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情景再现:这天,Catherine在面试另一家大公司B的时候,又不幸失利了,她沮丧到了极点,Jenny知道了以后,冲着她喊了句:Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.Catherine听后低头看了看自己的脚,疑惑的

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 凯瑟琳升职记

The Secret Life of Roots Plant roots are important to life on earth. Roots take in water and nutrients that the plant needs to live and grow. They also help secure plants in dirt to prevent erosion - the breakdown of soil by natural forces. Roots are

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Over the next few months, we're going to hear from people who are in pursuit of the American Dream through the most basic part of life - food. Sometimes, the American Dream involves getting ahead in the world. Today's story isn't l

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

核心句型: You don't have to rub it in. I already feel bad enough as it is. 不要再火上浇油了,我已经够难过了。 rub it in直译过来就是:反复摩擦它的里面,这个短语的正确意思是:火上浇油,故意触人痛

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A: Did Richard really go to Italy this summer? A: Richard 这个夏天真的去了意大利了吗? B: No way. He was only pulling your leg and you believed him? B: 哪有可能? 他只是跟你开玩笑的, 你还当真啊? 这也是一个跟「腿」有

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

By Malcolm Brown Washington 12 July 2007 American country music - in its various forms - has grown into a multi-million dollar industry with fans around the world. As an art form, it has crossed over into the mainstream of U.S. culture. But, for all

发表于:2019-01-09 / 阅读(185) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(七月)

to keep one's eyes peeled to have the wool over one's eyes 美国人似乎有不少用眼睛这个字,也就是英文里的eyes这个字组成的成语和俗语。我们曾经在前面的课文中给大

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(181) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Pull Out of Japanese Car Maker Toyota Latest Hit To Australia's Economy 丰田退出冲击澳大利亚经济 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Automobile manufacturing in Austral

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(四)月

'In The Zone' Celebrates Richard Elliot's Musical Roots What goes around comes around for tenor saxophonist Richard Elliot, who marks his 25th year as a solo recording artist with a new album celebrating his musical roots. After reaching the top of t

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To shake a leg To pull one's leg 美国的成语和俗语,也和其他语言一样,有许多都是由身体各个部份的名称组成的。例如:To follow your nose是指

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(242) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to pull no punches straight from the horse's mouth 大多数人都认为诚实和坦率是一个很好的品质,尽管我们不见得每时每刻都能够做到,美国人也不例外。在美国的日

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(213) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to pull your socks up to knock your socks off 许多美国成语或者习惯用语都是以各种衣服的名称来组成的。比如说,

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(213) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Scientists are finding clues about the origin of human speech thanks to a very unusual ape. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an orangutan named Rocky. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: A half-dozen orangutans are relaxing in a sun-filled atrium

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now I need to warn you that this next story is a slight bummer if you celebrate Christmas and you happen to celebrate with a freshly-cut evergreen. It turns out that you might be getting a Charlie Brown tree this year - you know,

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Just off a Houston freeway, in a strip mall with an Indian tailor and a South Asian grocery store, is a small restaurant with an outsized reputation. It's called Himalaya, and its chef and owner is a Houston institution. KA

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Junot Diaz wanted to publish a children's book for more than 20 years. In the meantime, he stayed busy. He wrote several grown-up books, including The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He al

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Jacqueline Woodson's New Novel For Adults Has Its Roots In Adolescence AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Jacqueline Woodson has been writing books for children and young adults for most of her career. She won the National Book Award in 2014 for her memoir Brown G

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(276) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

(SOUNDBITE OF LINK WRAY'S RUMBLE) LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is the riff that is known as rumble. Instantly recognizable, it was named rumble because of its use of distortion and bass to create a sound that, in 1958, seemed dangerous and transgr

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(166) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台8月

我们上次学的习惯用语都有push也就是推这个词,而我们今天要讲的习惯用语却都有一个动作相反的词pull, 也就是拉。我们先要学两个习惯用语,它们分别是:pull for. Pull for是打气、鼓劲,或

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(264) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

美国习惯用语第854:完成自己那份工作(音频) pull one's own weight 我最喜欢参加的志愿活动就是翻修房子,为低收入的人提供住处。亲手让一栋破破烂烂的老房子焕然一新,会有一种难以言表的成就

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学英语单词
Aleksandry, Zemiya
arrivist
automatic vigilance
azolitmin paper
be on a parity with
beta electron
bitternesses
Boolean topology
breaking of oil
BUPS
butter-churn
channel drier
charter pilot
Charteris
chemotaxonomical
colour subcarrier trap
coolungs
countermander
cstr design
curzons
cushion coat
cytole
D1959
Dannhauser
deep constructivism
digital cameras
discrete chance
district boiler room
dry compression chamber
equilibrium relation
equivocalnesses
fetichize
fine data channel
four-piece rim
fry-pan
fuel pump drive shaft
fuel-oil service pump
games of skill
geezer
get in somebody's hair
gingival margin
guillot
halyard block
henry's partition law
hidel-like
histodifferentiations
icicles
ignacio
in praise of
inclusive-nor gate
intrinsic radiance
inversion of testis
involucratus
johh
leadthrough
lobi clivi
log chi-squared distribution
marketing unit
method of astronomy
money trust
nest of test sieves
non-metallic mold material
nonpayment
observed threshold
off your trolley
on a regular basis
osmics
outfarted
paramilitary-style
penitrem-A
petersianum
piperis fructus
potential strength
Poverty is no sin.
pressure-sensitive adhesion
quarter-line
quick acting manure
right-angle clamp
rotaxane
semi-computable set
separable verbs
short flamed
soricauide
spectral color
spells out
sufferaine
tail-races
the silly season
Tilia oliveri
timoneers
tip one's hat
titanium butylide
trembly
ultrasonic defectoscopy
Unagen
vena caval hiatus
viral rubella
volsky
weight of the world
wild licorices
Zalieutes