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BELATED BIRTHDAY One day after work, I was driving my two sons home from school when Christopher asked if we could stop at a store so he could buy a birthday gift to take to school the next day. I sai

王强口语 第一册 Short conversation 018

Lesson Eighteen Short Conversations Read aloud the concersation two times, and then listen to the tape without looking at the text. Some Advice on Dishonesty Building inspector: Mr. Rathbone, the next time you call me, have your building ready and te

2014年ESL之商务英语 24 A Product Recall

A Product Recall Melissa: This is a disaster! If we have to recall 100,000 units, well take a huge loss this year. Lee: We have no choice. The product defect poses a safety hazard. If we dont act quickly, well have a huge liability issue on our hands

BEP 133 ADV – Sales and Interviews: Elevator Pitch

In this Business English Podcast, were going to look at delivering an elevator pitch. A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation des

2006年VOA标准英语-Universal Product Bar Code turns 30

By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 30 June 2006 Watch Bar Code Report Bar code The Universal Product Code turned 30 this week. The U.P.C. is a unique combination of black and white lines that can identify virtually anything from a bar of soap to medical

UNIT 3 Buying and Selling Lesson 23 Push That Product

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万花筒2008-01-04:Health Minute: Support groups 病患互助小组

Support groups offer emotional help following the diagnosis of an illness. CNN's Judy Fortin reports The thought of opening up and sharing personal details of an illness with strangers may not appeal to everyone,but many people do welcome the reinfo

人教版小学英语四年级上-- Unit 6 I'm short and fa

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Short-term Memory

Unit 4 Text B Short-term Memory There are two kinds of memory : short-term and long-term .Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time (when it is needed) . The information may be k

每日一词【83】fall short

今天学的词组是fall short。 Fall short 的意思是不足，达不到目的、要求和期望。比如2006年在越南召开的亚太经合组织会议在闭幕时发表口头声明敦促北韩放弃核计划，而没有像布什总统所希望的

Business Channel 2006-12-02&04

Smile, you're on consumer behavior camera. No surprise that you'll likely be videotaped while holiday shopping, but it's not all for security. Some of it is for market research. Retailers are tracking

New App Helps Blind People Know the World Around Them

One of the best uses of technology is to make life easier. A new product from Microsoft Corporation can do just that for people who have trouble seeing. They may be blind or visually impaired. The product, an app, is currently available for free for

美国习惯用语: Lesson 214 - IN SHORT ORDER / GET THE SHORT EN

今天我们再来给大家讲解两个以short这个字为主的习惯用语。In short order. In short order就是立即，马上的意思。许多美国孩子都不喜欢打扫房间。这也是父母

voa标准英语2008-US Central Bank Cuts Short-term Interest Rates t

Saying the economy is continuing to weaken, the U.S. central bank Tuesday cut short-term interest rates to nearly zero. Officers of the U.S. Federal Reserve stand watch in front of the Fed building in Washington, D.C., 29 Oct 2008 The Federal Reserv

VOA标准英语2010年-Insurance Initiative Could Protect Far

In Kenya, the specter of drought is never far from the minds of the millions who make their living on the farm. Agriculture is Kenya's most important product. The industry employs nearly three quarters of the country's workers and accounts for almost

原汁原味商务英语播客 第33课:发起新广告运作

Today were introducing our first Business English News podcast for intermediate listeners. This will now be a regular show with new episodes each month. Most of the time, well cover a similar topic to the current Advanced Business News podcast but th

单词超市第七十四期 fall short

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学个词Learn a Word 第1566-stop-short-of-doing

今天我们要学的词是 stop short of doing something. Stop short of doing something 意思是没有做某事。有报道说，美国总统奥巴马签署了一份秘令，授权美国军方向叙利亚反叛武装提供支持，不过，The Whit

学个词Learn a Word 第1470课 short of

今天我们要学的词是short of。 Short of, 指达不到的，缺少的。 The project was set aside because we are short of funding, 这个项目下马了，因为我们资金不足。麦当劳三月上旬表示，由于欧洲部分地区的恶劣

The Long and Short of It

Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inches. As a teen-ager leafing through old photographs with Grandma, I finally realized how unusual the