英语单词大师：Bounce Back

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: metaphors and the mind. RS: Avi, if I say bulls and bears, what comes to mind? AA: The zoo? RS: Well yes, but I could also be talking about the stock market. In a bull market, sto

英语单词大师：Talking to Teens

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: advice about talking to teenagers. RS: Our friend Ali the English teacher in Iran told us about a book called Raising Children with Character. AA: He suggested we talk to the auth

英语单词大师：Linguistic Profiling

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: linguistic profiling. WALT WOLFRAM: What I mean by linguistic profiling is to hear a voice and on the basis of that voice make a judgment about that person which would sort of rat

英语单词大师：Audience Mail

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer some of your mail. RS: Listener Benny Kusman is from Indonesia, but tells us he is staying in Malaysia. Here is the first of his two questions: AA: If I have two books,

英语单词大师：Pretentious

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more junk English. RS: Back in 2001, we talked to writer Ken Smith about his book Junk English. In his words, Junk English is much more than sloppy grammar. Most often it is a tri

俄罗斯一位年仅20岁的国际象棋大师玩跑酷不幸丧命

Russian chess champion Yuri Yeliseyev, 20, has died after falling from the balcony of a Moscow apartment block when his parkour practice went wrong. 现年20岁的俄罗斯国际象棋冠军尤里埃利塞夫在练习跑酷时出现差错，从莫斯科

赖大师的精选---我的挚爱(父辈箴言)

第四弹父辈箴言 Advice to a Young Man Rohert Jones Burdette Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow of a set of books. If you look around, you will

英语单词大师：Knowing the Lingo as

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: dictionary editor Ben Zimmer explains terms from the U.S. presidential campaign. RS: We start with battleground state and swing state.BEN ZIMMER: Well, they're usually used pretty

英语单词大师：Would a Top Banana Run

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: English teacher Nina Weinstein explains some common idioms in American English. She likes teaching idioms in categories to help her students remember them. NINA WEINSTEIN: Often w

英语单词大师：Teaching English in Syria

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: meet Safwan Abdulsalam Kadoora. He's the director of the English department at Karma. That's an English and French language center that opened in Damascus, Syria, in two thousand six. SAFWAN KADOORA: W

英语单词大师：When It Comes to Gesturing,

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our discussion of gesture language. RS: We don't mean formal sign language taught to deaf people, but the way we use our hands either with spoken language or in place of i

英语单词大师：Handling Sensitive Topics in

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: how should a teacher handle controversial topics in the classroom? Rutgers University professor Barbara Lee gets asked that question all the time, as she recently did through an o

英语单词大师：Between Hello and Goodbye,

MUSIC: Hanging on the Telephone/BlondieAA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some tips on telephone etiquette. RS: One person you don't want to leave hanging on the phone is Nancy Friedman. She's been traveling the co

英语单词大师：Compounding Makes All the

AA: I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away, but joining me from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain our topic on Wordmaster this week. It's a feature of the language called compounding. LIDA BAKER: Compounding is when we take two w

英语单词大师：What Aphorists Have to Say

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we continue our conversation with James Geary about his new book, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists.An aphorism is a philosophical saying whose author is known. Two yea

英语单词大师：Words of Comfort for an

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more advice about expressions of sympathy. RS: Last month, English teacher Lida Baker talked about things to say. Now we move on to writing. LIDA BAKER: I think if you're writing

英语单词大师：Want to Learn Some Slang

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Slangman revisited. RS: A listener from Libya, Radwan Al-karash, sent us an e-mail earlier this month: I enjoy listening to your interviews with different people from different co

英语单词大师：Forget 'Chicken' and 'Egg,'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker explains the use of the words after and before.LIDA BAKER: I'm going to say a few sentences and I just want you to tell me two things: Is the sentence c

英语单词大师：Wise Writing

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't.RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newspa

英语单词大师：Hypercorrection

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- getting hyper about correctness. RS: English once had a system where nouns took different forms depending on whether they were the subject or the object of a sentence. We've los