61.Moonshine Moonlight, 顾名思义,月光的意思,最初出现在乔叟的作品中。莎士比亚在他的《威尼斯商人》(Merchant of Venice How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank)和《温莎的风流娘儿们》(Merry Wives

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(990) / 评论(0) 分类 英语常用短语

1. The president's nominee to the US Supreme Court is planning to meet with senators starting Wednesday. Republicans are giving no indication they'll try to prevent a vote on Elena Kagan's nomination. But they are expected to grill her over her lack

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2010(五月)

Make Sure You Are Not a Pain in the Neck Now the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. This program explores the origin and uses of popular words and expressions in American English. Today we explain how a common body part -- the neck

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我们今天要学的习惯用语都表示特定的地点。第一个是:stomping ground。Stomping这个词的意思是用脚使劲地踩踏,ground当然是地,那么习惯用语stomping ground是什么意思呢? 从字面看是被踩来踩去

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我们还要讲两个由neck这个词组成的习惯用语。第一个是: stick one's neck out。在这个习惯用语里stick是个动词,意思是伸。这样看来stick one's neck out就是伸出脖子来。这个习惯用语很可能来自宰鸡

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A lean,hungry wolf met with a plump,well-fed house dog on amoonshiny night.How is it that you look so sleek?asked the wolf.Your food obviously agrees with you,while I can hardly keep myself from starving however hard I try. Well,if

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