A politically correct term for someone who can't even point out a continent on a world map, without serious help.
> Joe is completely geographically challenged, he couldn't find South Africa on a map of Africa.

New Zealand Herald: Schoolboy wins battle to keep long hair. 新西兰一学生因头发问题与学校打官司 Year 12St John'sCollegestudent Lucan Battison, 16, was suspended for refusing to conform with his principal's wishes and cut his hair las

发表于:2018-12-06 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 弗兰肯斯坦.Frankenstein

The hare can run very fast, but the turtle can only walk slowly. One day the hare proudly challenged the turtle to a race. The hare started quickly but stopped to take a nap every now and then. The tu

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(428) / 评论(0) 分类 赖世雄初级美国英语

[00:-1.00]Unit 1 Lifes styles [00:-2.00]1 A Perfect Day? [00:-3.00]A Couch potato [00:-4.00]forty-three-year-old [00:-5.00]Brian Blakey from Birmingham is sitting on his sofa [00:-6.00]and telling me about his perfect day. [00:-7.00]When I wake up I

发表于:2018-12-13 / 阅读(186) / 评论(0) 分类 高中英语北京必修模块

就像中文中有囧、围观、雷人、杯具这种新鲜词语一样,英语中也有很多词典里没有收录的新流行语,有时候红过一段时间又被人遗忘了。不过,了解了解, 倒是挺有意思。 pen you in A play on

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A: Good morning, I am here for my interview. B: Hello, nice to meet you. Im Mr. Gotcha. Have any trouble finding the place? A: No problem. B: So why dont you tell me why you are interested in changing positions? A: Unfortunately, our company is shutt

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: People obeyed. That was wrong. They should have challenged and they should have resisted. 人们屈服了,这是错误的,他们应该站起来挑战和反对,

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Conquer Fear To conquer ones fears ,one must see past them .To fear is natural ; to see past them is heroic. Fear is normal additive to life ,symbolizing that there are new ,sometimes extraordinary things to come ,to face .To be able to see these thi

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

America's founding fathers decided that a count of all the country's inhabitants should take place every 10 years. The 2010 census is now underway, and people all over the country are being asked to provide information about themselves. This year's c

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(四)月

A number of people around the world are stressed out about what's going on in the White House - but former president Barack Obama doesn't look like he's one of them. 全世界很多人都在为白宫正在发生的事而感到压力山大,不过美国

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(273) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

我们汉语的习惯里,胖有赞美,恭维人的意思,如祝贺你生了个大胖小子,胖呼呼,甚至给熟悉的人起个绰号叫胖子(当然是爱称)。可见胖在汉语中有健康生活舒心的意思。那么英语里可以

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David Gregory: Clinical psychologist Dr. Judith Coche is here with some advice to keep you from dumping a bowl of punch over those bad-gift givers? Dr. Coche, good morning. Thanks for being here. Judi

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What experience do you have for this kind of job? 你有过和这种工作相关的经历吗? Here is a copy of resume. Please have a look. 这是我的简历,请您过目。 How long have you been at your present place of employment? 你目前的工

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As we come to the conclusion of Reader Appreciation Month, I want to summarize some of the things that we have learned. Today, Ill focus on some of the character traits of people who were indicated by my readers as their favorite teachers. Some of th

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对于没有方向感的人来说,东南西北都没有意义,他们只知道左和右,而且,有的时候还可能把左右给搞反。 他们出门的时候,完全听从导航的安排,哪怕路线是错的,也得听。因为别的路线

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ROME, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci apologised for his embarrassing dive following his side win 1-0 at Palermo on Sunday. Bonucci was warned by the referee when he fell to the ground after being challenged by goalkeeper Samir

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英语共有十六种时态,其表现形式如下(以study为例) 一般时 进行时 完成时 完成进行时 现在 study be studying have studied have been studying 过去 studied be studying had studied had been studying 将来 will study wil

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如何委婉的提醒你长胖了 关于胖,我们首先想到的就是fat. 但fat在英语中是个强烈的贬义词,所以在西方如果说某人fat,不仅是对别人的伤害与歧视,也是自身粗鲁无教养的表现。那么英语中

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1. Is she big-boned? 她是不是很魁梧啊? Big-bone看字面解释就知道是指骨架很粗大。这对美女(美国的女人) 来说是见怪不怪的。在电影Something about Mary中就有这一句,Is she big-boned? 那娇小的女子怎么

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问路神句 Can you tell me the way to the nearest bus stop, please? 可以告诉我怎么去最近的公车车站吗? Do you know how to get to the Tiananmen Square? 你知道怎么去天安门广场吗? Where is the nearest toilet? 最近的厕所在

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

evil a.邪恶的;不怀好意的 n.邪恶,罪恶 Dragons are thought to be evil and powerful creatures in the West. 龙在西方世界里被视为邪恶且强大的怪物。 Mary gave me an evil smile that made me uncomfortable. 她给了我一个不

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学英语单词
ability to grow in the presence of disease
aleses
All's well
antimotion-sickness drug
apertura interna canaliculi vestibuli
Auponhia
beseems
blind tooling
bradι
callers
cannabigerovarin
carhams
clear sb.'s skirt
cock of the game
continued growth
contra transfer
cracking still gas
croose
cultivated celeries
dibromfos
double-face ware
draft sb in
electrical miss operation
enfeebling
ex ship's hold
expo
firefighter lift
float board
fluidic technology
forward procedure identifier
Frederickshåb
frontal pore
George Washington Goethals
ghost fishing
grassbirds
haski
heat-actuated fire door
heavy rail motor car
herdswomen
homologisation
human thought
husson
hybridising
iberian peninsulas
impulsive phrasing
inquiets
international search
junction field effect transistor (jfet)
jus gestionis
keep an account of
La Loupe
lamina superficialis (m. levatoris palpebr? sup.)
low noise klystron
lubrification
mixed frame system
Mogapi
newly-issueds
night direction-finder
non-tracking concentrator
none line
nonsulfated
on the rims
organster
output in metal removal
parnabies
plug into sth
pneumatic three-way solenoid valve
point twill
primunition
proportionments
puckles
Rabelais
Rabnābād Is.
redemonstrating
reembodying
refrigerated cooling
Rengam
replacement method of depreciation
restoration of flood damaged structures
running-in oil
runtime checks
sheeting calender
shortlistee
sodium metasilicate
solid state radar
subtransient
Suscapine
syndication model
the City of London
tickseed
Torreya grandis fort.
total succession
unpluggable
valley bottom(floor)
vittone
Vresen
waste water rate
water prospection of mine
way leave
waywode
wholly
Ximenia