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• 1.英语听力精选进阶版 11227
• Hotdesking You know, there are some very descriptive words that come into the language from time to time, and one of the ones that came in the 1990s w...
• 2.英语听力精选进阶版 11226
• Happy-clappy Professor David Crystal This is one of those reduplicated words, where the two words are almost the same, but they just change one little...
• 3.英语听力精选进阶版 11225
• Toy boy Professor David Crystal There's a class of very unusual words in English, they're called reduplications or reduplicated forms: bow wow, says t...
• 4.英语听力精选进阶版 11224
• Showbiz Professor David Crystal This is probably one of the most popular abbreviations of a word that took place in the 20th century in the United Sta...
• 5.英语听力精选进阶版 11223
• Prenup Professor David Crystal We often abbreviate words by dropping the endings. There's a technical term for it in linguistics - they're called clip...
• 6.英语听力精选进阶版 11222
• Spam Professor David Crystal Technology always has an influence on language. When printing came in, it brought new words into the language. When broad...
• 7.英语听力精选进阶版 11221
• Phwoar! Professor David Crystal Interjections are words which express emotions and some of them are very old: words like 'cooer', 'gosh' or 'phew'. Yo...
• 8.英语听力精选进阶版 11220
• Mwah! Professor David Crystal You've seen it on television, or in the street, hundreds of times, thousands of times. Two people come towards each othe...
• 9.英语听力精选进阶版 11219
• Dis(s) Professor David Crystal Prefixes, almost by definition, don't occur as separate words. I mean, that's what they're for: they're for modifying a...
• 10.英语听力精选进阶版 11218
• Text Professor David Crystal 'Text' is one of these new words that have come into English as a result of the internet revolution and especially, this ...