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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(108) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

本单元是关于海伦在家对话 Helen: Hello? Mum: Hello? Helen? It's mum here. How are you my dear? Studying hard? You know how much your degree means to your father and me. Helen: I was studying before you phoned me! Listen, I need your advice. I'm in l

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 公寓伙伴

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(78) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

A: All right, its time to meet our featured guest this morning. He's called the Picasso of Legos. I say, more like a Norman Rockwelth of Legos coz' look how literal all these representations are. We are gonna have the fun now with Nathan Sawaya. He

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2008

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(156) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方赵丽词汇课堂

1. illiteration /əˌlɪtəˈreɪʃn/ -- repetition of the same letter or consonant at the begining of consecutive words Note the illiteration in the line Sing a song of sixpence. 注意Sing a song of sixpence.这行中的头韵。 2. literacy /ˈli

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 突破英文词汇

Pre-Listening Vocabulary figurative: having a symbolic or metaphorical meaning; not to be taken literally literal: having a straightforward meaning; exactly as it sounds efficiently: quickly and easily; in the least amount of time All Roads Lead To R

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 Facts-事实

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(47) / 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(74) / 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(104) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

How Do You Talk About Everything?

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(381) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(三)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(74) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 名校励志英语演讲

图片1 Of course we all need to push some buttons to turn on a computer or our MP3 players. But to push someones buttons has a very different meaning from that literal meaning. In fact, its usually not a good idea to push someones buttons! In this e

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

1. When will you sign the contract if I agree to become a member of your organization? 如果被录用的话,什么时候可以和贵单位签约? 还能这样说: When can the contract be signed if I agree to work in your company? When can I m

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 情景会话口袋书人际篇

Certain large investment firms have established freedom from connection有些大投资公司建立起了脱离联系的自由 But we as people never do 但我们作为人从不这样 and we're not supposed to, and we shouldn't want to我们也不该这

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 公众人物毕业演讲

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(75) / 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(63) / 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(88) / 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(69) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
学英语单词
a man of mould
anteconsequent streams
artistic handicraft
austenitic area
aymes
baragan steppe
bardstown
base modulation
bbee
bobcats
boron alloy
Callophis
clerodendrum calamitosum
cludder
constant-potential accelerator
control analysis
cool tone
core spray suction line
Coriantin
crop land
crude-oil
Culpina
directed maze
Dmitrov
dorsocaudally
doublegeared
drinking songs
electric concrete drill
equation of state for network
Fascia pelvis parietalis
fixed-point representation
flip jump
forward deck
fourperson
frequency-domain equalizer
fuk
furfures
garavanca
general broadcast signaling virtulal channel identifier
Gnetopsida
good governance
green copper ore
habbaniyah
hang five
Hexsyn
hymenopenaeus propinquus
ill temper
index of basicity
Iranian language
late-pickeds
macroclemyss
mccole
microcorposcope
moah
monodactylate
musical (comedy)
myohaemoglobin
nanoformulation
negative impedance telephone repeater
non comparable data
ongoings
out at the heels
overload protection device
Pedicularis galeata
philosophy of grammar
pilotrichopsis dentata
Plan-de-Cuques
Polygonatum arisanense
power limiter
probabilistic testing
profile extrusion
projection lens
push pull button
put an affront upon someone
R C constant
rudder hole
run-time accumulator
sabri
shall we dance
sideby-side
silicone elastomer
sophisticated society
square crossing center line
Staringite
steel line drawer
studio easel
sublimy
system distortion
t clamp
the current of time
three-way cord
trade balances
transparent transmission
tyre case
uncertainty measurement
undermatched
villaverde
viscid disc
well-formed structured program
West Coast Bajau
wooos
Yang Guifei