听播客学英语 60 我不能忍受
This podcast is about bear. You all know what a bear is. It is a big, furry animal that likes eating honey. There is a picture of a bear on the website. He is from a zoo in northern Spain, where there are still some bears in the wild. However, that i
听播客学英语 61 群岛
Today we are going to visit St Kilda. St Kilda is a small group of islands in the north Atlantic, far to the west of Scotland. It is the home of tens of thousands of sea birds. In fact, St Kilda is one of the most important places for sea birds anywh
听播客学英语 62 卷土重来
Hello, and welcome back to Listen to English. I hope you all had a good summer break. Today, I will tell you about an expression which you often see in the newspapers making a comeback. What does it mean, to make a comeback? Imagine that you are a po
听播客学英语 63 我的意思是
Today we meet the English expression I meant to. Meant is the past tense of mean, and I know you all know what mean means. (Sorry, there are a lot of means in that sentence!) I guess you often ask, What does this word mean? or you say Now I understan
听播客学英语 64 Royal Ascot
Today we go horse racing, and we meet people with lots of money and no dress-sense! Ascot is a small town, south-west of London, and close to the royal castle at Windsor. In 1711, Queen Anne went horse-riding from Windsor, and discovered Ascot. She d
听播客学英语 65 旅游
We have more about canal boats in todays podcast. It was late afternoon when we arrived at the boatyard to find our canal boat. One of the staff took us round the boat, to show us how things worked. Then he gave me the keys. The boat was ours, for th
听播客学英语 66 运河
In the podcast about Mr Speaker, I told you that I was going on holiday. I said that I would be the captain of a ship and sail away to new and interesting places. So, where did I go on my ship? Perhaps I sailed across the Atlantic. Perhaps I visited
听播客学英语 67 黑色上衣
Today, I will tell you about black jumper day , and we will meet the English expression to leave for somewhere. In a podcast a very long time ago, in November 2006, I told you that most English children wear a school uniform to go to school. My daugh
听播客学英语 68 再见议长先生
Who is Mr Speaker? Mr Speaker is the chairman of our House of Commons, in Parliament. He is called the Speaker of the House of Commons because, several hundred years ago, it was his job to speak to the King, to tell the King what Parliament wanted, a
听播客学英语 69 桂冠诗人
Britain has a new Poet Laureate. Already, I hear you asking, What is he talking about? We know what a poet is it is someone who writes poetry. But what is this laureate thing? You may know that the ancient Greeks used to place a crown made of laurel
听播客学英语 70 犹豫
Two weeks ago, a man called Clement Freud died. He was 84 years old. He was a remarkable man, and very well-known and liked in Britain. He made us laugh, and I thought I would make a short podcast about him. Clement was born in Berlin in Germany. His
听播客学英语 71 帮助
I am sorry it has been so long since my last podcast. Thank you to all of you who sent me e-mails to ask what had happened and when would my next podcast be. No. I am not ill. No, I am not dead. No, I am not bored with podcasting. No, I have not run
听播客学英语 72 狐狸和母鸡
I like hens. When I was a child, my grandmother kept hens. When we visited her, we could help her feed the hens. We thought she had hundreds of hens, but actually I think she had 40 or 50. They lived in hen houses in her garden, and during the day th
听播客学英语 73 铃声对你说什么？
Do you know the word impact? Impact means the action of hitting something with a lot of force. So, if two cars hit each other, we can talk about the impact of the collision. But generally we use impact in a figurative way we use it to mean a big effe
听播客学英语 74 失去
Today we are going to miss things! Miss is a word which we can use in several different ways. Here are some of them. Kevin is at a football match. United, the team which he supports, is losing 1-0, and there is only five minutes before the final whis
