[美国俚语]不值钱的东西,假货;木制镍币(一种值5分钱的木制纪念品)

School 1) volunteers don’t get paid money, but sometimes we receive special gifts. One morning, just before Christmas vacation, I was selling tickets to our grade school’s last evening performance

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2002年

英语中的俚语、口语或顺口溜很多,它们的意义,往往与字面意义不同,有时也不合文法的结构,所以正确了解和灵活使用,是学习英语者的难题之一。下面即是常见的一些,供读者参考。

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Joanna: Where did you go yesterday? Frank: I went to Croydon. Joanna: Did you go shopping? Frank: No, I went for an interview. Joanna: Oh, did you get a job? Frank: Yes, I got a job as a Management Tr

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Is His Name Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle or Pelznickel? Who Cares, So Long As He Brings Gifts! Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Santa Claus is someone who will remain in the hearts of children forever. He is

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

dime是值十美分的硬币。 dime的价值虽然是nickel的两倍, 但是dime也只是一枚很小的硬币,而且dime跟 nickel相比是既小又薄,原因是过去曾经用比镍贵重得多的银子来铸造dime。 Nickel-and-dime既可以

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

Historic preservationists are often passionate in their zeal to keep the wrecking ball from beloved buildings. One man even died in the process. Richard Nickel spent years with his camera, documenting and arguing against the demolition of buildings

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My friend said he knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith. So I asked him, What was the name of his other leg? Why is this funny? It's funny because of the confusion between these two phrases; a man with a wooden leg and a wooden leg named Smith. Li

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Sucre夜里从牢房的水池后面溜到狱警休息室里,在他们挖的洞上浇上一层水泥,以掩人耳目。他知道自己回牢房的路上很可能被抓住,所以事先想办法弄到一条女式内裤,万一被抓到就说是为了等女朋友扔东西过来。他果然被抓住了,下面是狱警和Sucre的对话。 [00:41.87]Sucre

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一个客户在电话线上和我就一笔生意讨价还价,硬要在我的报价上要砍掉一角钱,当时我和他据理力争,他说:I'm not trying to nickel and dime you. 我当时就冲口回答:I don't need your nickel and dime.(我

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

By Ade Astuti and Nia Sutadi Washington 01 October 2007 Nicknamed the Steel City because of its roots as the center of America's steel industry, today's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania does not look much like a gritty steel manufacturing town of yesteryea

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我们上一次讲了由penny 也就是分币组成的几个习惯用语。美国人用的硬币除了penny还有好几种。例如,价值比penny高一点儿的有五分和一毛的硬币。它们是: nickel and dime。不论Nickel还是dime都是零

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

上一次我们学了几个由penny这个词组成的习惯用语。 Penny是美国货币中价值最低的,而今天要学的习惯用语都包括nickel这个词,nickel的价值仅高于penny,是值五美分的硬币。Nickel通常指一种银白

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[00:00]P:This is Mary Ellen Jenkins. So, Mike, how do you and Joey know each other anyway? [00:05]M:How do I and Joey know each other? Wow, if I had a nickel for every time somebody has asked me that. [00:11]J:From school. [00:12]M:Yeah, we m

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介绍: NICKLE N I C K LE 镍 是美元中五分钱的硬币 Dime D I M E是美元中十分钱的铸币 dime是值十美分的硬币。 dime的价值虽然是nickel的两倍, 但是dime也只是一枚很小的硬币,而且dime跟 nickel相比是既

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town! Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. This week, we have a special program for the holiday season. It is a show recorded many years ago by Maurice Joyce. He worked as an announcer at the Voice of Ameri

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(174) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

11.tomissatrick:意思是不了解全部实况或不能细心察看 (nottofigureoutasituation;don'tknoweverythingthatisgoingon;notveryperceptiveofeverysituation.) (反之,doesnotmissatrick就是对

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A total of 1,600 strong men have carried a 77.8-meter-long wooden dragon boat to a river on Saturday in Shibing County of southwest Chinas Guizhou province. Photo shows 1,600 strong men carrying a giant wooden dragon boat to the river in Shibing Coun

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Nickel or Dime? 5分钱还是10分钱? Little Johnny used to hang out at the local corner store. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the older boys would constantly tease him. 小约翰尼过去常在街角的商店附近闲逛。店

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How You Made Money 你怎么赚的钱 A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. 一个年轻人问一位富有的老人是怎样赚到钱的。 The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, Well, son, it was 1930. The depth of t

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A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,同坐一辆车,踏上旅途,有什么故事发生在这几个人之间呢?Randy Travis,1985年出道的美国乡村歌手,也是新乡村音乐的先驱。周五下午,还是回归慵懒轻

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学英语单词
3-MC
actual reelability
amplitude modulation carrier telegraph
Arz, 'Aqabat al
battles of pydna
be on ... guard
Bear steady!
Beregdaroc
blocking volume
bore of pipe
cabulance
cadilhes
changchengite
charit
chrome azurol S
cinetisations
conductivity current
consistorian
Corbigny
cost insurance freight and cleared
cut off rate
cxref
cyclical swing
DC electric locomotive
demand level
dicliditis
Dolin, Sir Anton
dried-salted sardine
durress
early processing
electrophoresing
ere now
filling up core
fly one's kite
folk life
friis transmission equation
full meander
gear reduction
Gungeon
high-speed drive
homogeneous
illuminated discharge effect
intensiyt of flluminating
inter-individual difference
interim dividends
isochronal annealing
jumpings-off point
Kamp'o
Kingtehchen
limited-line store
Lusigny
lutfi
lv's
minibus
mises
Mohr-Coulomb law
nail-bitingly
network design
Nomuka Iki
non-cellular plant
nonlanthanide
nosebleed section
nosema cuniculi
nuclear safety limit
on opening
oncomelania hupensis chiui
organismal theory
organization position chart
palatine conal
palco
pelargonic aldehyde oxime
pharyngoperistole
pilot bridge
place into the soil
plexus
Podgorje
potential difference of primary field
potential social productivity
program-to-program message switch
Risor
root coverage
Rudolstadt
sadu
salster
sanguinivorous
Saunders Basin
scale discharge
scrotal anal atresia
seed dormancy
semi-dual control
silver-cadmium battery
slow adrenalin
tanghinin
three-level subroutine
throttle mechanism
treehouses
trouble-free running
underqualification
unkinks
Uricemil
waynscote
webumentaries