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Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is cement versus concrete. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes: Accuracy is important. You might think concrete and cement are interchangeable, but you'll quickly find that you're mistaken when some guy at Home Depot rolls h

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Over a barrel Over one's dead body 我们今天再来讲两个和over有关的习惯用语。第一个是: over a barrel. Barrel就是一只装东西的桶。那么,什么是over a barrel 呢? Over

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

HOUSTON, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil is expected to be about 100 U.S. dollars per barrel in 2012, five dollars per barrel higher than the average price in 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

这个节目已经持续了很长时间了,在不断学习习惯用法的同时我们偶而也不妨停下来思索一下这个问题:为什么习惯用语时常让外国学生感到困惑难解呢?原因之一是习惯用语的含义跟它所包

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

我们今天学的习惯用语都有这个词: barrel。 Barrel是大桶,用来载运啤酒、威士忌、食糖、汽油等各种货品。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: scrape the bottom of the barrel。 Scrape是刮的意思。 Scrape t

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings. But making cement requires heating limestone and other materials to very high temperatures, a process that rele

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
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acrognosis
aeronautics and astronautics coordination board
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allmand
alternating layers
antenna coverage
apothecary roses
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articlemix
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back-selling
Bao Lac
being-in-itself
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Bode, Johann Elert
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cerapachys reticulatus
change transaction
chavicol methyl ether
clock register
clutch driven plate
collandar
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Corylopsis sinensis
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dynamic glossmeter
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ensuring proper downward flow of the blood
europhilia
evaporation-combustion chamber
fire bellies
fluidic stepping motor
foresaved
gauge indicating unit
goodhall
grosses up
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hidden price increase
high-angle
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home-baking
hot water supply main
I band
illegitimatize
inlanders
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intersity-modulation circuit
Kettenhausen
Lefkada
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LGF
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price description record
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software engines
stator phase
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towyth
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universal joint bearing
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