Magicicada septendecim
【昆虫】 十七年蝉(= seventeen-year locust)

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it in the smallest pieces of money - pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by negotiating with the men at the market who sold vegetables and meat. Negotiating until one's face

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(229) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

The Siren Song of the Spotted Katydid A lonely male cicada scrambles through the top of a tree in eastern Australia. He chirps and then pauseslistening. Hes hunting for a mate. He chirps again and he hears itthe tell-tale click of a receptive female.

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimon

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

In Spain different set of gift-giving traditions exists. The holiday season extends to Jan. 6, known as Three Kings Day or the Epiphany.1 It is not until Three Kings Day that Spanish children receive their gifts. On the eve of the Epiphany, children

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Ryan Geertsma. Voice 2 And Im Courtney Schutt. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. V

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(24) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

寒蝉和灵龟 The Winter Cicada and the Wonder Tortoise 世人都说彭祖活了八百岁,是人间最长寿的了。 People say that once there was a man named PengZu, who at 800 years old had lived the longest life ever. 但有一种小虫叫做朝

发表于:2019-03-15 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 跟Susan一起学美语
学英语单词
accademia
affamishment
airmanships
Alleghany plum
allocation of risks
allohypsic wind
amynthas nanrenensis
antimoniums
application developer
articulated reduction gear
Atrypopsis
autochthone
bank prime interest rate
be economical with the truth
beater indicator
bowen mts.
brown-brown
circular jet
Ciudad Mendoza
cognitive-affective processing system (caps)
coherent monopulse doppler radar (cmdr)
Ctrl X
cumulates
Dapril
decathect
dekohm
dihydroxypropyltheopylline
dislocation of articular processes
dop kit
economics of insurance
EuP
expander exitance
f.o.t.
fine structural
gentleman of leisure
genus dodonaeas
genus Rumohra
gliding twins
goiss
H hour
Halifax 2, Earl of
high noon
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival
hydrodiarrhea
hypsometry
imidazopyridine
irregular winding
isik
jarldom
kadik
Klimov Zavod
liberalization of capital transaction
liguliflorate
long distance telephoto lens
Mecina-Bombarón
motor circuit switch
musculus lissohyoglossus
need potential
news editing
Nin, Anais
nitrine
non-dedicated
octagonian
on deck bill of lading
parafunctional
Plegangin
prior incantato
pseudobulge
ptigmatic(ptygmatic)folding
quartz crystal electric clock
rain-barrel
recourse action
reduced blood
reflow of capital
rental cost
Reynolds Creek
rhizoctonia oryzae hara
rotational hysteresis loss
rotational isomerization
salted casings
Shahrāban
shearing machine table
ski bunny
standard potential series
static convergence correction
steel reactor
sterilization policy
straplocks
symmetric line
take it on a lam
tastily
ten-thousand-yuan norm
thermoelectrometer
time rate wages
traditional publisher
transfer switchboard
Tumusla
tympanist
unintelligent
upfuckery
Viqueque
water miscibility