Amber: Hello, I'm Amber, and you're listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with a woman who - in the 1980s and 90s - put the word 'supermodel' in the dictionary! She's Elle Macpherson. Elle began her b

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 Entertainment

by Michael W. Flynn Hello, and welcome to a special joint episode of Grammar Girls Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing and Legal Lads Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life. Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is illegal versus unlawful. Here's

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

Where is the mustard? asked a prisoner. There is no mustard, said the cook. We ran out of mustard. We have no more mustard. Well get more mustard tomorrow. The prisoner looked at his hot dog. A hot dog without mustard is not a hot dog. I cant eat thi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is bring versus take. Many listeners have asked me to talk about today's topic. Here's a caller: Hi Grammar Girl. It's Clint in Chester, VA. I have two children reaching high school age and they still don't know the d

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is less versus fewer. Less and fewer are easy to mix up. They mean the same thingthe opposite of morebut you use them in different circumstances (1). The basic rule is that you use less with mass nouns and fewer with

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dashes. Last week when I was speaking at the Field's End Writers Conference on Bainbridge Island, someone in the audience asked about dashes. When should she use a dash and how is it different from a colon? Dashes

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

If you're confused about that versus which, don't feel bad. It's one of the most common topics people ask me about. I used to work as a technical writer, and I'd often edit documents in which people used the wrong word. More than once, I'd put in the

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the difference between the words historic and historical. A listener, Denise, wants to know if she should say, We sell historic replicas or We sell historical replicas. Was an event a historic occasion or was it a h

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is helping us talk about two sets of words that listeners get confused: pleaded guilty or pled guilty, and use or utilize. Plead Versus Pled Mike from Georgia is transitioning from law enforcement t

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

(Ho!) I've been trying to do it right (Hey!) I've been living a lonely life (Ho!) I've been sleeping here instead (Hey!)I've been sleeping in my bed, (Ho!) I've been sleeping in my bed (Hey!) (Ho!) (Ho!) So show me family (Hey!) All the blood that I

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She will write a letter to her grandma. She will write about her day at school. She will write about her classmates. She will write about her teacher. She will write about the classroom. She will write about her school bus. She will write about her s

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 简单慢速英语阅读

一首很简单的英文歌On My Way Home-The-Perishers。舒缓的音乐仿佛真的把我们带到家中。 On My Way Home If you feel like getting even I understand I just wanna say I'm sorry things got out of hand I only wanted you to like me tha

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐天堂

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is irregardless. Hi, Grammar Girl. I'm an English teacher in Boston, Massachusetts, and I am freaking out. One of my students tells me that irregardless is now a word, and apparently it's been added to some dictionari

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

look outside it's already light and the stars ran away with the night things we're said, words that we'll try forget. it's so hard to admit i know we've made mistakes i see through all the tears but that's what got us here if love is an ocean wide we

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 影视英文歌曲

英语作文 Good manners are necessary because one is judged by his manners. Ones manners not only show what kind of education he has received and what his social position is, but they also tend to show what his nature is. Good manners means good behav

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Todd: So, Alexandra, you're going to be a lawyer. Alex: Yes, I am. Todd: Now laywers, unfortunately, often have a bad reputation. Why don't you talk about how lawyers are good for society: Why we need lawyers? Alex: Well, first we need lawyers becaus

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Christophe: OK, Aiste, we're going to talk about environmental issues in Europe. So, does Lithuania have environmental issues? Aiste: Oh, actually were are facing kind of a big problem. The Baltic Sea that's beside Lithuania. You know three Baltic co

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HOUSTON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- James Harden scored 33 points to lead the Houston Rockets to beat Philadelphia 76ers 125-103 at a NBA game Wednesday night at Toyota Center. Harden finished with a game-high 33 points along with seven assists. Jeremy Lin

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

概述 非谓语动词用法精讲 在大学英语四六级考试的 词汇 和语法部分中,年年必考的一项语法就是非谓语动词(Non-finite Verb)。 非谓语动词分为三类:不定式(infinitive)、动名词(gerund)和

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

《The Mummers' Dance 艺者之舞》最先让人注意到的是风笛,隐约的,延绵在背景里,好象是从记忆里缓缓而来的风。而鼓声接踵而至,各种各样的鼓被统一成一个印象,不徐不缓,不紧不慢,却永不停息,推着人跟随它前进舞蹈。整首曲子由这两种乐器形成主要旋律,而偶尔出现

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