音标:['litərəlnis] ;
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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(126) / 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(101) / 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(169) / 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(159) / 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(69) / 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(87) / 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(129) / 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(160) / 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(398) / 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(136) / 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(183) / 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(152) / 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(92) / 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(146) / 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(113) / 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(139) / 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(93) / 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(81) / 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(100) / 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(86) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
学英语单词
(magnetic) disk
9-8 suspensions
acrosome
adpressing
aluminium flake
ammonia gas imjury
anarchist naturism
Anopheles labranchiae labranchiae
antenodal
aprobarbital
arrester grading ring
assumed name
astatine compound
backpacking tents
bedded volcano(stratovolcano)
Bestcall
birth function
Boothroyd
braking nod
calculated pump rate
carriage door
carroch
casual labor
catore
cavalry horse
cerebrovascular accidents
chiggerflower
chlorethaminacil
chlorimides
chologog
club-room
common digital veins of foot
coset leader
departmental commerce
design draft
diocesans
dwarf planet
exhaust stack
facies articularis dentalis
flat bit
flexible dimension
flowering glumes
generalising
geons
heat-resisting casting
high temperature solid electrolyte fuel cell
hold down bracket
Hout Bay
Ibrāhīmīyah
indexed set type
integrated services network
load acting point
magneto-hydrodynamics
mailbox
maintenance dredging
major sixths
marginal deposit-loan ratio
multi-wavelength astronomy
multielectron transfer
mytilacean
nickel screen
no-pay
nonprivy
Obispos
ordinary seamen
osteo-chondrosis of capitular epiphysis of femur
outer mongolias
over development
over-track station
passive adaption
percussion coring bit
personnel expenses
perturbed field
picoplayer
pitch correction
port select
pressure sounding
quick and dirty estimation
Saxicava
scoop necks
series-parallel counter
shrink labelling machine
stellate veins
stop polarity
straubenzee
system input unit
system of law
Taraxacum variegatum
tele quale
terpene solvent
Thanksgivin'
throwing-back
trailer-park
traveling drier
treille
trespasseth
ultrasonic level measuring device
ventricles of brain
WiFi Multimedia
York-Antwarp Rules
zinc-air battery
zoomastigophorean