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Well, Mr. Smith, if you prefer a different type of nose, we have a large selection available. I think this nose is a bit too small. Small noses are very fashionable this year, Mr. Smith, very fashionable. Do you think it suits me? asked Mr. Smith. I

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 原版英文故事与诗歌

The carpenter's house 木匠的房子 An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. 一位年迈的木匠准备退休了。 He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enj

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 找谁倚靠(慢速)

By Paula Wolfson White House 14 November 2007 The White House says free and fair elections can not take place in Pakistan while the country is under emergency rule. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the United States is continuing to urge Pakistani Preside

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(143) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

To keep an ear to the ground Up to one's ears 大约一百五十年前,美国一些开荒的人逐步地到西部的荒野去开拓。这些拓荒者从当地印第安人那里学到了一个诀窍,

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

A: Did Richard really go to Italy this summer? A: Richard 这个夏天真的去了意大利了吗? B: No way. He was only pulling your leg and you believed him? B: 哪有可能? 他只是跟你开玩笑的, 你还当真啊? 这也是一个跟「腿」有

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 美国俚语

to keep one's eyes peeled to have the wool over one's eyes 美国人似乎有不少用眼睛这个字,也就是英文里的eyes这个字组成的成语和俗语。我们曾经在前面的课文中给大

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(198) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

Pull Out of Japanese Car Maker Toyota Latest Hit To Australia's Economy 丰田退出冲击澳大利亚经济 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 Automobile manufacturing in Austral

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(四)月

To shake a leg To pull one's leg 美国的成语和俗语,也和其他语言一样,有许多都是由身体各个部份的名称组成的。例如:To follow your nose是指

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(265) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to pull no punches straight from the horse's mouth 大多数人都认为诚实和坦率是一个很好的品质,尽管我们不见得每时每刻都能够做到,美国人也不例外。在美国的日

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(273) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to pull your socks up to knock your socks off 许多美国成语或者习惯用语都是以各种衣服的名称来组成的。比如说,

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(235) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

to turn one's back on someone to get on someone's back 予首先我们要讲的是:to turn one's back on someone。从字面上解释,这是把自己的背对着某人。可是,实际上这是指根

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(242) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 28 November 2007 Japan's upper house of parliament has approved a bill that would stop the country's air force transport mission in Iraq. It is the latest clash between the opposition party and the government over Japan's ro

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

Cambodia is home to the largest population of sun bears left in the wild. As the worlds smallest bear species, they are now facing a high risk of extinction due to the twin threat of habitat loss and illegal hunting. Charities are working hard to sav

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(149) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻视频

By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 15 November 2006 Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill amending the country's controversial laws governing rape and adultery. The legislation, which has one more hurdle to clear, would overturn Pa

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(222) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十一月)

By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 09 November 2007 The former Pakistan prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, has been served with an order placing her under house arrest in Islamabad. But VOA's Barry Newhouse spoke to a member of her political party, who said he

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(180) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

我们今天要学两个习惯用语有共同的关键词:house。大家知道house是房子。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是:put one's house in order。 Put one's house in order从字面来看是整理自己的住房,但是习惯用语

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(256) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The 46th Japan's House of Representatives election began at 7:00 a.m. local time Sunday. A total of 1,504 candidates will run for the 480 seats in lower house election. The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) registered

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(184) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

我们上次学的习惯用语都有push也就是推这个词,而我们今天要讲的习惯用语却都有一个动作相反的词pull, 也就是拉。我们先要学两个习惯用语,它们分别是:pull for. Pull for是打气、鼓劲,或

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(290) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

By Paula Wolfson White House 06 February 2008 The White House is defending the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding in certain, rare circumstances when suspects are believed to have knowledge of an imminent threat. VOA's Paula Wo

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(189) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

美国习惯用语第854:完成自己那份工作(音频) pull one's own weight 我最喜欢参加的志愿活动就是翻修房子,为低收入的人提供住处。亲手让一栋破破烂烂的老房子焕然一新,会有一种难以言表的成就

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学英语单词
a matter of
alignment check
american toads
amusic
areographical
aspectants
Aucayacu
Barrow,Sir John
bench face
bitumen felt packing
bottom sampler
brisked up
buoy observation
chops down
collettinside
conceptual integrity
cone head semi-tubular rivet
consumable electrode melting technique
cutter loader jib
defective fuel rod clad(ding) (tube)
dendrochronologically
destructive chlorination
deuteron accelerator
dibromoquin
dispersion monitoring
dried shrimp roe
efficiency plant operation
electromagnetic strain ga(u)ge
far-reachingness
farandine
final drawing
foamed plastics
focussed spot diameter
fort-mackenzie (fort mckenzie)
fortran v
glucoregulatory
go against the flow
Gunpowder Creek
Hanzi pronunciation
hydroximate
hyperlipoproteinemic
ICRF-154
in so much that
inflow performance relationship
inter present
interparietal bone
intraspinal tumor
isopinccamphone
israel-palestine
kinematic(al) similarity
Kugel-Stoloff
labyrinthine nystagmus
land exhaustion
legal clerk
line production system
liquid lock
long backs
long reference number code
magnetization method
mannoheptit
mass-market
metallic decoration
metric density
missile tracking station
muroc
n. accessorius
nasty piece of work
neuvitan
object run
para-rhyme
PC-M(V3)
pemptarchie
perixylic
pigment printing binder NB-101
prepputial glands
pseudosymmetric
Qal'eh Darreh
Queenslanders
ratchet wheel pawl pin
restionaceous
schedule of work in process
septre
sign articles
soliloquist
SPSDR
stooge sort
stralsunds
subnet number
synchrotimer
toils
tossing away
TRE (transient radiation effects)
trunk piston diesel
ultrageous
ultrarapid
umbraulva japonica
unlesse
upstream boundary
Voltaire, C.
ward aide
wet sand yard
willow grouse