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TEXT Are we too quick to blame and slow to praise? It seems we are. Profits of Praise It was the end of my exhausting first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone awry, my apron was stained, my feet ached. The loaded trays I c
Science and Technology 科技 Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint 迁徙美洲:检查站 The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted. 新大陆的第一批移民在8000年后才被公认。 How America was originally col
9. The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading, for publishers who have ,so far,made handsome profits. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为The report makes heavy reading for
10. Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it. 【分析】复合句
埃及艳后克莉奥帕卓传奇故事 这是一位历史上最享盛名的神秘女子:她广播的艳名,她与恺撒、安东尼的两段恋情,她的丰功伟业与远大的政治报负,还有她结束于蛇吻的传奇一生。究竟埃及
The United States recently surpassed Spain to become the second-largest Spanish speaking country in the world, behind only Mexico. Yet in 2015, Vanessa Ruiz, a bilingual news anchor in Arizona, was loudly criticized for pronouncing Spanish wo
'Uglish' Gets Its Own Dictionary in Uganda 乌干达英语有了自己的词典 The official language in Uganda is English. But visitors to this African country soon recognize that the English spoken here is different from British or American English
'They' Wins as Linguists Word of the Year From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The competition was more youthful, more hipster, more urban, even naughtier. But in the end, they won. The pronoun they won out as Word of the Year, vo
Rethinking Grammar: How We Talk 语法再思考:我们如何讲话 We judge people by the way they speak and the grammar they use. Listen to several Americans from different regions speak. Dont worry too much about what they are saying, just listen t
Lesson 35 Text A A Proud Linguist Once upon a time there was an Austrian emperor who made it a rule to interview every one of his soldiers once a year. During the interviews he invariably asked three questions- How old are'you?, How long have you bee
23. Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable. 【分析】句子主干为 the trendis unmistakable。Illustrated with...culture为过去分词短语作方式
It's used to change the scene. 它被用来转换话题。 So for example, this Sally person says, 比如说,这个萨莉说, So I need to find people to chill with and Jake says, Haha,you could write a dissertation about Haha too, but we don't h
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device for moving the cursor on a computer
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: age and the economics of learning English. RS: Our guest is Hoyt Bleakley, an economist at the University of Chicago. He and Aimee Chin at the University of Houston have studied t
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice Fifty years ago this month, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style as we know it today was published*, and in honor of the occasion, th
美国侯任总统特朗普正面临当选以来最大规模的批评声浪,当地时间2日他与台湾地区领导人蔡英文通电话引来国内外的抨击、质疑和嘲讽。特朗普在推特上强调电话是蔡英文打给他的,且主要
On Nov. 2, an English textbook dating back to China's Qing Dynasty was displayed by a Chinese citizen from Chengdu, Sichuan province. 11月2日,四川省成都市一位市民展示了清朝时候的一本英语教材。 The book showed how the Chin
Larry 和李华刚看完一部最新的恐怖片,两个人在离开戏院的时候还在讨论这部电影.今天李华会学到两个常用语: go overboard 和guzzle。 LH: 这电影好恐怖,真吓人喔! LL: Actually, I think it was kind of disappointing. I think the director went a little overbo
New Yorkers Enjoy a Little Help with Grammar The New York City train system has a new unofficial stop for people who love grammaror even just have questions about it. 纽约市地铁出现了一个非官方的新站点专为热爱语法或者只是对语
Noam Chomsky is an American author, lecturer, linguist, philosopher, and political commentator. He is a top professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His ideas completely changed teachers understanding of how we lea