BEP 177–Presentations: Making an Impact (Part 1)

This is the first in a two-part Business English Pod series about adding impact to your presentations. Weve all sat through boring presentations before. And weve all worried during our own presentations that others might be feeling that way. So what

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Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example, the story of one girl who decided to study judo[柔道] despite the fact that she had lost her left arm in a car accident. 有的时候，你的软弱之处反而拥有强大的力量。

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

饶舌:Daddy Yankee - Impacto (Remix)

歌曲 ： Impacto (Remix) 艺人 ： Daddy Yankee Feat. Fergie 音乐星级 ： ★★★★ 所属专辑 ： El Cartel: The Big Boss 发行年代 ： 2007 风格 ： Reggae 相关介绍： Daddy Yankee原名Raymond Ayala，1977年2月3日出生在波多黎各，2000年与大牌DJ Playero合作出版首

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

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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

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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

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Let the weak say I am strong Faith is rising mountains fall away You are always holding onto me Always you are Let the weak say I am strong Faith is rising mountains fall away You are always holding onto me Let the weak say You are the strength of my

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

VOA标准英语2008年-Experts Assess Impact of Wall Street Meltdown

Several leading economic experts say the turmoil on Wall Street is caused by a crisis of confidence and that it is likely to have a significant impact on the overall economy and ordinary people across the world. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports

辛沛沛NO-BOOK 傻瓜机口语极短句 Lesson 369 I wonder at your strength!

Lesson 369 I wonder at your strength! 1. I Wonder at you stength!你的力气真让我吃惊！ 2.What a wonder!真想不到！ 3.I wonder who he is.我想知道他是谁。 4.No wonder you were late.难怪你迟到了。 5.No wonder you're so tired.难

每日一词【213】impact：影响、作用

今天我们要学的词儿是impact。 Impact是影响、作用的意思。美国总统布什宣布对苏丹政府实施新的制裁。美国官员说，The sanctions will have a serious impact. 意思是制裁会产生重大影响。发展旅游业的

U.S. economy showing real strength: Obama

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy was showing signs of real strength, declared President Barack Obama on Friday after the government released improving unemployment rate report. Our economy is showing signs of real strength, Obama said

团结就是力量 Union Is Strength

I like to play basketball very much, so when I went to middle school, I joined the basketball team. Last week, our team had a match, we were against another school, all of us were so excited and wanted to win. When the match began, our team worked ve

学个词Learn a Word 第1695-outsize

今天我们要学的词是outsize。Outsize，形容词，是特别大的意思。美国房屋市场出现复苏，新房供应量下降，Though new homes represent less than 20 percent of housing sales, they have an outsized impact on the economy.

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久别乐坛多年的天后惠特尼休斯顿（Whitney Houston）日前推出了她在2009年的全新大碟《I Look to You》的首播主打单曲《I Didn't Know My Own Strength》，这位45岁的超级女星已定于2009年9月1日发行她的第七张最新个人大碟。 歌词这样写到我不知道自己的力量/所以我摔

英语歌曲:布鲁斯 Daddy Yankee - Impacto (Remix)

饶舌:Daddy Yankee - Impacto (Remix) 相关介绍 ： Daddy Yankee原名Raymond Ayala，1977年2月3日出生在波多黎各，2000年与大牌DJ Playero合作出版首张个人专辑El Cartel de Yankee（cartel是西班牙语海报的意思），成为

学个词Learn a Word 第213期 impact

今天我们要学的词儿是impact。 Impact是影响、作用的意思。美国总统布什宣布对苏丹政府实施新的制裁。美国官员说，The sanctions will have a serious impact. 意思是制裁会产生重大影响。发展旅游业的