2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：抢风头!抢风头！别抢他的风头。这两句话正规而寻常的英文讲法是：grab the limelight!don't steal his limelight.话说威势，我们借风做比喻，英文就用光。limelight是照亮表演舞台

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：用英文讲「执生」执生，指事发之际会有未可知的情况、以至事故，要随机应变。这个动作，英文系to improvise。you improvise, you follow instinct, not just established protocol.

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：历久常新的《威尼斯商人》莎士比亚喜剧《威尼斯商人》（the merchant of venice）的情节家传户晓：威尼斯商人antonio为助好友bassanio迎娶portia，向放高利贷的犹太人shylock借钱，

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：steps to paradise and beyond"every nation which uses english does so with a different tone, colour and quality."— larry smith
tracing dr verner bickley's distin

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：行住嚟讲 ?英文中广为流传的名人金句，几乎百分百都用字显浅，容易明白之余，意境隽永。
to believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. - gandhi
任何信念，只信

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：rise to leadership始为领袖coretta scott was a student at the new england conservatory of music (新英格兰音乐学院) in boston. she had a beautiful singing voice and dream

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：主动和被动语态的误区active voice（主动语态）和passive voice（被动语态）的分别不难明白，但要使用得当，并非那么容易。active voice句子的主语是「行动者」，宾语是「受动者」。

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：i could not care less何解？有些英文语句的表达方式比较迂回，或令学习英文的人感到疑惑，以下有几个例子：no more than
no more than 有时指「不多于（某数量）」，和not more t

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：i have a dream 伟大演说requests came from all over america for martin luther king jr to speak. he addressed thousands of people in chicago, los angeles, and detroit. at

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：获不同家庭收养they were each adopted by two different families
她们各自获两个不同家庭收养peggy: did you hear that amazing story on the radio this morning about the two

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：要识得 -ling -ling

都听过「太子党」吧，英文叫princeling(s)，是prince加ling，即「小王子」。英文用语，在一个字后面加 -ling，是指那个字所代表事物的年轻版、或粗劣版。美国

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：peaceful resistance 和平抵抗原则（二）in 1925 gandhi again toured india to spread his ideas. some indians believed he was the reincarnation (转世) of god. but gandhi sa

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：争先恐后to fall over oneself 争先恐后shumi: have you heard about the young footballer who's just started playing for rovers?
舒米﹕你有没有听到最近才效力流浪的那个年轻

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：principles of peaceful resistance和平抵抗原则in 1920, gandhi joined the all indian home rule league. he became its first president. he worked tirelessly for india's in

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：疑似错英文即使是潜心要学好英文的人，有时候看到一些疑似错用字，或都会一心一意肯定就是错的。真要小心呢，像以下这一句：
they drank and sang with abandon.他们饮酒唱歌&hel

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：这正好显示it just goes to show
这正好显示imogen: i had a real scare when i was on holiday last week.
伊莫金﹕上星期我放假，遇上一件惊险的事。chloe: you went to the s

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：用希腊文字根记拼字古希腊是西方文化的源头，很多概念和字词都可追溯至古希腊。

许多和政体有关的英文字都源于希腊语，例如：democracy（民主）：源自希腊语demokratia。demokr

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：mahatma gandhimahatma gandhi (甘地) discovered that india was full of lawyers and there was no need for him. he spent many desperate (绝望的) days looking for work. whi

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：satisfied和satisfying有读者问：怎样分辨satisfied和satisfying？以-ed或-ing结尾的形容词叫做participial adjectives（分词形容词）。常见例子有：excited - exciting
bored - b

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：「蚕虫」师爷

政治化妆师一词，源自英文的spin doctor，直译是「编织医生」，职责似我们口中的「师爷」，再加点贬意，就是「蚕虫师爷」。今亦有叫spin master，晋升至「大师」级

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：从美式政治宣传学惯用语在美国，占众议院大多数的共和党力图阻挠奥巴马医保（obamacare），与控制参议院的民主党僵持，令预算案无法通过，导致联邦政府「关门」（注：上周四已重开）

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：大败输亏 to come a cropper
大败输亏josé: isn't that pablo gonzalez over there going into the pawn shop?
何塞︰看，走进当铺的那个人，不是巴勒罗．冈萨雷斯吗？sa

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：fung ping shanfung ping shan: the man, his life and his library (《庋藏远见 —— 冯平山》) is a riveting (饶有兴味的) and meticulously researched biographical

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：老羊扮羔羊mutton dressed as lamb
老羊扮羔羊athene: look at davina over there.
阿西妮﹕看看那边的达维娜。jayani: gosh. her skirt's a bit short, don't you think?
贾亚

2016-06-03 所属栏目:名人教你讲英文

名人教英文：going places... 去边 ?he really wants to go places in life.这句话看上去很浅，直译似乎是「他真希望生命中去许多地方」？错了。这句话的陷阱，是 to go places、going places 是