AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- slang on campus. RS: Our friend Dianne Gray, an English teacher in Moscow, has a student who would like to know some of the slang used by students at American colleges and unive

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(28) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Slangman revisited. RS: A listener from Libya, Radwan Al-karash, sent us an e-mail earlier this month: I enjoy listening to your interviews with different people from different co

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is Nothing Ages Writing Faster Than Slang. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes Slang is made of informal words and phrases that originate in speech, and often includes substitutions for formal words, like ride or wheels for

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

BBC Learning English London Life Rhyming slang Callum:Hello I'm Callum Robertson and this is London Life In the programme today we take a brief look at rhyming slang, an interesting form of vocabulary where an expression which rhymes with word you m

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(145) / 评论(0) 分类 伦敦生活

INTRODUCTION: Major League Baseball had its All Star Game Tuesday night. And, for the seventh time in the last eight years, top players from the American League defeated the National League. That means the American League will have the home-field adv

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, plus a humorous illustration. AA: Jen Bilik says

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, he's whipped up one of his exclusive stories base

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

MUSIC: Syncopated Clocks/Leroy AndersonAA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- time for some slang! This past week, the United States went off Daylight Savings Time and onto Standard Time for the next six months. So we

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- wishing you good health over the holidays, with Slangman David Burke. RS: Once again, just for our listeners, Slangman David Burke has rewritten a popular childrens fairy tale to

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, some whimsy to liven up your vocabulary! RS: Slangman David Burke brings us some words and phrases that, in most cases, have been around a long time, and are just plain fun to say.

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: December 19, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- slang on campus. RS: Our friend Dianne Gray, an English teacher in Moscow, has a student who would like to know some of the slang

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: June 13, 2002 Re-broadcast on VOA News Now: June 16, 2002 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, some whimsy to liven up your vocabulary! RS: Slangman David Burke brings us some words and p

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

图片1 Sweet! Have you all heard of this new slang term? What does it mean? When can you use it? Find out in this podcast. We will give you a couple examples.

发表于:2019-01-28 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语博客-北美风情

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Slangman revisited. RS: A listener from Libya, Radwan Al-karash, sent us an e-mail earlier this month: I enjoy listening to your interviews with different people from different co

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(24) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is Tom Dalzell, senior editor of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English -- and, now, the Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconven

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble. This week on WORDMASTER: we're back with A. C. Kemp from slangcity.com. She calls it the online home of American slang. RS: We're talking about frequently used terms that her international students in her cla

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: July 17, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER -- names used in slang. RS: Take Johnny come lately. That's an opportunist who tries to gain from something started by others. AA: We cer

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on Coast to Coast: May 29, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- Slangman David Burke is with us from Los Angeles to have some fun with insults in American English. RS: It seems our buddy Slangman has

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: February 19, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- a new way to learn slang. RS: It's a pack of sixty cards with slang terms on one side. Definitions and synonyms are on the back, p

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

Broadcast on COAST TO COAST: September 18, 2003 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, h

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(164) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)