英语写作指导：常见的英语修辞

修辞手法(figure of speech)修辞手法是通过修饰、调整语句，运用特定的表达形式以提高语言表达作用的方式和方法。修辞不仅仅在中文里很常见，在英文里也是多种多样。这篇文章里，我们就来

乘车去上班—Commuting to Work

I leave for work about 6:30 a.m., and I walk to a bus stop not too far from my house. I catch a bus that comes by around 6:45. The bus isn't very crowded when I get on, but it fills up by the end of the line. Then, I get off the bus and catch a train

听一分钟英文：Transportation-交通

Transportation hasnt really changed a lot in the past 100 years. When you think about changes in other areas of our life, transportation is pretty much the same as it was years ago. OK, cars, trains and airplanes are faster, but theyre not so differe

英语博客：Lake Chelan.

A change is as good as a rest is a common saying in England. And that's what I've been having. It's summer, the children are out of school, our routine is up in the air(1), and we've been getting out of town. Have you noticed? I haven't been talking

VOA双语新闻：9、厄尔尼诺现象使鱼群从墨西哥游到加州

厄尔尼诺现象使鱼群从墨西哥游到加州 Fish in an unexpected spectrum of sizes, shapes and colors are moving north, through El Ni?o's warm currents from Mexican waters to the Pacific Ocean off Californias coast. El Nino is the periodic w

SSS 2009-03-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. If youve ever popped open a jar of the pickled fish, you know that herring like to stick together. Actually, its something they do naturally, even before

【有声英语文学名著】老人与海（1）

Part One He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boys parents had told him t

【有声英语文学名著】老人与海（2）

Part Two I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand. The great Sislers father was never poor and he, the father, was playing in the Big L

英语音频杂志：河流

Rivers: what do they mean to you? Are they just something boring you learn about in geography at school? For many people the answer is probably yes, but anyone who has ever lived beside one and gone for walks along its bank, swum in it, gone fishing,

SSS 2008-11-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute? It sure is a pig-eat-anchovy world out there. While that may sound like a joke, the results of a newly released study say it's no laughing matter. Farmers are fatten

词汇典故—做个好人

词汇典故做个好人 Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. We present more expressions about food. They are from Elenir Scardueli, a listener in Brazil. 这里是美国之音慢速英语词汇典故，我们将讲解更多有

厄尔尼诺使热带鱼群前往加州

厄尔尼诺使热带鱼群前往加州 Thanks to El Ni?o, California's coastal waters have become more hospitable to fish from the tropics. Hammerhead sharks are among them. 由于厄尔尼诺现象，加州海岸的水域环境对来自热带的鱼来

儿童故事集：Katie and the Cat who Talked

Katie and the Cat Who Talked- Every Saturday, not far from where Katie lived, there was a market. Farmers came into town and set up their stalls in a car park. They sold the tastiest apples, the freshest eggs, and all sorts of vegetables that stil

快速拓展雅思口语回答的基本法则

首先是直接回答，是指针对考官的提问直接正面回答，切忌兜圈子和回避考官问题。接下来，我们要针对回答进行解释，给出原因。很多同学面对熟悉的话题很容易想到原因，但是如果是日常

趣味青春英语电台 第191期:Packed like sardines

Idiom: Packed like sardines ( very crowded ) Hit the book: Trade agreement Tourism Permanent Migrant Numerous Take effect Mandarin Simplify procedure The new measures were signed alongside the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement approved last month.

英语博客(A cup of English):Crystaline

Beginners. The other day, my friend Nataliya invited me to go cross country skiing with her. We don't see eachother very much, so I was happy to go. Julia can babysit your two youngest, if you like, and we can leave at about ten o'clock. Julia is her

【时间旅行者的妻子】11

I made you some pretty weird meals over the years. Peanut butter and anchovy sandwiches. Pate and beets on Ritz crackers. I think partly I wanted to see if there was anything you wouldnt eat and partly I was trying to impress you with my culinary wiz

花粉症大作战：远离鼻塞流涕

Don't let itchy eyes and a runny nose ruin your summer - here's some top tips to help you beat the sniffles and sneezes that come with hay fever. 不要让眼睛痛痒、鼻子堵塞毁了你的夏天。花粉症袭来之时，如下小贴士可以让你

对眼睛有益的10种食物

You need to take proper care of your eyes to maintain good eyesight. There are few fundamental rules that have to be done for good eye care. As you know very well that exposure to sun is very bad for the eyes. Similarly, if you use computer for long

【跟着美剧练发音】美剧美语793期

LUCY:This is an awfully big wardrobe. MR.TUMNUS:War Drobe?Im sorry.Please allow me to introduce myself.My name is Tumnus. LUCY:Pleased to meet you,Mr.Tumnus.Im Lucy Pevensie.Oh,you shake it. MR.TUMNUS:Uh..why? LUCY:I...I dont know.People do when they