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03 The Ransom of Red Chief We were down South, in Alabama-Bill Driscoll and myself - when this kidnapping idea struck us. We selected for our victim the only child of a 1)prominent citizen named Ebenezer Dorset. The kid was a boy of ten, with 2)bas-

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Vicki: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Vicki Lilly: Hi. Im Lilly, 欢迎收听《地道英语》 Vicki: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Lilly: 和汉语一样,英语里也是有着非常多

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A farmer and his son, traveling by horse and buggy up a narrow lane, met a motorist going the other way. There was no room to pass for two miles in either direction. The motorist, in hurry, honked his

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1. A plant explosion caused the evacuation of some 17,000 people near Raleigh, North Carolina Friday. Officials say they warned of a potential disaster 6 months ago. 2. Horse-drawn buggies took mourne

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cash-strapped 现金紧张的 英文释义 Having very little money available for spending(NOTE: to be strapped means to be limited inaction because one has no money) 例句 The cash-strapped new company struggled every month to pay its basic expense

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Iron 铁 Iron is a very important element in our lives. 铁是我们的生活中非常重要元素。 It is a kind of metal. 它是一种金属。 Thousands of years ago, people with iron swords and armor were the most powerful people. 几千年前,拥

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第11册

今天要学的习惯用语都包括这个词:whip。 Whip可以当名词,解释为鞭子,但是它也可以是动词,意思是鞭打,而且通常是惩罚性的鞭打。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是: whipping boy。Whipping boy这

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我们上次学了由whip这个词发展而来的两个习惯用语。第一个是:whipping boy。 Whipping boy意思是替罪羊或者受气包。还有一个是: crack the whip。 Crack the whip解释为提出口头警告以便约束他人。 今

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1. a horse pill 大药丸,大型丸剂 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2. a horse laugh 狂笑,讥笑,不信任的笑 At the end of the joke

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Todd: Jonathan we are talking about conspiracy theories. What about the one where the sound? That when the rocket lands, they have actually audio of the rocket landing and you can't hear the rocket engine, and the rocket engine should be making a rea

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上周五公布的一项研究表明,坐童车背对父母的宝宝今后可能会出现情感和语言方面的长期障碍。 The research, believed to be the first of its kind, found that children who were not facing the person that pushed them

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A mother is an extraordinary thing. Take the woman whose toddler was caught on CCTV at Goodge Street Tube station being sucked onto the live tracks by a freak gust of wind.Without a moments hesitation, she flings herself off the platform and hoiks th

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SANTIAGO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Qatari auto racer Prince Nasser Al Attiyah won Day 6 of the legendary Dakar Rally Thursday, behind the wheel of a Buggy. Al Attiyah won the sixth stage of the rugged off-road race, between the Chilean cities of Arica and

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1. a horse pill 大药丸,大型丸剂 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2. a horse laugh 狂笑,讥笑,不信任的笑 At the end of the joke

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whip hand原来是指拿着鞭子赶车的人的手。他用鞭子指挥马匹快快赶路。换句话说,执鞭的手是掌握控制权的。当然习惯用语whip hand是用来作比喻的。我们来看个例子。 这段话说一个老人不愿意

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

smart as a whip。 smart是聪明灵巧的意思。我们上次说过,老练的车把式把鞭子挥舞得活了似的。他手上的鞭子非常灵巧敏捷,能百发百中打死叮牲口的马蝇却不伤牲口一根毫毛。这也许就是smar

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

今天要学的习惯用语是:buggy whip。 buggy是小型的轻便马车。这种马车的挡泥板上有插口, 用来插上鞭子。这就是当年的buggy whip。 buggy whip属于悠久的过去年代,人们不用buggy whip已经有好多好

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

crack the whip原本的意思是打响鞭,也就是挥动鞭子发出清脆响亮的爆裂一般的声音。 这个习惯用语起源于十九世纪移居美国的人们前往西部开辟新天地的时候。他们把全部家当都装在骡子或者

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Richard and I sat on my porch, looking out over the dunes to the Gulf. The smoke from his cigar drifted mellowly in the air, keeping the mosquitoes at a safe distance. The water was a cool aqua, the sky a deeper, truer blue. It was a pleasant combina

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As I was walking back to my house from the mail box the other day, I looked at our entryway and realised that it looked like a junk yard. There were about four, old, plastic vehicles that our children don't use anymore, just sitting on the driveway l

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2-ethylmercaptomethylphenyl-N-methylcarbamate
air cooled flat twin engine
alkyl formate
Ballinagar
become excited by
Bell, John
Bhatni Junction
boron-lined counter
BSHC
burn-through range
carbon-arc welding
card selector
chloro-acetone
cnemial
Cockeroft connection
codofil
comparing element
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cutting-in tool
degloved
diectional emissivity
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disruption time
e-unit
Esbφnderup
ethyl phenacemide
family sirenidaes
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football hooliganism
French omelet
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galtons
genus dennstaedtias
gult
head and shoulders above
heads will roll
hysteroid
inana
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loss of ship
Mahamaya
Martin Luther King Day
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Micropogonias undulatus
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on-bike
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Primula bullata
Puccinia tangkuensis
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Radar target simulator.
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Tesla coils
time quantum
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United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
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very fine wood particles
weinburg
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