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By Jill Moss Broadcast: November 17, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report. The drug company Pfizer says it will give enough medicine free of charge to treat about n

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图片1 When someone is telling you a story with a lot of little details and you want them to get to the main point, you can say cut to the chase. This expression is used with friends when you want them to cut to the most interesting part of the stor

VOA标准英语2018--加纳和尼泊尔消除沙眼行动

Ghana and Nepal Eliminate Trachoma Trachoma is a disease of the poor. And it is a misery to endure. It is a painful malady of the eyes, caused by frequent and repeated eye infections that scar the inside of the eyelids so the eyelashes rotate inwards

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. this will just take a minute. Weve all heard of the fight to combat malaria in mostly poor, tropical countries. But a whole host of other tropical diseases exist that leave their vi

英语博客-北美风情 106、Expression: Over the hill

图片1 This expression is a funny way of saying that someone is old. To be over the hill means that someone is old, and so not able to do things that they used to do. You might see this expression on birthday cards or hear it in movies. This express

英语博客-北美风情 64、Expression: When pigs fly

图片1 The expression when pigs fly is used when people talk about something they would never do, or some event that would never happen. It is a very old expression, and no one knows why we talk about pigs! We can also use the similar expression, wh

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By David McAlary Washington 11 May 2006 Scientists have developed a cheap, rapid test to determine who has trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness in poor countries. The researchers say th

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AS IT IS 2014-01-06 More Diseases Now Spreading from Animals to Humans 越来越多的动物疾病传播给人类 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on effort

词汇大师(Wordmaster)--Trademarking 'Freedom of Expression

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: February 6, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- meet Kembrew McLeod. He's an assistant professor of communications [studies] at the University of Iowa. A few years ago, Mr. McLeod

英语博客-北美风情 88、Expression: Shrug it off

图片1 In this episode, Robin and Jessie discuss the expression to shrug something off. Check out the picture here to see an example of someone shrugging. In certain situations a person may want to shrug it off, or have to roll with the punches, and

英语博客-北美风情 48、Expression: Call it a day

图片1 Here we look at a question about the expressions, Lets call it a day and Lets call it a night. These expressions are used often after work has been done or you are feeling tired. Listen to this episode for specific cases of when these express

英语博客-北美风情 51、Expression: Pig out!

图片1 Everyone likes to pig out sometimes! We usually pig out at parties or on special occasions. But sometimes we dont need a special excuse to pig out. To pig out is related to food and eating. To understand exactly when and how to use listen to

英语博客-北美风情 55、Expression: Plan B

图片1 Sometimes we have a plan to do something and it does not work. In that case we need to plan something different, and that is when we use this expression. If you want to listen to this podcast, but your internet is not working, you will have t

英语博客-北美风情 61、Expression: Get ahead of yours

图片1 If you try to use an expression before you know the definition then you are getting ahead of yourself! That is why it is always good to listen to our podcasts We look at this expression and other similar ones about looking too far into the fu

英语博客-北美风情 67、Expression: Rain check

图片1 The expression rain check in this episode has a few different meanings. The first one is described in the transcript below. And of course is connected to rain. Another kind of rain check is used in a story. And another one is used when people

英语博客-北美风情 68、Expression: Get it over with

图片1 Sometimes studying another language is really hard. We wish we could just get it over with and speak the language well. That is todays expression to get something over with. We usually use this expression when we have an obligation to do some

英语博客-北美风情 73、Expression: Mum’s the word

图片1 If you want to tell someone to keep something a secret or promise to keep a secret for someone else you can use this expression: mums the word. At first it seems like a strange expressionmum is the word? Weird. But you will see it is not so c

VOA常速英语2013--肯尼亚医生希望到2020年消除沙眼

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日常英语口语：Expression In Class

Expression In Class 课堂用语 16. May I come in? 我能进来吗? 17. Come in, please. 请进。 18. Sit down, please. 请坐。 19. It's time for class. 上课时间到了。 20. Open your books and turn to page 20. 打开书，翻到第20页。