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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

美语听力 English Café 505

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[单词解析速记].JV525.(Galvanize.and.Ineluctable)

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[单词解析速记].JV536.(Prevaricate.and.Rationalize)

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英语语法：119 Dashes Versus Colons

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dashes. Last week when I was speaking at the Field's End Writers Conference on Bainbridge Island, someone in the audience asked about dashes. When should she use a dash and how is it different from a colon? Dashes

英语语法：125 Formatting Hyperlinks

Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to talk about how to format Web addresses for print documents and websites. URLs and Terminal Punctuation A listener named Aileen recently asked how to deal with a Web address at the end of a sentence. Should she pu

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Grammar Girl here. Last week we talked about capitalizing words in the business world. Today we're going to talk about capitalization in general. If you recall, in English, we capitalize proper nounswords that name a specific thing or person, words s

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Grammar Girl here. In today's episode, well talk about capitalizationits overuse and its misuse in the business world. Lets talk about why capitalization of some words is a capital idea, and why uppercasing other words could be considered a capital o

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：151 “Use” Versus “Utilize”

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is helping us talk about two sets of words that listeners get confused: pleaded guilty or pled guilty, and use or utilize. Plead Versus Pled Mike from Georgia is transitioning from law enforcement t

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UnderseaCableCouldRevolutionizeOceanography This past April, there was a big volcanic eruption in Americas Pacific Northwest. If you missed it, you're not alone. It happened under the ocean off the northern Oregon coast. Since then, several research

VOA常速英语2007年-US Criticizes Vietnamese Detention of US Citize

By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 11 December 2007 Vietnam has been holding four Vietnamese-born American citizens since late November, accusing them of terrorism. The U.S. ambassador to Hanoi has criticized Vietnam's conduct in holding the U.S. citizens. Mat

2007年VOA标准英语-US Seeks to Deny Bail for US Citizen Accused of

By Greg Flakus Houston 15 February 2007 The U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston is planning to ask that accused terrorist Daniel Joseph Maldonado remain in custody without bail as it prepares its case against the man who is the first U.S. citizen char

Israel Concerned Egypt Upheaval Could Radicalize Arab Neighb

The Israeli government is watching the violent unrest in Egypt - and protests in other Arab countries - with the primary concern that a radically aggressive Islamist regime could take over in Cairo and the political upheaval could spread. The protest

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Not Adopting EU Constitution Will Marginalize Britain, Warns

Michael Drudge The principal architect of the European Union constitution says Britain will be left on the sidelines of Europe, if it rejects the treaty in a referendum. The warning about Britain's pl

英语语法：63 Hyphens

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is hyphens. On Monday afternoon Pat was watching the cable channel CNBC and called me over to the TV because the hosts were talking about hyphens. Yup, in the middle of a segment on the economy, they started talking a

简单实用的GRE词汇记忆方法：谐音法

貌似一些不太老实的GRE词汇记忆法，但是效果确实以外的好。把一些看似没有规律的单词，找到发音上的规律进行背诵。下面就为大家介绍GRE词汇谐音法如何使用。 谐音法就是利用英语单词的

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今天我们要学的词是off the charts。 Chart, 是表格的意思，off the charts，不在表格上了，意思是超常。 The band's popularity among teenagers is off the charts, 这个乐队特别受青少年欢迎。 研究发现，医护人员

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谐音法就是利用英语单词的发音的谐音进行记忆的方法.由于英语是拼音文字,看到一个单词可以很容易地猜到它的发音;听到一个单词的发音也可以很容易地想到它的拼写.所以,如果谐音法使用得