英国广播公司（British Broadcasting Corporation），简称BBC，是英国的一家政府资助但却独立运作的媒体，长久以来一直被认为是全球最受尊敬的媒体之一。在相当长的一段时间内BBC一直垄断着英国的电视、电台。在1955年独立电视台和1973年独立电台成立之前，BBC一直是全英国唯一的电视、电台广播公司。今天BBC除了是一家在全球拥有高知名度的媒体，还提供其他各种服务，包括书籍出版、报刊、英语教学、交响乐团和互联网新闻服务。
Think of crafts and perhaps corn dollies and threaded baskets come to mind. But now the annual COLLECT craft fair has opened at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and it's a very classy affair. On of...
thanks very much. Now ever wondered why your ancestors gathered where they did, or where others with your surname live now. A research project investigating the distribution of surnames in Britain ans...
Tower Hamlets has overcrowding and homelessness way above the national average. Officers on the safer neighborhood teams are dedicated to a small area, and working with other agencies to improve the q...
It's had a massive makerover in the last few years and as a result, poker, in particular online poker is booming. Gone are the days of pokers being a male dominated and seedy environment as now more t...
Did a secret police infiltrator inside Fathers for Justice first propose the idea of kidnapping Tony Blair’s son? That's what some members of the organization now suspect. It started as a simple con...
The queue for the auditions went on and on. Some of the girls have been lining up since yesterday evening to get their couple of minutes in front of the casting director. Thousands of young actresses...
Now then, if you could pick one thing which sums England up to you, what would it be? We've been asked to vote for the objects that most represent Englishness to help create an online portrait of Engl...
本期难点 1. ironing: 这个词不难，熨衣服。在这里是说Wills以后不能搞特殊了，衣服也得自个熨了。 2. cotton wool : cotton made absorbent by chemically freeing it from i...
本期难点 1. throw in the towel : give up; admit defeat. 2. the LEA : Local Education Authority (UK) 3. swack : vt. [苏]重击; 鞭打; 猛掷 4. Tory : A member of a British political party, foun...
本期难点 1. light the blue touch paper: Touch paper is the correct name of the impregnated material used in fireworks fuses. The original phrase (the instructions on fireworks) reads "Light the bl...
本期生词： fare:A transportation charge, as for a bus 本期难点： run ultra ：ultra有个意思就是极端的，extreme. 有一种运动叫做ultra-running，更具体点，叫做ultramarat...
本期难点 paltry: Lacking in importance or worth 在文中，是说博格坎普挣的比起小贝来，就有点微不足道了。 本期生词： flock: To congregate or travel in a flock or crowd...
生词： drag queen：A male transvestite; also, a female impersonator "Jill Turner. " "I, Jill Turner, make. . . " It is a historic day for gay and lesbian couples and one they have waited a long ti...
