A red letter day Red tape 红颜色这个字,就是英文里的 red,也经常出现在美国的成语和俗语里,有时是正面的,有时是反面的。例如,我们在中文里说,铺上红

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

By Elaine Lu Washington, DC 29 August 2006 watch Red Hat Society report Ladies in red hats attend the Red Hat Society's international convention was held recently in St. Louis Missouri Aging is often perceived negatively and treated as something und

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Red Cross officials are backing local reports that U.S.-led airstrikes in western Afghanistan earlier this week killed dozens of civilians. The U.S. military is sending investigators to the scene and President Hamid Karzai has pledged to take up the

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There was a little girl. She lived with her mother in a hut near the forest. One day the mother got some red cloth; she took her needle and she made a red coat for the little girl. She put the coat on the little girl, and said, I shall call you Littl

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Matt and his wife lived in the country. Matt was very stingy and hated spending money. One day a fair came to the nearby town. Let's go to the fair, Matt, his wife said. We haven't been anywhere for a long time.Matt thought about this for a while. He

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语都有air这个词。大家都知道air是空气。早在十七世纪,意大利科学家伽利略发现空气似乎没有实质却有重量。后来人们进一步发现高山顶上的空气要比海平面上的空气

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