n. A finger or toe nail that is painted and/or shaped differently from the other nail on that hand or foot.
> "I broke my feature nail!"

Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Luck of Roaring Camp. It was written by Bret Harte. Here is Henry Menro with our story. Roaring Camp was the noisiest gold mining town in California. More than one hundre

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Nail Polish Business Booms In Weak Economy In a factory north of Los Angeles, glass bottles are filled, boxed and then shipped to more than 100 countries around the world. This is the home of OPI, a company that produces nail polish for women from th

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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Last week we brought you the first of four programs called A Princess of Mars. Our story is from a series of books by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. They are science fiction stories, a mix

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(183) / 评论(0) 分类 美国故事

The Special English program American Stories. Welcome to the fourth and last part of our program A Princess of Mars. The story is from a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Last week we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the g

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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is Keesh. It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Keesh lived at the edge of the Polar Sea. He had seen thirteen suns in the Eskimo way of keepin

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Our story today is called Many Moons, it was written by James Thurber. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. Princess Lenore loved cakes. She once ate so many that she became sick. And the king's doctor could do nothing to help her. The king promised h

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Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not know where she

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is called Bartleby. It was written by Herman Melville, one of America's best-known writers. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story in Special English. I am an old lawyer and I h

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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Charles. It was written by Shirley Jackson. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. The day my son Laurie started going to school, he began wearing blue jeans with a belt. I wat

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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Mr. Black. It was written by American reporter Charles Kuralt. It is from his book A life on the road. For many years, Charles Kuralt travelled across the United States t

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is A Jury of her peers. It was written by Susan Glaspell. Here is Kay Gallant with our story. Martha Hale, like all good farmwives, like to finish any job she began. But when Sheriff P

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Idiom: Nail biter 恐怖的,吓人的东西 Hit the book: Mass Incredible Emotion Complex Universe Personality Coordination

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说一口流利的英语,从简单的单词开始。 听听,读读,背背,今天你的词汇量又增加了5个。 单词/词义 中英例句 单词听读 idiosyncrasy [ 7idiE5siNkrEsi ] One of

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A Nail or a Fly 钉子还是苍蝇 One day an old gentleman whose eyesight was failing came to stay in a hotel room with a bottle of wine in each hand. On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail. So the moment he hung them on it, the bottle

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(209) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人

Some movies and television shows can be very tense and dramatic, and weve got a handful of expressions to talk about them. This episodes all about the exciting things we see on screen or read in books that keep us wanting to know more and make us anx

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Believe it or not, the English language has about 25,000 idiomatic expressions. And some of the oldest ones have very interesting histories. Today our question involves an expression from early English literature. It comes from Dimitrije in Serbia. H

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在日常会话或者写作中恰到好处地使用习惯用语能让您的语言别有风味。我们今天要学的习惯用语都包括这个词: nail。它的意思是钉子。但是nail也可以作动词,意思是用钉子钉。例如,我们要

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今天我们要学的词是nailbiter。 Nailbiter, 作为名词,一般是指紧张的比赛,或是充满悬念的影片。 The film was described as a suspenseful nailbiter by the critics, 影评人士说,这部影片充满了悬念。上星期天

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While many U.S. businesses are suffering in the weak economy, one industry has been picking up speed. Women are now spending more money on their nails. They are getting more daring - straying from the basic shades of red and painting blues, greens an

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Facebook on Thursday introduced Timeline, a new profile design featuring milestones of one's life on a single page. At Facebook's f8 developer conference, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg promoted the new fe

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associa
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barotrauma
beam diagnostics
beltrn
benign recurrent hematuria
BM-14217
broadband integrated service digital network
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depreciation-fifty-percent method
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extraordinariness
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kears
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