You Do the Math Hello and welcome to Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program we explain how to use common expressions in American English. We also explore the origins of these expressions. Where do they come from? Today we

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1. a little bit,有点,有几分。 eg:Move over this way a little bit. 往这么挪一挪。 2. confusing,令人困惑的,让人容易混淆的。 eg:I see a lot of students stretching and so on, so it is very confusing for me. How do we solve the

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1994年度的诺贝尔经济学奖,授予美国普林斯顿大学数学系的纳什教授等三位对博弈论作出奠基性贡献的学者。好莱坞大制作《美丽心灵》A Beautiful

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Say it with us: Kids today have it sooooo easy. A new smartphone app will do their math homework for them, provided it's not too complicated. PhotoMath by microblink uses a phone's camera to solve equations and then teaches you the step-by-step metho

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在美国,讲笑话的市场很大。在笑话界也出了一些习惯用语。这些习惯用语也逐渐渗入一般人的日常生活用语。幽默是美国人生活当中的一个重要部份。也正因为如此,有很多人专门从事逗人

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He bought a DVD player. He went home. He unplugged the old DVD player from the living room flat-screen TV. He hooked up the new player. He plugged the old player into the 10-year-old TV in the bedroom. His wife came home. She said, Why didn't you jus

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