The Colorful History of Billiards 台球的沿革 Anyone who refuses to leave prison simply because they are having too much fun playing billiards would be considered something more than just a diehar

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

AMY WEBB, Futurist:We don't stop to think about it, but if you really want to freak yourself out, and you own a cell phone, go to Google and look up your personal information, every single place that you have been since you have been online. We don't

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈商业系列

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is Nothing Ages Writing Faster Than Slang. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes Slang is made of informal words and phrases that originate in speech, and often includes substitutions for formal words, like ride or wheels for

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Broadcast: Jan 18 ,2003 Americans have been captivated by a new kind of entertainment called

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(上)-文艺之窗

Since the first web browser appeared on computer screens in 1994, the Internet has radically changed global communication. With instant access to messaging and email, the ability to circulate commentary and opinion has revolutionized the way people c

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Oil spill, Day 42 of this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Still there is no end in sight for this crisis. Right now take a look with me. Work under water and under way to place a custom built dome over that ruptured well. Remember that effort top ki

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(六)月

US President Barack Obama waves as he arrives via Marine One helicopter after a weekend visit to Camp David with his family, at the White House in Washington, August 2, 2009.(Agencies) The sixth edition of UCLA Slang is being published this month and

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

近两年,世界名校网络公开课受到热捧,各大字幕组争相出字幕,门户网站也争相购版权。一时间,追随网络公开课的人似乎都有点比别人先进一步的感觉。这些网络公开课在英语里叫Massive

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- winning words for 2003 as voted by a small group of linguists and other scholarly observers of the language. RS: More than seventy members of the American Dialect Society voted

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

INTRO: As long has language has existed, it has been in a constant state of change, and as long there have been dictionaries lexicographers have been trying to keep up with those changes. James Donahower reports on the flood of new words entering the

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

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Has the word minority outgrown its usefulness? RS: Minority means less than half. In the United States, members of non-European racial and ethnic groups are generally referred to a

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

It is one thing to learn a new piece of information, such as a new phone number or a new word, but quite another to get your brain to file it away so it is available when you need it。 A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience by research

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

百变教母Lady Gaga的歌你可能听过,但她的名字中的Gaga是什么意思你知道吗? The artist gleaned the name from the famous Queen song Radio Gaga, but the word gaga entered the English lexicon in the early 1900s as a term for cra

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Australian of the Year David Morrison is leading a drive against the use of the term guys in the workplace. 澳洲年度人物大卫?莫里森发起了一项运动,反对人们在工作场所使用guys(意思是家伙,男人)的称谓。 The

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

In the third episode of the Simpsons in 1987, Smithers made his first appearance. 史密瑟斯第一次登场于1987年的《辛普森一家》第三集。 When viewers first laid eyes on Montgomery Burns' assistant, he was black. 当观众第一眼看

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(303) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. It is the only major language without an academy to guide it. 英语是唯一没有学术机构加以规正的大语种。 LAcadmie fran?aise, based in Paris, is in charge of overseeing the French language. For Spanish there is the Real Academia E

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Fain am I to stagger to this enterprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary. 这个壮举,我只得借助于字典中那些最有分量的词汇,勉力以赴了。 And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult one

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

Think Before You Write. 写作考试:想好才写。 ielts360toefl@hotmail.com 隐形模板: 仔细看了试题之后,你当然要立刻思考如何回答。理当采用英文思考,办不到则兼用中文助阵。读者(考官)不必知道

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语

How often do you use the word nice? I have no idea how many times I physically utter the word nice in a single day, but I'd guess it's a lot. 你有多经常用到nice这个词呢?我不知道我每天具体要说多少次nice,但我觉得次数一定

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

To finish I'll just show you the strategy. 最后,我只跟你们说一下战略。 And this one I'm just using the interspecies molecule, but the logic is exactly the same. 在这里,我们只是使用跨菌种分子,但是思维逻辑是一模一

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇