英美文化：圣诞饼干和姜饼小人儿究竟是怎么来的？

Like many Christmas traditions, the origin of this delicious custom lies ages ago, in solstice ritualsconducted long before Christmas became the huge commercial holiday it is today. Winter solstice festivals have been held for eons, across the world.

英美文化：说说英国皇室的备胎继承人

In royal families, the crown goes to the oldest child. That's theheir. The spare heir is the next child who would ascend thethrone should something happen to the heir. In the UK, whenWilliam becomes King, Prince George is the heir. His brother orsist

英美人天天都在说的4000句 117:no shit

[00:01]Cl：Whose package is that? [00:02]Ch：Shit, you got another one, Clean. [00:04]Cl：No shit, Wait a minute. Is that it? [00:07]Ch：That's it for you. Lance. Mr. L. B. Johnson, there you go. [00:13]L：Far out, man! All right. I've been wait

英美人天天都在说的4000句 118:no skin off one’s no

[00:00]R：Look, Mr. Potter, it's no skin off my nose. [00:03]I'm just your rent collector, but you can't laugh off this Bailey Park anymore. [00:08]Dozens of the prettiest homes you ever saw. 90% owned by suckers who used to pay rent to you. [00:14]

英美人天天都在说的4000句 72:get wind of sth

[00:00]H：I don't think we should do anything out of the ordinary. [00:02]A：Yeah, she's right. It's imperative that we carry on as usual... [00:06]M：What am I supposed to do? Just go about my life as everything is fine? [00:08]A：That's exactly

英美人天天都在说的4000句 63:fly on the wall

[00:00]S：So, what are you innocent of, huh? [00:04]G：I'm an illegal alien. [00:06]S：You goddamn gringos. You come down here and steal all the jobs. [00:10]Of course, half the country does want to kidnap you. And half wants to kill you. [00:14]T

英美人天天都在说的4000句 84:grow eyes in the back。。

[00:01]E：Word gets around. The sisters have taken quite a liking to you. Especially Bogs. [00:10]A：Don't suppose it would help if I explained to them I'm not homosexual. [00:14]E：Bull queers take by force. That's all they want or understand. [0

英美人天天都在说的4000句 88: have butterflies in...

[00:03]J：I still can't believe you're getting married. [00:05]M：In two weeks. [00:10]J：Is she your soul mate, Wendy? [00:14]M：My soul mate? I don't know if I believe in those. I think that's kind of naive. [00:20]J：But you get goose bumps w

英美人天天都在说的4000句 79:give sb. the green llig

[00:00]P：Rachel, why don't you start talking first? [00:04]R：Alright, I feel that this is totally unjustified. She gave me the green light, I did nothing but... [00:09]Do you think I can't see you in the TV set? [00:11]P：Alright Monica, if ther

英美人天天都在说的4000句 91:have sb. over a barrel

[00:00]H：So how many guys you getting with? You getting with every guy in the state? [00:03]J：No! Holden, this is all because of you! [00:06]He had me over a barrel. If I didn't sleep with him, he was going to tell Phil about us. [00:10]H：I'm s

英美人天天都在说的4000句 93:high horse

[00:01]J：You'll do anything to get me to go on this thing, even if I have to walk right into the lion's den. [00:04]H：Come on! You know I'm not gonna give in to this kind of behavior. [00:09]J：She's like a kid at ToysR Us. I can't be around it.

英美人天天都在说的4000句 92:head honcho

[00:01]E：Wait, are you a student or something? [00:03]P：I'm a writer. I'm writing a book. I'm here doing some research about how technology affects third-world cultures. [00:10]I'm also looking for this guy David Drumlin. He's the new head-honcho

英美人天天都在说的4000句 103:keep one’s nose out

[00:01]Ro：You know I kept my nose out of it, but you and Lorna. [00:04]You're having the baby, you're living together. You're not getting married. [00:11]Ri：Why, does that violate your family value system or something? [00:15]Ro：I'm just trying

英美人天天都在说的4000句 101:it’s always greener.

[00:00]A：What a day. I mean, it just doesn't get any better than this, you know? [00:06]Even the star's out. Not going to find a star like that in the wild. [00:16]Marty. Buddy. Listen. Everybody has days when they think the grass might be greener

英美人天天都在说的4000句 160:shoot the breeze

[00:01]J：If he had guts to knock Mom cold once, [00:05]then maybe she'd be happy and she'd stop picking on him. [00:09]You know, just mush. [00:14]When I didn't have to be all confused [00:17]and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everythi

英美人天天都在说的4000句 143:put one’s foot in...

[00:03]N：Hey, I hear we're going to be roommates. I'm Neal Perry. [00:06]T：I'm Todd Anderson. [00:08]C：Hey! How's it going here? Study for togniht? [00:12]N：Yeah. Sure. [00:14]C：Business as usual, huh? Hey, I heard you got the new kid. Look

英美人天天都在说的4000句 126:on the wagon

[00:00]Mr：Christina Howard's promotion created a vacancy that we've decided to fill with in-house personnel. [00:07]Perhaps one of our butlers. [00:10]Ms：On to new business. Mr. Radcliff is checking out of 709. [00:17]Mr. Greenwald is checking in

英美人天天都在说的4000句 167: steal sb.’s thunder

[00:01]M：See, I've been waiting my whole life to be engaged, [00:03]and unlike some people I'm only planning on doing this once. [00:08]So, uh, y'know, maybe this is selfish and I'm sorry about it, but I, I was kinda hoping tonight could just be ab

英美人天天都在说的4000句 169:strong suit

[00:00]J：What do you think the Russians are using the base for? [00:03]T：At one point, we once suspected Severnaya might be the ground station for a secret space-based weapons program called Goldeneye, but uh [00:10]M：Our statistical analysis s

英美人天天都在说的4000句 189:touch wood

[00:01]V：Well, actually, this'll be my first foray into the trial process. [00:05]I haven't had to go to court yet. Knock on wood! [00:09]W：But...you graduated from law school six years ago. What have you been doing since? [00:14]V：Sludying for