There are no such setbacks we could not overcome Our tolerating ability is indeed may beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential ...

“听他说话真急人，哼哼哈哈老半天，也没哼出名堂来！”“哼哼哈哈”或“嗯嗯呃呃”常用来形容某人说话吞吞吐吐﹑支支吾吾。在英语中，“哼哼哈哈”用hem and haw来表示。 想一想听演讲时，讲演...

      Occasionally, without warning, the drunken wreckage of my father would wash up on our doorstep, late at night, stammering, laughing, reeking of booze. Ban...

Jack was the son of a farmer, and lived in the days of King Arthur. He was brave and intelligent and became famous for killing a lot of giants. Jack first killed the giant of Mount...

在日常生活中，如果你遇见朋友时问候一声How are you doing? 对方可能会乐呵呵地回答一句：Everything is five by five。这里的five by five 是什么意思呢？ five by five可不是中国人讲的“五...

Suppose a child comes home with a report card with five As and one B. Usually the first thing his parents will say is 'Why the B?' What do you think will go through the child’s mi...

看下面的说法有无问题：“It was hereditary in his family to have no children”。就语法而言，句子本身无可挑剔；就语义而言，这句话很值得探讨——若真的“不要孩子是他们家的一贯传统”，...

There lived a poor woman who had been a widow for some years, and had an only child name Jack. Jack was a careless and extravagant boy. One day the poor woman found that they did n...

Along the coast of the vast Atlantic Ocean there lived an old man. Each day when the tide went out he would make his way along the beach for miles. Another man who lived not far aw...

Pop one‘s clogs是个俚语，常被英国人使用，指“死掉、蹬腿”。 Pop指“典当物品”，是古英语的一种用法，clogs指“木底鞋”。据说，在英格兰中部和北部地区，clogs（木底鞋）是早期产业工人的...