时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


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 This is a very special podcast because I have some thanking to do. Every now and then, I check on the statistics 1 of my podcast, and yesterday I saw that I have had more than a million downloads all together. Thank you, to all of you who have listened to my short ramblings for the past two and a half years. I suppose one million downloads isn't really that much when it comes to the internet, but for me, it's a rare number, and one that I am very excited about. Now, I can tell my friends and family, "Hey, my podcast has been downloaded more than a million times!" It's a great way to show off. A million isn't really a number that I hear very much, apart from the occasional expression. 'One in a million' is a common expression which means something or someone very special. 'A million to one' is obviously a very low chance of something happening. For example, 'The chance of me getting that job is a million to one.' However, there has been a lot of talk recently using the word 'million' because someone in our little town won a million dollars a few days ago. I'll go into the details in another podcast, because it is a story worth telling. But I will tell you that it is a deserving family of seven, both parents are teachers, and three of the five children were adopted. It's the type of story that makes you glad, because they are the kind of people who seem to deserve something special. Anyway, I'm just glad that some of you are still listening to what I have to say, and putting up with my imperfections. I must tell you that what I enjoy more than anything about podcasting, is receiving emails from you, and getting to know you a little. It's like traveling without leaving home. So, I send you all a sincere thanky ou from Wenatchee, and look forward to the next million.


 
Grammar notes.
 
Related vocabulary: statistics, to ramble 2, to show off, one in a million.
 
1. Statistics show that it is safer to fly than to travel by car.
 
2. I wish he would get to the point. He just rambles 3 on about unrelated ideas.
 
3. He polished his new car and showed it off around town.
 
4. My grandmother is one in a million; she's a very special and unique individual.
 

n.统计,统计数字,统计学
  • We have statistics for the last year.我们有去年的统计资料。
  • Statistics is taught in many colleges.许多大学都教授统计学。
v.漫步,漫谈,漫游;n.漫步,闲谈,蔓延
  • This is the best season for a ramble in the suburbs.这是去郊区漫游的最好季节。
  • I like to ramble about the street after work.我下班后在街上漫步。
(无目的地)漫游( ramble的第三人称单数 ); (喻)漫谈; 扯淡; 长篇大论
  • He rambles in his talk. 他谈话时漫无中心。
  • You will have such nice rambles on the moors. 你可以在旷野里好好地溜达溜达。
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Armatocereus
ball bearing center
beat the big drum for
bondell
bookbags
Brahe, Tycho
bunco-steerer
center of burst error
chargecaps
Chipuriro
cipriano
common oragne day lily
contempt
convex flange
counterclockwise airscrew
cubic grating
Czar Alexander II
department of state
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diseased animal slaughter house
drimeter
driving in
dust coke
early development mechanism
Eisenhut
electrovacuum ceramics
Fatunda
femdom
fogbell
geniusloci
geocentricism
Helicia longipetiolata
homeosemy
humita
instantaneous communication
jacket loadout
jackrabbits
john barths
kentwell
lecture at sb
live trap
lmites
log-log grid
made an exhibition of herself
maleta
margin of lift
Maxwell and Harrington impact test
memory decoder
micton
Mitole
monitor lizard
monsey
nieves
no-slip region
nonextortive
occurred
Oilation
optokinetic
orientation analysis
oxialf
pailoo
panchway
pasley
peptidyl transfer
photohematachometer
postential energy
pulmonary arteriography
pulse width multiplier
raster unit
recording studio
reference lighting
remote sensing mapping
reply request
retain the memory of something
robotic vacuum
rotor bandage
safety handling
salvage prize
self-checking technique
septal plicae
sharper
shutting
signature transformation
soft-switch system
song-writer
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structure psychology
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thelypteris omeiensis
thermodynamic instrument
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transient period
underlift
unified thread
valve cooling
visual degree
yellow squash