Welcome to another edition of Words to the Wise! Languages, as you all know, are always changing. Last month, we learned about some new words that the American dictionary Merriam-Webster added to its online dictionary. They included conversational wo

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(四)月

The website Dictionary.com has chosen the term misinformation as its word of the year. The announcement comes less than two weeks after Oxford Dictionaries chose toxic as its word of the year. Many people mix up the meaning of misinformation with the

发表于:2018-12-10 / 阅读(23) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

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发表于:2018-12-13 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 北京仁爱英语

LESSoN TWELVE TEXT A How Dictionaries Are Made 继上一节课: Let us see how dictionaries are made and how the editors arrive at definitions. What follows applies only to those dictionary offices

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 自考英语(一)78讲

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Unless you're a kid in a spelling bee or a high school or cramming for the SATs, it might have been a while since you've paid much attention to those example sentences in the dictionary, you know, those simple, can-I-hear-it-in-a

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Dictionaries range broadly in purpose, size, and price; and choosing one is a very personal decision. The best advice is to make note of the things you and your family look up in a dictionary over a few weeks' time, and then go to a comprehensive boo

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语