the trick here is to use a single, readable sentence that the audience can key into if they get a bit lost, 这里的窍门就是使用简单、易读的句子,让观众即使有点儿不明白也能够掌握要点, and then provide visuals w

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

MANAGEMENT books have a deservedly poor reputation. 管理学书籍活该口碑差。 Too often they are written by people who confuse insight with jargon, the types who love to call a spade a manual horticultural utensil. 这些书的作者常是那些

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列