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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

by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is active voice versus passive voice. The podcast edition of this article was sponsored by GoToMeeting. With this meeting service, you can hold your meetings over the Internet and give presentations, product demos and

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

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(72) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

我们上一次讲了由penny 也就是分币组成的几个习惯用语。美国人用的硬币除了penny还有好几种。例如,价值比penny高一点儿的有五分和一毛的硬币。它们是: nickel and dime。不论Nickel还是dime都是零

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Creating Your Dream Lifestyle With Passive Income Every person has a dream of how they would live their life if he did not have to spend a large amount of his time working. Most people rely on earned income to support their finances. This makes a dre

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

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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ammonium metatungstate
antenna chlorophyll
be tall of stature
bifurcation
blow-off pressure
blue huckleberry
book inventory system
Brown and Sharpe taper
brownmillers
bus output channels
casiraghi
changeable-message sign
cheilanthifoline
clomocyline
coffee breaks
coliform bacteria
company of limited by liability
computer illiterate
constant damping locus
cork-jacket
corporate identity system
culpa in abstraco
dial cord
direct air route
drag-cup tachometer
drown grief in drinking
effaced
entropic elasticity
fallthroughs
fenings
fishery statistics
folisols
fore-balance
gonophore
grow at a respectable pace
hallucinatory paranoid state
hermanites cupunata
Heze
horchin'
hypertriton
incissura angularis
india rubber wire
into the open
Iodolein
isthmopolypus
kilo-watt
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laminar heat convection
lecithochirium trichiuri
lepth cable
logarithmic vacuum-tube voltmeter
logos-spirit
made out a case
make a start
martempers
maximum pto power
Megamonoporites
Mendefera
merida
microprocessor communication
neotraditional country
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persauded
planer-type jig borer
portable cover furnace
post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis
pratty
productivity of labor
public procurement
quadragintireme
rage through
randilectil
rated contact current
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regenerationism
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reversion level
rhoenite basalt
ribot
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stack queue
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stop ahead sign
stretch breaking machine
subtilise
suck back
sweat (out) damage
tattvas
tip-cheese
transient distrortion
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variable wind
variational psychology
wha-cha-ma-call-its
wood pile dolphin
woolsacks
wyly
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