Bread and butter 生计 A snack in the garden - bread, butter, cheese, wine - and a hungry looking cat 今日小常识 Bread and butter pudding is a very traditional, simple British recipe. Its basic ingredients are sugar, cinnamon, butter, bread, su...
In the picture 了解详情 This TV presenter is certainly in the picture on all these screens! 今日小常识 A drawing, a painting or a photograph can also be described as a picture. In America, a picture is also another name for a film. A drawing...
Weigh in 发表意见 Would you weigh in to an argument with this man? 今日小常识 According to the website guinnessworldrecords.com, the person who has supported the heaviest weight by his neck was the American Frank Ciavattone. He lifted a weig...
A tough nut to crack 棘手的问题/难处的人 Coconuts are delicious but you have to open them first! 今日小常识 In the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit, the coconut palm is known as kalpa vriksha - 'tree which gives all that is necessary...
Turn to jelly 胆怯/发颤 Imagine trying to eat a jelly baby this big! 今日小常识 In the UK, jelly describes a soft sweet food made from fruit juice, sugar and gelatine which you can see through and that shakes when you touch it. It's often ea...
THE FLATMATES Quiz Food vocabulary 2 For each of the six questions choose the correct answer. 1. Some people hate ... but I love pouring that sweet yellow sauce over hot cherry pie. a. trifle b. custard c. foodies d. taking the biscuit 2. He said fix...
In the hole负债累累 A gamekeeper and his dog are hunting out foxes. 今日小常识 According to the website discoverwildlife.com, the diameter of foxes holes is around 20cm. Foxes use holes mostly when breeding in the spring. At other times of y...
With bare hands赤手空拳 Some people are not squeamish. This visitor to the Getty Center in Los Angeles holds a pet lizard on his hand 今日小常识 Lizards are cold-blooded reptiles that emerged from water millions of years ago. Nowadays, they...
What's up?什么事？ A one-way road sign in London 今日小常识 According to the website DriverAbroad.com, around 66% of the world's population live in countries where drivers use the right side of the road. There are 76 countries, territories a...
Wash your hands洗手不干了 A person washes her hands under a tap using a bar of soap 今日小常识 Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis discovered the importance of handwashing in stopping infection in 1847. He realised doctors were transferring i...
