121 Kick the Habit

There are millions of people all over the world who smoke. Most of these smokers have tried to quit smoking at least once in their lives, but in vain. Make no mistake; smoking is addictive. And once y

每日商务英语 第2期:画饼充饥

pie?in?the?sky画饼充饥 英文释义 A?bright?and?attractive?but?improbable?orunrealistic?reward. (NOTE:?hyphenated?when?usedas?a?modifier?before?a?noun) 例句 EXAMPLE:?The?new?company?president?told?the?unhappy?employees?that?everything?would?be

The Many Reasons for the Word 'The'

The 1995 film Dead Man has a strange opening scene. Actor Johnny Depp is sitting on a train. A man sits down across from Depps character, and speaks to him: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later

TED演讲:修饰语滥用对写作的危害(2)

Having robbed the bank in record time, it was possible to make off with the town's chocolate rabbit as well. 在飞速洗劫了银行之后，还能偷走镇上的巧克力兔子。 The modifying phrase in this sentence seems unrelated to anything el

第59期: facilitate, habit, ice, idea, concept

说一口流利的英语，从简单的单词开始。 听听，读读，背背，今天你的词汇量又增加了5个。 单词/词义 中英例句 单词听读 facilitate [ fE5siliteit ] The broken

英语语法：73 Modifying Phrases

Grammar Girl here. Today, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga helps us understand modifiers that come at the beginning of a sentence. Bonnie says, As a guest-writer, I plan to talk about two kinds of troublesome modifiers that begin a sentence. Like many of y

英语语法：89 Stacked Modifiers

Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

英语语法：88 Splitting Verbs

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how a verb and an adverb messed up the inauguration. I took a break from work Tuesday to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and like millions of other people, I saw a bit of confusion between Chief Justice John Rob

中考英语满分作文:如何养成好习惯Good Habit

When we have formed the good study habit, we learn things quickly and remember things easily. Do you sometimes copy other's homework? It is not good. No matter how difficult the homework is, you must try to do it yourself and finish it on time. If yo

英语语法：50 Funny Misplaced Modifiers

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us take a break from serious grammar and instead delve into the world of comedysome intentional, some not. Groucho Marx said it best: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. H

白领英语晨读-081 Good Habit　好习惯

白领英语晨读-081 Good Habit 好习惯

Breaking Bad Habits in 28 Days

Breaking Bad Habits in 28 Days I was watching The Big C on Showtime the other night, and one of the characters mentioned off-hand that it takes 28 days to break a bad habit. A quick Google search showed me that this wasnt just a bit of silver screen

英语歌曲:Breaking The Habit

breaking the habit Linkin Park Translate it!Thanks! Memories consume Like opening the wound I m picking me apart again You all assume I m safe here in my room (unless I try to start again) I don t want to be the one The battles always choose Cause in

美国习惯用语:444 lick the habit...

今天我们要学的习惯用语有这样一个关键词: lick。大家一定知道lick是舔，但是在习惯用语里它的意思可以大不相同，首先它有克服，制伏的意思。例如在这个习惯用语里: lick the habit。 Habit是习

7 Can’t-Miss Ways to Defeat the Procrastination Habit

7 Cant-Miss Ways to Defeat the Procrastination Habit Note: This is a guest post by Arjun Muralidharan from The Productive Student. I have the classic problem of thinking about being productive, but not putting it into action. Thats whats troubling Li

Bad Habits Aren’t All Bad

Bad Habits Arent All Bad You drink to much coffee and you know it. You have to cut back but you have tried and it is just too hard. You succeed for a day or two, but something always happens and you are back to where you started. The problem may be t

15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit

15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit Its okay, you can finally admit it. Its been two months since youve seen the inside of the gym. Getting sick, family crisis, overtime at work and school papers that needed to get finished all kept you for exercis

How to Quit a Bad Habit by Answering Four Power Questions

How to Quit a Bad Habit by Answering Four Power Questions I bet theres a habit youd like to quit. Maybe you have even tried, but things havent worked out as you hoped. Unfortunately, the very idea of quitting can make things difficult for you: lets d

美国俚语:克服坏习惯 lick the habit

lick这个词大家也许都很熟。它最普遍应用的意思是舔，但是lick在习惯用语里可以表示不同的意思，而且lick既是动词又是名词，今天要学的习惯用语是： lick the habit。 habit也是个常用的词，解

美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Make Exercise A Habit That Sticks

ALLISON AUBREY, HOST: You are committed to exercise. You've dusted off the gym shoes. You are going to bridge that divide between thinking about it and actually doing it regularly - oops, but that was Monday - and Tuesday. Ooh, Wednesday's slipping b