2013托福考试备考:托福阅读必备背景资料(十六)
世界杯上,来自世界各地的顶级足球运动员们带来了一场场精彩绝伦的比赛,也让我们关注一下。而与此同时诞生在世界杯赛场上的新名词。 In 2002, the word "metatarsal" suddenly entered the mainstream, such was the focus on David Beckham's broken foot. Four years later, the wives and girlfriends' ostentatious stint in Baden-Baden, Germany, brought the nickname Wag into common parlance. Adrian Beard, author of the Language of Sport, says certain words tend to catch on because of cultural repetition and "playfulness" with language. "The interesting thing about metatarsal is we had a specialist medical term being... [ 查看全文 ]2013托福考试备考:托福阅读必备背景资料(十六)的相关文章