找Hi家教學17種外語
Say Hi to the World！

Tim discovers Khalid hiding in the bathroom - but why? Find out more in episode 101 - Smoking in the loo - from BBC Learning English.

  Few instruments can be gentler than the harp, but authorities in New York’s Central Park have branded street musicians like harpist Meta Epstein a public disturbance and want them driven out.  (點我說給你聽)

很少有樂器的音色能比豎琴更加柔和，但紐約中央公園的管理單位卻把豎琴手梅塔．艾普斯坦這種街頭音樂家視為擾亂公共秩序，想把他們趕出去。

看到吃飽閒閒不工作、打定主意讓父母養的「米蟲」，便可以說：Quit sponging off your family。(點我說給你聽)

這裡的sponge原本是名詞「海綿」，變成動詞片語sponge off 就是「過寄生生活」之意。此外還可以說：Stop living off your family.Stop mooching off your family.（mooch是乞討、揩油。）Don’t bum off your family.（bum是乞討之意。） 

  McDonald’s chief executive Jim Skinner has stood by the fast-food chain’s trademark clown Ronald McDonald. On Wednesday, a group of 550 healthcare workers wrote to McDonald’s asking it to stop marketing to children using methods such as toys and the clown. (點我說給你聽)

麥當勞執行長史金納對這家速食連鎖店的招牌小丑麥當勞叔叔表示了支持。一個550人組成的健康照顧工作者組織，週三寫信給麥當勞，要求他們停止使用玩具與麥當勞叔叔等方式對孩童行銷。