最近的英剧「Very British Problems」,异常火爆。 该剧起源于一个Twitter账号,该账号经常吐槽一些腐国人民独有的生活不能自理问题,矛头直指英国文化中繁琐至极的礼节,视角犀利,槽点到位,

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文

demagogue /ˈdeməgɒg/ No responsible leader, only a demagogue, would tell the people that, if elected, he will solve all their problems. -- political leader who stirs up people for personal advantage; rabble-rouser ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

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这位英国保守党领袖说,我们正在进入一个崭新的时代 -- 政府自身拥有更少的权利(和更少的钱),同时人民借助新兴科技则拥有更多的权利。利用行为经济学的新观点,他探讨如何将上述趋

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BBC Learning English People and Places Kate Moss Callum: Hello, Im Callum Robertson and this is People and Places. One of the things that the British are known for is our ability to queue! If it were an Olympic sport Im sure wed be favourites for th

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And I realized it had to come from the people. 我意识到和平必然来自人民。 After all, they decide, 毕竟是他们的抉择, and they did. 而他们这样做了。 So the sounds that were before distorted and loud, 于是之前嘈杂混乱

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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you. Please, have a seat. Thank you very much. I want to begin by thanking Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landm

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: Residents of other countries feel the same about their nation,and we feel the same about our ethnicities. 其他国家的人民对自己国家也抱有相同态度,我们对自己的种族也是如

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主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

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For a while individual noblemen curried favor with the people to win their votes, and then seized power. 在一段时间里一些贵族附和民众获得他们的选票,然后夺取了统治权。 Rulers like these were called tyrants. 这样的统治

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BBC Learning English People and Places Hoglands Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet Mary Moore, daughter of the renowned British artist and sculptor, Henry Moore (who died in 1986).

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BBC Learning English People and places Richard Firestone Dima:Hello, I'm Dima, and today our guest is Richard Firestone, an American scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who has recently been involved in a fascinating research into an

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BBC Learning English People and Places Xiaolu Guo Amber:Hello! Today, we meet a young and highly-successful Chinese writer and film- maker, Xiaolu Guo. She talks about learning English, and about how she had fun trying to find the right kind of Engl

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BBC Learning English People and Places The Lipstick Blondes Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet a ski mountaineer and she defines the term for us! And she takes us to an extremely h

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Anna Faris sums up her feelings about the People's Choice Awards in a single word. 安娜法瑞丝用一句话说出了她关于人民选择奖的感受。 Terror, says the actress, who will co-host the 41st annual awards, airing live Wednesday from

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BBC Learning English People and Places Meeting Penguins Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet Meredith Hooper whos been to Antarctica to get to know these noisy creatures Actuality We

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BBC Learning English People and Places Tractor Lady Jackie: Hello, welcome to bbclearningenglish.com. I'm Jackie Dalton Manon It's a 31 year old German tractor and it's green, with red inside the wheels. Jackie: and this is the Dutch actress Manon O

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BBC Learning English People and Places David Coulthard Jackie: Hello, welcome to the programme, with me Jackie Dalton. I dont know if this sound means anything to you, but to me it conjures up images of my dad dropping off to sleep in front of the t

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英语学习笔记: one thousand 1000 one million 1000,000(一百万) one billion 十亿 trillion 万亿 1.56billion 15.6亿 Grammy awards 格莱美奖 American Music Awards 全美音乐奖 Brit Awards全英音乐奖 The Academy Awards or The O

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Good morning. 早上好。 Over the past few days, I've met with Republicans and Democrats from both houses of Congress in an effort to reopen your government and remove the dangers of default from our economy. 在过去的几天里,我会见了国会

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Last month at the United Nations General Assembly, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to do more to help his country's 1.4 million indigenous people. He said there needed to be an effort to, quote, correct past injustices and bring about

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