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李华在陪Larry找房子。他们会用到两个常用语:on the same wavelength和ballpark estimate. LH: Larry,这房子到底在什么地方啊?我走得腿都疼了。 Larry: Believe me, Lihua, I'm tired too. This is the fifth place I've l

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(180) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

The Excitement of Three-Part Phrasal Verbs Popular music can teach you a lot about the English language. You may not realize it, but musicians are actually teaching you about English grammar in each song they perform. Consider this song by the famous

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(154) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

19. Fortune-tellers are good at making ______ statement such as“ Your sorrows will change”. A. philosophical B. ambiguous C. literal D. invalid sorrow sorrow 痛苦,悲哀 sob 哭泣 /sorrow phi

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方赵丽词汇课堂

By Adam Freedman Todays topic: can a business refuse to accept cash? But first, your daily dose of legalese: This podcast does not create an attorney-client relationship with any listener. In other words, although I am a lawyer, Im not your lawyer. I

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 法律英语 Legal Lad

One of the great consolations(1) of the end of the year is a New Year's Eve party. We don't always go to a party on New Year's Eve. Sometimes we prefer to stay at home, by the fire, with good food and drink, family and maybe a few friends, and welcom

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

People learning a second language might have heard of the expression false friend. This term is used to describe words in different languages that look alike, but have different meanings. Last month, we looked at examples of false friends in two lang

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(五)月

李阳疯狂英语突破口语要素:问候 第一单元 问候 编者按 Americans have so many different ways of greeting one another! In fact, many times an American greeting will consist of several greeting questions strung together. It is very common to hear a friend

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 A bridge spanning the Mississippi River in the Midwestern city of Minneapolis collapsed Wednesday, during the evening rush hour, dumping scores of vehicles into the river. At least seven people died and local hos

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

How Do You Talk About Everything?

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(445) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(三)月

By Meredith Buel Washington 20 April 2006 Michael Chertoff, left, listens as Julie Myers gives remarks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters U.S. immigration agents have arrested seven e

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(206) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(四月)

By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 01 May 2006 watch Immigration report One of the major issues before the U.S. Congress is immigration reform. There are many sides to the debate -- including how any chan

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(219) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

Business leaders in Cape Verde are responding to their country's ascension to the World Trade Organization. While business leaders agree the measure should enhance the competitiveness of the island nation, Brent Latham reports from our West Africa b

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

李华和Larry讨论情人节的安排。今天我们要学两个常用语:born yesterday和head over heels. LL: So, Lihua, I know you said that you didn't want me to buy a Valentine's Day gift for you, but I wasn't born yesterday. I can tell you'r

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

By Catherine Drew Berlin 08 June 2006 watch World Cup Economics The 2006 World Cup will see millions of soccer fans descend on Germany for four weeks of football madness. In that time each visitor is expected to spend around $400 (U.S.) a day. In th

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(180) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

The U.S. economy had a net gain of 227,000 jobs in February, while the unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent. Some industry experts say Friday's employment data is the latest in a series of generally upbeat economic reports showing the economy

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By Meredith Buel Cambridge, Maryland 13 June 2007 President Bush is urging members of the U.S. Congress to resurrect a bill designed to reform the nation's immigration policies. The bill has stalled in the Senate and lawmakers are negotiating comprom

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(185) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

Do you usually say, Im going to the toilet in English? 你是否常用Im going to the toilet来表达上厕所呢? Although saying this can be correct in some contexts, it can be overly direct or even rudeespecially in American English. 虽然某些情

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

I have some idioms for you today. Idioms are colourful ways of saying something. Often, when we use an idiom, we dont mean the words in a literal sense. We are using the words figuratively. Still confused? The best thing is to give you some examples.

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

For the last two weeks, our newspapers have been full of stories about the Big Freeze. Like many other places in Europe, the weather in Britain has been very cold. We have had lots of snow, and the roads are covered with ice. There are shortages of g

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Today, we meet the English word worth, and a famous cosmetics company that tells us that we are worth it. Worth means simply the value that something has. Sometimes we use it in a literal way, to mean how much money would people pay? But often we use

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
学英语单词
acronychal
Agapetes flava
antennule
apply for appointment
approach shot
back of blade
back side strain
backheeled
biting cheek
boiler steam and condensate system
bootheel
C-band waveguide
calorie unit of measure
chamame
colour bar generator pattern
columniferous
comber
cooperative system
cyclopolycondensation reaction
damkohler's first similarity group
demeuer
detachment of choroid
DexFerrum
ditchling
domestic ducks
domestic industry
electric massage cushion
electrical applicator
Ensifera
folium simplicipinnatum
ganglioblast
ghost member
government tug boat
grandfather clocks
hexagonal wrench
horizontal sync signal
Hypsistarian
inconclusive presumption
indicating self-balancing potentiometer
inspection cost
integrating percentage sound level
L joint
labor factor
liever
made a dead set at
mclaglen
mcmenamin
mean chord length
medium stature
mercury-condenser
microthelia
Neckera
Neottia meifongensis
Nervacton
nontheorist
normal rake angle
obliterans arteriosclerosis
origin authentication
page footing
ponerorchis tominagai
postintegration
provisional property tax
punch-through breakdown
purple nurples
Ramond's points
random phased eccentricity
raw silk ratio
read
relocatable program loader
republick
residual vacuum
rimal
scentless mayweed
seaworms
seraphic dialogue
ship's bridge
shipment by sailing boat
showedst
sightst.
sisyrinchium atlanticum
slow-rising
small formosan flying squirrel
sort
Spencer's disease
spinning chain
stable limit cycle
standard refractive modulus gradient
stimulated Rayleigh scattering
strigiformess
tactical execution level
testudineal
thioalbumose
tram
true-hacker
two-dimensional set
typogram
upheaded
valens
voltas
voors
Vulpian's effect
wind deposit