2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：分别微妙的多义词有读者问yet的用法。not yet表示「还未」，例如：he has not yet come，那么he has yet to come又作何解呢？虽然没有not字，但has yet to也有「还未」的意思，确切

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：长痛不如短痛to cut our losses
长痛不如短痛basil: you're looking a bit glum. anything wrong?
巴兹尔﹕你看来有点闷闷不乐，有什么不妥当吗？subash: well, we've just had

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：「胶」分软硬新一代批评人的用语，有个「胶」字。这口语的胶，除了有广东话粗口的联想，主旨是笑人蠢（being stupid, dim-wit）、戆居至容易受骗（being gullible），或傻呼呼地走极

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：有「长」有「短」的惯用语上周介绍过no less than / nothing less than（简直是），其实同义语还有nothing short of。奥巴马医保计划执行混乱，很多人以「简直是灾难」来形容：the

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：a great victory 伟大胜利when coretta and martin luther king jr saw the first bus coming down the street, they shouted with excitement. it was empty. it was the same all

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：dangling modifiers垂悬修饰语modifier（修饰语）是用来修饰句中其他部分的字词、短语或子句，其中一类用以修饰名词，这类修饰语包括形容词、形容词短语和形容词子句，例如：
?形

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：不辛劳，哪有收获
No pain, no gain

不辛劳，哪有收获
Sibyl: You look exhausted after that run.

西比尔﹕你跑步之后，看来疲惫不堪。
Debra: Yes, I'm pretty tired. It wa

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：martin luther king: a rebel by the 1950s, african americans who lived in the south were segregated (种族隔离) in many ways. they had to ride in the back of buses and si

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：解决问题to sort things out 解决问题ollie: have you heard about what's going on at west city rovers?
奥利﹕你知道城西流浪队现在的状况吗？taro: well i know they've bee

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：浪费金钱to blow one's money
浪费金钱francisco: have you heard about mel's big win?
弗朗西斯科﹕梅尔赢了不少钱，这件事你有没有听闻？jack: no, but i know he's a bett

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文： max and mei max and mei, created by martha keswick, is a unique series of bilingual children's picture books.
《麦思和美美》是一系列罕见的双语幼童图画书。these pictu

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：抢风头!抢风头！别抢他的风头。这两句话正规而寻常的英文讲法是：grab the limelight!don't steal his limelight.话说威势，我们借风做比喻，英文就用光。limelight是照亮表演舞台

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：用英文讲「执生」执生，指事发之际会有未可知的情况、以至事故，要随机应变。这个动作，英文系to improvise。you improvise, you follow instinct, not just established protocol.

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：历久常新的《威尼斯商人》莎士比亚喜剧《威尼斯商人》（the merchant of venice）的情节家传户晓：威尼斯商人antonio为助好友bassanio迎娶portia，向放高利贷的犹太人shylock借钱，

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：steps to paradise and beyond"every nation which uses english does so with a different tone, colour and quality."— larry smith
tracing dr verner bickley's distin

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：行住嚟讲 ?英文中广为流传的名人金句，几乎百分百都用字显浅，容易明白之余，意境隽永。
to believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. - gandhi
任何信念，只信

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：rise to leadership始为领袖coretta scott was a student at the new england conservatory of music (新英格兰音乐学院) in boston. she had a beautiful singing voice and dream

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：主动和被动语态的误区active voice（主动语态）和passive voice（被动语态）的分别不难明白，但要使用得当，并非那么容易。active voice句子的主语是「行动者」，宾语是「受动者」。

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：i could not care less何解？有些英文语句的表达方式比较迂回，或令学习英文的人感到疑惑，以下有几个例子：no more than
no more than 有时指「不多于（某数量）」，和not more t

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：i have a dream 伟大演说requests came from all over america for martin luther king jr to speak. he addressed thousands of people in chicago, los angeles, and detroit. at

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：获不同家庭收养they were each adopted by two different families
她们各自获两个不同家庭收养peggy: did you hear that amazing story on the radio this morning about the two

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：要识得 -ling -ling

都听过「太子党」吧，英文叫princeling(s)，是prince加ling，即「小王子」。英文用语，在一个字后面加 -ling，是指那个字所代表事物的年轻版、或粗劣版。美国

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：peaceful resistance 和平抵抗原则（二）in 1925 gandhi again toured india to spread his ideas. some indians believed he was the reincarnation (转世) of god. but gandhi sa

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：争先恐后to fall over oneself 争先恐后shumi: have you heard about the young footballer who's just started playing for rovers?
舒米﹕你有没有听到最近才效力流浪的那个年轻

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：principles of peaceful resistance和平抵抗原则in 1920, gandhi joined the all indian home rule league. he became its first president. he worked tirelessly for india's in