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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Financial Expressions By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Sunday, December 05, 2004 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English Program about American expressions. I'm Rich

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a pronunciation question from Quebec, Canada. RS: Nam-Thien Khuu writes by e-mail, I have heard [that the letter 't' is silent when it comes after a stressed syllable]. Am I right

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词条 含义 近义 词组 compile vt. 汇集，编辑 work over, gather , collect complacence n. 自满，自以为是 arrogance, satisfaction complaint n. 抱怨，怨言 grievance, criticism compl

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Language of Terror, Part 1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- language and the impact of the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the United States. RS: Start with something as simple as the date. September eleventh, or 9-11 as American

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Law and Language

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 21, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster -- language and the law. RS: That's what our guest today writes about in a column for The Green Bag, which calls itself An Entertainin

词汇大师-- Remembering 2008 in a Word

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER: we check in with Grant Barrett at the American Dialect Society for the results of its 19th annual vote for words of the year, in this case for 2008. GRANT BARRETT: The Word of the Year was bailout --

英语儿歌274首 第21期:Can you write this word?

歌词如下: Can you write this word? Can you say this word? Can you spell this word and then erase this word? Chalk!C-H-A-L-K! That`s right! That`s great! Can you write this word? Can you say this word? Can you spell this word and then erase this w

英语语法：204 Why Isn't “Gruntled” a Word?

Grammar Girl here. Today, guest writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us why were never gruntled, sheveled, or in whack, but why we are often disgruntled, disheveled, and out of whack. Bonnie says, Thanks to an interesting question from Glenn, well b

VOA慢速英语2018--The Mysterious Word ‘Whose’

Suppose you are at a birthday party. Everyone has a cell phone. Just as the group begins singing to the birthday girl, someones phone rings loudly and wont stop. You see the noisy phone on the table and ask: Whose phone is this? Someone answers: Its

清新英文歌曲:Little Mix - Word Up

We're coming up K-k-k-k-keep it Keep it coming up So do your dance Do your dance Do your dance quick, mama Come on, baby Tell me what's the word OW! [Perrie] Yo pretty ladies around the world Got a weird thing to show you So tell all the boys and gir

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: counting words. RS: If you wanted to show people the 88,000 most common words in English, how would you do it? Jonathan Harris thought of a sentence -- or something that looks lik

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Pronunciation in American English

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: April 10, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on WORDMASTER -- a way to find out what people are talking about. First, though, a story. (SOUNDS OF RUSHING WATER) RS: Imagine a waterway. Fish rush b

英语单词大师：Remembering 2008 in a Word

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: reduced forms in spoken American English. RS: We're talking about forms like whaddaya -- meaning what do you, as in whaddaya say? Whaddaya Say? is also the title of a popular teac

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: our guest is Wayne Glowka, an English professor at Georgia College and State University. RS: He also chairs the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, which publishe

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Slang Flashcards

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 19, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, p

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Five New Year's Resolutions

Broadcast: December 22, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year. LIDA BAKER: My first resolution tha

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Sound Change, Part 1

First broadcast: January 12, 2005 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 f

老外最常用的英文短语 第60期:give one's word

释义： give (somebody) one's word 约定 give sb one's word 表明约定的意思，主要用作 I give you my word (我向你保证）的形态。换句话说，可以理解成 I'll promise you,对于被承诺的一方，则是 take one's word。