Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is bring versus take. Many listeners have asked me to talk about today's topic. Here's a caller: Hi Grammar Girl. It's Clint in Chester, VA. I have two children reaching high school age and they still don't know the d

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 16 October 2006 Ly Tong, center, a South Vietnamese air force veteran who later became a US citizen, talks to reporters at Criminal Court in Bangkok, September 7, 2006 A small but growing number of dissidents in Vietnam is c

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

On Friday, Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First Party, announced that he was stepping down from his job as Minister. He said this is a temporary move because the Serious Fraud Office is checking on money that some people said they gave him

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

今天我们要讲的习惯用语里有这样一个词: poop。 Poop有好多种不同的解释。在今天我们要学的习惯用语里poop是俚语, 指真实可靠的消息或者情报。 Poop作这种解释的时候前面往往有real ,或者

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

pooper来自poop。 poop这个词有一种解释是筋疲力尽,说poop out意思是累得喘不过气来了。那么party pooper是聚会上什么样的人呢? 我们通过一个例子来体会吧。这是夫妇俩在商量举办party的事情。他

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

我们上次学了由poop这个词发展而来的习惯用语,the real poop和poop sheet,里面的poop都有信息的意思。今天我们还要讲两个由poop组成的习惯用语,但是今天说到的poop含义完全不同。它是筋疲力尽

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语