The principal elements in behavioral thermoregulation are basking (heliothermy),heat exchange with substrates such as rock or earth (thigmothermy),and diurnal and annual avoidance behaviors,which include moving to shelter during the day for cooling...
In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group,a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century. (同位语a supremacy) 17世...
Amid rumors that there were prehistoric mammoths wandering around the unknown region and that somewhere in its wilds was a mountain of rock salt 80 by 45 miles in extent,the two captains set out. (同位语从句rumors that) 当时有一些传言,说...
The tropics contain a larger surface area of land than higher latitudesa fact that is not always evident when we examine commonly used projections of Earth's curved surface, since this tends to exaggerate the areas of land in the higher latitudesand...
在做托福阅读时,许多考生认为做不对题与自己的词汇量有关,认识单词能做对,不认识单词就会做错。事实上,认识的单词经常会做错,不认识的单词反而能做对。其实原因很简单,在做不...
托福听力中细节题目庞杂,转折、对比、问答、强调、解释等等,整个听力过程中都需要高度戒备,以防掉入ETS挖的陷阱中去。本文就且集中探讨一下细节题中常见的一类:举例细节题。 首先...
托福听力是很多考生应对考试的难点所在。为此,托福频道与大家分享托福听力练习技巧记住单词的声音形象,帮助大家有效攻克托福考试。 在托福教学的过程中我们发现,很多同学在听听力...
托福听力是很多考生应对考试的难点所在。为此,托福频道与大家分享两个托福听力练习技巧,帮助大家有效攻克托福考试。 众所周知,听写是提升听力一个非常重要的途径,通过听写的练习...
看过《疯狂动物城》的伙伴一定记得其中的鼬鼠weasel,同时weasel也指狡猾的人,并有逃避的意思。在此,新东方孟炎老师和大家聊聊weasel word。这些在口语考试中都可以信手拈来使用,在阅读中...
TOEFL写作拿低分难即便对于高中生而言,获得低于15分的分数,也是一个较小概率的事件;但同样,拿到高分,也较困难26分以上的学生,寥寥无几,其可能性要远低于阅读和听力。 原因在于,写...
与down有关的词组 1. 首先down有降低的意思比如:knock down: 降价、下跌: 例子: The market might abandon the stock, and knock down the price. 市场可能会抛售股票,从而令其股价下跌。 2. knock down还有倒下的...
1)I am totally wiped out. 我太累了, 想睡觉。 Time to hit the sack/I just want to crash out. 我太累了, 想睡觉。 wipe out 两个意思,消除或者太疲惫了。 sack:本意袋子,引申为睡袋和床的意思。hit the sack...
1)I am really short on dough. 我快没钱了。 dough本意为面包,没有钱当然就吃不起面包了。所以dough也有钱的意思。另外一个词breadwinner, 直译为赢得面包的人,可以理解为养家糊口的人。 2)He dropp...
对某人有意思: Tony was hitting on her at the party last night. Hit on可以换成mack on, 还可以说lay the mack on sb Tony was laying the mack on her at the party last night. 或者:Tony has a thing for her. 程度在深一点就是迷恋包...
当得知新的八卦的时候我们往往有很多的表情,比如一个同学托福考了120, 所有人都会很惊讶,这个时候我们可以说wow, crazy, wild 等等。今天我来教大家如何用一两个词来回复别人带来的新消...