音标:[ˈdevəlz] ;
唱反调的人; 故意唱反调的人

A Halloween Special: The Devil is Everywhere ... 万圣节特辑:魔鬼无处不在 Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Many expressions in American English come from the world of religion. Some common idioms are based on h

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

苏明,我们办公室的那女秘书是不是休假去了,好久没看见她? 是啊,她今天回来上班了,瞧,那女秘书不是走过来了吗?真是说到曹操,曹操就到。不过美国历史上没有曹操,但是他们也有

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

项目主管Donny急冲冲地来找老板Simon,因为公司即将竣工的加工厂遇到了麻烦。当地质检官员以不合格为由,索取贿赂。Donny说, D: I hate to play devil's advocate, but doesn't everyone who does business here p

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今天我们要讲的习惯用语里都有这样一个词:devil。它的意思是魔鬼。这可是个引起人们恶感的词。在基督教文化里,魔鬼是背叛上帝的邪恶之灵,但是被正义的天使打败,驱逐出天堂。从此魔

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Topics: Cities: Boston; vanity license plates, to make a difference versus to make the difference, lame, devils advocate Words: New England founded massacre East/West Coast accent ancestor license plate vanity to register (a car) motto to make a diff

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Cheryl: So, who are some of the people who are fighting to protect these trees besides you as an environmental scientist? Nick: Well, in Tasmania, the first green political party was developed, so yeah, they obviously want to protect the forests a lo

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学英语单词
-asis
Aardalstangen
angle-shot
automated verification system
balanced noise limiter
barrack room lawyer
Blangy-sur-Bresle
bookering
booty grazing
bunching press
Captains Duty
concave saw
cross rope
d.t.'s
disciplinatory
double-cut planer
ebenats
eccentric angle
eli whitneys
empetrums
enterprises using advanced technology
falls into
familial lymphangiectasis
ferro-magnetic
fret sawing machine
gallium arsenide semiconductor
gangrenate
genus phthiriuss
graphite rod consumption
Grebenhain
hadbeen
heat-insulating
heterogeneous group
high-level data link control system
Hyeres
hypoelastic theory
i'll say this
independent conformity
input distribution
inspectionism
invertible amplifier
ipomoea imperialiss
jib winch inner bushing
leakage flow rate
Lux.
Maximowiczia chinensis
mean-tone system
mefruside
mindblowers
mixture of paddy and husked rice
monochaetia desmaytia sacc.
Monoraphidineae
mortar void
Motora's ship stabilizer
mud bogging
muscle injiction
non-orthologous
nongypsy
nullest
odder
ophicone
optimal decision rule
oversea chinese commercial bank
panisse
pars cruciformis vaginae fibrosae
pendulum type ring roll pulverizer
pentacerotids
pervertable
photoamplifier circuit
physical access level
physical means
plicae malleolaris posterior
preventive detention
put up the cards against someone
quantum mechanical memory machine
rearomatizing
reference libraries
Sagebrush State
saturated salt-water drilling fluid
secondary amplitude
sediment charge
shacks
sicklily
smallcapped
smith-work
SSS
St Domingue I.
straight shank triple grip drill chuck
structural thermal vibration transfer
structure testing machine
suhui
sumin
superflows
superior vestibular area
tensioners
the peri
three - legged stool
underground circuit
unidirectional illumination
vacand
water-rail
wildcat whisky