第7期: flatter, bean, fly, graze, illustrate

说一口流利的英语，从简单的单词开始。 听听，读读，背背，今天你的词汇量又增加了5个。 单词/词义 中英例句 单词听读 flatter He flattered her on her cookin

保姆日记 1-Track04

Hi, Grayer! I say, smiling down at the top of his blond head. He's wearing a white oxford button-down Polo shirt, untucked on one side, containing the evidence of a morning hard at work: finger paint, what looks like glue, and one lone macaroni. How

NPR 2012-02-04

Unexpectedly strong jobs figures for January sent Wall Street off to its fastest start in 15 years, reflecting a burst in investor confidence. Employers added 243,000 jobs last month, and NPR's Scott Horsley reports President Obama is cheering the ne

【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 04

At night he is never tired enough to sleep. She reads to him from whatever book she is able to find in the library downstairs. The candle flickers over the page and over the young nurses talking face, barely revealing at this hour the trees and vista

Mr Bean and M. Hulot

William: Hello and welcome to Entertainment I'm William Kremer. [FX canned laughter] Well, the comedy that has made Mr Bean popular around the world doesn't quite work on the radio, since the main character Mr Bean - doesn't actually say anything. I

辛沛沛NO-BOOK 辛沛沛口语提高版下册B Lesson 18 Bean

Lesson 18 Bean 1.She's always full of beans. 2.That junk isn't worth a bill of beans. 3.She is really a bean counter. 4.I'm sorry,that I spilled the beans. 5.Use your bean and figure it out. 6.I was beaned by a football. 7.He never does beans around

【饥饿游戏】22

In the deepening twilight, the firelight illuminates our faces. We seem to be leaving a trail of fire off the flowing capes. Cinna was right about the minimal makeup, we both look more attractive but utterly recognizable. Remember, heads high. Smiles

经济学人: 系外行星的卫星探索之旅 (1)

WRITERS of science fiction have long assumed that the galaxy is teeming with alien planets. 科幻小说的作家们一直都认为星系中存在异形星球。 They were correct, but it was only in the past few decades that science has been able to

英语诗歌:Morning Song

Sylvia Plath Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safe

奥斯卡歌曲:When a child is born

When a child is born 演唱：Johnny Mathis约翰尼．马蒂斯 A ray of hope flickers in the sky A tiny star lights up way up high All across the land dawns a brand new morn, This comes to pass when a child is born. A silent wish sails the seven se

美国习惯用语: Lesson 186 - BEAN COUNTERS / SPILL THE BEANS

我们给大家介绍过两个由bean这个字组成的习惯用语，它们是：Full of beans and not worth a hill of beans. Full of beans是指一个人精力充沛，not worth a hill of beans是一钱

英语听力 暮光之城•暮色 第178期:第十一章 复杂(7)

I kept my expression firmly under control, expecting the swift flash of his eyes to judge my reaction that soon followed. 我意志坚定地控制着自己的表情，希望他的眼神能紧接着掠过来，鉴定我的反应。 My face gave nothin

【荆棘鸟】第六章 08

I'll make you sell yourself like any painted whore. Do you doubt it? He leaned back, smiling. I don't doubt you'll try. But I don't think you know me as well as you think you do. Do I not? Time will tell, Ralph, and only time. I'm old; I have nothing

【时间旅行者的妻子】16

Clare counts. I race around picking underwear and socks from the floor, collecting spoons and coffee cups from various horizontal surfaces and chucking them into the kitchen sink. As she says Nine hundred and sixty-seven, I remove the tie from her ey

美国习惯用语:470 beanball; curve ball...

今天又要学两个在总统大选年里新闻界时常会用到的习惯用语，而且这两个习惯用语还是从美国人最心爱的消遣活动: 棒球赛中借用来的。 这两个习惯用语都和用牛皮制成的结结实实的棒球有

Jack and the Bean Plant

Jack and the Bean Plant I Once there was a poor woman. She had one son, whose name was Jack. Jack had no father; a giant had killed him. Jack's mother had one cow, whose milk they sold. They had no money but the money which they got for the milk. One

经济学人:商品:全球形势紧张(2)

In the background lurks climate change, fears of which have grown with the heat and drought battering Europe's wheat crop this summer. 在此背景下还潜伏着气候变化、以及今年夏天欧洲小麦作物遭遇高温干旱打击的恐惧。

英文乡村歌曲：When A Child Is Born-Johnny Mathis

Ah... ah... ah... Ah... ah... ah... A ray of hope flickers in the sky A tiny star lights up way up high All across the land dawns a brand new morn, This comes to pass when a child is born. A silent wish sails the seven seas The winds of change whispe

7 Ways to Simplify Your Life

7 Ways to Simplify Your Life Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau It is my habit to rise amidst the burgeoning daylight of each day before even the kookaburras let forth a recognizable burst of uncanny laughte

Fishing For Jasmine

The silent young woman in bed number six is called Jasmine. So am I, but names are only superficial things, floats bobbing on the surface of the water, and we share deeper connections than that. Which is why she fascinates me - why I spend my off-dut