Brooks dubbed them BoBos, the bourgeois bohemians who created a new anti-establishment establishment. (1) They were the specialty-cheese-eating, sport-utility vehicle-driving environmentalists who railed against the elite even as they became one of t

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 四六级必读美文系列

9. House prices have risen sharply this year. 今年房价急剧上涨。 还能这样说: House prices zoom this year. House prices are rocketing up. 谚语: Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy and wise. 早睡早起令人健

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5. It's located near the middle school and in a decent neighborhood. 房子位于中学附近的好地段。 还能这样说: It adjoins the middle school and has a good neighborhood. The surrounding around here seems to be nice and quiet and there

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按揭贷款 mortgage loan 按揭购房 to buy a house on mortgage; to mortgage a house 房屋空置率 housing vacancy rate 安居工程 Comfortable Housing Project 板楼,板式楼 slab-type apartment building 搬迁户 a relocated unit or househ

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Business sense suggests you try to buy property at the lowest possible price, but that was not the case for one property in Sydney, Australia. 买房子,买主总是尽可能砍价,举世皆然。而澳大利亚悉尼的一处房产出售情况则不

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有人上着班,业余时间还做兼职,没有一刻得闲;有人辞了职,却也不着急找工作,借着暂时失业的机会好好享受生活。所以说,上着班不一定have fun,失业了,也不一定没有fun。 The funemployed

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她们年过30依然单身,生活丰富,朋友也不少,有精力追求事业,也有时间享受生活。别人眼中的她们可能有点另类,她们就是中嫩族。 We've had WAGS, yuppies and metrosexuals; now meet our newest social p

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黄金一直是高品质、美丽和财富的象征。称某种东西为金质的意味着它具有很高的质量和价值。今天我们通过例子来学习一下和golden有关的习语英语词汇吧~ 1.the golden rule 金科玉律;指导原则

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Happy Graduation, Seniors! Congratulations! Whats next? Below is some sociologically-inspired, out-of-the-box advice on work, love, family, friendship, and the meaning of life. For new grads from the two of us! 恭喜毕业,毕业生们!祝贺你们

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亚文化人群的流行,是社会进化与多元化的必然结果。曾经流行的是BoBo族、soho族、NONO族、尼特族、飞特族、快闪族、月光族、月老族、啃老族、穴居族、啃椅族、晒黑族、草莓族、穷忙族、

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小时候,老师说过,向日葵的花永远是跟着太阳走的。太阳走到哪里,花就面向哪里。所以,向日葵花也叫做太阳花。在我们的生活中,有这样一类人,他们总是乐观面对一切,每件事他们都

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Shopping, 大家都知道它就是购物的意思,companion是伙伴,同伴的意思。 那么二者一起翻译为陪拼族是什么意思呢? 大家一起来看下面的解释: The flip side of love is that the boyfriend or husband of young

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Chinese residents now need to fill an application form indicating the purpose of foreign exchange purchases. 如今我国居民需要填写申请表写明购买外汇的目的。 The application form includes 11 purposes residents can check, includin

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Beijing's traffic may now be the worst in the world, but natives have long known the capital's streets aren't as hard to navigate as its housing. 北京的交通可能是世界上最糟糕的,但北京人长期以来就知道,北京的街道还不像

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You share a lot with your coworkers over time: Projects. Lunches, Office space. Cocktails. Family photos. Birthday cake. But, even after many years of working together, should you share the details of your salary and compensation package? 随着时间的

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自用车族的英语用语

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这里的走私族可不是常规意义的走私,而是指员工在上班的时候开小差,用电脑做与自己工作无关的事情,比如聊天、偷菜、开网店做私活等。 Sneaky 鬼祟的,卑鄙的,chatter是chat的名词,是指

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我们就来给大家揭晓一下,在我们国家生活的外国朋友们是怎么看待房产投资的。 词组 real estate n. 不动产,房地产 complicated adj. 难懂的,复杂的 convenient adj. 方便的; option n. 选项;选择权;

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又快到周末了,你是决定泡夜店还是上街购物,抑或当宅男宅女呢?今天我们先学学夜店族怎么说吧。 Pub crawl夜店族 Crawl 的意思是爬,那么爬酒吧又是什么意思呢? 不论单身与否,泡吧是许多

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Wealthy Americans Renting Homes Instead of Buying A study by the apartment search website RentCafe finds that more wealthy Americans are choosing to rent living spaces instead of buying them. 公寓查找网站Rentcate的一项研究发现,更多美国

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