Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to beg the question. Ellen at Swarthmore said she would appreciate it if I talk about the misuse of the phrase begs the question. I keep seeing it as a way to say The question begs to be asked or The question that s

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 15 February 2008 There is growing public pressure on the Israeli government to send the army into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the government fears the consequences.

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

Ground - Connecting the Earth to electrical equipment with a conductor. This is done so current overloads (perhaps due to a lightning strike) can be safely diverted to the Earth. Ground Fault Circuit

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 电信英语

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 June 2007 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls the fighting between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip a natural consequence of years of occupation. The archbishop, who headed a high-level fact-finding mission to the P

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The government will increase financial support for Chinese companies investing and operating overseas, or going global, an official statement showed Wednesday. Better financing can make more use of excess production capac

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是battleground。 Battleground, 是战场的意思。美国总统大选民主、共和两党势均力敌,选举结果在很多程度上取决于所谓的 battleground states战场州,也就是候选人支持率不相上下的

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃