吸水性

A: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is linguist Geoff Nunberg. He's been listening to how Americans debate issues, and there's a particular word he often finds they invoke: sensitivities. GEOFF NUNBERG: It'

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(271) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

George Soros -- the financial crocodile George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission--to u

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(366) / 评论(0) 分类 每天一点英文

By Scott Stearns Washington 28 March 2006 Vice President Dick Cheney, right, looks towards President Bush as he makes a statement to reporters, March 28, 2006, in Washington President Bush continues h

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(374) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

Asking for input What do you think (about . . . )? How do you feel (about . . . )? Any ideas? What are the alternatives? Exploring Options Let's look at Option 1. What (do you think) about Plan B? How about the third alternative? Let's consider Bob's

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(245) / 评论(0) 分类 跟我学英语入门篇

By Phuong Tran Dakar 29 March 2007 In Guinea, the newly-appointed Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate has named more than 20 new government members, the latest step in the strike-ending deal reached last month that ended weeks of violent unrest and work s

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(275) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(三月)

50 years after introduction of the Pill, reproductive rights still at stake for women worldwide Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 12 May 2010 The Pill was approved 50 years ago and, today, 12 million American women take the oral contraceptive. In May

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(265) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(五)月

Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(240) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十月)

The Obama administration appears to be sending mixed signals on whether a second stimulus package will be needed to pull the U.S. economy out of a deep and prolonged recession. Democrats and Republicans are expressing dissatisfaction with the impact

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(274) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(七月)

Hospital 医院 children's hospital 儿童医院 general hospital, polyclinic 综合医院 hospital for lepers, leprosarium 麻风病院 maternity hospital, lying-inhospital 产科医院 mental hospital, mental home 精神病院 obstetrics and gynecology hospital 妇产医院

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(254) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Be an Optimist(做一个乐观的人) Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty? Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut,not upon the hole? Suddenly these clichs are scientific questions,as researchers scrutinize the power of

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(294) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Improving Productivity by Improving Lighting We all know that our surroundings affect our ability to get work done, from that irritating buzzing from the next cubicle over to the uncomfortable chair causing our back pain. But what about lighting? Has

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(340) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The Productivity Tricks and Daily Habits of Famous People Famous visionaries often develop a reputation for having a few eccentricities. However, for many people, these small eccentricities are part of a larger group of daily rituals that help them t

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(322) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 July 2006 Turkey's prime minister says his military is moving forward in drafting plans for sending forces into northern Iraq to clear out Kurdish rebel bases, but added that officials are also holding talks with t

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(295) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

今天我们要学的词是uptick。 Uptick, 名词,意思是上升。 There has been an uptick in violent crimes in the past year, 过去一年里暴力犯罪有所上升。Local retailers expect to see a sales uptick in this year's holiday shoppi

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(277) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

By David McAlary Washington 14 March 2007 International financier George Soros is giving $3 million to help public health experts fight a lethal, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa. VOA's David McAlary in Washington reports tha

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(342) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(三月)

Tim: So, you know, we're talking a little bit about jobs. I'm kind of curious. Do you prefer working in a group or do you prefer working alone? Jeff: That's a tough question. Tim: It definitely is because there is good things about both. Jeff: That's

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(252) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

Todd: Could you talk about, when you travel, do you prefer to travel with somebody to travel alone? Keren: I prefer to travel with someone but on my next trip I'm actually traveling alone so I'm looking forward to seeing whether I enjoy myself. Yeah.

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(329) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英语对话1000个

By Sean Maroney Washington 09 December 2006 U.S. President George Bush says his administration is reviewing the bipartisan report issued this past week on the situation in Iraq, and will seriously consider its recommendations. VOA's Sean Maroney rep

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(369) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)

Two frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered circumstances.This is pretty bad luck,said one.Don't jump to conclusions,the other said,we are out of the wet and provided with board and lodging. With lodging,certainly,

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(223) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

今天我们要学的词是uptick。 Uptick, 名词,意思是上升。 There has been an uptick in violent crimes in the past year, 过去一年里暴力犯罪有所上升。Local retailers expect to see a sales uptick in this year's holiday shoppi

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(272) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃
学英语单词
3-phenyl-proylamine
A Secret Book Kept in Chamber
airstreams
altitude alkalemia
antaoensis
atlodymus
audience left
back-hacking
backsources
balakovoes
biconditoinal
brief and to the point
buglets
bullets
carpenter's level
cervical sclerites
chinovariscite(metravariscite)
clutch at a straws
cockering
colicolitis
conception failture
counter clockwise (ccw)
creatinases
crossing compression
currant jelly
currencies subject to restrictions
data void
diddlin'
direct earth capacitance
disciplined
driving wheel
droit international
effective propeller thrust
electrochemical behavior
electronic networks
emss
endoperitoneal
ennoynt
eroded edge
eterno
exhibition reactor
flat bottom beaker
fluorspar (fluorite)
Four Chaplains
haemotympanum
hypnotizing
intrafistular
iron notch drill
key log
Kǔlob Viloyati
Logwatch
mammilae
mefti
metacyclic equation
metallic compounds
monotropastrum globosum h. andres
multigroup model
multiple fraction defective sampling
multiply re-entrant winding
near-field pattern
nonchildbearing
null character (nul)
oday
odontogenic keratocyst
open-cycle magnetohydrodynamics
outlet grid
over-expectation
over-under-thru
Oxytropis podoloba
Petriellidium
photometer field
platelet factor 1
procardias
radium beam
rate of heat addition
re-embroil
reporting obligation
secratary
self-presentational
silico-extraction of cataract
snaply
sound legged
soured creams
space-interval method
specific transpira-tion
steam tug
Stichospora
stuffed like a turkey
switching district
taking a dive
Taxilan
ticketlink
tieup
to post a letter
toruses
transmission test set
triboulets
uncontrolled nuclear transformation
underslake
wastewater from ashpit
weiwei
zetapotential