音标:['lɪt(ə)r(ə)lɪz(ə)m] ;
n. 拘泥于字句;直译主义;彻底写实主义

李华在陪Larry找房子。他们会用到两个常用语:on the same wavelength和ballpark estimate. LH: Larry,这房子到底在什么地方啊?我走得腿都疼了。 Larry: Believe me, Lihua, I'm tired too. This is the fifth place I've l

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(189) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

本单元是关于海伦在家对话 Helen: Hello? Mum: Hello? Helen? It's mum here. How are you my dear? Studying hard? You know how much your degree means to your father and me. Helen: I was studying before you phoned me! Listen, I need your advice. I'm in l

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 公寓伙伴

The Excitement of Three-Part Phrasal Verbs Popular music can teach you a lot about the English language. You may not realize it, but musicians are actually teaching you about English grammar in each song they perform. Consider this song by the famous

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

A: All right, its time to meet our featured guest this morning. He's called the Picasso of Legos. I say, more like a Norman Rockwelth of Legos coz' look how literal all these representations are. We are gonna have the fun now with Nathan Sawaya. He

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录2008

19. Fortune-tellers are good at making ______ statement such as“ Your sorrows will change”. A. philosophical B. ambiguous C. literal D. invalid sorrow sorrow 痛苦,悲哀 sob 哭泣 /sorrow phi

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(223) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方赵丽词汇课堂

Pre-Listening Vocabulary figurative: having a symbolic or metaphorical meaning; not to be taken literally literal: having a straightforward meaning; exactly as it sounds efficiently: quickly and easily; in the least amount of time All Roads Lead To R

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 Facts-事实

One of the great consolations(1) of the end of the year is a New Year's Eve party. We don't always go to a party on New Year's Eve. Sometimes we prefer to stay at home, by the fire, with good food and drink, family and maybe a few friends, and welcom

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(200) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

People learning a second language might have heard of the expression false friend. This term is used to describe words in different languages that look alike, but have different meanings. Last month, we looked at examples of false friends in two lang

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(五)月

李阳疯狂英语突破口语要素:问候 第一单元 问候 编者按 Americans have so many different ways of greeting one another! In fact, many times an American greeting will consist of several greeting questions strung together. It is very common to hear a friend

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(178) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

How Do You Talk About Everything?

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(448) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(三)月

李华和Larry讨论情人节的安排。今天我们要学两个常用语:born yesterday和head over heels. LL: So, Lihua, I know you said that you didn't want me to buy a Valentine's Day gift for you, but I wasn't born yesterday. I can tell you'r

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 名校励志英语演讲

图片1 Of course we all need to push some buttons to turn on a computer or our MP3 players. But to push someones buttons has a very different meaning from that literal meaning. In fact, its usually not a good idea to push someones buttons! In this e

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

1. When will you sign the contract if I agree to become a member of your organization? 如果被录用的话,什么时候可以和贵单位签约? 还能这样说: When can the contract be signed if I agree to work in your company? When can I m

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 情景会话口袋书人际篇

Certain large investment firms have established freedom from connection有些大投资公司建立起了脱离联系的自由 But we as people never do 但我们作为人从不这样 and we're not supposed to, and we shouldn't want to我们也不该这

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(184) / 评论(0) 分类 公众人物毕业演讲

Do you usually say, Im going to the toilet in English? 你是否常用Im going to the toilet来表达上厕所呢? Although saying this can be correct in some contexts, it can be overly direct or even rudeespecially in American English. 虽然某些情

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

I have some idioms for you today. Idioms are colourful ways of saying something. Often, when we use an idiom, we dont mean the words in a literal sense. We are using the words figuratively. Still confused? The best thing is to give you some examples.

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

For the last two weeks, our newspapers have been full of stories about the Big Freeze. Like many other places in Europe, the weather in Britain has been very cold. We have had lots of snow, and the roads are covered with ice. There are shortages of g

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语

Today, we meet the English word worth, and a famous cosmetics company that tells us that we are worth it. Worth means simply the value that something has. Sometimes we use it in a literal way, to mean how much money would people pay? But often we use

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 听播客学英语
学英语单词
5-hydroxylmethyluracil
accredited journalist
Acta Apostolicae sedis
actio spolii
aleichemshalom
Amyda sinensis
arteria facialis
bamboo rats
between center
butterfly-type frame
calibration current of reference ballast
canicular
carbonex
Cauderan
Charles Wheatstone
Chautauqua
colorscripts
costing exercise
cow-parsleys
crank rubber cover
double drum winch
Ellidshφj
employee's bonus
enthalpy gain
expansion curvature
finishing superheater
foundation wall
fracture line theorem
glomus fragilis
Gonda Libah
gwenyth
hair-raiser
hand inertial starter
handbook
hetacillin
hunting stage
IGMOSFET (isolated gate MOS field effect transistor)
IP video surveillance
kitchen help
lacrific
line sequence
live fish hold
LMFO
lock-picks
lower competitive price
Lφgumkloster
maculosine
malpracticed
marshalling plan
maximum overall width in service
maxwell boltzmann distribution
meteorological satellite ground station
microcalthrops
midmorning prayer
midship lind
mineral processings
model-making
nauseatic
navadas
nik shahr(geh)
nivafion
Nivankyul
no header row
non-dispersive X-ray fluorescence
nonoccurence
odd perfect number
one-dimensional character
Or what?
ordinary elliptic curve
othat
packet telephony
permanent mould casting machine
pneumonic tropica
polyether polyol
presalt(ing)
pressuremeters
Priozërnoye
pryings
rack friven planer
radial double mechanical seal
rainbow glass
rimming walls
rotary retort furnace
sensory image
shared electron
sheela-na-gig
split-field photometry
straight rolling
superfits
Teletel
television repeater
the young generation
threespace
thyratron stroboscope
transportable breakwater
trog
tushanensis
tzand
ventricular pacemaking
vernicles
Winlogon
zeugite