1. bother to do something费心做某事 2. channel /tfenl/ (v.)引导,形成,塑造 3. acid trip(俚)迷幻之旅 4. so to speak 可以这么说,打个比方说 5. marvelously /'ma:rvelesli/ (adv.)奇迹般地,不可思议地 6. enticing /in' taisun/ (adj.)迷人的,诱人的 7.
Learning a language, not only phonetics, grammar, phrases and idioms should be mastered, but also how the people who speak this language value the world must be understood—that is culture. So we can say language teaching is in essence culture teaching. For example, ‘zhishifenzi’ and ‘int...
Now If I were to ask you, "Do you believe the Bible is the Word of God?" I am sure that all theChristianswill say, "Yes, we believe the Bible is the Word of God." But suppose I asked you, "Why do you believe the Bible to be the EXCLUSIVE Word of God?" Suppose I am a ...
In 2000, the Singaporean government launched the Speak Good English movement in an attempt to stamp out Singlish from use in formal and public settings. Over the past decade, however, Singlish has crept back into the public’s hearts, and was even recognised as a part of Singapore’s ...
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Yet despite their great expressive power, modal verbs are often avoided by English language learners. Although they seem to lovewilland manage to usecan, it seems as if there is nothing we can do to wrest a singlemightorcouldn’tfrom their mouths. I believe that it is the great compl...
In this post, we'll discuss why it's still important to learn foreign languages even if you're only going to use them occasionally. 1. It’s good for your brain You might not know this particular perk of learning a new language. However, researchpublished in the New York Timesshows tha...
=> First of all,an advantage of foreign languages is to broaden our horizons and improve our understanding of advanced science and technology.Second,relying on the foreign languages,we can independently to travel round the world.先把independently拿掉我们看一下,can后面可以跟to do么?can后面是动词...
When we speak, we have regional accents, and we mumble, stutter and borrow terms from other languages. While supervised and unsupervised learning, and specifically deep learning, are now widely used for modeling human language, there’s also a need for syntactic and semantic understanding and ...
we do turn that part of ourselves off if there's another person. Think about going shopping and think about the possibilities of a compassionate consumerism. Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the objects that we buy and use have hidden consequences. We're all unwitting vi...