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n. 妄自尊大的小人物

Monsters! 有怪兽! by Kevin Lustig From time to time, animals are born with mutations like extra limbs, strange deformities, or even additional heads. In ancient Rome, this frightful event was believed to be an omen that bad things were on the

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What Is Whipped Cream? It adorns ice cream sundaes, pumpkin pie, gingerbread, and hot chocolate. Its sweet creaminess tantalizes taste buds and sends dieters running from the scale. Did you ever wonder why heavy cream whips into soft, light peaks? Yo

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Vicki: Hello, this is Real English from BBC Learning English, Im Vicki Lilly: Hi. Im Lilly, 欢迎收听《地道英语》 Vicki: In Real English, we look at words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. Lilly: 和汉语一样,英语里也是有着非常多

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【欧美金曲】布兰妮Circus There's only two types of people in the world 世界上有两种人 The ones that entertain, and the ones that observe 一种是寻找乐趣的,一种是观赏者 Well baby I'm a put-on-a-show kinda girl 好吧,宝

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By Dan Robinson Washington 17 November 2006 House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio arrives at US Capitol, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 Sounding a theme of unity, Republican leaders in Congress are vowing a comeback in the wake of major ele

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今天要学的习惯用语都包括这个词:whip。 Whip可以当名词,解释为鞭子,但是它也可以是动词,意思是鞭打,而且通常是惩罚性的鞭打。今天要学的第一个习惯用语是: whipping boy。Whipping boy这

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Chapter 6 - The fox hunt The old count went home, and Natasha and Petya promised to return very soon, but as it was still early the hunt went farther. At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees. Nikolai standing in

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Milk牛奶(Non-fat脱脂/Whole全脂/Soy豆奶); Coffee intensity咖啡浓度(Extra coffee更多咖啡/Decaf低因); Syrup糖浆(Vanilla香草/Caramel焦糖/Hazelnut榛子/Raspberry覆盆子); Whipped cream or no whip (加入搅打奶油或不加

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 09 November 2006 watch US Election Foreign Policy President George Bush, (left) with Donald Rumsfeld (file photo) Victorious Congressional Democrats are calling for change in the Bush administration's Iraq policy -- as

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十一月)

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 December 2006 Heads of state and other representatives from 11 African countries are gathering in Kenya's capital this week for their Great Lakes conference. The leaders are expected to sign a pact that sets out plans to

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By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 19 June 2007 Commencement of the second phase of registration of Maoist army personnel in Ilam, 19 June 2007 The United Nations has begun checking the age and date of recruitment of Maoist fighters in a camp in eastern Nepa

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凑份子怎么说 室友要过生日了,想一想,如何召集整个寝室为他(她)共置一份生日礼物?听好哦,下面这句话很实惠,说不定您立马就用得着 Tomorrow is Lucy's birthday. Shall we do a whip-round to bu

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whip hand原来是指拿着鞭子赶车的人的手。他用鞭子指挥马匹快快赶路。换句话说,执鞭的手是掌握控制权的。当然习惯用语whip hand是用来作比喻的。我们来看个例子。 这段话说一个老人不愿意

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

smart as a whip。 smart是聪明灵巧的意思。我们上次说过,老练的车把式把鞭子挥舞得活了似的。他手上的鞭子非常灵巧敏捷,能百发百中打死叮牲口的马蝇却不伤牲口一根毫毛。这也许就是smar

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今天要学的习惯用语是:buggy whip。 buggy是小型的轻便马车。这种马车的挡泥板上有插口, 用来插上鞭子。这就是当年的buggy whip。 buggy whip属于悠久的过去年代,人们不用buggy whip已经有好多好

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

crack the whip原本的意思是打响鞭,也就是挥动鞭子发出清脆响亮的爆裂一般的声音。 这个习惯用语起源于十九世纪移居美国的人们前往西部开辟新天地的时候。他们把全部家当都装在骡子或者

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O Ben! let me get in, will you? 哦,本!让我上去,好吗? Yes, if you will sit still. 可以,但你要坐着不动。 Stand still, Jip, and let Ann get in. 站着别动,吉普,让安上来吧。 Now, Ben, hand me the whip. 好,本,

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Personal Productivity in the 21st Century What does it mean to be productive? The gurus have given us a few ideas it means to get things done, to be highly effective, to know who it was, exactly, who moved your cheese. What things, effective at what,

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中国有句老话:坦白从宽,抗拒从严。英语中,坦白从宽相应的俚语表达为cop a plea。 Cop a plea首见于上个世纪40年代。有种说法认为,cop源于拉丁语capere(抓住),在俚语中,cop(抓住、赢得)

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Chapter Seven: The Avengers 第七章:复仇者 In the evening the magistrate and his friends are in the tavern. They are laughing about the old friar. 在晚上,治安官和他的朋友都在酒馆。他们正在笑着那位老人。 Why are you

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学英语单词
abient behavior
active alert
adiantum hispidulum
Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiation
aircraft simulation
analog chromatogram
angle screw driver
antidiabetes
approach system
arresting apparatus
art printing paper
associations of islamic groups and communities
Auriparus
Australianised
biobate
Bockflüss
Brentan
british system of reference
carcinoma pullulans
cardiac sious
chlorimeters
circum-meridian altitude
city life
colletotrichum trifolii bain et essery
control of scrap
cotillion guadrille
covariations
cuvier
cyperotundone
cystoureropyelitis
destination category
detached supersructure
disparition
dog clutch, dog-clutch
dolus bonus
dumbsizing
electro-technician
equipment capacity factor
ergsipeloid
expatriated
extreme high-speed gas dynamics
fen cricket
genus chrysopses
gingivodental
hammered iron
hierarchy of operations
hydrochloric acid tank room
hyperpartisan
intelligent sales
Japs
kill the bill
knob motor
level separation
Luseland
making die
meadow goldenrods
medimn
mesodontism
methodically
modulus of stretch
multipurpose shearing machine
multispur
Munsal-li(Munsan)
Nephrosialidosis
Ngome
noise communication channel
parabolic velocity distribution
parasangs
parking tickets
penetration control
physical-mechanical properties of rock
polylepidous
primitive knot
print timing dial
propeller chart
propod phase
protected heating element
recombinagen
resolving power
return box
ridogrel
ropeline
rudder deck stop
solasodiene
stampi
thatched pavilion
thematic chart
three way cord
tough test
transexual
tributary receiver
two - party system
unsonlike
verbal creations
verbena phlogiflora cham.
voice portal
webcasters
wet-and-dry bulb thermometer
wiper shaft
yentzer
zoning map
zulfikars