Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is something I am very guilty of doing myself: overusing the words so and very. A listener named Taryn wrote in asking if it is acceptable to write that she is sooooooo happy that she is going to the prom (using so wi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is something I am very guilty of doing myself: overusing the words so and very. A listener named Taryn wrote in asking if it is acceptable to write that she is sooooooo happy that she is going to the prom (using so wi

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 电信英语

People swing their arms when they walk. But did you ever wonder why? Does it help us keep our balance? Is it a relic from our evolutionary past? Is it because we look like doofuses if we dont? Now, a report in the Royal Society journal Biological Sci

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(八)月

The Texas Board of Education has long promoted the teaching of creationism in schools instead of actual science. Its former chairman and current member Don McLeroy uttered this immortal line when confronted with numerous actual scientists urging that

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

What do a whale and a frog have in common? According to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, pound for pound, they sound the same. Sounds fishy? I mean, if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(一)月

It sounds like the premise for a bad police drama, maybe NYPD Chimp. But scientists have found that high-ranking chimpanzees can act like cops: intervening to settle public disputes. The study appears in the journal Public Library of Science ONE. In

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

英语诗歌赏析:和平之诗 Guns, bombs, mines and tortures Form its massive sound But, within its power, within its might And within its fearful threats Peace is not to be found If we kill people, with whom will we live? The enemy is not a perso

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笔译

每期节目一话题,让英语磨练耳朵的同时学到更多有益的小知识,丰富知识的同时受益于生活。 what can we do when the news makes usfeel sad? 当消息让我们悲伤时,我们该怎么做? It's normal to feel upse

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

委内瑞拉总统命令逮捕政治颠覆分子 CARACAS, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday ordered to arrest anyone involved in inciting violence or fomenting instability in post-election Venezuela. Maduro issued t

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Yes, it was worthwhile investing money in the shoe business, he thought. There wasn’t a shoe-store in the place. The dry-goods and general stores sold them. Business in all lines was fairly good. 他想

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[00:03]J:Yeah uh, Phoebe! Look umm, [00:08]I want to apologize about before,OK? [00:10]We were being jerks. Parker's a nice guy and I'd like to get to know him. [00:14]P:Then you better do it now. [00:15]J:Why? [00:16]P:Because I'm going to k

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英美人天天都在说的4000句:跟着影视学最真实的口语

冬日散步 原文:There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had b

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Every law has no atom of stregth, as far as no public opinion supports it.Wendell phillips, American leader against slavery若是没有公众舆论的支持,法律是丝毫没有力量的。 美国废奴运动领袖 菲力普斯 WGood order is the

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(309) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口译

PSALM 99 1The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. 2Great is the Lord in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations. 3Let them praise your great and awesome name- he is holy. 4The King is m

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 圣经旧约 诗篇

We're going to be shooting from minus 2,600 meters that's a little over 8,600 feet down at 30 kilometers from the entrance. 我们要从地下2600米处,大约8600多英尺之下--开始拍摄。那个地方离洞口30千米处。 The lead crews will

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

PARIS, April 8 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande said Monday that ex-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death marks the disappearance of a great figure, while extended his deepest and very sincere condolences to Thatcher's family

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

A: What are you working on? B: I'm figuring out my budget. A: What budget? B: I'm making a shopping budget, so that I don't spend too much money. A: How much money can you spend? B: I can only spend $300 a month. A: Why only $300? B: I need to save t

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 购物英语对话

English was Kyla's second language. She had pronunciation problems. She had a problem with some vowels. She had a problem with some consonants. She had a problem with the ar sound. She said cah instead of car. Kyla's coworkers never seemed to underst

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)

From his father Jobs had learned that 乔布斯从父亲身上学到, a hallmark of passionate craftsmanship is making sure that 充满激情的工艺就是要确保 even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully. 即使是隐藏的部

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