Grammar Girl here. This week I have two topics for you: The number of spaces after a period at the end of a sentence, and whether you should use who or that to refer to people (and pets). Now here's our first listener question. His friends believe it

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(一)月

很多打算赴国外留学的同学现在已经在联系租房的事了,在国外租房的时候一定要签订正式的租约(lease)或住房合同(housing contract),这有时候也被称为租房协议(rental agreement)。 租房合同里大家要

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

1. Cyber Sickness 晕屏症 Also called digital motion sickness, symptoms that range from headaches to woozy feelings can occur when you quickly scroll on your smart phone or watch action-packed video on your screen. 这种病也被称为数字晕车,

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(568) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Why Don't Snorers Wake Themselves Up? Anyone who's ever slept in the same room as a loud snorer knows how infuriating it is to have to suffer through all that noise while the offending party remains blissfully oblivious and asleep. Loud snorers can w

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Transport (MOT) said Thursday that about 2.85 billion passenger-trips by roads were made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush this year, up 9.6 percent from the corresponding period last year. A t

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻