千禧年学、千禧年研究:学院派人士研究与千禧年末,尤其是与世界末日信仰有关的学问

近日,卷福因在访谈中使用含有种族歧视的词语coloured(有色人种)而饱受争议,尽管他本想强调英国演艺界中种族不平等的现象。用词有风险,同志需谨慎,例如,常见的special就往往含有贬义。

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

Of Study (Francis Bacon) Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For ecpe

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China is now the fourth largest market for California wine makers. Last year, China imported U.S. wines worth 71 million U.S. dollars. Camille Zanette, manager of Asia Market of Constellation Brands, believes wine makers should try to cater to Chines

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

双语:悄悄影响职业声誉的三种行为 职场中越来越强调真实的重要性,因为真实是新一代消费者和工作者最重视的价值之一。如果你在社交媒体中建立了无处不在的个人分享,给人的感觉是,

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(366) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

Less than one-third of professionals are very satisfied with their current role, according to a LinkedIn study. 领英网站的一项调查显示,只有不到1/3的职场人士对自己现在的职位非常满意。 Not every professional is lucky

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AS IT IS 2016-08-26 US College Libraries in a Digital Age 美国大学图书馆走进数字时代 Many U-S colleges and universities are making big changes to their libraries. The schools are finding ways to serve students and to succeed in an increa

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Fewer Americans Believe in God 信仰上帝的美国人越来越少 Fewer Americans believe in God, pray daily and regularly go to church than in 2007, a poll says. 一项民意测验显示,信仰上帝、每日祈祷、经常去教堂做礼拜的美国

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Who Goes to a Rock Concert With Their Mother? Millennials! When musicians over the age of 50 are the star performers, you expect to see many baby boomers cheering them on. Aging rock music stars usually have baby boomer fans. Younger rock stars are m

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(十)月

Dear Annie: Im in charge of a product development team at a Fortune 500 company, and right now the division head and I are setting a couple of big goals for 2015, especially regarding products we want to roll out by mid-year. I think our deadlines fo

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(169) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The early bird?catches the worm is a phrase that weve all heard since the days of elementary school. 早起的鸟儿有虫吃,这是一句从小到大都耳熟能详的俗语。 But what if your brain is just programmed to work at night? 但是,如

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Dear Future Husband, 亲爱的未来老公: I'm not yet sure whether you exist, though I'd like to believe that you do. While it may not make much logical sense, you've been on my mind lately. I haven't thought much about what you'll look like, how

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Friday on Facebook, naturally that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were expecting their first child, a girl. 扎克伯格上周五在脸书上晒出状态,他和妻子普莉希拉陈即将迎接他们的女儿这是他们

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Dear Future Husband, 亲爱的未来老公: I'm not yet sure whether you exist, though I'd like to believe that you do. While it may not make much logical sense, you've been on my mind lately. I haven't thought much about what you'll look like, how

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Dear Future Husband, 亲爱的未来老公: I'm not yet sure whether you exist, though I'd like to believe that you do. While it may not make much logical sense, you've been on my mind lately. I haven't thought much about what you'll look like, how

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

你是70后,80后,还是90后呢?难道都不是?看此篇文章的你是00后?OMG!岁月不饶人啊,你们怎么崛起得那么快?英文都知道该怎么表达了吗? 80年代:in the 1980s 80年代初:In the early 80's 80后(

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For Many Young Indonesians, Not Voting Looks Appealing Indonesia is preparing for presidential elections. The voting will take place in two months. Younger Indonesians are showing signs of dissatisfaction with the countrys political establishment. Ma

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(二)月

I live in a house full of millennials, three of whom are having their first skirmishes with working life. Every day I study them, marvelling at how little their early experiences resemble my own. Sometimes I think it is because they are different. So

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明天是五四青年节。今天,Jenny和Connor就要带你了解一些新潮的英语表达方式。 关键词: Things that millennials say 学这10个词,英语不过时! Millennials: 千禧一代,覆盖美国80年代直至2000年出生的

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OLDER people are not the only ones to try too hard to be hip and youthful. Long-established firms can, too. 年长者并非唯一努力让自己看起来时髦年轻的人。老牌企业也会如此。 Just look at Procter Gamble (PG), one of the wor

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(171) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

JUDY WOODRUFF: In the race to the White House, the candidates are taking different approaches in the final days leading up to the first debate. John Yang reports. JOHN YANG: This morning, Donald Trump offered his take on the unrest that has gripped C

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学英语单词
acquisition group
acronical,acronyc(h)al
American oak
banzer
being wide
blackbirders
blue mahoes
blunt crack
body of clavicle
brachycrany
broadloomed
budget plan
caranx miyakami
carbonated beverage
center firing
ciprostene
clam dredge
coast defence
continuation bucket
continuity property
Cosmotecture
cue sticks
Dalbergia rimosa
dental excavator
desynes
device select code
double crenate
dual presentation
effective start date of provider role
El Clavo
El Destino
electrostatic stored energy welder
exdermoptosis
foreseest
gentle man friend
graduate training scheme
great saphenous vein
guilty pleasure
H.J.
halom
halverson
helicteress
hit the dust
hodophobic
homomultimeric protein
hooked end of bar
hydrobasileus croceus
identity-thinking
immuner
Institute policy
jet out
Kishorn
life insurance corporation
light-alloy armo(u)r
manoyl oxide
material things
mechanical seal spare parts
mobile jumbo
Muccan
myzia sexvittata
natolone
nonessential singularity
nuclei arcuati
off print
Palestinianists
pneudyne
pneumonocyte
pour encourager les autres
precipitation gage
progamic division
prosopus varus
prostate (or prostate gland)
psittacosis
Quelccaya ice cap
rainfall factor
re-shown
reaffect
receptaculaceous
regulating starting rheostat
relative block number
roof heating
rudder sole
seed year
segmentary lineage system
sex chromosomes
shearings
signability
simultaneity equations
sledgemeter
small slams
smecticity
social resource
sodium ferrocyanide
Spanone
Takanamat
Tetmosol
thermal impact
to-put
unipara
Valpovo
verbatim memory
weapons-grade