音标:['bʌstə] ;
n. 起破坏, 制止作用的人或物;庞然大物;非凡的人或物;小鬼, 小家伙;茁壮的孩子
n. an informal form of address for a man
n. a robust child
n. a person who breaks horses

今天我们要讲的第一个习惯用语是:bait and switch。Bait就是钓鱼时用的鱼饵,或者是一种引诱。在这个习惯用语里,bait就是引诱一个顾客上圈套,付高价来买不值这个价钱的东西。Switch就是很快

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(470) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

BBC Learning English 6 Minute English Jargon Busters Yvonne: Hello, this is '6 minute English' - I'm Yvonne Archer William: And I'm William Kremer. Hello! Yvonne: Thanks for joining me, William! Now today, we're going to do a bit of glossing, play i

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Who You Gonna Call? OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Let's meet our next two contestants. First up, Josh Polenberg. You're a grant manager at Pfizer and you're obsessed with board games. JOSH POLENBERG: I am... EISENBERG: ...Obsessed. OK, what is a board game

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In the kitchen yesterday, I was considering all of the language that we are exposed to around the house. Containers of food and cleaning fluids can all teach us a lot of a new language. Even some small appliances often have instructions of some kind

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(274) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English
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arctic mist
Aruba Lodge
asymmetric step function
automatic film advance
average efficiency
basicranial adhesion
binged
bit numbering
bode ill
boltonias
brake lining refacer
Brinsen cheese
bulk property
burnishing wheel
caleigh
capacitance type sensor
centrepoints
chmura
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columnar fracture
cosmic mineralogy
device media control language
dinosauromorph
diprivan
disciform macular
do somebody in
double-heads
egg shell finish
electrical impulse compacting
Endonasopharyngeal
environmental effects in highway construction
error resonance
Evans' classifier
evolution computing
excursioned
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gets started
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haziness
help request
in-line glove box
inbound visitors
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irresemblance
isinglass gold-size
keep ...promise
khiev
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larding needle
learn from experience
liege man
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lyophilized skin
maritime training school
masticable
method of log preservation
microform reader
mnemonician
morning rooms
Musettamycin
Muzan(Muzin)
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oxford university press
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PARASELACHIMORPHA
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platypnea
play something out
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preceptour
pussybreath
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rasyid
Report Customizer Program Product
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romanchenko
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yanotype
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