表示惊讶或轻蔑[多用于被动语态]:

Eyebrows were raised when she came in barefooted.
她光着脚走进来,人人都大吃一惊。

Paul hated school. He did not do his homework. He did not like his teachers. Paul's father did not know what to do with him. His teachers did not know either. One afternoon, all his teachers at Pittsburgh High School met together with him to discuss

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(四)月

A husband said to his wife,

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to call the shots to call one's bluff 我们经常会问别人:你们家里谁说了算?也就是谁作最后决定。美国人经常说:to calls the shots。 To call the shots也就是作最后决

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Ten US banks fail 'stress tests' 十个美国银行应力测试失败 Ten of America's largest 19 banks need a combined $74.6bn (50bn) of extra funds to boost(推进,提高) their cash reserves.(现金储备) That is the main finding of the so-called stress tests

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Castro's Death, Trump Presidency Raise Questions About US-Cuba Ties During his life, Fidel Castro blamed Cubas economic problems on the United States and its restrictions on trade with Cuba. Now, after Castros death, many people are wondering what wi

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Caregivers Boost Alzheimer's Awareness November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and Family Caregiver Month. An estimated 5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer's. U.S. President Barack Obama called upon the people of the United States t

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Earlier today, one of President Trump's top advisers might have violated federal ethics rules. The White House says Kellyanne Conway has been counseled, although there are calls for more. Conway got into trouble during an intervi

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary US Constitution: document of rules and principles for governing in the US glaring: very noticeable inconsistent: not the same throughout variation: a different version raise eyebrows: to cause people to feel surprised or conc

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语里都有这样一个词:devil。它的意思是魔鬼。这可是个引起人们恶感的词。在基督教文化里,魔鬼是背叛上帝的邪恶之灵,但是被正义的天使打败,驱逐出天堂。从此魔

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By Cindy Saine Washington 24 April 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton's win over Senator Barack Obama in Pennsylvania has breathed new life into her campaign and given it a much-needed financial boost. Her campaign says donors contributed more than $10 mil

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If a marriage is already impossible to save and both parties have decided to go their separate ways, parents should create a special arrangement to ensure their children would not suffer that much. It takes a lot of adjustments and challenges to rais

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DAEGU, South Korea, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Usain Bolt of Jamaica, the world's fastest man, retained his world title in the men's 200m with 19.40 seconds on Saturday night at the Daegu world championships. I feel great. I wasn't running angry, I was runn

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OSLO, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Usain Bolt ran the year's fastest time of 19.86 seconds to grab the men's 200m title at the Bislett Games here on Thursday in rainy conditions. Bolt delighted the crowd at Oslo's premiere athletics stadium with his usual pre-

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MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Mission Control announced on Wednesday it had raised the International Space Station (ISS) by 10.2 km to 374.7 km with the help of the Europe's ATV-2 Johannes Kepler. The Mission Control conducted the correction(修

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BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) is set to raise up to 23.2 billion U.S. dollars in the world's largest listing, according to the price range the lender set for its shares. ABC said late Monday in a statement(声明)

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China to raise proportion of community-level deputies to people's congresses BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- China will increase the proportion of community-level deputies to the people's congresses, and reduce the number of deputies elected from among l

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, where almost anybody can have the equivalent of a photo studio in their hands, some people still use old-style photo booths. That's especially true in Japan, where the photo booths are called

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In the age of Snapchat and Instagram, where almost anybody can have the equivalent of a photo studio in their hands, some people still use old-style photo booths. That's especially true in Japan, where the photo booths are called

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Idiom: Raise eyebrows 引起某人的注意 Hit the book: cite 引用 frequent flyer 里程的奖励,经常飞行的旅客 sit allocation 座位的分配 identity theft 身份盗窃 bin 垃圾桶 discard 遗弃 stub 票根 formulate 形成 facilita

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Haifa Wehbe was born in Southern Lebanon in 1976.She became a model when she was very young and became Miss South Lebanon when she was sixteen.She also married very young and had a daughter named Zeinab.In 1995, Wehbe was runner-up at the Miss Lebano

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