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Bob's your uncle 如果有人对你说 "Bob's your uncle", 你千万别回答, "Bob's not my uncle." 或者"How do you know Bob's my uncle?"， 否则可就要闹笑话了。 其实连许多美国人也是在悉尼奥运会才听说了这个短语的。我们无法找到一个与之相对应的短语解释，大概说来，"Bob's your uncle"的意思是 "It is as simple as that ...

Blue moon 我们经常可以听到 “the big and bright moon”，那么你听说过 “blue moon”吗？如果你查一下字典，就可以知道真的有 “blue moon”的说法，而且它的意思似乎与 “blue”和 “moon”并没有什么联系，“blue moon”是一种非正式的用法，意思是“很长一段时间、非常罕见的事”。 “Blue moon”缘何有这种意思呢？ ...

How fair are juries? A study published this week offers timely support for a system that used to be regarded as one of the bulwarks of an Englishman's civil liberties but has come under increasing attack of late. In England, unlike America, juries no longer decide most civil trials. And now the gove ...

Blue moon 我们经常可以听到 “the big and bright moon”，那么你听说过 “blue moon”吗？如果你查一下字典，就可以知道真的有 “blue moon”的说法，而且它的意思似乎与 “blue”和 “moon”并没有什么联系，“blue moon”是一种非正式的用法，意思是“很长一段时间、非常罕见的事”。 “Blue moon”缘何有这种意思呢？ ...

Black and white 大多数情况下我们把黑与白看作是对立面，认为白色象征着光明和纯洁，而黑色则代表黑暗与邪恶。但是其实这两个词还有其他的用法呢。 在早期的美国西部片中，白帽子和黑帽子分别代表着“好人”和“坏人”。因为早期电影都是无声的，所以只好用帽子的颜色来区分人物的好坏。虽然电影早已告别黑白时代，但是现 ...

最近网络上出现了许多雷人的双关流行语，例如：“躲猫猫、围观、情绪稳定、屁民”等等。如何将这些网络语言翻译得形神兼备，确实是件难事。 新版《汉英大词典》曾经把“躲猫猫”翻译为“hide-and-seek”，让不少网友都“震惊”了一把。不过比起新鲜出炉的网友原创“中国式英语”，“hide-and-seek”就显得太不内涵了。在网 ...

At sixes and sevens "I am at sixes and sevens about what to do." 根据上下文，你可能可以猜出这句话的大概意思—我心中七上八下，拿不定主意该怎么办。原来我们中文里经常说的“七上八下”、“乱七八糟”“杂乱无章”在英文中却是“at sixes and sevens”(六上七下)。 别看“at sixes and sevens”这个短语乔叟时代就 ...

a bolt from the blue　 这条短语在所有讲英语的国家中使用得都很广泛。而它的含义也正如其字面意义一样，不难理解。bolt一词指的是霹雳，而 blue则指碧蓝的天空，英语词典一般将其解释为：something sudden and unexpected，也就是“突如其来、始料不及”的意思。 在日常口语会话中，人们也常用 out of来代替介词from。 如 ...

Chinese equities posted large gains on the last trading day of 2010, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 1.76 percent, or 48.5 points, to close at 2,808.08 points on Friday. The Shenzhen Component Index jumped 2.63 percent, or 319.66 points, to close at 12,458.55 points. For the whole y ...

给力读音为，gěi lì，中国北方的土话，表示给劲、带劲的意思。最近网上这个词出现的太频繁了，“给力”一词最初的火热源于日本搞笑动漫《西游记：旅程的终点》中文配音版中悟空的一句抱怨：“这就是天竺吗，不给力啊老湿。” 所谓“不给力”就是形容和预想目标相差甚远，而“给力”一般理解为有帮助、有作用、给面子 ...

Civilized,Strategic. 讲文明，重策略。 Remember, Red, hope is good thing, mabye the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. 瑞德，希望是件美丽的东西，也许是最好的东西。美好的东西是永远不会死的。 Andy Dufresne: Here’s where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don"t foget. Foget that ther ...

The value of yuan gained as the central parity rate of Renminbi, China's currency, was set at 6.6371 per U.S. dollar Friday, compared with Thursday's 6.6466, according to the data released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. At present, the yuan is allowed to float on the inter-bank foreig ...

It is, by general consent, the most important securities-litigation clash for a generation. A case now before the Supreme Court, Stoneridge v Scientific-Atlanta, is shaping up to be a key test of attitudes towards shareholder class actions. A decision in favour of aggrieved investors would greatly i ...

Publishers cannot have enough of books from serious historians about the “whys” of war. Why do they start? Why do they last? What makes a peace fragile? The past is one place to look for answers. Charles Esdaile, a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, is too good a scholar to make easy compari ...

New York is in the middle of a culture fest celebrating Berlin, a 17-day marathon of music, film, architecture, literature and photography that began on November 2nd. “Berlin In Lights” is largely the brainchild of Sir Clive Gillinson, a former managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra wh ...

As dusk falls, kerosene stoves ignite in the poorer kitchens of Delhi. Sengeni, who lives on an alley wedged between the Nizamuddin railway tracks and a tributary known as ganda nallah (or dirty ditch), is looking forward to a dish of rice. He is entitled to a quota of 11 litres of cheap kerosene ev ...

Breaking records can become monotonous after a while. The Baltic Dry Index, which tracks the costs of shipping “dry” goods such as iron ore, coal and grain around the world, dipped this week after hitting an all-time high on November 13th. But it is still up 154% from a year earlier. As with so mu ...

The company that revolutionized the delivery of information now aims to do the same with electricity. Technology powerhouse Google today announced it would spend "tens of millions" of dollars next year in research and development and investments in an effort to drive down the cost of large-scale ren ...

Once upon a time—when the U.S. dollar was king—American students blithely flocked overseas to nibble on affordable scones and croissants between classes. How times have changed.As the dollar dips to all-time lows, college students are feeling the pinch. Especially in the United Kingdom and countri ...

Working out exactly what students and taxpayers get for the money they spend on universities is a tricky business. Now the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based think-tank for rich countries, is planning to make the task a bit easier, by producing the first int ...

一直想问什么样的学习方法才能把英语学好呢 是先学单词还是先学语法呢。 精力有限有没有什么好方法介绍一下啊。

Thousands of writers in Los Angeles and New York went on strike this week, risking their incomes and careers. They want more money for their work when it is used online than Hollywood studios are willing to pay. Because the strike is over matters of principle, not just dollars and cents, it could la ...

China makes computers, but imports most of its chips. India makes drugs, but copies almost all of the compounds; it writes software, but rarely owns the result. The bolder claims made for all three industries thus have a similar, hollow ring. They have flourished, but mostly on the back of other cou ...

Maintaining internal E-mail systems has long been the bane of the university information-technology director. Servers are unwieldy and unreliable, and in the past several years, the number of student complaints has grown exponentially as forward-moving providers like YahooMail, Hotmail, and Gmail ha ...

European Union environmental officials have determined that two kinds of genetically modified corn could harm butterflies, affect food chains and disturb life in rivers and streams, and they have proposed a ban on the sale of the seeds, which are made by DuPont Pioneer, Dow Agrosciences and Syngenta ...