break one's arm patting oneself on the back
(humorous, derogatory) To be very full of oneself. Often used as a sarcastic caution - "don't break your arm patting yourself on the back"

“But what if I break my arm again?” my five year-old daughter asked, her lower lip trembling. I knelt 1) holding onto her bike and looked her right in the eyes. I knew how much she wanted to learn

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Agriculture Report - Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In recent days the remains of what had been Hurricane Isaac moved into the American Midwest. The storm brought rain to some

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Agriculture Report - From Ancient Farmers, Lessons for Today's Amazon 农业报道 - 亚马逊河流域远古耕作方法对如今的启示 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 South Ame

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By Edward Yeranian Beirut 24 November 2007 Lebanon's outgoing president, Emile Lahoud, has asked the army to take charge of security in the country, after members of parliament again failed to elect a successor, shortly before he left office at midni

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By Alan Silverman Holllywood 17 June 2007 The biblical story of Noah and the ark gets a warm-hearted comic update in a sequel to the 2003 hit film Bruce Almighty . This time Steve Carell is the star and Alan Silverman has a look at Evan Almighty . Ev

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to stand on one's own two feet to throw oneself at someone's feet 在美国的成语和俗语中,有不少是围绕着

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To twist someone's arm To charge someone an arm and a leg 今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语是由 arm,也就是手臂和leg,也就是腿这两个字组成的。我们要介绍的第一个词汇

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Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand With the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant set to continue through most of this year, many people in the region are worried about the long-term impact on the Fukushima brand. Nowhere can

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US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers Women face a number of obstacles that men do not. They tend to own less land and have fewer rights to that land. They have less access to credit and training. And they have less input in decision-making. With

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Up in arms At arm's length 在美国人讲话时,或从书刊报纸上,你经常可以听到或见到一些由手臂,就是英文里的arms这个字组成的成语或俗语。有些习惯用语从

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to break your neck to stick your neck out 美国人在讲话和写文章的时候经常用一些和人体各部份有关系的成语或俗语。今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语就是和

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By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 17 March 2008 A lawyer for alleged international arms trafficker Viktor Bout says Thai tried to force Bout to go to the United States, following his arrest in Thailand, earlier this month. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Bangk

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: We're going to continue the conversation about guns by looking at one of President Trump's latest policy proposals - to arm teachers in schools. Earlier today, the president tweeted, quote, armed educators and trusted people who

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: So there's a new brand on the Internet that is going to take over some of the old ones, I mean, I guess old in Internet years at least. Yahoo and AOL are now under an umbrella company called Oath. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports thi

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Topics: Trouble with my car, Ask an American: Home Schooling, breakthrough versus to break through, to ride shotgun Words: to stick (something) into (something) ignition to turn over jumper cables to home-school to be better off primary character to

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3.其他动词词组 add up to 合计达,总括起来,意味着 break away (from) 突然离开,强行逃脱 catch up with 赶上;对…产生恶果 com true (预言,期望等)实现,成为

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul, Turkey 11 October 2007 The vote in a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives calling the massacre of Armenians in World War I by Ottoman Turks a genocide has caused outrage in Turkey. The Bush administration opposed t

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What's inside it? asked Wilbur.Eggs? 它里面都是什么啊?威尔伯问道,是卵吗? Five hundred and fourteen of them, she replied. 五百十四个卵。夏洛回答说。 Five hundred and fourteen? said Wilbur. You're kidding. 五百十四?

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WASHINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- China's Zheng Jie was ousted by Australian Roland Garros finalist Samantha Stosur 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the WTA and ATP Miami Masters on Thursday. Stosur, the fourth seed and ranked fifth in the world, has p

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