You probable have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways depending on the situation they are in. This is very natural. All languages have two general levels of usage a fomal level and an informal level. English is no exception. T

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力小短文走遍全世界

How to Be a Successful Language Learner? 怎样才能学好一种语言?

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

1. If you get cold feet, this means that: a) you feel very brave about doing something b) you feel too cold to do something c) you feel too nervous to do something 2) This expression might have started with: a) soldiers b) sailors Today on Language

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 语言小点心

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(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

今天要学的词是trilingual。Lingual就是语言的,trilingual就是能说三种语言的。加拿大一所中学的一个学生在不幸的事件中被打死。报导说:那次事件 ...left a bright, trilingual 18 year-old student dead, 使得

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

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(75) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

编程 api(application programming interfaces,应用程序接口) ascii(american standard code for information interchange,美国国家标准信息交换代码) atl: activex template library(active

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

In this Business Skills 360 lesson we take a look at the language we use in a crisis. In our last two lessons (BEP 179 and BEP 180), we listened to a team dealing with a serious crisis: an accident at a factory. You probably noticed how some of the p

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 原汁原味商务英语播客

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(86) / 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(68) / 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(117) / 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(72) / 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(96) / 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(99) / 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(53) / 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(112) / 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(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

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(91) / 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(94) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

当你决定要学习一种新的语言,你得明白,从初学到掌握,这将是一个漫长的过程。有时你会因为语法过于复杂而想将它弃之不顾,有时你又会因为能够用这种语言表达自己的想法而感到欣喜

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间