American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Paris (ˈpærɪs;Frenchpari) ...
根据“He speaks French with his wife, he speaks German with his daughter, he helps her with her homework in English.”可知,此处是在介绍Peter在家庭生活中使用不同的语言,选项B“他在家庭生活中使用几种语言。”符合语境。故选B。 (2)题详解: 根据“try to read at the right level”可知,说的是...
which said French holidaymakers don't speak local languages and are seen as impolite. "It's mainly the fact that they speak little or no English when they're abroad, and they don't speak much of the local language." Expedia Marketing Director Timothee de Roux told radio station France Info...
Frenchman Edouard Dodeman holds a newspaper and stands by his bookstall on the quayside of the Seine as patrons browse through nearby offerings, Paris, 1920s. Mr. Dodeman's wife, Elaine, the former Lady Barlow, operated Paris' only English-language bookstand for 26 years until her death....
He was, hands down, the most fluent, articulate human being I had ever heard speak the English language. Burgess did this without pretension, glibness or any apparent awareness of his gift for seizing exactly the right word for every nuance and sentiment out of his mouth. And his speech, ...
Shown here is a clipping from the International Herald Tribune (the European edition of the combined Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News), a prominent English-language newspaper located in Paris. It mentions Bennett’s and Brooks’ arrival; as such, this humbl...
I am also working on some short stories but some are in English, and French, while others are in German or Portuguese. The idea of compiling them is tempting but I am conscious that I need to first agree with myself in which language I want them to be published. ...
Users of Shockwave Flash on French-language Web sites attend a convention at the Centre Pompidou to see the latest in computerized animation techniques, during the month of May. Call (33) 48 24 96 45 for more information. The Great Paris Steeplechase The Hippodrome Auteuil hosts this famous an...
Written in plain language, these accounts document heroic journeys to the vast, unknown west and north and encounters with Inuit and other native peoples (called First Nations in Canada), often on behalf of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, the great fur-trading companies....
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Realness/Unrealness Artificial like a piece of water in a French garden —W. Somer...