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今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:come down on like a ton of bricks。Ton,是一吨两吨的吨; brick,是砖头的意思。A ton of bricks一吨重的砖头砸下来,想想都让人不寒而栗。Come down on like a ton of bricks,

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Lewis Hamilton was born in England in 1985. He was named after American sprint champion Carl Lewis, so he was associated with speed even from when he was a baby. Perhaps it came as no surprise that Lewis got into racing of some sort. He won the Formu

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From VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Imagine you are at a business meeting. You have just presented a plan to your business partners. They want to give suggestions for how to make your plan better. The conversation might sound like th

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By Doug Levine Washington 28 October 2006 Saxophonist Michael Lington became a fan of American jazz while growing up in his native Denmark. It was a passion so strong that he eventually settled down in the U.S. and launched a recording career. In a

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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THIS IS AMERICA -April 29, 2002: Washington Monument By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: The tallest structure in America’s capital city is the Washington Monument. It is named for George Washington, the f

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- American Andy Roddick eased into third round of the ATP Washington Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Roddick, a three-time Washington champion, defeated Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-4, 6-4 in just 84 minutes. I accompli

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-Second Science. I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Air pollution is bad for our health, but scientists say we don't know much about the long-term effects. So researchers in Canada and the Netherlands dec

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Billy Currington是一位美国乡村歌手。他从2003年起至今推出了五张专辑,其中有十支单曲都登上了Billboard的乡村音乐流行榜和乡村之声榜。这七支冠军单曲Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right, Good Directions, Pe

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-When you made your offer, I thought you might be a great lady nurse and faint at the sight of blood, but I see you're made of sterner stuff. -It's definitely the heart. It's almost too quiet to hear at all. -I'm afraid so. -I've been thinking about

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Lady Mary: O'Brien told her Bates can't do thejob properly. Why was he taken on ? Anna:Oh, he was Lord Grantham's batman when he was fighting the Boers. LadyMary: I know that, but even so. Anna:I think it's romantic. LadyMary: I don't. How can a vale

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The War Is Not Over Walters Kazha Ta na na na... na na... Na na na... na na... I slowly walk into the night around To see how dreams of people die They gently fall from windows all around And crash against the ground like glass And I'm so sorry I'm s

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英文歌词: We took the long way home, you held my hand, The days so full of all the things we had planned. We walked beyond the green, beyond the day. We shared a dream that i let slip away. I had to find myself. I had to find myself. No use looking

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I only slept for a couple of hours In the back of my buddy's truck I must be runnin' on solar power 'Cause I'm ready to crank back up And the boys are all bangin' on cheap guitars And the girls are all rockin' their bikini tops And that big ball's wa

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Greg Watson has promoted solar power around the world for years. I work in green [technology] for an international development bank, [and] Im always saying, Look, the costs are down, there are all these incentives, really it makes ec

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The inter-island ferry between the North and the South Islands at the moment travels between Wellington and Picton. The ferry carries people, cars, trucks and trains (without the engine). It takes about three hours. The government is looking at chang

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Don't you hate hearing that clock on the wall chimming saying its time and Don't you just wish we could stay right here together all day long You know it wouldn't be a crime if we crawled back into bed got as close as we could get Tried to figure out

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The way you stumble in the kitchen Looking for that first cup of joe How you put on your mascara Starin' in the mirror on your tippy-toes And if you wonder why I love you baby I can boil it down to just one thing Chorus Yeah everything Every little t

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学英语单词
access fees
advocates-general
Aesopian
air break circuit breakers
ALGOL-like block structure
atmospheric explorer (ae)
auxiliary power unit system
Ballymakeery
bellcores
belt plow
blowdown-indraft wind tunnel
blue vitriod
Cabrales
ceraginous
company's stopcock
compression bonding
computer assisted language instruction
contract of partnership
cross country flight
cross-vault
Dangote
dehorney
devilhopper
diaphragm pressure span
dysaphis (pomaphis) plantaginea
ego-psychology
estimater
false-killer whale
feed circuit
feelingly
fresh-water drilling fluid
gabarones
gehres
genus camptosoruss
gray spot
Gwadaram
heleidae dermatitis
hose hanger
increase decrease accounting method
infant
infrared colorithermometer
inhibited
intergranular failure
jenson
jointly managed device
kintra
legacy device
lodberry
Loss-of-income insurance
Ludwigslust
magnetocircular dichroism
main trysail vang
makin' waves
meteorologic teleprinter network
muscular position
N-acetyl-o-acetylneuraminate
office call
oil product
Percy Aldridge Grainger
placks
polyglutamates
polygons
Puentenansa
pulsed krypton lamp
puppy-dog
recommendatory annotation
reduction to the sea-level
restarter
riddlelike
Saussurea alatipes
secondary decision
self evident
silicate classification
simple cycle gas turbine engine
smoke-and-mirrors
solemniss
speechmodulation
ST_changing-and-not-changing_replacing-and-exchanging
sternwheel
subscription ratio
synchrotron aperture
taboo channels
tape gauge
tapered bar conductor
technological esthetics
ticker tape parade
total noise of centrifuge
trans-generational
transfer of payment
turn heads
unfrozen river
unsymmetric dimethyl hydrazine
v-neckline
verticillatum
walewise
war of
westwardmost
wire-rope hempwicking grease
working current
Xylaria polymorpha
Zeravshan
zone of polarizing activity