Present Perfect Tense AA: I’m Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: practice makes perfect . RS: With us from Los Angeles is English teacher Lida Baker to explain a part of

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语听者文摘

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- some baseball word play in honor of the World Series. RS: We've got a classic skit about baseball. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello perform a linguistically challenging bit of comedy

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: palindromes aplenty! RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, anot

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with linguistics professor Pamela Munro, editor of the latest edition of a dictionary of slang used at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of the terms may be exclusive to the ca

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more from our interview with Philip Dodd, author of the new book The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraordin

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: May 13, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we talk to language columnist and author Barbara Wallraff about her new book. It's called Your Own Words. In it, she explains, quote, h

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- using a dictionary to help define the law of the land. RS: The next time you go to an English dictionary to look up a word or settle an argument, you might take comfort in knowin

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppos

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti, with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the catch of the day, terms from the sea. Lots of nautical expressions have washed ashore into everyday English. Alan Hartley researches them for the Oxford English Dictionary

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a look backward! RS: As we do each New Year, were going to play one of our favorite recordings. Its a skit about a cowboy with an unusual speaking habit. AA: The piece is called

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti, and this week on WORDMASTER -- a visit to Baltimore, Maryland, for the ninety-first annual convention of N-C-T-E -- the National Council of Teachers of English. These teachers take American kids through reading and writing, speaki

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, some whimsy to liven up your vocabulary! RS: Slangman David Burke brings us some words and phrases that, in most cases, have been around a long time, and are just plain fun to say.

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more of our conversation with Jim Tedder, the creator of VOA's online Pronunciation Guide. RS: It used to be that when announcers at VOA needed to know how to say the name of some

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: Anu Garg, creator of the A.Word.A.Day Web site and author of a new book called Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

The AI system, called Lengpudashi, won a landslide victory and $290,000 in the five-day competition. 日前,一款被称为冷扑大师的AI系统,在为期五天的比赛中以绝对优势取得胜利,并赢得了29万美元。 It is the secon

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 8, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti. Rosanne Skirble is away. But with me from Los Angeles this week on Wordmaster is English teacher Lida Baker. LB: What we're going to talk about today is four types of common sentence erro

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is Tom Dalzell, senior editor of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English -- and, now, the Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconven

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: from an interview on C-SPAN television, political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz talks about his book Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear.RS: At one

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

I'm Adam Phillips for WORDMASTER, sitting in for Roseanne Skirble and Avi Arditti. Today we look at the jargon of international finance. With giant American corporations leading the drive toward the globalization of business, English has become the d

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles talks about improving English pronunciation by understanding the idea of thought groups. RS: Thought groups are something we don't even

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master