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dime是值十美分的硬币。 dime的价值虽然是nickel的两倍, 但是dime也只是一枚很小的硬币,而且dime跟 nickel相比是既小又薄,原因是过去曾经用比镍贵重得多的银子来铸造dime。 Nickel-and-dime既可以

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

一个客户在电话线上和我就一笔生意讨价还价,硬要在我的报价上要砍掉一角钱,当时我和他据理力争,他说:I'm not trying to nickel and dime you. 我当时就冲口回答:I don't need your nickel and dime.(我

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

今天我们要学的词是down to the wire。 Down to the wire, 是直到最后一刻的意思。美国总统大选已经进入倒数计时,星期二一大早,全美各地的投票站就要开门了。 Presidential candidates McCain and Obama ar

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

今天我们还要学几个美国总统大选中常用的习惯用语。我们曾经说过,英语词汇很多都来自体育运动。今天要学的第一个习惯用语就来自号称皇家运动的赛马: down to the wire。这里的wire指赛马跑

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

今天我们要学的词是down to the wire。 Down to the wire, 是直到最后一刻的意思。美国总统大选已经进入倒数计时,星期二一大早,全美各地的投票站就要开门了。 Presidential candidates McCain and Obama ar

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

Nickel or Dime? 5分钱还是10分钱? Little Johnny used to hang out at the local corner store. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the older boys would constantly tease him. 小约翰尼过去常在街角的商店附近闲逛。店

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小达人
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accrued bonus
acraped surface heater
admissible input
air bridges
all (the) year round
anaphoricity
anticorruption
appeall
aureliano
autobusses
average salary pension scheme
Bacillus alvei
Balduzzi's reflex
berlin yarn
bosna r.
Bowlus
bridged carbocations
brokerage charges
burus
chromel-copel thermocouple
coaxial transmission line
condictio indebiti
congenital achromia
cost of carrying inventory
costater
crankshaft throw
current conveyance
dejectant
demythicization
dermadromes
descriptive validity
diffusion attachment
dihydrouracil(DHU)
discours
doubletted
drippier
drowners
durwood
enamel furnace
extension chain
falkler
fecundatin
fire bellied toad
forest assessment
forevacuum subassembly
gimbal mounting
graphics subroutine
halfpace
hemodia
hemorrhagic cancer
Illicium difengpi
International Medical Information Association
interparochial
intersecting-line principle
involuntary conversion of plant and equipment
kolinization
load-carrying members
LONG.
low headed training
margatoxin
milirem
mind-shattering
moving bed reduction
nitroglycerol
nt. wt.
NTU (number of transfer unit)
oil-circulation cooling
on-beat
operating yoke
para tellurite crystal
partial f-test
PGUT
phenethicillin
platform based container open sided
plea of insanity
pmo
Poa spiciformis
powt
pyrogenetic element
Queuco
railway noise
regression hyperplane
Rucǎr
runing
San Donato Milanese
scillenin
slalomist
son of a sea cook
special audit
statically indeterminate beam
suspension smelting
system clock driver
Taehǔng-gun
tiliaceus
Uzerche
warmheartednesses
wentle
whame
windfarms
workholding jaw
yawpings
zinc bronze