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THE MAKING OF A NATION - The 1970's nbsp; VOICE TWO: A big change in American life during the Nineteen-Eighties came as a result of the computer. Computers were invented forty years earlier. They were

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(252) / 评论(0) 分类 The Making of a Nation

习语:a dead beat 讲解:a dead beat 的意思与moocher的意思相近,都是指借钱不还的人。但是a dead beat更强调借钱后的赖账行为。除此之外,a dead beat还有不劳而食,游手好闲的人,或寄生虫的意思。

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 迷你对话学地道口语

All this month, our friends at JC Penney 这个月 JC Penny的朋友们 are helping us raise money for breast cancer research. 都在帮助我们为乳腺癌研究基金会筹款 And we thought we would help 既然我们能帮上忙 you would help us

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 艾伦脱口秀

26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年ESL之日常生活

文本: Chloe: Are you going to make a big issue out of this? Or just rewind and take the greenbacks for yourself? I hope you do that instead of lecturing me. Max: You really want to take money from the handicapped fund? I know you need to pay Fran

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 小龟乐游记英语短文

To keep one's shirt on To lose one's shirt 我们穿的各种服装在美国的日常用语当中占有很大的地位。鞋子、袜子、手套等名称都是一些习惯用语的组成部份。今天

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(183) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Make a Splash! Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. This is the show that explains the origin and usage of common American English expressions. Today, we are going to make a splash! Yes, you make a splash when you jump into

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(六)月

By George Dwyer Washington 28 March 2008 The city of Washington is widely known for a keen appreciation of the social arts: Politics, for example or the fine art of diplomacy. But an important development in the history of the visual arts had its ori

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

A growing number of Ugandans are starting to utilize a service called Mobile Money to transfer millions of dollars via text message on their mobile phones. The phenomenon is democratizing banking in Uganda and changing the country's socioeconomic la

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(六月)

This aerial photo shows a plume of ash rising from the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier, 19 Apr, 2010 Flight cancellations from the Iceland volcano eruption are creating costs and inconveniences all the way to Asia. The Internat

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(四)月

In the slums of Kenya's capital, residents and aid groups are using new technology to send and receive money. Irene Okoth and her five children have been living on 50 cents a day in Nairobi's Korogocho settlement. That is what she earns recycling gar

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十月)

The success of the M-Pesa mobile money system in Kenya is attracting the attention of development experts, aid organizations and companies seeking to replicate its effectiveness. An award-winning advertisement for M-Pesa shows money flying from a smi

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(二月)

to break your neck to stick your neck out 美国人在讲话和写文章的时候经常用一些和人体各部份有关系的成语或俗语。今天我们要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语就是和

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(198) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Federal investigators are looking into banking records to examine the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. One thing they're looking for is evidence of money laundering. Now, U.S. officials keep records of suspicious finan

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

今天我们要讲的两个习惯用语都是跟钱有关系的。钱在英文里有各种说法。一个用得最普遍的就是:Money. 我们首先要给大家介绍的一个习惯用语恐怕是许

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(171) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

One of the things that we enjoyed most about our vacation this Summer was the beach. I've always been an inland person; I love forests and mountains. However, this Summer we were in very beachy places. It was the first time that I had been on the Cos

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

I know it's not Burberry like we're used to, 我知道这不是我们以前用的高级货 but I'm telling you, used moving blankets are gonna be in this year. 相信我,搬家包家具的毯子今年将会是时尚尖端 Who's a trendsetter? 创造潮

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 打工姐妹花第一季

Beginners. The heat is definitely up, here in the eastern side of the North West. Even in the schools, cool activities are organised to keep the kids comfortable. Because this week is the last of the school year, Splash Day is one of the fun days ava

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客 A cup of English

By Fid Thompson Dakar 08 October 2009 Mobile banking has already taken off in Southern and Eastern Africa. Sierra Leone is now one of the few West African countries with a service providing mobile phone transactions. Across West Africa, the yellow a

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

迷你对话 A: You are splashing your money about! 你在大势挥霍你的钱。 B: Why? I have money now. 怎么啦?我现在有钱了。 A: I cant understand why should have splashed your money about like this. 我真不明白你为何要那样挥

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 迷你对话学地道口语
学英语单词
a holy terror
acid strengthening groups
acropachia
aids-causing
air-borne dirt
alarm indicator
amilyn
anilazine
axophyte
baggala
bat'leths
benthic aquatic population
bottom-rung
break up voyage
Brevibacterium flavum
cable sheave bracket
cafards
Cantate
case retrieval
century breaks
circumscribed furuncle of external auditory meatus
coma in moderate depth
computer console
constitutional assembly
construe with
cradle-robber
Criccieth
curvilinear trend
dermatitis linearis migrans
dieselling
ectogeny
elevation-capacity curve
exponential expansion
fcst.
Fendizoate
flounce out
forest planting
formal inspection
fruit drink
Gerota's capsule
globalisations
gob feeder
head face
Helmseter
Helsingfors
heteropolar crystal
hundred-year storms
hypazoturic nephropathy
IDAC (interconnecting digital-analog converter)
Imbolc
intermodulation products
JST
limited open-end mortgage
linbeck
lupa
mastresses
mdet
meadow horsetails
mesiolabial
moorbird
mould plunger force plug
multiple degrees of freedom
not put a foot wrong
object nodal point
outer strut angle
Pacolet R.
paraphily
postreceptor
Poynting vector
primped
Proffered service stinks.
radii curvus
recircumcising
Rhodotorula rose
rightful
self-supplied manure
Serpulidae
shell analysis
shop activity transaction type
simple macro-call
single-valued analytic function
singlethrow
SITPRO
sloan-kettering
Startup financing
suppressed-carrier double sideband
swapling
table head
taking home
tarasques
theory of matrices
trapping of intracranial aneurysm
trippe
Trollopian
undercovert
value additivity principle
warikahnite
Wearpoint
wheatena
Yugoslav Shipowner's Association
zanlan