美国人挂在嘴边的200句子---其文化和价值观 1
1-----You can't argue with success Though you may tell someone they are doing something in a wrong way, you have to stop criticizing them if their method works. 2-----Nothing succeeds like success Like money in a savings account, success seems to compound itself. A person who has a small success ...
检出微量辐射 专家称无需担心
自从日本福岛核电站爆炸后,在我国大部分地区能测到微量辐射,但是专家提醒说无需担心,不需要采取过多的防护。同时在日本周边地区辐射水平也下降了。 Recently, extremely low levels of radioactive isotope iodine-131 were detected in the air over the Yellow Sea and some areas of all provincial-level regions ex ...
《非诚勿扰 II》小诗走红 网友献上英文版
“你见,或者不见我,我就在那里,不悲不喜……”《非诚勿扰2》贺岁上映后,片中香山女儿深情演绎的这首小诗赚“狠”了观众的眼泪,同时这首小诗火了,微博、贴吧、SNS社交网站中,小诗被严重“围观”之际,各种改编版本也横空出世,尽显网友才华。 据了解,这首《见与不见》的小诗,有传是六世达赖喇嘛仓央嘉措的作 ...
Useful ways to improve English.
Recently, I come to like the public lessons on PPTV, and on 163. They are instructive and interesting. What's more, there is even caption with the lecture, which will surely help you improve. Hope you can improve.
网易公开课,或者PPTV “名校公开课”。
考研经验篇:考研从下定决心开始 (来自沪江)
很多人都觉得研究生是那样遥不可及,就算爬上了山顶它也是那不能摘取的星星,但是我想说,不试一试你永远不知道你有多优秀!考研并不是你在晴天白日的一米阳光而是离你很近的一米天堂,只要你努力去做就可以跨越阻碍扶摇直上。 从2010年9月准备考研到2011年看到分数线,半年多的紧张而有序地考研生活已经结束,留下了许多珍 ...
财富是否一直在等待你?
Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state governments by banks and companies that cannot locate the o ...
Americans Brace for Government Shutdown
Anxiety is filling the air in Washington D.C., as the clock ticks closer to a federal government shutdown with no budget approval. Lawmakers continued the debate Friday, leaving tourists in the nation's capital wondering whether it will be their last day to see the sights, and government emp ...
In the Quiet Night
In the Quiet Night
By Li BaiSo bright a gleam on the foot of my bed,Could there have been a frost already?Lifting myself to look, I found that it was moonlight,Sinking back again, I thought suddenly of home.
中文最常用短语6
51. 看好喔! Watch me! 注:这句是要别人注意自己在表演的特殊动作或技巧. 52. 死定了! I'm dead! E.g. A: I lost my computer. I'm dead. What am I going to do?I'm dead meat. E.g. A: I failed the exam! I'm dead meat! 注:以上两句都是十分夸张的句子,表示真的不知如何是好,另外,常见的句子有"You'll be the death of ...
常用中文短语5
41. 别傻了! Wise up! E.g. A: Please you believe that Wise up! Don't be silly! A: I think we can get everyone to give us money. B: Don't be silly. 注:当女孩子说"Don't be silly"时,大多是在打情骂俏. 42.别闹了! Keep it down! E.g. A: You kids are too loud! Keep it down! 注:Keep it down是不要闹了,但keep i ...
中文常用短语4
31.你敢 You dare!e.g. A: I want to challenge you! B: You dare!32.赞成! I approve. / That's a good idea. e.g. A: Let's go for a walk. B: Sure. I approve. 33.好饱! I'm stuffed. 34. 休想! Over my dead body!/ No way! e.g. A: You want to marry that guy Over my dead body! 35.成交! It's a deal! 36. 干嘛 Wh ...
中文最常用短语1
1. 活该! Serves you(him her) right! = You deserve (he/she deserves it.) e.g That you failed the test serves you right for not studying! 2. 活该! You had it coming! e.g. a: I gained weight! b: Well you had it coming because you've been eating so much without exercising. 3. 胡闹 That's monkey b ...
中文常用短语3
21.色狼! Pervert! e.g. A: He is such a pervert! I saw him looking at me in the toilet! 注:这句话除了指性变态,也指精神变态,可简单地说"perv",也可作动词,例如: "You are rally perverted.”. 22.精彩! Super! e.g. A: Good job. That's super! 注:这字有点旧了,但年轻人喜欢在形容词前面加super以强调它的意思,如"su ...
中文最常用短语2
11.免谈! No need to discuss!(no need for discussion.)
e.g. a: It's all settled. There's no need to discuss it anymore. 全都确定了.所以就免谈了!
12.真棒! That's great!
13.好险! That was close!
e.g. a: I’m so glad you made it. That was close!
注:这里的close是很接近,幸好的意思,和开门关门(open and ...
五种“谢谢你”的英语表达方法
一句简单的“谢谢你”,你会用英语怎么说呢?觉得词汇不够用?这里有一些好的表述方法来表达你的感谢。“Thanks for having my back”谢谢你救了我。当别人把你从困境中解救出来并支持你,你可以这样说。 “Thank you. I couldn’t have done it without you”谢谢你。没有你,我无法完成。 当你在一个朋友的帮助下完成了一 ...
With bells on
周末准备开个Party,给朋友们发了请柬,收到的回信大都写着:"I would be there with bells on." 这一句话弄的我不知道他们是来还是不来,是不是都要送我一个铃铛(bell)。 With bells on 最普通的用法是用于非正式场合,意思是渴望做某事,准备玩个痛快(early; ready to enjoy oneself)。 如果请柬的回信上写着I'll be the ...
阅读理解100-37
Galvanized by the April tragedy at Virginia Tech, in which Seung Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members and then committed suicide, colleges and universities around the country are urgently taking stock of the reach and effectiveness of their mental-health services. The goal is not just to a ...
日本核问题将影响全球能源策略
Experts and diplomats are predicting Japan’s recent deadly earthquake and tsunami, along with its ongoing nuclear reactor crisis, will not have too much of an effect on Japan itself in the long-term, but rather on energy policies in other countries. During a discussion Friday in Washington, they sa ...
熟 词 僻 义
1
allowallow
承认admitWe must allow that he is right on this matter2
addressaddress
vt 处理 To deal with:addressed the issue of absenteeism. 处理旷工事宜3
advantagetake advantage of 欺骗(deceive)
对……加以利用took advantage of the customer.
欺骗消费者4
appreciateappreciate
v.意识到 (realize) 抬高 ...
外国人听不懂的“中式英语”
在四年多的留学生涯中,笔者曾在生活实践中亲身领略过“好几国”英语。但最为回味无穷,常令人拍案叫绝的英语还要看咱们中式英语。 影响最大,也最经典的例子是“Long time no see”,意为“好久不见。早期去美国务工的华人并无英语语法方面的常识,于是想当然地按照中文语法生造出了这么一句问候语。而经过长期使用,美国 ...
阅读理解100-35
This is a book you can imagine Alec Leamas, the miserable spook hero of “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”, enjoying on the number 11 bus back to his dingy Hammersmith flat. “What do you think spies are: priests, saints, martyrs?” Leamas famously snarled. “They're a squalid procession of vain ...
Tooth and nail
这是一个非常形象的成语。什么事情需要连牙齿和指甲都用上了,一定是拼尽全力了。所以这个成语就是“竭尽全力,猛烈或顽强地斗争”的意思。 当初闹得沸沸扬扬的克林顿和莱温斯基丑闻中,克林顿的政治生涯面临结束的威胁,他和他的支持者自然是拼尽全力地维护自己的利益: Hyde-who said Clinton’s testimony would be “he ...
Hit the panic button
世界第二次大战期间,美国轰炸机的驾驶员在飞机受损的紧急情况时按动紧急按钮(panic button)通知机上人员降落。后来口语中有hit(或者push)the panic button表示惊惶失措,说一个人遇到紧急或者非常情况时手忙脚乱,不知所措,有如机师乱按紧急按钮,生动地托出“失酷”(lose one's cool)的动作。 口语中叫人不要惊慌有:D ...
In the wind和in the air
一个是“在风里”,一个是“在空气中”?No. 不过这两个词组的意思还确实有些关联。 先说“in the wind”吧。这个词组表示的意思是形容某事即将发生,也许跟汉语里的“风声”有点相似。 例如:Changes in top management of the company have been in the wind for weeks. 几周来人们一直在传说,公司上层即将进行改组。 又 ...
阅读理解100-36
When Princeton, the University of Virginia, and Harvard announced last fall that they would drop their early admissions options because they gave an unfair advantage to affluent students, many college counselors held their breath. Would early decision go the way of kegs in dormitories? Not for now, ...