At a stoplight, have you looked around your fellow drivers? If so, youve seen them doing two things: bobbing their head to the music or talking on a cell phone. Its what we do in our cars. The problem is that we have these awesome devices but they do

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语解说豆知识2010年

Jim had two separate sheets of paper. He wanted to put the two sheets of paper together. He did not want to glue them together. He did not want to use glue. He did not want to staple them together. He did not want to use a staple. What did Jim want t

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Angela Simpson, a police officer ClipAngela Simpson When I spoke to my mother about joining the police service she was dead set against (竭力反对,坚决反对) it because of the fact that Im female and Im black and because of all the negative publici

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ClipMatthew Nicholls I would consider myself British first and then Welsh but not English, Im sorry but definitely not English. Sue:In Private lives today we meet Matthew Nicholls. Matthew has lived all his life in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales

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U.S. President George Bush says the United States will do it all it can to help the victims of the typhoon that struck the Philippines over the weekend. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports following talks at the White House with Philippine President Gloria

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GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Truth and Lies - ideas about navigating a world where facts seem to be up for debate, whether it's science or history or even a presidential election and why some pe

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Gene for Disease Has Healthy Flip Side A study in the journal Science finds that the gene for anemia-causing G6PD deficiency also protects against malaria, thereby keeping the gene active in populations. Cynthia Graber reports Sickle cell disease is

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 60秒科学

今天我们要学的词是flip-flop。 Flip-flop, 有观点、态度突然转变的意思。民主、共和两党总统候选人奥巴马和麦凯恩最近在主要议题上,都发生了态度上的急转弯。 The two sides are trying to stick th

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今天我们要学的词是slip-up。 Slip-up, 作为名词,是犯错、失误的意思。在北京奥运会上夺取八块金牌的游泳名将菲尔普斯被拍到吸食大麻的照片。 Michael Phelps immediately apologized for the slip-up, 菲尔

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今天我们要学的习惯用语有共同的关键词: lip。大家都知道lip是嘴唇。嘴唇可是我们身上忙碌的器官,我们说话,吃喝都得靠嘴唇帮忙。嘴唇还帮我们传情达意。难怪由lip这个词发展而来的习惯

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上次我们学了几个由lip这个词发展而来的习惯用语。今天再学几个,第一个是: bite one's lip。 Bite意思是咬, 想一想人在什么情况下会咬嘴唇呢? 常常是竭力克制自己的时候。而且如果咬住了嘴

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