俞敏洪经典演讲
俞敏洪老师不仅是一位英语强人，更是一位商界达人，值得学习，各位可以从网上当一些他的演讲视频，本人颇受启发，尤其是他讲到自己大学生活的时候， 多读书，多思考，多交友，印象最深的是他引用古人的话：用师者王，用友者霸，用徒者亡。除此之外，老俞还有...详细
Narrowing Your Essay T
The first step in writing an essay is finding something to write about. Whether you are working from a list of assigned topics or selecting your own, try to find something which sparks your interest:...详细
相似词语辨析【99】list
listen to，listen for 这两个片语都有“听”的意思，但词义有细微的差异。 Listen to表示“静静地听”的意思，多半用于已被听见的场合。例： Fellow students，you should listen to what the teacher says careful...详细
相似词语辨析【97】lend
lend，loan 这一对词都表示“借出”的意思，但词性和使用场合有所不同。 Lend是动词，它的过去式和过去分词是lent。用作转义时，可作“帮助”解。例： Please lend me one thousand dollars． 请你借一千元给我。 I...详细
相似词语辨析【96】laug
laugh，laughter 这两个词都表示“笑”的意思，但涵义和使用场合有所不同。它们的区别如下： （一）laugh可以用作动词和名词；laughter只能用作名词。 （二）用作名词时，laugh是可数名词，可以用a修饰，也可以有复数...详细
Writing from Reading
The first step when you write from what you read is to be sure you understand what you have read. To ensure your understanding, you should be an active reader. This means that you should read more tha...详细
成对词的运用
成对词即把两个相关的词或同一个词用and或or连接起来的词组。它们常出现再口语或非正式书面语中，是人们再长期的语言交际中约定俗成的。看下面的实例： 1．We should serve the people heart and soul. 我们应该全心...详细
Narrative Essays
As a mode of expository writing, the narrative approach, more than any other, offers writers a chance to think and write about themselves. We all have experiences lodged in our memories which are wort...详细
Some General Advice on
Miscellaneous observations on a topic are not enough to make an accomplished academic essay. An essay should have an argument. It should answer a question or a few related questions (see 2 below). It...详细
Descriptive Essays
Descriptive writing portrays people, places, things, moments and theories with enough vivid detail to help the reader create a mental picture of what is being written about. Things to Consider as You...详细
用词要简洁
“简洁”的反面是“(口罗)唆”。好文章要简洁，不应(口罗)唆。 下列两个句子中，(a) 属(口罗)唆型，(b) 是简洁体： (1) a. The stranger was conveyed to his place of residence in an intoxicated condition. b...详细
只有其意，不见其形
一篇好的文章不但内容丰富有条理，句子结构紧凑清楚，遣词用字更是恰到好处，引人入胜。即使不能达到这样理想的境界，至少也要思路清晰、文字正确。 下面四段出处不同的文字乖离了英语句法标准，必须更正。 先看...详细
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
A. Verse Rhyming verse Blank verse (has rhythm, usually iambic pentameter, but has no rhyme) Free verse (has no regular rhythm or rhyme ) B. Rhythm Poetic foot (a combination of stressed and unstr...详细
The Nature of Poetry
Poetry has been produced by every civilization in history, and it shows no sign of losing its power in our time. Ours may be, as we are often told, a prosaic age or a scientific age, but it is also an...详细
趣谈blue,black… 等表
blue除表示蓝色以外，还可以表示： 1.（人的脸色等）发灰的，紫的；（动物的毛皮）青灰色的。如: She turned blue with fear. 她吓得脸发青。Lily...详细