22-11-25 Since the 1970s, dummies based on male proportions have been used to assess car safety. 自20世纪70年代以来，基于男性身体比例的假人一直被用于评估汽车安全性的测试中。 But Swedish engineers are making the first average female dummy. 现在，瑞典的工程师...

22-11-16 And well be right back to our Hank Williams marathon after a quick Piston Cup update, a voice announced over the radio on Lizzies porch. Lightning looked up. Piston Cup update? Had anyone even noticed he was gone yet? He wondered. Maybe theyd send a...

22-10-10 一个早熟的加拿大六岁小孩Levi Budd，发现并没有单词指正反拼写会形成不同词汇的词，于是他聪明地创造了一个新词：levidrome，很显然是结合了他自己的名字和单词palidrome。后者意思为回文，指单词或词组正写和反写都是一样的，例如race car。另一位加拿大人，因《星际...

22-08-18 6. Thats going too far. 太过分了! A: Should I buy my girlfriend a car? 我是不是该给我女朋友买部车呢？ B: Thats going too far. 那太过分了！ 7. See. / I told you (so). 我老早告诉过你。（洋洋得意、有先见之明） A: It was stupid of me to go bungee jumpin...

22-08-16 Sleeper作名词可指卧铺车。此外，sleeper train和sleeper car也可指那种带有卧铺的列车。Overnight作形容词指通宵的，因此overnight sleeper便是通宵卧铺车，也就是那种晚上睡一夜，第二天早上便到达目的地的列车。 [口语天天练之古都西安] 俗话说不到长城非好汉， 不...

22-07-22 For as long as thereve been cars and planes, someone has been trying to combine the two. This Italian model was built in the 1940s. 自从有了汽车和飞机，就有人试图将两者合二为一。这个意大利车型建于20世纪40年代。 The trouble is, theyve never been real...

22-06-20 荷兰电动汽车初创公司Lightyear发布了世界上首款可量产的太阳能汽车。据悉，Lightyear 0是一款家庭轿车，添加了5平方米的太阳能电池板，每天最多可增加约70公里的行驶里程。 A Dutch company is starting deliveries of the worlds first production-ready solar car t...

22-06-09 1. Oh 一般放在回答句句首，用来表明听者接受到一些新信息。 Doctor: I think youve probably got what we call dry eyes. 医生：我觉得你可能是得了干眼症。 Patient: Oh. 患者：噢。 2. Oh my God 或 Oh my gosh 这个短语也非常常用，有时候简略为Gosh。一般用于表达...

22-06-07 1. I had a puncture when I was driving back from work. 我下班回家的时候车胎扎了。 2. My cars been having engine trouble recently. 我的车发动机最近经常出问题。 3. I left my car lights on and now the battery is flat. 我忘关车灯了。现在电都没了。 4. I...

22-04-26 这个颜色亮丽，味道极酸的水果通常被用作调料，富含维生素C和多种微量元素，具有很高的药用价值。lemon除了柠檬的含义，还可以表示次品，下面短语中的lemon就是这个含义。 hand someone a lemon （美国俚语）将次品卖给某人；叫某人上当 This is not a new car. They h...