用生命作赌注,以脑袋担保

我们家隔壁住着一位老奶奶,八十多岁,孤苦伶仃,没有人照顾。如今,物价涨得这么厉害,她的生活一天比一天困难。好在,我们左邻右舍经常都会帮她一把。她的处境让我想起了一个习惯

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(156) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:burn at the stake. 大家都知道,burn是烧的意思; stake是木桩的意思。Burn at the stake原指中世纪的时候,异教徒在火刑柱上被烧死。不言而喻,作为习惯用语,bur

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Are you a stakeholder? Helen: This is Real English from BBC Learning English. I'm Helen. Zo: 大家好,欢迎收听地道英语,我是刘佳。 Helen: Today we're going to look at words and phrases that have recently become part of the English language. Zo: 地道

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(189) / 评论(0) 分类 地道英语在线听

NAIROBI, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Berlin marathon champions Geoffrey Mutai and Dubai marathon silver medalist Lucy Kabuu will headline the elite field at this year's RAK Half-Marathon in the United Arab Emirates. The event, seventh edition, which will be r

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Lyrics and actions: (Point to each body part as you sing.) Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes Eyes and ears and mouth and nose Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, knees and toes x2

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(160) / 评论(0) 分类 Super Simple Songs 唱唱跳跳学美语

By Lisa Bryant Paris 28 September 2007 Former French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn was tapped Friday to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund. From Paris, Lisa Bryant has more on the leftist politician who has vowed to bui

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(148) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(九月)

A Child's Angel 孩子的守护天使 Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. 从前,有个孩子马上就要诞生了。 So one day he asked God, They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, 于是有一天他问上帝:听说明

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

Over one's head Over the hump 大家肯定都很熟悉英文里的over这个字。Over is spelt: 0-V-E-R. Over的意思是:在上面,但是这个字在不同场合有不同的意思。今天我们要

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 10 May 2006 Former Communist Giorgio Napolitano has been elected Italy's new head of state. His election paves the way for the winner of general elections last month, Roman

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(203) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(五月)

GENEVA, March 1 (Xinhua) -- FIFA have announced an investigation Thursday into Bahrain's staggering 10-0 World Cup win over Indonesia in a World Cup qualifying match in Manama. The visiting goalkeeper was sent off after just two minutes, and Bahrain'

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has again put the spotlight on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Karadzic has appeared before the court in the Hague twice since he was arrest

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

PARIS, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- French telecom giant Vivendi said Wednesday it has sold its remaining stake in NBC(美国全国广播公司) Universal to U.S. General Electric (GE) for 3.8 billion U.S. dollars. Vivendi has concluded ... the sale of the re

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Old 97's是来自美国的一只乡村乐队,他们组队于1993年,乐队的名字来自于 Johnny Cash 的一首老乡村歌曲《Wreck Of The Old '97》。他们称自己受到了很多歌手的影响,包括 The Kinks、The Beatles、Pixies、

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 天籁音乐

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a new probe in orbit around the moon. And sometime earlier in this new year, it's expected to land on the Moon's far side, the side we never see from Earth. It is a Chinese probe. And as NPR's Joe Palca explains, although

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

By Dorian Jones Istanbul 2-345315 09 February 2008 Turkey's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party has succeeded in changing the country's constitution to ease a ban on Islamic head scarves worn in universities. But the move is proving controve

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Steve Herman Kathmandu 13 April 2008 The leader of Nepal's Maoists is trying to reassure his country and the world that the former rebels will play a constructive political role as election returns show the far-left party making a much stronger-th

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(四月)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank announced Friday Cai Jinyong, a Chinese national with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and development, is appointed as the new Executive Vice President and CEO of the

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

将近一百五十年前有人在美国加州的一条河里发现了光灿灿的金块。这条消息立即传向四面八方,掀起了一股淘金热。发财梦促使八万多人跋山涉水争先恐后地涌到加州的旧金山。 这段被称作

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(167) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

You told me I would be the King You told me it takes time for you to be my Queen In the castle inside my head You say you want to stay with me To be part of me you dont need to have the key Of the castle inside my head But now I realize love is alway

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 英文摇滚歌曲

实用口语:Nicole's day at school LESSON 04 NICOLE'S DAY AT SCHOOL Nicole tells her mother Susan about her successful presentation at school. Her brother Ted overhears and interrupts the conversation. Susan: How was your day at school today, Nico

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学英语单词
5-nitroisophthalic acid
a clay doll
Advanced Communication Service
AISI steel
amanar
analog process
arcuate diaphragmatic ligament
Ascomycotina
BATPA
bestract
big smoke, Big Smoke
by a long chalk
calligraphic style
casting clean-up
convey
Corydalis campulicarpa
CPCL
culturecides
cycasterone
daily regulation
data structure choice
delavigne
delimitative
Dicysteme
distribution of ship motion
dorsocuboidal reflex
eciomania
endited
epiphanin tests
fieriest
flapped fin
follicular epithelial cell
Frank Stockton
genus cirsiums
give up hope
Gonatoparia
h.r.h
high-capacity disk
histogeneses
Horgo
housemate
Hoya pandurata
ice-patterned glass
ichthyophonosis
indirect wing muscles
International Volleyball Association
jacket heater
johann sebastian baches
judicium
Karl Landsteiner
kned
lithoautotroph
low-level software
machine-washable
manual output
master dom
meliosma subverticillaris rehd. et wils.
mirror telescope
missed loop
moon bounces
multi-axial
Nacozari
neane
not-in-my-backyard
number with
oddi sphincter
ordinary express train
Owrāmān
particle segregation
passenger car tyres
permittedly
piece de resistances
piscos
play it low down upon
postprocedural
pseudonavicula
renal osteodystrophy
reopening clause
retired
s. d. s.
saccharophylle
sarcochromogen
scrubber
source pattern
SRUF
string quartet
sulcus for radial nerve
temporary notices to mariners
thread group
total area
true dune
tuned-anode tuned-grid oscillator
under cost
unrigid
vat brilliant orange
vertical occupational segregation
white root disease
y intersection
Yeoford
zabin
Zaur
zebrq crossing