BEP111 ADV Negotiations: Relationship Building

This Business English Podcast episode on relationship building is part of an ongoing series on negotiation skills. In negotiation, establishing a good relationship based on trust makes it possible to jointly search for creative solutions, to overcome

访谈录 2009-06-04&06-07 Ellen秀：帕丽斯•希尔顿谈论

I only use three letters to refer to our first guest--BFF. Please welcome back the one and only Paris Hilton. Hi, BFF. Hi, BFF. Im so glad you remember. We run into each other not as often as we should being BFFs, but when we do we remember the secre

每日商务英语 第2期:画饼充饥

pie?in?the?sky画饼充饥 英文释义 A?bright?and?attractive?but?improbable?orunrealistic?reward. (NOTE:?hyphenated?when?usedas?a?modifier?before?a?noun) 例句 EXAMPLE:?The?new?company?president?told?the?unhappy?employees?that?everything?would?be

The Many Reasons for the Word 'The'

The 1995 film Dead Man has a strange opening scene. Actor Johnny Depp is sitting on a train. A man sits down across from Depps character, and speaks to him: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later

TED演讲:修饰语滥用对写作的危害(2)

Having robbed the bank in record time, it was possible to make off with the town's chocolate rabbit as well. 在飞速洗劫了银行之后，还能偷走镇上的巧克力兔子。 The modifying phrase in this sentence seems unrelated to anything el

标杆人生 第20天　重建破裂的团契生活

[God] has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. 2 Corinthians 5:18 (GWT) Relationships are always worth restoring. Because life is all about learning how to love, God wants us to

【听听测测】Model Test 31

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英语语法：73 Modifying Phrases

Grammar Girl here. Today, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga helps us understand modifiers that come at the beginning of a sentence. Bonnie says, As a guest-writer, I plan to talk about two kinds of troublesome modifiers that begin a sentence. Like many of y

英语语法：89 Stacked Modifiers

Todays episode concerns a what-you-may-have-been-wondering-about topic. That sure was a mouthful, and it illustrates the problem of stacked modifiers, which occurs when you string together too many words to describe a noun at the end of the mouthful.

英语语法：88 Splitting Verbs

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how a verb and an adverb messed up the inauguration. I took a break from work Tuesday to watch Barack Obama's inauguration, and like millions of other people, I saw a bit of confusion between Chief Justice John Rob

英语语法：50 Funny Misplaced Modifiers

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us take a break from serious grammar and instead delve into the world of comedysome intentional, some not. Groucho Marx said it best: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. H

VOA标准英语2008年-US-Pakistan Relationship Seen as Real Target of

The terrorist attack that killed 60 people Saturday in Pakistan struck the Marriott hotel, part of an American-based chain. As VOA Correspondent Gary Thomas reports, many analysts believe the real target of the attack were not Western interests, but

OMG美语 Bi-coastal Relationship!

异地恋。Long distance relationship现在大家都知道了吧，但是因为美国的地理，有一个词叫bi-coastal relationship，是不是很独特呢？

China, US to Establish New Model of Major Country Relationship

The two-day China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue has wrapped up in Washington. Officials attending this year's SED have been pushing to try to develop a new model for the relationship. CRI's Su Yi has more. As part of one of the sessions, Chinese

2016年CRI Premier Li: Sino-Lao relationship is like a full moon

The Lieu Tou School opened in 1937. It's the oldest Chinese school in the Lao capital of Vientiane. Upon his arrival on Friday, the Chinese Premier received a warm welcome. In a classroom, Li Keqiang encouraged the students to study Chinese thoroughl

VOA常速英语2008年-Medvedev-Putin Relationship May Guide Future Ru

By Andre de Nesnera Washington 11 March 2008 Dmitri Medvedev, 42,officially becomes president of Russia on May 7. He will succeed Vladimir Putin, who has led the country for eight years. But Mr. Putin will not leave the political scene - Mr. Medvedev

“我们结束了”地道英文表达

都说毕业的季节也是分手的季节，不知道这个说法现在是不是还适用。因为追求不同或者现实情况不同，两个人不能继续在一起，这也是毕业的时候难免的一个问题。今天我们就来说说用英语

CCTV9英语新闻：China-Mozambique relationship status officially raised

China and Mozambique have raised the status of the their relationship to a strategic cooperative partnership. The announcement comes during Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusis visit in China. China and Mozambique have decided to raise the stat

a successful vote precursor to US-Sudan relationship

KHARTOUM, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry on Wednesday said that a successful referendum(公民投票权) in south Sudan would be the precursor（先驱,前导） to a stronger new relationship be

Henry Kissinger: China-US Relationship the Key Single Element for International Stability

One of the world's most famous living diplomats is now suggesting that the speed in which both China and the United States approach diplomacy is one of the things holding up stronger ties between the two countries. From Washington, CRI correspondent