SPEAKING EFFECTIVE AMERICAN ENGLISH

There are six characteristics of speech, all of which are vital to speak effectively. In this section we'll look at each of them separately. These speech characteristics are basically important to you

THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

BY STEPHEN R .COVEEY The first habit is 1)proactivity. Be proactive. The word proactivity is fairly common in management literature, but you won't find it in the dictionary. It means more than merely

新洋话1000句 lesson 34

That guy is as fat as a pig. Your boyfreind is a backbones. You keep getting fatter and fatter. If you keep eating you will be as big as a house. You really need eat more, you are too skiny. You really need shats some fat. She will be pretty if she w

Free Up Mental Space With More 'Bandwidth'

Welcome to Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore common expressions in American English. Like all languages, our expressions come from everywhere. They come from nature, sports, and food. They come from money,

2007年VOA标准英语-Hypnosis - Effective Pain Reliever for Breast C

By Melinda Smith Washington 31 August 2007 Centuries ago doctors used hypnosis to help relieve the excruciating pain of surgery. It then fell out of favor with the introduction of anesthesia. Now as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, new studies show a hos

剑桥雅思六阅读Test4同义词替换

1. drug company=pharmaceutical company 医药公司n. 2. promotion=marketing 营销n. 3. increase=escalate=rise=go up=grow 上升v. 4. research=study=survey=investigation 研究n. 5. work=be an effective way=be useful=help=achieve=succeed=have an eff

创业成功人士访谈录 第53期:我非常喜欢自己的工作(3)

But theres been no instance where you saw something really cool and wished youd thought of it first? 那（这些网站）是否有一些你觉得很不错而且希望是你最先创建的业务？ Ive seen some really interesting mash ups of other p

电信专业英英词典B-3

补充： Backbone - A series of high-speed network connections through which other networks connect. Bandwidth - According to Webster's: a range within a band of wavelengths, frequencies, or energies

电信类英语词汇表大全-26

中文 英文 缩写 搭接业务/代答业务/截接业务（PBX） pick-up service 达林顿放大器 Darlington amplifier 打包带 strap 大功率/高功率的 high power 大规模集成电路 Lar

2007年VOA标准英语-Gates Says NATO Effective in Afghanistan, Even

By Al Pessin Brussels 13 June 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the NATO alliance has demonstrated that it can be effective in Afghanistan in spite of continuing shortfalls in the number of troops member-nations are providing. VOA's Al Pe

2006年VOA标准英语-Experts Urge Narrowing Technology Divide B

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 17 May 2006 An African-wide conference of policy makers, engineers, industry leaders, scientists, and experts in the information and communications technology field, known as

VOA标准英语2008年-Triple-Drug Therapy Found Most Effective Agains

By Jessica Berman Washington 14 May 2008 Researchers have determined that commonly prescribed triple-drug combination therapies that use old antiviral drugs are the most effective for suppressing the deadly virus that causes AIDS. The findings have m

美国国家公共电台 NPR Peter Singer: How Can We Be More Effective Altruists?

GUY RAZ, HOST: I want to ask you about this really famous Talmudic notion - actually, it might be that in the Quran as well - but this idea that, you know, if you save a single life, then you have saved all of humanity. You know that one? PETER SINGE

Eztalk美语【235】superstitious crap迷信的鬼东西

Jess: Did you get Bean's ten different good luck forwards, like that one from the Dalai Lama? James:Yeah, I deleted all that superstitious crap. What a waste of bandwidth! Jess: I figured I might as well send one or two of them out. Maybe my luck wil

有效的睡眠疗法

Sleep well, sleep better If sleep has plunged to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not alone. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night, the average American logs only six hours and 40 minutes.

Keys

One day a husband was chiding (斥责）his beautiful blonde wife about leavingher keys in the ignition （点火处）of her car. If I take them out of the car I lose them, she reasoned. Yes dear, but what if someone steals your car? the husband cou

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Are You Lifehacking Too Much? Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that our obsession with productivity is getting in the way of our lives. Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out

雅思范文—如何对待罪犯

题目：Should criminals be sent to a jail or let them do something else as punishment instead of sending into a jail? Why and give your reasons. 范文：There has long been controversy concerning the objectives of the justice system. Sending crimi

夏说英语新闻晨读 第445期:网络流量被谁吃了

本期内容： Video streaming service Netflix is the world's most data-hungry application, consuming 15% of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine. Video in general accounts for more than half of net tr

热门单词：“空中上网服务”用英文怎么说？

日前，三大航空巨头已获批提供空中上网服务，由此，一个封闭多年的百亿级市场已是波涛汹涌。 请看《中国日报》的报道： Three major Chinese airlines, including China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airl