音标:['bʌtәfiŋgәz] ;
n. 容易掉球的人, 手脚笨拙的人
n. someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball)
词型变化:名词复数形式 : butterfingerss

Tom Costello Jr. was once afraid of homeless Americans. I was so afraid that if I saw a homeless person walking down the street, Id cross the street, he said. That changed seven years ago after his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, persuaded h

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十)月

His wife asked him to buy her some new socks. Make sure they're 100% cotton, she said. I don't want any polyester blends. I don't like the feel of polyester. He went to a couple of stores. They sold only cotton-polyester blends. This errand was going

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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,

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A Pair of Socks一双袜子One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. Why I wished to buy only one pair is unimportant. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, an

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Knock your socks off,“把你的袜子打掉”。如果连袜子都被人打掉了,那打得可真是不轻呦。由此可见,knock your socks off演变成“绝对性的胜利”的意思也就

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A Pair of Socks One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen yea

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学英语单词
a matter of form
absolute dispersion variation
accounts payable ledger
admissible load
Amatique Bay
amino-acid resin
apron-drive unit
azatadine maleate
behavio(u)r therapeutics
bextra
biedenkopf
blockade and embargo
blood heats
blood-influx phenomenon
byelaw
Caffeate-o-methyltransferase
CAIRS
capital collected in advance
celexes
cephalic chorda
contemplates
DEAE cellulose
degree of orientation
edwinstowes
endosialin
folkmen
fork truck
gerwin
get ... out of your mind
glenlyon
grinstone
hatsful
heats of transformation
hindustani (india)
hoodwinker
Hook I.
i-spoused
iminobiotin
informatising
iron-lithomarge
irritable colon syndrome
janet reno
judgement thief
Leptodermis vestita
mean high-water neap
midlesbroughs
minisize
mixed sesameseed
Muikaichi(Yoshika)
multiwindowing
Neo-Hellenism
NIRC
nitroalkene
non-working surface
nonmillionaire
Oemakondre
on presentation
operating personnel
or so
Orchis wardii
orthogonal filter
patodrill
petty captain
physical work boundary
plate method
point corrosion
postmedial
postprint
proximal centriole
put oneself on one's country
pyrazolate
quadriceps femoris muscle
quotannal
reiko
rigesity
roofing tile
router level network
secondary species
self-consistent units
single sign - on
Sirdaryo Viloyat
size of measurement
squanging
steam leakage
steam loss
symplesite
synovial ligaments
takataka (maasupa)
Tapiracanga
Tooraweenah
track while scan program
treble attenuation
tri-o-cresyl thiophosphate
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
upgradable
upper sieve extension
Valparaiso University
Vemalwāda
voila
vuvuzela
windbaggary
yeres