Whose Finger Do You Want on the Button? Now, Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore the meaning of everyday expressions in the English language. Today, we talk about a common object that appears in many express

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(335) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

A: I want to make a phone call. Can you show me how? B: Of course, pick up the receiver, hit a button and listen for a tone. Are you hearing it? A: Yes, now what do I do? B: Well, after you dial 9 on the keypad, you should hear the tone change. A: No

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语情景对话-工作

I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 英文短篇小说

今天我们要学的词是hot button。 Hot button, 是热门、焦点。在美国加州进行的最新民意调查发现,支持同性婚姻的选民第一次占据了多数。 The results of the survey showed the highest level of support on the h

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

今天我们要讲的习惯词语都包括这样一个词,button。大家也许已经知道button是纽扣,但是button也可以作动词,意思你也一定猜得到,就是扣上纽扣。我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语是: button y

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今天我们要学的词是hot button。 Hot button, 是热门、焦点。在美国加州进行的最新民意调查发现,支持同性婚姻的选民第一次占据了多数。 The results of the survey showed the highest level of support on the h

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃