Working Overseas Danielle: Im so excited! I just got my new posting overseas. I cant wait to live abroad and work as an expat. Angus: I remember my first overseas assignment. It was interesting, but the adjustment took some time. Danielle: I wont hav

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Simplifying Information Tara: How is your presentation coming along? Stan: Its okay, but Im having trouble simplifying some of the key concepts without dumbing them down too much. Tara: I think your instincts are right. Youll be presenting to non- sp

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9 The Flight of Youth 青春的飞逝 Richard Henry Stoddard 理查德亨利斯托达德 There are gains for all our losses. There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs(1) It takes something from our hearts, And it never come

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15 Address at Gettysburg 葛提斯堡演说 Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕林肯 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equ

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11 Night in the open world 露天世界的夜晚 Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特路易斯斯蒂文森 Night is a dead and monotonous period under a roof(1); but in the open world(2) it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the ho

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10 The Importance of Scientific Experiments 科学实验的重要性 William Stanley Jevons 威廉斯坦利杰文斯 The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far back as the time of Roger Bacon(1), the wonderful monk and philos

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13 Happy Life at a Tavern 小客栈的乐趣 James Boswell 詹姆斯鲍斯韦尔 We dined at an excellent inn at Chapelhouse(2), where Dr. Johnson expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns, and triumphed over(3) the French for not

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1 The first snow 初雪 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 享利?沃兹沃思?朗费罗 The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves

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5 Reading Good Books 阅读好书 Henry Addington Bruce H爱丁顿布鲁斯 Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book-

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3 Pines 松树 John Ruskin 约翰拉斯金 The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, brings into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow bre

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12 Accepting the Command of the Army 受命统率全军 George Washington 乔治华盛顿 You may believe me, when I assure you in the most solemn manner that, so far from(2) seeking this employment, I have used every effort in my power to avoid it,

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2 THE HUMMING-BIRD 蜂鸟 George Louis Leclerc Buffon 乔治路易勒克莱尔布封 Of all animated beings this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to(1) this je

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4 Trees 树 Joyce Kilmer 乔埃斯基尔默 I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest(1) Against the earths sweet flowing breast(2); A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms(3) to pra

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6 The House Cricket屋内蟋蟀 Gilbert White吉尔伯特怀特 Crickets are fond of kitchens and bakers ovens on account of (1) their warmth. Tender insects that live abroad (2) either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away (3)

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7 On Etiquette 论礼仪 William Hazlitt 威廉黑兹利特 Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society

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8 An Hour before Sunrise日出前的一小时 Charles Dickens查尔斯狄更斯 An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a

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14 Who Loves His Country (1)爱国志士 Nancy Byrd Turner 南希伯德特纳 Who Loves His Country Who loves his country will not rest Content with(2) vow and pledge alone, But flies her banner in his breast And counts her destiny his own(3) --

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Is taking messages really necessary? People can call back. 留话真的很重要吗?人们可以打回电话来啊。 Yes. Taking messages is necessary, Alex! They might have important information for me. 阿莱克斯,留个话很重要!他们可

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Are you going home for the holidays, Taylor? 泰勒,你要回家过这个节日吗? Yes. I'm flying to Vancouver on Friday. 是啊。我周五要飞去温哥华。 So you'll be with your family for Christmas on Sunday? 那你周日会和自己的家

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Oh! The phone ... Linda, Taylor, somebody ... the phone... 哦!电话...琳达,泰勒,来人啊,有电话。 Hey, Ben. The phone is ringing. 嗨,本。电话在响。 I know. 我知道。 Please, answer the phone! 那就帮忙接一下电话!

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