跨出成功的第一步;开始,着手

By Alan Silverman Real-life everyday heroes who fight fires and save lives come to the screen in a sweeping drama set at a big city fire station in the new film, Ladder 49. (Movie Snippet) In firehous

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--文化艺术

[00:15.96]Devil's Point [00:23.28]恶魔的岬角 [00:32.86]This story took place when I was 19. [00:36.84]In fact my uncle was also 19 at the time. [00:40.92]My uncle and I grew up together in northern Wisconsin. [00:45.58]I don't wish to name the exact

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 英语灵异故事

The English word foot has more than one meaning. In the United States, one meaning is a unit of measurement equal to 12 inches, or .3 meters. We use feet to measure height, length and short distances. Todays question is about when to use the plural o

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十)月

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是: put one's best foot forward。大家都知道,put是放的意思,foot是脚的意思。 Put one's best foot forward就是努力给别人留下一个非常好的第一印象。不管是去开会、打电

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

The notorious cheap skate finally decided to have a party. Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said, Come up to the fifth floor and ring the doorbell with your elbow. When the door open, push with your foot. Why use my elbow and foot

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笑话(MP3+文本)

1. What is the man's name? A. Russell B. Randall C. Ronald 2. From the conversation, how did the man probably find out about Dr. Carter? A. He saw the office on his way home from work. B. A friend referred him to Dr. Carter's office. C. He found Dr.

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 听英文对话做选择

Dont forget about the ladder, said Benny Alden, You didnt forget it, did you, Violet? Violet, who was ten, smiled at her six-year-old brother. No, I didnt, Benny, she said. She looked down at her drawing of a man on a bike. There was a ladder lashed

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 87 The Mystery of the Spider's

The notorious cheap skate finally decided to have a party. Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said,

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英文笑话

to get a foot in the door to be dead on one's feet 美国的商品推销员在不很久以前还是挨家挨户地去推销商品,例如吸尘机、厨房用品、百科全书和圣经等。当一位家

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Miro's Political Side on Display This is the kind of fantasy painting that Miro is known for. But for the first time, a museum in the United States is showing what's less known about Miro, that many of his paintings were a response to history - espec

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(五月)

to stand on one's own two feet to throw oneself at someone's feet 在美国的成语和俗语中,有不少是围绕着

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Put one's best foot forward 全力以赴 朋友的朋友是位刚从大学毕业不久的女孩。年底在纽约找到了工作。离家上千里,元旦就不回家了。New Year's Eve我们邀请朋友和那女孩一起来玩。 聊天中得知,那

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

今天李华到Larry家来借一本书,碰巧Larry的妈妈打电话来。什么事呢?你听了他们的对话就知道了。今天李华会学到两个常用语:play hooky和put one's foot dow

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

Obama's Mother Inspires Magical Journey During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama often talked about his mother, Ann Dunham, and the lessons she taught him through her work with poor rural communities around the world. Dunham died of cancer in

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(四月)

to put your best foot forward to land on your feet 我们在一般情况下都不太会注意我们的脚,除非你感到脚痛或有什么其他毛病。可是,脚这个字,也就是英文里的

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to be swept off one's feet Don't let the grass grow under one's feet 今天我们再来讲两个和 foot 或 feet 有关的俗语。我们曾经讲过: to stand on one's own two feet,这是独立自

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

At the little living-room desk Tom Benecke rolled two sheets of flimsy and a heavier top sheet, carbon paper sandwiched between them, into his portable. Interoffice Memo, the top sheet was headed, and he typed tomorrow's date just below this; then he

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

19. A. He saw the office on his way home from work. B. A friend referred him to Dr. Carter's office. C. He found Dr. Carter's number in the phone book. D. He found Dr. Carter's number on the Internet. 20. A. He has to pick up his tool kits. B. He has

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语四级听力-短对话

SINGAPORE, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Italy's 19-year-old Matteo Manassero holed a 12-foot putt for eagle on the third play-off hole to win the Singapore Open on Sunday, beating South African player Louis Oosthuizen. It also makes Manassero the first teenag

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The Weekend - 1950s (C0092) A: Heya, Tracy. How are you doin? B: Im swell, Sandy! A: Hey listen, you wanna go to the sock hop with me this Friday? Itll be a blast! B: First of all its the Sadie Hawkins dance. The girls gotta ask the guys. Also... A:

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学英语单词
11-dehydrocorticosterone
a brand from the burning
access method
adrie
alskar
alternating stress intensity
antidiagonal set
antigonorrheic
aphanocladium macrosporum
bagheads
birdoswald
birthwor root
boiler water density
branch-and-bound solution strategy
Budde process
bullrail
Cambridge electron accelerator
casca bark
cheerily
christianae
clearing range marks
coastal harbour
coffee leafminer
Computer Browser service
consiglieri
contain(ed)
conviction of crime
coomb's test
cosmopolitanize
cotton-picker
cottontops
cremil
cuting shrinkage
demarcation current
drill pipe
dullanty
dust-carts
Elenium
embree
free convertible currency
germarite (hypersthene)
good tempered
gorbelly
grand average
gray-brown podzolic soil
have priority
hebe
herb garden
horizontal directive tendency (hdt)
hose-downs
Hydrocotyle dichondroides
in my hands
inhibit stage
it has been announced that...
jadis
jump
Kuril Islands
laconism
lead-acid storage battery
link coupling
Liverpool Ra.
loeffler's blood serum medium
logicalor
long-run analysis
long-stroke steam engine
look over the vouchers
LP cylinder
macerators
machine analysis table
macrosis
magicianlike
mesonin
metabolic half-life
monosemantemic
myriarch
neutral stick
noun sentence
NPPL
over-hill
parrot's bill
partial heat of dilution
pedestal carriage
platysmal
principle of equal value exchange
reverse grade
scleroplasty
secondary education
selftrapping
sentence-initials
shwe
sieve losses
sphaerocerid
sun screen
tafoni
technical difficulty
time series prediction
trithiocyanate
unplacing
uplifted block
visiting fireman
wordhood
young ladies