如果你对艺术、音乐或戏剧特别感兴趣，那么人们可能会把称为一个a culture vulture文化狂热分子。 William‘s going to see three exhibitions and a Beethoven symphony on Saturday. That gu...

短语a pillar of society指的是那些重要的、有价值的并且参与众多公益活动的社会成员。a pillar of... 还可以和其他社会群体和组织连用。 Jimmy is a pillar of society. He raised millions o...

所谓突然一阵灵感 a flash of inspiration 就是说一个人头脑里突然冒出一个创新或革新的想法或闪念。 John‘s new travel book was a huge success after the flash of inspiration he got whi...

形容词 catty 可用来描述某人的言辞刁钻刻薄、阴险恶毒。 The rivalry between Hollywood actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis was famous. They were always making catty comments abou...

如果你说的话或做的事 goes down like a lead balloon，这就意味着起不受欢迎，激起了他人的不满或反感。 David‘s joke was in very poor taste. It went down like a lead balloon! The news...

Professor: Winnie, today we‘re going to listen to Emily and Peter talking about movies on their blind date. 哎，初次约会通过聊电影来了解对方，这办法不错! Professor: I agree!...

288. I was writing some letters to friends of mine. 288. 我给我的朋友写了几封信。 289. What were you doing at about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon? 289.昨天下午四点钟左右你在...

407. I don’t feel very well this morning.      今天早上我感觉并不好。    408. I was sick yesterday, but I’m better today.      昨天我病了...

Joe很热心公益，每周固定有一天去做义工。在他的影响下，我也参加了几次。有一次跟他提起如果能到附近的剧院做义工的话，也许会比较有趣。有一天他拿了一份报纸，上面就有剧院要找义工的消息，...

早晨的时间紧迫，不小心多磨蹭一会，就可能要面对迟到的命运。所以各位，一定要hurry up 啊！ 你快点儿，我们该迟到了。 If you don‘t hurry, we‘ll be late. / Hurry up or we‘ll be late. ...