WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Apple-Pie Order By Broadcast: Sunday, October 17, 2004 Now the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the expression apple-pie order. It me

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Robert Siegel : English speakers traveling aboard have had the experience of seeing an English sign or a menu translation from the local language that just misses the mark and produces an entertaining malaprop . Well, think about someone who knows C

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【句子对照】 Financing your studies may seem like a tall order, but there is plenty of help available. 为你学习提供资金的要求太苛刻了点,不过可以给你很多帮助。 【关键俚语】 a tall order 英:difficult thing to do 中:离谱的要求

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丹尼尔和汤姆中午放学后到餐馆吃午餐,两个小家伙要吃虾球,好像又碰上了好玩的事情,究竟是怎么回事呢? Listen Read Learn Daniel: Tom, we are in the restaurant now! Waiter: May I take your order? Daniel: I'd like to see the menu, please. Waiter: OK, her

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From the moment Spaniards -- or was it Vikings? -- first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians (because they thought they had landed in India), the land now known as America has been a multicultural place. And of

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我们今天要学两个习惯用语有共同的关键词:house。大家知道house是房子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是:put one's house in order。 Put one's house in order从字面来看是整理自己的住房,但是习惯用语

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