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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- slang and idioms in American politics. RS: Tuesday was Election Day, and Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles told us a story about one candidate who had no problem with name reco

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(264) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on Wordmaster: Rosanne Skirble and I serve up a feast of idioms related to health and gluttony, as we present the classic children's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel -- retold by Slangman David Burke. MUSIC: Hansel and G

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(289) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on WORDMASTER: we're back with A. C. Kemp from slangcity.com. She calls it the online home of American slang. RS: We're talking about frequently used terms that her international students in her cla

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(378) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

No one likes to be thought of as cheap, but some of us just dont like to spend money. Harp and Maura are two of these people! This is an episode about slang terms for people who are always saving their money. Most of these expressions are considered

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(297) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

This is a fun episode about slang for to die! Of course, all these slang terms for dying are not meant to be used about anyone or anything we really care about, because that would be disrespectful. But people do use these terms to talk about things o

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

We all have to grow up someday! In this episode, we talk about becoming and adult and the different generations of adults in North America, and we discuss some of the slang terms that describe various types of adults. We talk about it all, up to havi

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(282) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is Nothing Ages Writing Faster Than Slang. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes Slang is made of informal words and phrases that originate in speech, and often includes substitutions for formal words, like ride or wheels for

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(432) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

From NPR news, this is All Things Considered, I'm Robert Siegel. I'm Melissa Block and I'm gonna try to keep this next intro short so we can hit the post, fit in the web back, and avoid busting the segment. And you may not be able to decipher that ra

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(386) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年NPR美国国家公共电台

BBC Learning English London Life Rhyming slang Callum:Hello I'm Callum Robertson and this is London Life In the programme today we take a brief look at rhyming slang, an interesting form of vocabulary where an expression which rhymes with word you m

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(432) / 评论(0) 分类 伦敦生活

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER with spring time approaching here in the United States our thoughts turn to bird watching. RS: Birds are easy to spot in everyday speech. A hierarchy in an organization is called a

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(286) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- with the remodeling of the VOA News Now schedule, our thoughts turn to construction-related slang. Or, more precisely, words related to construction that have other meanings in s

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(310) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

I was negotiating a contract with a new business partner, and we had a meeting to clarify the terms. Bill: If I understand the terms correctly , the length of the contract would be one year with a one-year option. Is that correct? Ms. Samuels: Do you

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(357) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: November 7, 2002 Rebroadcast on VOA News Now: November 10, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- slang and idioms in American politics. RS: Tuesday was Election Day, and Slangman Da

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(463) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

(Recorded March 19, earlier in the day of the outbreak of war in Iraq, for Coast to Coast) AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we offer a few minutes of relief with a look at some stress-related slang. RS: We got

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(301) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: January 30, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- Slangman David Burke is on hand in Los Angeles to give us a hand with some handy slang. Get the idea of this week's topic? Well, yo

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(287) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on WORDMASTER: we're back with A. C. Kemp from slangcity.com. She calls it the online home of American slang. RS: We're talking about frequently used terms that her international students in her cla

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(307) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on WORDMASTER: we're back with A. C. Kemp from slangcity.com. She calls it the online home of American slang. RS: We're talking about frequently used terms that her international students in her cla

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(339) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 17, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- names used in slang. RS: Take Johnny come lately. That's an opportunist who tries to gain from something started by others. AA: We cer

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(327) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

If you're studying a foreign language, you'll know that learning vocabulary can often be a painstaking process. After all, there are thousands upon thousands of words, expressions and idioms to learn. But sometimes, new words appear that can confound

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(325) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力精选进阶版

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 18, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, h

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(494) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)
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Adenocaulon
Aeschynanthus marmoratus
anxious decade
ardellae
Atei
auto distress signal apparatus
bahars
bearing shiver
belly guy
blurb
Brudzinski's reflex
bulk tank car
bye-law
C horizon
cocking bridge
coffee bean allergy
condoner
continuous flow grain weigher
control valve support operating link
Corydalis fangshanensis
counting rate
curlycues
day and night shop
desyl bromide
Didymoplexiella
domestic public frequency bands
efficiency engineers
elephant paper
erit
extraneous income
f. scott fitzgeralds
fee earnings
field level sensitivity
field-effect transistor (fet)
fluorescence quenching effect
fly book
font embedding
Fotomatic
free-blown glass
gastro-hepato-lienalis arteria
geluce
glasspapered
good solvent
group aerial
gucks
ibos
Indomycin
interaction fault
intermediate line filter
intracranial traumatic aneurysm
jackson
Lagenaria leucantha
lanthanum sulfide
laus
lavings
leukoregulin
lynchburgs
mechanical purchase
metaling
middle schooler
mixing beck
mononymic
nicergolent
noctiluca scintillans
nonhomogeneous boundary condition
octave-band filter
paisaje
panama rubber tree
partizansk
Penmorfa Beds
philander with
possibility by area
pyrosilicate
radial-section
ratless
Republic of Angola
resbon
Saisasa
sanionia uncinata
sea cabin
seedsnipes
shadow mask type color CRT
Shaftesbury
shape beam
singular determinant
slow whistle
store-and-forward service
sublingual cartilage
take the red pill
three-dimensional system of coordinate
throat depth
tip-offs
trichomanes tahitense
Turbio, R.
umbrella birds
under-bitted
vanuxemite
vertebrocostal ribs
volumetric specific power
water pollution problems
wire-armoured
zingiber officinales