Types of Speech Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality ...
Suburbanization If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial cit ...
American Revolution The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such ...
Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted i ...
Television Television the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, ...
The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The one most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The arg ...
Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When ...
The Definition of "Price" Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price syst ...
Schooling and Education It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their educatio ...
The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers a ...
Passage Ten (Photography and Art) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photograph‘s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a ...
Passage Nine (The Continuity of the Religious Struggle in Britain) Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, ...
Passage Eight (Wakefield Master‘s Realism) Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly ...
Passage Seven (Forecasting of Statistics) Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus become part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have change ...
Passage Six (The Present Is the Most Important) Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow t ...
Passage Five (Women‘s Positions in the 17th Century) Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women‘s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed ...
Passage Four (It Is Bush) On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George W. Bush of Texas. Vice President Al ...
Passage Three (Method of Scientific Inquiry) Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for ...
Passage Two (Europe‘s Gypsies, Are They a Nation?) The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance to the continent‘s Gypsies (or ...
Passage One (Clinton Is Right) President Clinton‘s decision on Apr.8 to send Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji packing without an agreement on China‘s entry into the World Trade Organization seem ...
电视有长处,也有短处。 TV has its merits and demerits. TV has its good and bad points. There are good and bad points about TV. 我利用了他的弱点。 I took advantage of his weakne ...
As far as I know,... (就我所知……) If my memory serves me right,... (如果我没记错的话,……) 以牙还牙,针锋相对。 Tit for tat. John kicked me, so I gave him tit for tat.(约翰踢我 ...
一个巴掌拍不响。 It takes two to tango. *直译是“跳探戈舞是两个人的事儿”。 Joe is always starting arguments with Sue. (乔总是和苏争论不休。) Well, I think it takes two to tango. (不过 ...
13.死亡教会人一切,如同考试之后公布的结果??虽然恍然大悟,但为时晚矣! Like the outcome after an exam, death makes us aware of anything, That is, it’s too late to take a tumble. 14.你出生的 ...
1.记住该记住的,忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的,接受不能改变的 Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten.Alter what is changeable, and accept what is mutable. 2. ...
Coal-fired Power Plants The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas A. Edison in 1879 created a demand for a cheap, readily available fuel with which to generate large amounts of el ...
American Black Bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these bears have shiny black fur, but in the west they gro ...
apologizing for one‘s mistake 因自己的过失而道歉。i‘m sorry for what i‘ve done. 我为我的所作所为向你道歉。 2. i shouldn‘t have done that. 我不该那么做。 3. i should have asked you first ...
情态动词 情态动词有can (could), may (might), must, have to, shall (should, will (would), dare (dared), need (needed), ought to等。 情态动词无人称和数的变化;不能单独使用,必须与其后的动词原形 ...
问题内容: 老师,你好!你在这一讲课文中“1. The Maltwood Art Museum Gallery, located in the main lobby of the University Center, features local, national, and international works.梅尔伍德艺术博 ...
问题内容: 老师,你好!我想问一下2) get even with sb 报复某人Bill swore he’d get even with his brother, who’d played a dirty trick on him. 这句话中的两个“d" 是什么意思?与后面讲的词组” get ba ...
问题内容: 你好!“This is one of the world’s greatest resort playgrounds, featuring some of the most beautiful beaches and hotels in the world. ”这是世界上最伟大的旅游胜地之一,以世界上最漂亮 ...
问题内容: 你好!我想问一下“ I had known her for a few months, but meeting someone in person is a lot different than chatting over the internet, and I was worried it wouldn’t turn out well.” ...