London English: Cockney

Yvonne: Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer. Alice: I'm Alice. Yvonne: And this is 6 Minute English! Now, like me, you were born in London, weren't you Alice? Alice: Yes I was. Yvonne: Were you born within the sounds of Bow bells, in the East End of London? Ali

高中英语人教版2004年02

[00:11.49]Reading [00:15.02]THE ROAD TO MODERN ENGLISH [00:19.88]At the end of the 16th centruy,about five to seven million people spoke English. [00:27.82]Nearly all of them lived in England.In the next century, [00:34.35]people from England started

CNN 2010-01-17

We know senate majority leader Harry Reid is sorry for what he said about president Obama. That's what he said. But was it racist? Was it true but crudely phrased or was it just plain clueless? Our Soledad O'Brien looks closer at what's really motiva

SSS 2009-10-22

Did you know birds sing in dialect? They do. The song of a great tit from the countryside is a far cry from that of his city cousin. And some song dialects can change nearly as fast as human slangthe Indigo Bunting changes tune from year to year. To

词汇大师--Now We're Past the, Uh, First Decade

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: We're back with Ben Zimmer from the American Dialect Society. RS: We talked last week about the society's choice for 2009's Word of the Year -- the Twitter-inspired Tweet -- and W

英语语法：170 Dragged Versus Drug

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dragged versus drug. I've been renovating a condo, and last week I posted a message on Twitter that started out with the sentence I drug myself over to the condo. I was sharing this bit of information to get to the

熊猫成精 和奶爸一问一答萌死人!

A video clip showing small talk between a giant panda and her keeper has gone viral online. 近日，大熊猫与其饲养员闲聊的一段视频走红网络。 The video of panda Meng Lan at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding has been re

十个最具中国文化的词汇

Like such unique terms as Confucius, kung fu, mahjong and tofu, we will choose another ten words which carry the temperament of China and influence the contemporary life in the world. 像孔子功夫麻将和豆腐一样，以下选出了具有中国气

词汇资料-英语单词词根词典（10）

DIA through,between,across 穿越,居中 字首 dia 源起希腊文介系词与副词dia,为through 或 between 之意. 这个字首在希腊文中已拥有不少单字. 如dialect n. [方言] 和diale

语法再思考:我们如何讲话

Rethinking Grammar: How We Talk 语法再思考:我们如何讲话 We judge people by the way they speak and the grammar they use. Listen to several Americans from different regions speak. Dont worry too much about what they are saying, just listen t

National Grammar Day Is Here!

National Grammar Day Is Here! Robert Lowth, bishop of London in the 18th century, wrote a book of grammar rules that are still used today. What will you be doing on Friday? How will you have spent your day? Do you have trouble understanding these que

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Dictionary Stories' Fictionalizes Dictionary Example Sentences

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Unless you're a kid in a spelling bee or a high school or cramming for the SATs, it might have been a while since you've paid much attention to those example sentences in the dictionary, you know, those simple, can-I-hear-it-in-a

英语单词大师：Linguistic Profiling

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: linguistic profiling. WALT WOLFRAM: What I mean by linguistic profiling is to hear a voice and on the basis of that voice make a judgment about that person which would sort of rat

Choosing a Dictionary

Dictionaries range broadly in purpose, size, and price; and choosing one is a very personal decision. The best advice is to make note of the things you and your family look up in a dictionary over a few weeks' time, and then go to a comprehensive boo

AP美联社一分钟新闻(2010-01-13)

This is AP News Minute. Mark McGwire is admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball homerun record in 1998.McGwire tells the AP he used steroids off and on for nearly a decade,he says he is sorry calling his action is foolish and a mistake. Sen

英语单词大师：Dialect Nomad

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: linguist Walt Wolfram from North Carolina State University, a self-described dialect nomad who likes to wander through the dialects of American English. RS: And where has this nom

听播客学英语 127 世界上没有这样古怪的乡亲

In todays podcast, we are going to meet three English expressions. The first one is to get away with something. If you do something bad, and nobody discovers what you did, or they do not find out that it was you who did the bad thing, then we can say

常见英语四六级同义词50组

abide, adhere, conform, comply 这四个高频考词都有遵守的意思，但是它们的搭配不同。 abide v.后接by表示遵守，同意。 I will abide by the director' decision.我将遵从主任的决定。 adhere v.后接to表示遵守。

英语访谈对话 364 Osaka and Tokyo

Todd: Kawabe, can you explain the difference, or compare, Tokyo and Osaka? Kawabe: Tokyo and Osaka? OK, I think that Tokyo is like New York City and Osaka is, like where? It's like, I guess it's like, OK, let's say, little Irish city. Todd: A little

News & Reports 2011-05-15

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzgan Kazykhanov tells the Shanghai Cooperation Organization that that Osama Bin Laden's death is not yet victory over terror. A worker at J