Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough,

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 美语口音训练第一册

A familiar sound here in Washington, DC and other parts of the Northeastern US, where a lot of people have been shoveling out of as much as a foot of snow. As of this morning, many streets were littered with abandoned cars. Tens of thousands of peopl

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Police are releasing some details about the man accused of perpetrating both a bomb attack and a shooting rampage in Norway that killed at least 92 people. Terri Schultz reports Norwegian police say the suspect is cooperating with the investigation,

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Kate: Hello, Im Kate Colin and this is 6 Minute English. Today I'm joined by Rebecca Byrne and we're discussing couch surfing. Have you heard of this before Rebecca? Jackie: Hi Kate, well no.I'm afraid I've never heard of couch surfing but let me try

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 一起听英语

[00:03.52]Who was he? You all know him. 什么人? 你们都认识他 [00:07.40]He's the guy you had a crush on. 他是一个令人迷恋的男人 [00:09.80]Perfect-looking, sensitive, with deep-set eyes and... 五官端正, 目光敏锐 还有一双迷

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奥巴马访南非 并会见曼德拉家人 President Obama to Meet Privately with Mandela Family Obama continues trip in South Africa as former president Nelson Mandela remains in hospital. 美国总统奥巴马抵达南非后,慰问了南非前总统

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The Obama administration had preferred to let the Organization of American States and its designated mediator, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, take the lead role in Honduran diplomacy. But it is now stepping up U.S. involvement with settlement tal

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2009 考研英语长难句 1、In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association. 【分析】并列句。分号和but连接三个并列分句。整个句子结构简单,顺

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Jewish schools in religious sites across France are under a heightened security as the hunt continues for a gunman who killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in the southern city of Toulouse this morning. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley repor

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Take it in all, no bird in either hemisphere equals the English lark in heart or voice, 就秉性和声音而言,从南北半球鸟类来看,没有任何一种鸟能与英国云雀相媲美。 for both unite to make it the sweetest, the happiest,

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Today is the first in a two-part Business English Podcast lesson on using vague language. Vague means not clearly defined. For example, if you ask someone what time it is and they say About 7 or so, they are being vague. There are lots of reasons to

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It's in the Eroica that for the first time everyone is convinced this really is Beethoven's voice. The extraordinary thing about the premiere of Beethoven 3rd was that it was done of course in a very small room, in the Lobkowitz's palace, but I think

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力:文化博览2008年

促销的目的就是要卖出产品,那么怎样才能把促销信(sales letter)写得吸引人、让人一看就对产品感兴趣呢?下面就教你促销信的四步写法,打造very attractive的促销信。 第一步:To arouse attention

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John Major says the current inquiry into the war raises some very big, important questions regarding the British government's stated aims for invading Iraq Tom Rivers | London 02 January 2010 Tony Blair, 9 Dec 2009 (file photo) Tony Blair's already t

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

1. At least five people are dead and Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition following a shooting that happened outside a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket as Giffords was meeting with constituents. Hospital officials say Giff

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1. President Barack Obama plans to announce today that the government will allow oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shoreline. However, it will reject some proposed drilling sites in Alaska. Up to now, only offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico w

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1. Barack Obama says his 86-year-old grandmother has died. Madelyn Dunham who helped raise the Democratic presidential candidate died peacefully Sunday night after a battle with cancer. Obama said he learned of her death Monday morning while campaig

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本期内容: As investigators search for a motive behind the deadly rampage in San Bernardino, politicians are searching for a way to talk about it. The details of the California massacre at a holiday party point at a possible link to Islamic Mili

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 夏说英语新闻晨读

FOR as long as humans have romanced each other, others have wanted to meddle. Whether those others were parents, priests, friends or bureaucrats, their motive was largely the same: they thought they knew what it took to pair people off bett

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How do you persuade someone to do something they might not feel so keen about? 你怎么说服别人做一些他们可能兴趣不大的事情? *Flatterythe art of offering pleasing complimentswill often help you get what you want. *恭维一门赞美

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