音标:[emˈbærəsmənts] ;
n. 尴尬( embarrassment的复数形式 ); 难堪; 局促不安; 令人难堪或耻辱的事
n. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
n. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
n. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

Obama Considers Proposals to Change Surveillance WASHINGTON Next month President Barack Obama is expected to change the way the United States collects information - domestic and foreign. A presidential advisory panel has submitted 46 broad recommenda

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(十二月)

1. President Obama is accusing Washington of getting distracted from the economy. His speech in Illinois Wednesday included no new policy initiatives, but he said that reversing bad economic trends should be Washington's highest priority. 2. Anthony

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In European football, AC Milan's players walked off the pitch during a friendly against 4th-tier club Pro Patria after some of their fans began hurling racist insults. Massimo Ambrosini is AC Milian captain. We are really sorry because of a few peopl

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I want to close this account. $112.14. All right, small bills. No, you are overdrawn that much. What does that mean? It means you hit zero here is zero, you went below zero. This is my tree you wrecked. Stay here. I am calling the cops. Is everything

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A laughable story was circulated during the administration of the old Duke of Newcastle, and retailed to the public in various forms. 在纽卡斯尔老公爵主政期间,流传一个有关他的令人忍俊不禁的故事,几经转述公众听到的

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 美国语文第六册

文本: A century later, Claudius, the club-foot stammerer, on the face of it, the most unlikely conqueror of all, was determined to get it right. If it was going to be done at all, Claudius reckoned, it had to be done in such massive force that th

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The bell rang, and the Savage, who was impatiently hoping that Helmholtz would come that afternoon, 铃声响了,野蛮人跳了起来,向门边走去他已经等得不耐烦。赫姆霍尔兹原说那天下午来的, for having at last made up h

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Note to self: the key to happiness is keeping a diary and writing down the things that make you smile. 写给自己:保持幸福的诀窍就是记日记,记下那些让你快乐的事。 For while fictional diarists Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I woke up one morning and seriously thought: Whats stopping me from becoming one of those happy people? What would it take for me to be the kind of person who is just plain happy all the time?I looked back on a happy day to see where my mind was.

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