小潜鸭(Aythya affinis,北美洲的一种普通潜鸭 )

Ducks Don't Shop In Sainsburys You can’t get 1) millet at 2) Sainsburys And they don’t sell grass or weed It’s a total 3) dead loss For 4) heather and 5) moss And they don’t stock sunflower se

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(247) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

India has denied escalating tensions with its neighbor as Pakistan called on New Delhi to resume a dialogue and pull back its troops along the border. Tensions have been deepening between the South Asian neighbors since last month's terror attacks i

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(316) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)

to hold water water off a duck's back it makes my mouth water 这一课里我们再要讲两个和水,也就是和 water 这个字有关的词汇。第一个是 to hold water。 To hold water 按字面

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

When someone says something negative or critical about you, sometimes it can bother or upset you. But its important not to take things like this too personally, just like this weeks expression: like water off a ducks back. In this episode, we look at

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Southern African leaders at a special summit in Swaziland are responding to the controversial change of government in Madagascar and examining an economic recovery plan for Zimbabwe. King Mswati III of Swaziland Swaziland's King Mswati the Third tol

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(177) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(三月)

如果你去住旅店,只有两个房间可供选择,一个在电梯旁边,另外一个在饮料自动贩卖机旁边。你挑哪个?要是我的话,我肯定挑选饮料自动贩卖机旁边的那个,虽然不时会有人来买东西,但起

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

lame duck 光偷懒不干活的人 Goof 是傻瓜的意思。Goofy 迪士尼的众多动画人物中,高飞(goofy)是不是有点笨笨的呢? Goof off/around 是闲逛、混日子的意思,类似的词还有loaf around,idle的意思 Ray goof

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 美国人这样说英语

今天学的词组是lame duck。 Lame duck不就是瘸的鸭子吗? 不对, lame duck这说法往往是指一个由于不会再继续担任这职务而无法起作用的总统或官员。报导说:Elections may leave Bush an early lame duck. 意

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Duck Food 鸭食 A duck walks into a bakery and asks the baker, Hey, you got any duck food? 有只鸭子走进一家面包店问面包师傅:嘿,这里有什么鸭食吗? The baker looks down at the duck and says, No. Get out of here you're bad

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

It is not easy to excite New Yorkers. This is one reason why actors and other famous people move to the city. They can live quieter lives and escape the paparazzi photographers who would follow them in Hollywood. But New York has a new media star. An

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(177) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

sitting duck dead duck 今天我们要给大家介绍两个由

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(210) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

The White Duck The little white duck was sleeping under a tree in a wood. There were some nuts on the tree. While Mrs. Duck was sleeping, one of the nuts fell off the tree and hit her on the head. Mrs. Duck woke up very afraid. Oh! she said. Somebody

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(270) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Mrs. Duck and Mr. RabbitMr. Rabbit said to Mrs. Duck, Come and work with me and you will get more money than you have ever had before. Mrs. Duck said, I will come.So Mrs. Duck worked with Mr. Rabbit. After some time Mrs. Duck said to Mr. Rabbit, I wa

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lame duck golden parachute 美国民主党总统候选人克林顿在一九九二年十一月三号当选为美国第四十二届总统。这一结果使好些官员都处于即将下任的境地,包括

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(244) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 20 December 2006 An international press watchdog Wednesday confirmed that a Voice of America journalist arrested and jailed three years ago in Eritrea following a report that contradicted the government has escaped. Cathy M

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 26 July 2006 A small group of Americans and Australians have made a perilous journey to safety from a tiny village near the Lebanese border. After the Israeli military offensive in Lebanon began, they spent two we

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(274) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

Michael Bowman Senior U.S. military officials have announced the first court martial procedure against one of seven American soldiers who allegedly abused detainees at Iraq's now-infamous Abu Ghraib p

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(上)--各类新闻

Duck Who Loves Grapes爱吃葡萄的鸭子A duck walks into a convenience store on Wednesday afternoon. He asks the storeowner if they have any grapes for sale. 星期三的下午,一只鸭子走进一间便利店。它问店主有没有葡萄卖。

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

今天学的词组是lame duck。 Lame duck不就是瘸的鸭子吗? 不对, lame duck这说法往往是指一个由于不会再继续担任这职务而无法起作用的总统或官员。报导说:Elections may leave Bush an early lame duck. 意

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(162) / 评论(0) 分类 学个词

Idiom: Lesser of two evils ( unpleasant option, but not as bad as other ) Hit the book: Question: Is happiness nature or nurture? Eating ice cream really does make you happy. Scientists have found that a spoonful of the cold stuff lights up the same

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学英语单词
a two-edged sword
abortuary
aliphatic sesquiterpene
alpinia pricei pricei
AmizilBenactyzire
anti-dumping duties
at one's option
bar-winged rail
bowing mark
burst-slug detector
calcined anthracite
cals
canine distempers
concurrent reaction
creosote for chemical purpose
crossover clamp
Dalry
dilution cycle
don't get mad, get even
Dysophylla cruciata
eccoprotic
elitism
eluting power
enterprise social software
excitatory autacoid
extractum aloes
febris epacmastica
flat bed web press
Fuel ethanol
Fureidīs
gaos
gasperi
gate control circuit
glyphostoma lyuhrurngae
green ice
group experiment
HFEF (hot fuel examination facility)
hodorine
iaudio
in one's hands
inclu
insulin-like growth peptide
intake area of aquifer
interpretative rules
interrupted undamped wave
isabelline
laevicardium attenuatum
ligg. anularia digitorum pedis
Lomonosovo
lower wing wall
macromelanophore
macroscopic thermodynamics
manningham
mathematical transformation
mezzoes
military duty
neoshoes
nephrectasy
one-level Breit-Wigner formula
ownes
oxygen vapor pressure thermometer
passed master
plicating
prawn crackers
programme line
psychological profile
raw infrared
restrictive provisions
rhythmic pattern
ronk-
rubattel
schindyletic
settled solution
short-term record
southern soapberry
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
supratentoria
swoop down upon
syndicate banking
Tamburlaine
tdd/tty
teletyping
terminal productivity executive
Tetrastichy
three-time estimates
tienchuanensis
tractor air tyre
tryptophan(e)
type order
underlessor
undervoltage tripping
unfilled crater
unhydrolysed
vertical consolidating
vexillifer stage
Vissannapeta
West Calder
Wiktionaries
Williams-Hazen formula
wireline system
without prior notice