Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

The word work can be a verb or noun or even an adjective. This entry looks at workand worksas nouns. work这个词可以作为动词、名词,甚至形容词,在这里我们只讨论work和works作为名词时的用法。 Work has several differe

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

'They' Wins as Linguists Word of the Year From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The competition was more youthful, more hipster, more urban, even naughtier. But in the end, they won. The pronoun they won out as Word of the Year, vo

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(258) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Washington Show Celebrates the Art of the Quran 华盛顿庆祝可兰经艺术 A show with more than 60 of the most important manuscripts of and about the Quran opened recently in Washington, DC. 最近,有关可兰经最出名的60多件手稿在华

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(271) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Travel As a noun, 'travel' refers to the activity in general and is generally used as an uncountable noun. travel做名词的时候指的是旅行这种行为本身,通常用作不可数名词。 例句: I enjoy travel and playing golf. 我喜欢旅

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

We all do it sometimes. We undermine ourselves by using less-effective language, verbal tics, and other oral miscues. That means there's always room for improvement to help your messages get through effectively. 我们有时候会这样:说一些没多

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语