听播客学英语 127 世界上没有这样古怪的乡亲

In todays podcast, we are going to meet three English expressions. The first one is to get away with something. If you do something bad, and nobody discovers what you did, or they do not find out that it was you who did the bad thing, then we can say

听播客学英语 142 我不关心

In the last podcast, about Socks and Cookie, I said I do not care what the cat is called. What do we mean when we say I do not care? We mean, That is not important to me. So, if I say, I do not care what the cat is called, I mean, It is not important

听播客学英语 135 流浪汉

Two weeks ago, I made a podcast about immigration into Britain from Eastern Europe. Todays podcast is also about an immigrant from Eastern Europe. His name was Josef Stawinoga. He was born in Poland. We do not know much about his early life. It seems

听播客学英语 136 成语

I have some idioms for you today. Idioms are colourful ways of saying something. Often, when we use an idiom, we dont mean the words in a literal sense. We are using the words figuratively. Still confused? The best thing is to give you some examples.

听播客学英语 137 移民到英国

A few years ago, there was an advertisement on a billboard close to where I live. It advertised a company called Western Union. You probably know about Western Union. Western Union sends money from one country to another. If you want to send money to

听播客学英语 138 迈克尔鱼和大风暴

Today, we revise some vocabulary about the weather, particularly about the wind, and we remember the big storm that hit England exactly 20 years ago. When you feel the air moving, or you see the leaves on the trees moving, we say in English that the

听播客学英语 139 多丽丝·莱辛

Today we go on a journey. It starts in Sweden over 100 years ago; and then moves to London; and finally moves to future worlds and other planets. But we start in Sweden. Alfred Nobel spent his life finding ways to blow things up. He was born in 1833

听播客学英语 140 伯明翰市政厅

I think you know by now that I live in Birmingham, which is the second largest city in England, after London. Birmingham is not an old city. It does not have ruins from Roman times, or a castle, or a mediaeval cathedral. Two hundred and fifty years a

听播客学英语 141 慈善商店

In many towns in England, the main shopping street is called High Street. We often use the expression high street to mean the main shopping street of any town or suburb, no matter what its real name is. Or we talk about the high street to mean shoppi

听播客学英语 143 袜子和饼干的故事

As you know, we English are sensible people. We do not get excited about little things. We do not make a fuss. Most of the time, at least. It is different where children or animals are involved. Then, we do some very peculiar things, as my story toda

听播客学英语 144 销售会议

Kevin is very excited. His boss has asked him to go to a big sales conference. You remember that Kevin has written a paper for his company about the market for cat food. One of the top people in his company has seen the paper and likes it. The top pe

听播客学英语 145 鲨鱼

It has been a good summer for seeing things in the sea. I told you about the whales in the Bay of Biscay in the last podcast, and this podcast is about sharks. In July, a man contacted a newspaper to tell them that he had seen a great white shark in

听播客学英语 146 鲸鱼

Welcome back, everyone, after our summer break. Todays podcast is about whales. Not the country Wales, but the animals called whales. Whales live in the sea. But they are not fish. Young whales do not hatch from eggs, like young fish do. Young whales

听播客学英语 147 哈利·波特与死亡圣器

Somewhere in England, there is a very special building. The security is tight. There is barbed wire all around the fence. There are security guards with dogs. Everyone going in or out is searched and has to show a security pass. Is this a secret gove

听播客学英语 148 胡说八道

Recently, I found a postcard. You can see a picture of it on the website or on the screen of your iPod. On the front of the card it says Birminghams total rubbish What does this mean. Does it mean that Birmingham is total rubbish in other words, Birm

听播客学英语 149 泥和音乐

We return to Glastonbury today for a first-hand account of the mud and the music from Hilary. The full text of my conversation with her is in a pdf file in the posting immediately before this one. First, listen to the podcast without looking at the t

听播客学英语 156 你想成为一个间谍

Intelligence. What does it mean? The word intelligence has two main meanings in English. First, it can mean mental capacity if you are intelligent, you can think clearly and rationally, for example. But intelligence also means information. For exampl

听播客学英语 157 塑料垃圾

Rebecca Hosking makes documentary films. Recently, she worked on a documentary film for the BBC about the effect of plastics in the marine environment. She was shocked by what she saw as she was making the documentary. She found many sorts of sea cre

听播客学英语 158 结果

My podcast today is about the word result, and the different ways we can use it. Last week I said that I would tell you the results of the local elections in England and the elections in Scotland and Wales. That means, I shall tell you what happened

听播客学英语 159 Banksy

In the podcast In Disgrace, I used the word graffiti. Do you know what it means? It is an Italian word, which has come into English. It means things which are written generally on an outside wall, or on some other public surface such as the side of a