[美国英语]“茶壶中的风暴”;小事引起的轩然大波;小题大作,大惊小怪 [亦作 tea-pot tempest]

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today is the last day of the official 2017 hurricane season. It's been the most destructive in history - an estimated $200 billion in damages - and the only time that three Category 4 hurricanes have hit the United States in the

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

Russell closed the tailgate of the pickup and they drove to the dock. It was a cold day, and it was raining. They transferred the barrel into the back of Russells 25-foot fishing boat. The boat was named Staci, although it had first been named Kathy,

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一副牌中的数字与颜色也许与季节,月亮公转周期和日历有关。Macro Tempest戴上了增强现实(AR技术)眼镜并开始了一个你可能从未见过的魔术,编制了一个美丽的故事。

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马可坦布斯特使用迷人的舞台技巧来展示EDI一台可以和人类协同工作的多用途机器人。比起魔术,这更像一场纷繁的舞台表演。坦布斯特炫耀了机器人的传感技术、安全特性和力量,并拉近了

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Over a barrel Over one's dead body 我们今天再来讲两个和over有关的习惯用语。第一个是: over a barrel. Barrel就是一只装东西的桶。那么,什么是over a barrel 呢? Over

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(271) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

1.a tea hound在茶话会、舞会或各种社交场合,总有些喜欢追逐漂亮女子并对她们大献殷勤的家伙。这类花花公子就被称为tea hounds爱交际的男子。 例句:John is much mature now, I think he's no longer a te

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[00:01]A:Hey, Bob! It's good to see you. [00:02]B:Arden, hope I didn't keep you. [00:04]A:Over there. He missed you coming in. [00:06]B:Thanks. That'll do the trick? [00:08]A:Let's sit. [00:10]C:Hey, Bob. [00:12]B:Hey, Chuck, I didn't k

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HARI SREENIVASAN: It was a hundred years ago today that President Woodrow Wilson signed what was called the Organic Act, creating the National Park Service. Jeffrey Brown takes our Bookshelf outdoors. JEFFREY BROWN: Terry Tempest Williams, author, na

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HOUSTON, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is expected to be about 100 U.S. dollars per barrel in 2012, five dollars per barrel higher than the average price in 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (

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By Mil Arcega Washington 03 January 2008 Oil prices soared to a record $100 a barrel Wednesday in New York before falling back, as worldwide demand for oil continues to grow. Surging economies in China and India have helped push oil prices higher ove

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今天还是要讲在大选年里新闻界常会用来报导有关选举的情况的两个习惯用语。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: pork barrel。 Pork是猪肉,而barrel是木头制成的圆桶pork barrel要是直译就是装猪肉的木

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(245) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

这个节目已经持续了很长时间了,在不断学习习惯用法的同时我们偶而也不妨停下来思索一下这个问题:为什么习惯用语时常让外国学生感到困惑难解呢?原因之一是习惯用语的含义跟它所包

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我们今天学的习惯用语都有这个词: barrel。 Barrel是大桶,用来载运啤酒、威士忌、食糖、汽油等各种货品。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: scrape the bottom of the barrel。 Scrape是刮的意思。 Scrape t

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somebody's cup of tea 英国人对茶情有独钟,无论什么饮品都代替不了茶在他们心中的位置。因此somebody's cup of tea指的就是to be something that one prefers or desires 对某人胃口的东西,使某人感兴趣的东西

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与茶有关的地道英语 a tea hound在茶话会、舞会或各种社交场合,总有些喜欢追逐漂亮女子并对她们大献殷勤的家伙。这类花花公子就被称为tea hounds 爱交际的男子。 例句:John is much mature now,

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

如果有人跟你抱怨他的新老板脾气暴躁、动不动拿下属出气,还老让他们加班,你可以说: Your new boss sounds terrible, I wouldn't work for him for all the tea in China! 你的新老板听起来真讨厌,无论给我多

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如果有人跟你抱怨他的新老板脾气暴躁、动不动拿下属出气,还老让他们加班,你可以说: Your new boss sounds terrible, I wouldnt work for him for all the tea in China! 你的新老板听起来真讨厌,无论给我多

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(180) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Idiom: Scraping the barrel ( the last resort ) Hit the book: Reputation Surly Sub-par Acknowledge Unveil Premium Roll out Legroom Amenity Genesis It's no secret that American airlines have long had a bad reputation among Australians. For many travell

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如果有人跟你抱怨他的新老板脾气暴躁、动不动拿下属出气,还老让他们加班,你可以说: Your new boss sounds terrible, I wouldn't work for him for all the tea in China! 你的新老板听起来真讨厌,无论给我多

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a tea hound 在茶话会、舞会或各种社交场合,总有些喜欢追逐漂亮女子并对她们大献殷勤的家伙。这类花花公子就被称为tea hounds 爱交际的男子。 例句:John is much mature now, I think he's no longer a te

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ablating rate
adjacent NCPs
adoubt
Asteriidae
beanpots
benziger
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biogeographical regions
Bruchus pisorum
cardinal flower
carotenosis cutis
cataractogenic
central parity
Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium
cisadvantage
combine potato planter
cookiecutters
corpus luteum hormone
criminal bankruptcy
dark growth reaction
depth perception
Disepalum
disuberate
doig
drepane
drop at
edins
elongate antenna
emergency housing
emission standard
employee saving association
ethnical
Euro cheque
false-color composite
Fickian absorption
flooding-ability
free throw
golley
hear the call
hitchcockite
homologised
hyperpolarised
ignore
improved grassland
interconnection process
IPEH
japanese cherries
konigsberg bridge problem
lead dinitroresorcinate
littleleaf lilac
lobulus semilunaris inferior
mass matrix
molybdeni trioxidum
Mutisia viciaefolia
nanodevice
nasosept
net profit method
nonfragmentary
nonpirated
notice of loading readiness
nozzle passage
oatley
paleis
pattern depth
payment under reserve
perenniporia fraxinea
pericardial vein (pericardiac vein)
phenylcarbylamine chloride
pipebombs
piqure
pleasure boats
positive wire
post-tonsillectomy poliomyelitis
psig (pound per square inch gauge)
ropeline
saint-denis
sample selection rule
Sardindina Plain
schedule-dependent
screw with
sovereignizing
specialist-level
sphagnum ovatum
spool up
ssus
standard working week
stiff-neck fever
streptomycin poisoning
sunlike
the triple bottom line
thermionic tube
toringo
total weight loss
unblockers
unteachability
vesicoprostatic plexus
watched over
xenates
XENIX
your bed
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