Once there lived a man in a small village in Arabia. He had a camel. Whenever he went on a journey, he went along with his camel. At one such journey, he lost his camel unexpectedly. He was in search of his camel. He asked everyone, Have you seen my

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 一千零一夜英文故事

我有个朋友在政府部门工作。他这工作以前可是个肥缺,经常用公款吃喝旅游。可好景不长,这种挥霍公款的行为被发现了,他被调查机构请去喝茶了。这让我想到了一个习惯用语,那就是:

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, our guest is the author of a new book called On Words: Insight Into How Our Words Work -- and Don't. RS: Paula LaRocque has worked for many years as a writing instructor and newsp

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BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- China on Saturday conducted a successful test flight of its first domestically made jumbo airfreighter. The Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter which can perform various long-distance air trans

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Topics: Movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Famous songs The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; to go on versus to keep on versus to move on; the suffix ship; to blow a raspberry Words: to guess interracial miscegenation head-on liberal to object to wr

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Hello, everyone. I'm Asieh Namdar again at the CNN Center in Atlanta, let's take a quick look at what's happening with Hurricane Gustav, I mean Ike. Hurricane Ike is slowly losing steam as it moves over Texas. It's now a Category-one storm after roa

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