音标:['filibʌstə] ;
n. 阻碍议事;军事冒险家(等于filibuster)

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(450) / 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

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(278) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

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(255) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English
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akimed
assign a patent
athenss
atmosphericsurveillance
atrophaneura horishana
bear and bull
bicyanate
brauchitsch
caerostris paradoxa
caliginosus
cape verde type
chameleon tree frog
Chlorococcales
colligance
crawn
cyberpoet
device attachment
Dimondale
dished end plate boiler
doubtful accounts
downwarps
drive out of house and home
dying testament
electronic search
equisignal locatlizer
Eriocheir
examinationpaper
exopinacocyte
fluoride waste
foodborne disease
fragment peak
frequency response trajectory
Gehrden
Gestormone
Gibraltese
Gothic section
Gray-winged
hygroscopicus
impastures
in one way or another
in the open hypethral
infectional arthritis
Iva xanthifolia
javid
launch control system
lebovitz
Lekozid
level displacement table
lid maker
little bo peep
marklein
Meckel's ganglion
mexican capitals
microservers
Midhbah, Jab.al
monopolizer
Mutabilycin
neste
Neu5Ac
Nipmuc
no opparent defect
novaculichthys taeniourus
November 5
Oppenheimer's treatment
optical fiber lasers
peripeteias
pierre-jean
plasma nitriding
posterior pituitary preparation
postless
Powell doctrine
Primitive Baptist
quartz crystal thin film monitor
quasiordering
quintan ague
radar detection probability
rag carpet
rait
restockers
rigidity modulus
rope up
schmooze-athon
seventh
sky component of daylight factor
solution groove
splitter switch
strain detector
strengthing
tailorbird
tangerine seed
transmission-line calculation
uk bell
under deviation
undevastated
undoable-in-transactional mode
USB plugs
voltage time to breakdown
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
What's lost is lost.
whole life
wind tunnel wall interference correction
wood-membrane hygrometer