词汇大师-- Wanna, Gonna, Hafta

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: reduced forms in spoken American English. RS: We're talking about forms like whaddaya -- meaning what do you, as in whaddaya say? Whaddaya Say? is also the title of a popular teac

词汇大师-- Terms to Chew Over

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: Rosanne Skirble and I serve up a feast of idioms related to health and gluttony, as we present the classic children's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel -- retold by Slangman David Burke. MUSIC: Hansel and G

词汇大师-- He Shoots, He Scores

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer a sports question. RS: A listener from Ivory Coast, Marius Meledje, would like to learn more about the language of basketball. This is a good week to answer that questio

词汇大师-- Grasping Roots as a Way

AA:I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Nina Weinstein talks about building vocabulary by understanding root words. NINA WEINSTEIN: Basically half of all the words in the English language come from other

词汇大师-- Think 'Uh Huh' and 'Unh Unh' Sound Alike?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we talk with English teacher Nina Weinstein about some expressions in spoken American English that you might not find in a dictionary. RS: But if you are a good listener, you'll h

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Gerunds vs. Infinitives, Part 1

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: to be or not to be, or should there be an -ing? That is the question as we look at gerunds and infinitives. RS: To be, to run, to eat: the to indicates the infinitive form of the

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Meet Two Young English Teachers

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: meet two young English teachers. One is from the United States, the other from Uzbekistan. RS: The American is a native English speaker who also speaks Arabic. He teaches a conver

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Audience Mail

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer some of your mail. RS: Listener Benny Kusman is from Indonesia, but tells us he is staying in Malaysia. Here is the first of his two questions: AA: If I have two books,

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Getting a Job, Part 1: Resume

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: July 11, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: July 14, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster, advice on getting a job. RS: It's a question several listeners have asked us, so we turned to

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Using a Dictionary

A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and, now that the Olympics are over, we're back with WORDMASTER. This week -- going for gold in using the dictionary! RS: We looked up our friend Lida Baker. She teaches in the American Language Center at the U

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Lida Baker: Stress in American Engl

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we take some of the stress out of learning which words to stress in American English. RS: We turn to Lida [lee-da] Baker. She's an instructor at the American Language Center at

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Confusing Synonyms and。。。。

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 29, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer a few questions from listeners that really call for a dictionary editor. RS: We called Peter Sokolowski, associate editor at t

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Creative Writing, Part 2

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: October 28, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we continue our conversation about creative writing with a self-described addicted, compulsive reviser. RS: Chitra Divakaruni has wri

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Sound of Silence

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: August 14, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- the sound of silence in American English. RS: If you're looking for clues to people's emotions, you could listen to what they say. Y

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Patricia O'Conner: 'Woe Is I'

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 31, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- we talk with grammarian Patricia O'Conner. She's out with a second edition of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Cursing in America

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 15, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- curse words in American English. RS: We can't say them on the air, but a listener in Sokoto, Nigeria, Paul Ezeani, would like us to tal

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Pretentious Language

February 9, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more junk English. RS: Back in 2001, we talked to writer Ken Smith about his book Junk English. In his words, Junk English is much more than sloppy grammar. Most

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Emotion Words

February 16, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: words that express emotion. RS: Suppose someone gave you two minutes to write down as many different emotions as you could think of -- for example: happy, sad, a

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Interview with an English Learner

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: an interview with one of our listeners in Iran. RS: Atefeh is a university student. She's studying English literature, so she reads a lot of classic books. But, like any young per

经济学人197:你说什么语言?

Linguistics 语言学 Say what? 你说什么？ To find new subjects of study, some linguists simply open their front doors 要寻找新的研究主题，一些语言学家只须打开前门 Sep 10th 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print edition WHERE in