Passage 13 A Kind Neighbor Mr. and Mrs. Jones apartment was full of luggage, package, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady sai

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(337) / 评论(0) 分类 英语专业四级听写

Mr. and Mrs. Jones' apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next door. Mrs

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(234) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方CET6阅读

A middle-aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her ad

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 Aesop’s Fables-伊索寓言

Topic 1-The debt-collecting middle-aged Dama Members of a Chinese gang of Dama of debt-collectors have been jailed over illegal acts of debt collection in which they menaced victims and even stripped naked to get them to pay up, according to state me

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

People of Different Ages Gloria: Im surprised at the variety of people on this tour. Andy: Oh, yeah? I hadnt noticed. Gloria: Well, well be spending the next two weeks with these people so I thought Id get to know some of them. Andy: Thats nice. Glor

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年ESL之日常生活

Must all good things really come to an end? 天下真的没有不散的宴席? This weekend we must steel ourselves to say farewell to London 2012, 本周末,我们必须坚定地对伦敦2012告别。 and I think it'd be fair to say that for a l

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

(WASHINGTON, Reuters)The risk of a heart attack jumps nearly fivefold during the first hour after smoking marijuana. (路透社华盛顿电)开始抽大麻的一个小时之内,心脏病发作的危险性几乎会激增五倍。 this poses a pa

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄英语新闻听力通

大家都有一个印象,岁数稍大一点的人一般很难快速接受新鲜事物.但在韩国,喜欢网上购物的40-50岁的中年人增长迅速,尤其是这一年龄段里的女性消费者的数量在过去四年中增长了四倍. 中老年人

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 双语趣听精彩世界

【俚语】 文本: A middle-aged gentleman walked into the make-up section of a department store. The salespeople approached him assuming he was buying goods for his significant other. 一个中年人走进了一家百货商场的化妆品柜台。

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英语俚语天天说

❤ 模仿文本:Let's go back to the beginning of his life. Francisco Guerrero was born in Seville in 1528, presumably into a musical family because his first music lessons were entrusted to his brother Pedro. Young Francisco taught himself to pla

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英音模仿秀

今天我们要学的词是moderate。 Moderate, 适度。酗酒有害健康显然无可非议。英国一项研究显示, Even moderate drinking raises the risks for breast, liver and other cancers for middle-aged women, 即便是适量饮酒也会让

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

欧洲青少年的体重在过去15年里一直呈不断增加的趋势。目前,专家们将注意力集中在了由肥胖而引起的大量健康问题。 Around half a million children in Europe are suffering classic health problems of the middl

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

1.elder 与elderly 两者都为年老的,但有细微的差别。 elderly 指中年与暮年之间的年龄,表示人已过中年,因此,这词常用来代替 old。如:an elderly gentleman. 一位年长的绅士。elder指年龄稍长者,适

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

An Invasion of Privacy? 侵犯个人隐私? Its a familiar sight in many of the UKs airports long queues of people waiting to go through security to catch their flights. What if there was a simple and quick way to avoid all the hassle of having to

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

当今女性减肥已成为一种时尚。减肥的方法层出不穷,有的采用节食减肥,有的进行运动减肥,有的利用药物减肥,有的甚至进行手术减肥。市场上一时出现了不少的减肥药、减肥茶、减肥器

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Most people dont like to think about death, much less plan for it. Many Americans have thus failed to officially record their wishes should they be faced with catastrophic circumstances that, for example, would require them to be placed on a ventilat

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(八)月

Ross asked, Do old people smell bad? Sharon said, They sure do. It's called 'decay.' Ross laughed. He said, No, it isn't. Decay happens to dead things. Old people aren't dead yet. They're still alive. Sharon said, Okay, how about 'ripe' instead of 'd

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

英语学习笔记: double chin 双下巴 beer belly 啤酒肚 spare tire 备胎,腰部的赘肉(口语) muffin top 腰部的赘肉 middle-aged spread 大腹便便 Do you have a double chin? 你有双下巴嘛? By the time he was 23 he had

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

Topic 1-Chinese Craze of Buying Housing in Foreign Countries The Chinese has become the largest foreign buyers of US homes in 2015, as they pour billions into American housing market, seeking safe offshore assets. Britain, Australia, and Canada also

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语角-圆桌会议

今天我们要学的词是slash。Slash动词,意思是大幅度裁剪、削减。After completing its $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon slashed the prices of dozens of items at all 460 of its new grocery stores. 亚马逊在完成了对

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃