音标:[ˈfɔ:ˌletə, ˈfəʊr-] ;
n. 粗话
词型变化:名词复数形式 : four-letter words

26 Writing a Letter of Inquiry GLOSSARY laid off fired; told that one no longer has a job * Hundreds of people were laid off and then the company decided to close thefactory. to pound the pavement to spend a lot of time walking along streets, especia

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年ESL之商务英语

人们都不会忌讳谈论嘴或鼻子,即使是吐痰或流鼻水的污秽排泄口,也不会象下面的排泄口那样成为不便从嘴巴里说出来的禁忌语。penis或vagina所以会成为tabooed words,可能不在其肮脏,而是由

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语阅读理解

1. thankful 表示感谢时,其对象较为抽象,含有感谢上帝、 运气、命运等意味,有类似于汉语的谢天谢地之意。主要用于表示人们因避开了危险或结束了不愉快的经历等的宽慰心情。如: Im th

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Apatientsaid , Doc , duringmyoperationIheardyouuseafour-letterwordthatscaredmeverymuch. Thesurgeonreplied , Whatwordwasthat? Iheardyousay , 'Oops!'thepatientanswered. Notes: 1.Apatientsaid , Doc , duringmyoperationIheardyouuseafour letter

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笑话(MP3+文本)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: expanding on reductions. When speakers compress a phrase like going to into gonna, or what do you into whaddaya, that's a reduction. We mentioned their importance when we talked l

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

今天我们要学的词是open letter. Open letter 公开信。Myanmar's civil groups signed an open letter to the country's president, urging him to immediately release two Reuters reporters. 缅甸民权团体签署了一份呈交给缅甸总统的公

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

1. acronym /'krənɪm/ -- name formed from the first letter or letters of other words The word radar is an acronym for Radio Detecting And Range. radar这个词由Radio Detecting And Range 的首字母组成(首字母缩略词)。 2. homonyms /'hɒmə

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 突破英文词汇

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

On a recent program, we explained that knowing just a few root words in English can help you understand the meaning of hundreds more words. To refresh your memory, a root word is the simplest form of a word. For example, two forms of the root for the

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

Author James Thurber depended on words for entertainment. 作家詹姆士.瑟伯用词来消遣。 He told me once about a trick he played on a nurse during one of his hospital stays. He asked her what a seven-letter word had three Us in it. She thou

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小短文

1. The most common letter in English is e. 1、英语里最常见的字母是e。 2. The most common consonant in English is r, followed by t. 2、英语里最常见的辅音字母是r,接着是t。 3. Only two English words in current use end in -

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, 我知道TED总是谈一些大事 but I want to talk to you about something very small. 但是我想讲一件微不足道的小事 So small, it's a single word. 小到只有一个词 The word is mi

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

Besides helping with spelling and word meanings, being able to use a dictionary effectively and regularly is a perfect way to improve your English language skills through the dictionary's range of other helpful information on everyday language usage

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Most students admit to having learned in junior high school or in high school about writing business letters and about conventional formats for them. When it comes down to writing them, however, all too many students seem not to know how and to

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: June 3, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble and this week on Wordmaster, advice on getting a job. RS: It's a question several listeners have asked us, so we turned to a human resources consultant for answers. AA

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Pre-Listening Vocabulary digraph: two letters that make a single sound (e.g., ph) successive: appearing one after the other dread: to think about with fear or worry loanword: a word from a foreign language that maintains its spelling and form in a ne

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 Facts-事实

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: expanding on reductions. When speakers compress a phrase like going to into gonna, or what do you into whaddaya, that's a reduction. We mentioned their importance when we talked l

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: word order and the mind. A new study suggests that people naturally gesture in the order of subject-object-verb, regardless of the rules of their spoken language. Susan Goldin-Mea

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Jennifer Ludden. Rachel Martin is away. It's been nearly two decades since we learned about the word gap. That young children of well-off professionals hear millions more words than those from poor families.

发表于:2019-02-23 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

I see you watching me Eyes on your target Mix drinks and smoke rings It's already started It won't be too long before me and you Are doing what lovers do Clothes on the floor We're exploring our bodies Getting you off is my new favorite hobby Lipstic

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 音乐咖啡厅
学英语单词
a large yield of wheat
abron
acid stain
adhered-to
adjustment washer
antarcticite
aspergation
assawaman i.
asymbolical
banjaxes
Beaworthy
Bidor
Brodie's sign
calling tone
cercosporella thladianthae
chataways
ciraldo
constant humidity cabinet
currency regulations
cybertechnology
Dagestan, Respublika
deficious
dilute Russell's viper venom time
discharge ability
drive someone to despair
dual memory theory
Easter Sundays
enalite
entremet
execx
exhibitings
export organization
facies proximalis
French law
gage height
get out of scrapes
giant swelling
globemaking
GM_at-in-and-to-movement
grammaticalizations
granular cell carcinoma of kidney
homoeopathist
hydroxy-phenyl-acetic acid
immediate extend
ink application
instrument mode
isses
it-based
jobbles
keep one's nose to the grindstone
LABRACOGLOSSIDAE
lagrange top
lead base babbit
life-saving service
liquid medicine bottle
manifest deviation
mastery of the electromagnetic
mesne notice
methyldiphenyl
michalczewski
model efficiency
modulation device
molded spectacle glass
mols
Montanchez
multiwall paper bag
NCTS
neutral spore
Nigan
Nishiwaki
nomarch
normal tax rate
NYCTA
oncotherapy
peplow
perversenesses
pictets
pilot licence
Populus pseudomaximowiczii
product-market scope
radiac instruments
radioactivetracer
ratione temperis
resiege
rose-bed
Royal Palm Beach
rth
second-b
signed manuscript
slot tear
technical know-why
Tocumen
torque-limiter clutch
trace-mode debugging
trappan
two-deck classifier
wet commodities
witch-hunters
with attitude
wrongful-termination
yellowband
Zugurma