在通常情况下,some要用于肯定句,在否定句或疑问句中,一般用any代替。如: 肯定句:There are some young people in the park. 公园里有些年轻人。 疑问句:Are there any young people in the park? 公园里有些

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. World economic growth remained strong in two thousand seven. The International Monetary Fund estimated growth at five and two-tenths percent. But predictions for two thousand eight call for slower gr

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(一)月

Getting Started with TOEFL 开始准备托福 If you are interested in studying at an American university, you have probably heard about the Test of English as a Foreign Language. The test is widely known as the TOEFL. It is the most widely used lang

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Larry正在帮李华填税表。今天我们要学两个常用语:playing with fire和do it for me. LH: Jeez, Larry. 美国报税怎么这么麻烦。要我说,定个25%什么的,所有人的收入都按这个税率交,那多简单。 LL: But

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

So if criminalizing sex workers hurts them, why not just criminalize the people who buy sex? 那么如果判定,性工作者违法是在伤害她们,为什么不仅仅刑事处罚买春者呢? This is the aim of the third approach I want to tal

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

And what do you say? You say, you say, That's risky, kid. Might fail, kid. 然后你说什么?你说,你说,嗯...那样比较不保险,孩子。有可能会失败,孩子。 Don't make a lot of money at that, kid. I don't know, kid, you sho

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

What would society be like without the police? They do a very valuable job. Without them, our society would be less safe. The police are the people we call when we are in danger or something bad has happened. Even people who say they dont like the po

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 纯正英语一分钟

A new survey in Britain shows that one in seven drivers has had to take evasive action because of their own risky overtaking. The road safety charity Brake carried out the survey on 1,000 motorists. It revealed that 80 per cent of drivers have felt t

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语生活新闻

Culturally exposed to everybody, you know,you've got Jim Kelly in there, representing African Americans,you've got John Suces representing Europeans and you have Bruce, representing Asians. 这部电影以文化的形式呈现给了每一个人,Jim

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 名人传记

Hello to you I'm Stacey Elgin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. A radical move to try to thaw out the frozen credit market. The government says it will buy huge amounts of short-term business debt. The

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(十)月

Business Loyalty cards and insurance Every little helps 商业 会员卡和保险 积少成多 As it pushes into finance, Tesco's Clubcard gives it a competitive edge 乐购进军金融界,其会员卡为之奠定优势 SOME young drivers get tanke

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Teenagers who are physically active in any way are less likely than their TV-watching peers to smoke, drink or take other health risks, a new study suggests. Researchers found that compared with teens who spent much of their free time in front of the

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Ensemble Cast 全明星阵容 American Slang That radio's history. 无线电报销了。 Sb./sth. is history=lost one's power/be no longer important 例句 That girl's history.I dumped her three monthes ago. 那个姑娘已经是过去时了。我三个月前就把她甩了。 That apa

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 动感英语

How to Handle Tough Conversations I just finished a terrific book called Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. Authors Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Kerry Patterson, and Al Switzler define a crucial conversation as one where o

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Don't blame genes for aging facial skin. A new study of twins suggests you can blame those coarse wrinkles, brown or pink spots, and dilated blood vessels on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight. 皮肤老化?别怪基因。一项针

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

And what they called is calotropis,and you tell that from these big leaves,and these like fruit, a little like avocados. 当地人把这个称为牛角属 很好辨认的 大叶子 还有这个果子 有点像鳄梨 But look, if I break this,you got

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 荒野求生

Similarly, long-run returns provide support for the grand theory of inequality set out in 2013 by Thomas Piketty, 同样,长期回报还为托马皮克迪在2013年提出的宏大的不平等理论提供了支持。 a French economist, who suggeste

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

有时候在 ICQ 上同时和老美和老中用英文聊天, 通常用不了多久, 我很快就能分别出这是老美的英文还是老中的英文. 就算同样是用那些单字, 老美用的英文就是有一种特别的味道. 因为我发觉老

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Jobs made a point of casting Disney as merely the distributor of a Pixar film. 乔布斯立场鮮明地把迪士尼说成是皮克斯电影的发行商。 He kept saying, 'We at Pixar are the real thing and you Disney guys are shit,' recalled Michael

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Loyalty cards and insurance 会员卡和保险 Every little helps 积少成多 As it pushes into finance, Tescos Clubcard gives it a competitive edge 乐购进军金融界,其会员卡为之奠定优势 SOME young drivers get tanked up and wrap the

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合