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妙趣“横”生的英语叠声词
2023-12-07一、琅琅上口的叠声词 英语中有很多叠声词(组),复合词或词组前后发音相近,读起来朗朗上口,富有音乐感。Tit for tat:针锋相对Tweedledum and tweedledee:半斤八两hum and haw:表示犹豫或支吾的嗯嗯呃呃”声cling-clang:叮当作响,铿锵声。...
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Games that won hearts and minds
2023-12-07The Beijing Summer Olympic Games proved to be a near-perfect success, not because the host country harvested the most gold medals and the second large...
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Is Barack Obama handsome?
2023-12-07A while ago when Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, I wrote a blog to explain why it was unlikely for him to pick the latter...
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The quest for quality of life
2023-12-07At present I'm reading an autobiography by Lee Iacocca who is a legend in the US auto industry.Son of an immigrant Italian, who grew up during the...
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Striving for peace and harmony
2023-12-07By Patrick WhiteleyA Beijing newspaper was recently critical of its fellow citizens for trying too hard to paint a perfect, unrealistic picture of the...
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Choosing the right campus for you
2023-12-07Everyone wants to get the best education. A much heard cliché says 'knowledge is power' and I agree with this. Ideally, learning promis...
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An embrace in the time of a war
2023-12-07At the medal-awarding ceremony after the women's 10m air pistol shooting competition on Sunday, silver medalist Natalia Paderina from Russia and b...
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英语中最容易掌握和必须掌握的连接词
2023-12-07汉语和英语两种语言之间最基本的区别在于句法方面。英语重形合(hypotaxis),句中各意群、成分都用适当的连接词(connective)、介词(preposition)、非限定性动词短语(phrase)或从句(clause)等来表达其相互关系,因而结构严谨但缺乏弹性;而汉语句法则重意合(parat...
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Why I'm glad my prediction was wrong
2023-12-07Usually one hates to admit he or she is wrong on a prediction. But I, for one, am more than glad to say I did not get it right on the Zhang Yimou-dire...
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成功源于不懈努力
2023-12-07Progress through persistenceWhile working with International students at Australia's Charles Darwin University I remember the time two Chinese fri...