Today, guest-writer Neal Whitman will help us understand why the word troops can refer to the number of individuals or groups. What Does Troops Mean? Memorial Day is next week, when we in the U.S. honor members of the military who have died in the li

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is collective nouns, nouns that describe a group, such as family, orchestra, and board. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, There are around 200 collective nouns in the English language (1). Sometimes they take a singul

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: As 2017 draws to an end and we try to assess it, one measure is, what deathless prose has been added to our collective memories over the past 12 months? Well, Fred Shapiro has assembled the top 10 quotations of the year from inte

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

今天我们要学的词是collective。 Collective, 集体的。 The NFL and its players are working on a new collective bargaining agreement, 美式足球联盟正在跟球员协商,设法达成新的劳资协定。 加拿大冰球队击败美国队

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今天我们要学的词是collective。 Collective, 集体的。 The NFL and its players are working on a new collective bargaining agreement, 美式足球联盟正在跟球员协商,设法达成新的劳资协定。 加拿大冰球队击败美国队

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What in China is considered a naked marriage is simply a normal marriage inAustralia. 实际上,中国人眼中的裸婚在澳大利亚是一种十分平常的结婚方式。 The expectation that a man should provide material goods before a woman w

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间