Surprising Origin of 'To Keep at Bay' Now, it's time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. On this program, we explore everyday expressions that we use in conversation. Americans often use the first saying we will talk about today. B

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(七)月

What do you do when you have time to kill? It's a bit of a violent phrase, isn't it? It really means to use up spare time, or extra time. That is just(1) what I was doing this weekend, while I was waiting for my son's basketball game to start. We had

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In Part 1 of this program, we told you many uses of would in everyday speech. Today, we will talk about two more uses. Well also look at some important elements for understanding this modal verb. Before we continue, though, lets do a short review exe

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Johannesburg Leads Africa in Twitter Usage 推特使用方面南非冠绝非洲 From VOA Learning English, this is the Tech Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Johannesburg is tweeting up a storm. The South African city leads the

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Dictionaries range broadly in purpose, size, and price; and choosing one is a very personal decision. The best advice is to make note of the things you and your family look up in a dictionary over a few weeks' time, and then go to a comprehensive boo

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How to Use the Word 'Ever' Have you ever noticed the number of times that a native English speaker uses the word ever? Ever is an adverb that we Americans say a lot. Heres todays question, from Zanoni in Venezuela: Question: Hello. I would like to ge

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accentings
acetosous
aggernasi
AHTCG
air rights
alumina brick
an interested party
annual precession
astronomical catalog
avoidance reaction test
balance armature
balloonhead
bdelliums
black bitch
box model
Bum Freezer
cancels out
cano
caryophyllenic acid
cavolinia inflexa
characteristic dislocation
chill in the hearth
Chinese mushroom
clonmacnoises
convert self-guidance
Croix, Col de la (Croce, Col de)
crosspoint switching matrix
dephosphorylate
digenous
dipalmityl lecithin
don't I know it
dual-suspension
Echague
electric sensor
exchanger heat
exhaust-gas turbocharger
export entry
frame monitoring tube
galeite
gatepier
geometry of interface
gin house
gonioradiometer
gormandised
heliodinid
hello boy
hexamerism
HG-factor
increasing return to scale
it should be remembered
jarama
jurnut
LPA
managerial quality
Mediterranean dengue
mollendo
molybdenum disilicide (molybdenum silicide)
node initialization block
nor-hyoscyamine
Novara, Prov.di
oblique triangles
overload capacity of transmission line
oxycephaly
petites
phenylquinaldine
philomathical
Phormidium mucicola
post-mi
power level
Predmost
railroad bridge
reflected diffraction
regillus
resonant peak value
second consonant shift
self-aligned
serviceage
shop classes
shop-out
silicon triode
smooth treatment of shock wave
solid state LD pumped laser
specific thrust
spermy
squeez
Stark.
strict constructionist
superficial perineal fascia
support position
surpriser
teacher discipline
Ten Mile
tropones
turbulent medium
turn one on
two out of three voting system
vital deficiency
warmaker
Ximovan
yarmalka
yeast infection
zubirds