It means that something's just not right. Off balance. It's not all there.
> She suddenly started laughing for no reason. She's a bit off kilter..

(off-kilter 的复数)

Girl in Midstream A girl stood before him in 1) midstream , alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her lon

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(243) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2004年

This is an American cowboy. 这是一个美国牛仔。 He's wearing jeans. 他穿着牛仔裤。 This is a Scottish man. 这是一个苏格兰男人。 He's wearing a kilt. 他穿着苏格兰短裙。

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 江苏译林版牛津小学英语(3起)六年级上册

49 teachers words teaching certificate methodology course class student teachers assistant lesson plan correct discipline prepare syllabus assignment coursework teach mentor encourage motivate strict rule patient experienced teaching practicum observ

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 情景英语口语100主题

My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned. Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(467) / 评论(0) 分类 名人演讲

Grammar Girl here. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will be your hostess with the mostest today, because were looking at how to make comparisons using adjectives and adverbs. Bonnie writes, When you want to modify a noun, is it OK to stick a more or a most

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is like versus as. Now the very attentive listeners will notice a difference between that ad and what I said last week, and that difference is the reason today's topic is like versus as. This week, I said, I just ente

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. About a month ago I answered a bunch of short listener questions, and I promised I'd answer a few more short ones soon. Well, today's the day! Use to Versus Used to Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Barrett in Nantucket on Nantucket Island

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sit versus set. When I did a show about lay versus lie many months ago, listeners wrote in asking me to do a follow up show on sit versus set because the problem with sit and set is similar to the problem with lay

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is whether--not rain or sunshine, but whether w-h-e-t-h-e-r, as in whether you like it or not, it's the topic. [Listener question about if versus whether and whether you need an or not after whether] Well, it's been a

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 奥斯卡电影名曲盛典B

Kanade: Hi, Todd. Todd: How are you doing? Kanade: Good, how are you? Todd: Pretty good. Kanade, you talk about your little sister a lot. Kanade: Yes, I like her. Her name is Asuka. She's a university student now. She's two years younger than I and w

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

England 英格兰 Although England is a country rich in folklore and traditions, it has no definitive national costume. The most well-known folk costumes are those of the Morris dancers. They can be seen in many country villages during the summer mon

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

48 科学家发现:蜘蛛丝强度要胜过绳子 DATE=5-16-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Spiders and Silk BYLINE=Jill Moss (Start at 59

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 科技之光

当红翻唱女Esmee Denters首张单曲 Outta Here Get me outta here 'Cuz my eyes are burning from these silly tears That you brought when you show me you dont really care And you never loved me, Someone get me outta this place 1 2 3 4 (Right now)

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 好听的英文歌曲

A Very Outgoing Person 小丫:第三人称单数对中国人来讲是最容易犯错的,因为中文里面没有这一说!从小我们学英语就背:she和he作主语时,谓语动词要用第三人称单数。说起来简单,但背了这么

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Two trampers died in the Tararua Forest Park during a snow storm at the weekend. They were 61 year old Dr Seddon Bennington, and 54 year old Marcella Jackson. Dr Bennington had been the CEO of Te Papa, the National Museum, for six years. Mrs Jackson

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence theres still way more that we dont know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think were more enlightened than ever but in many ways were still failing miserably

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Personal Productivity in the 21st Century What does it mean to be productive? The gurus have given us a few ideas it means to get things done, to be highly effective, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what,

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Simon and Marie hadn't been to a movie theater in years. He didn't like theaters because of certain people. Certain people like to talk during a movie. Certain people like to kick the seats in front of them. Certain people like to eat loudly. Certain

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(212) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇故事(纽约)
学英语单词
-fu
abducens labiorum
Achaea(Achaïa)
amygdalectome
angle of vanishing stability on cushion
Apresodex
asthenopia of accommodation
asymmetric carbon(atom)
attachment weld
awkwardly
axis of bone
bagana vol.
beasts of burden
black glass
bombill
bromsalizol
Cabu
campanula americanas
caved in
Cavendishes
chromatelopsia
cobaea
coil downending machine
coleto
compound authentic cadence
course title
Cross the bridge when you come to it
cycle-ways
dacryocystorhinostomies
Damodar River
datedly
decide against somebody
differential input
discharge service van
Dobele
earthlies
energon
eratoena pura
female character
fervence
for the sake of
forced fattening
full-value letter of credit
fuzzy upperbound
garmisches
gillnet winch
image plane scanning
imperial standard wire ga(u)ge
import sunday charges a/c
kalgan series
keeps cool
leap to the eye
leelite (orthoclase)
mcgoverns
miasmatic disease
monocutin
moonlite
mucocutaneous relapse
no claims return
non-staple food storage
Nordhtunga
organic structural chemistry
oxidation-reduction reaction in seawater
oxygen resuscitator
passive ranging Doppler
penetration speed
phantom corpuscles
phlyctocythere huangshihguni
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
platymeter
Plicatifera
Pohjois-Karjalan Lääni
propagant
proteaceous
pulchelline
pzt ceramic
raise a hornets nest
rancid milk
reentrusting
regular visit
reinhabiting
rhysodids
rope-band
running up
Sebileau's muscle
second-rankings
set instruction
Sinclair-Baker reforming
Sinopodophyllum emodi
sizable lump
Slobovia
slurry piping system
solicitousnesses
Sonvilier
spirit of nitre
sproat
sturnus roseus
suprarenal epithelioma
Taenianthera
transparency clarity
W.R.A.C
work efficiency