[单词大师] 第33课:Slangman: Whimsy 日期:2010-06-08 14:01:35 点击:46 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, some whimsy to liven up your vocabulary! RS: Slangman David Burke brings us some words and phrases that, in most cases, have been around a long time, and are just plain fun to say....
[单词大师] 第32课:Listener Mail 日期:2010-06-08 14:01:01 点击:23 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster, we call on our old friend Grammar Lady, Mary Newton Bruder, to help us answer some listener mail. RS: We start with a question from Kim in Osaka, Japan. She would like to know the...
[单词大师] 第31课:Spider-Related 日期:2010-06-08 14:00:27 点击:36 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- etymology meets entomology! The new movie Spider-Man inspired us to untangle some spider-related expressions. RS: Meet a real spider man, not the comic book superhero. Al York i...
[单词大师] 第30课:Making a Request 日期:2010-06-08 13:59:52 点击:916 好评:0
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- how to make a request, as in, Could you help us out? RS: That's what we asked our friend Lida Baker. She teaches in the American Language Center at the University of California...
[单词大师] 第29课:Persuasion; Resistance 日期:2010-06-08 13:59:20 点击:33 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- the language of persuasion, from an expert. RS: Eric Knowles is a social psychologist at the University of Arkansas. He heads a laboratory group that recently held a Symposium on...
[单词大师] 第28课:Weasel Words 日期:2010-06-08 13:58:46 点击:43 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- advice for battling weasels of a wordy sort. RS: Weasels are small, nasty animals. Their reputation gives us slang expressions like weasel words -- language thats deceptive or ev...
[单词大师] 第27课:Construction Terms 日期:2010-06-08 13:57:47 点击:35 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- with the remodeling of the VOA News Now schedule, our thoughts turn to construction-related slang. Or, more precisely, words related to construction that have other meanings in s...
[单词大师] 第26课:Minority; AHANA 日期:2010-06-08 13:56:01 点击:29 好评:0
AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: Has the word minority outgrown its usefulness? RS: Minority means less than half. In the United States, members of non-European racial and ethnic groups are generally referred to a...
[VOA双语新闻] 卡梅伦称:英国赤字“比预期严重” 日期:2010-06-08 09:31:37 点击:42 好评:0
卡梅伦称:英国赤字比预期严重 Cameron: UK Deficit 'Worse Than We Thought' 英国新任首相卡梅伦说,英国的财政状况比预想的还要严重,需要大规模削减支出,以避免出现类似希腊的债务危机。 卡梅伦...
[VOA双语新闻] 北韩最高人民会议提拔金正日妹夫 日期:2010-06-08 09:30:52 点击:31 好评:0
北韩最高人民会议提拔金正日妹夫 North Korean Parliament Promotes Kim Jong Il's Brother-in-Law 北韩领导人金正日星期一主持召开最高人民会议特别会议。他的妹夫张成泽在会议上被提拔出任政府高级职位...
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Egypt has banned children from wearing hijabs to school. 埃及禁止儿童戴头巾...
Disney has announced plans to build an enormous Star Wars land marking the bigges...
She gets around 60,000 letters a year. But now The Queen is looking for somebody ...
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