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• 1.英语听力精选进阶版 11237
• Bless Professor David Crystal There's quite a range of explanations using 'bless' in English, all originally from the religious use of the word. 'Bles...
• 2.英语听力精选进阶版 11236
• Bling Professor David Crystal Bling, bling it arrived in English in the late 1990s, used to describe diamonds and jewellery and all kinds of showy clo...
• 3.英语听力精选进阶版 11235
• Keep your English up to date Hole-in-the-wall Professor David Crystal Hole-in-the-wall is one of those phrases where you get a lot of words hyphenated...
• 4.英语听力精选进阶版 11234
• Keep your English up to date Wannabe Professor David Crystal A very unusual feature of SOME languages, and of English in particular, is that you can h...
• 5.英语听力精选进阶版 11233
• Keep your English up to date Bog standard Professor David Crystal It's pretty rare in English to find a compound word with a slang first part and a fo...
• 6.英语听力精选进阶版 11232
• Gobsmacked Professor David Crystal English loves compound words: 'washing machine' and all that sort of thing. But when you get a compound word, the t...
• 7.英语听力精选进阶版 11231
• Saddo Professor David Crystal There are quite a few familiarity markers in English words which take on an ending to make the word sound much more fami...
• 8.英语听力精选进阶版 11230
• Luvvy Professor David Crystal Have you noticed how common the 'y' ('ie') ending is in English as a sort of colloquial suffix? A familiarity marker per...
• 9.英语听力精选进阶版 11229
• Euro No named part of the world has introduced more new words into English than Europe. It's all happened of course in the last 10 or 20 years, and it...
• 10.英语听力精选进阶版 11228
• Estuary Professor David Crystal Words based on locations don't become part of the general language very often. You do get a few I mean people talk abo...