I had a terrible journey back from Bangkok last week. 我上周从曼谷回来的时候,过程很惊险。 Really? Why? What happened? 真的吗?为什么?发生什么事了? Well, first of all, the taxi that was taking me from the client's office

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 大忙人学社交口语

The exit, exit, is where you leave the freeway. 出口(exit)是你离开高速公路的路口。 It can be a noun or it can be a verb. 它既可以作名词也可以作动词。 To exit means to leave, and normally, in a public building, a hotel

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 ESL杰夫的一天

Books and Arts; Book Review;Japanese history; 文艺;书评;日本历史; Selective memory; 选择性记忆; Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World. By John Dower. 《淡忘之道,铭记之途:现代日本》,约翰

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Finance and Economics; The global crash; Japanese lessons; 财经;全球危机;日本教训; After five years of crisis, the euro area risks Japanese-style economic stagnation; 经过五年危机,欧元的状况正冒着日本当年经济模式

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

Festivals 节庆 Chinese New Year 过新年 There was a serious traffic jam on the super highway during the Chinese New Year. 农历年时,高速公路大塞车。 Many people, instead of driving, took trains home for family reunions. 很多人改搭火车回家团圆。 At ni

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 不用背句型学英语

美国是一个公路建设特别发达的国家, 各种道路网绵密分布深入美国的每个角落. 再加上美国地广人稀 (跟台湾比起来), 除了一些大众运输系统特别发达的大

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 小笨霖英语笔记

Japan is ready to relaunch the Trans-Pacific Partnership minus the US in a shift of position that could bring the huge trade deal back from the dead. 日本准备在美国缺席的情况下重启《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》(Trans-Pacific Part

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(206) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

First Self-Driving Truck Debuts on European Highways 无人驾驶卡车将在欧洲高速公路第一次测试 The first automated semi-trailer truck started its maiden voyage Friday, October 2, on a European highway. The Daimler truck called 'Actros

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十月)

华盛顿:在本周的讲话中,奥巴马总统号召国会像过去两年里七次做到的一样,全力通过交通运输法案的延期表决。如果国会不能成功通过该法案,对我们的经济将是一场灾难,明年将有100多

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 奥巴马每周电视讲话

Business Transport in Japan Bullet v budget 商业 日本的交通 票战vs站票 Can low-cost airlines beat bullet trains? 低成本航空公司能击败子弹头列车吗? THE world's busiest train route, and one of the busiest air routes, is bet

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Japanese designer Pico has combined her love of cats and handbags to create highly realistic purses. The bags are shaped like kitties with whiskersand tails. Each cat-bag is priced at about $500 to $700, but buyers dont seem to mind the steep pricing

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

No one can be happier than Shinzo Abe that Sundays upper house election tipped the legislative balance in favour of lawmakers open to revising Japans constitution. 7月10号日本上院选举结果使立法天平向修宪派立法者倾斜,对此没有

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(146) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

TOKYO More than one in four people in Japan were aged 65 or older as of Oct. 1 accounting for 33.42 million or a record 26.7% of the overall population a government study showed Wednesday highlighting the nations challenge in dealing with rising soci

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Business 商业报道 Entrepreneurs in Japan 日本的企业家 Time to get started 到了该开始的时间了 Shinzo Abe is giving new hope to Japan's unappreciated entrepreneurs 安倍晋三给了日本不被看好的企业家们希望 IT BEGINS f

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Christmas Eve in some parts of the world may find parents battling crowds of other last-minute shoppers or struggling to assemble toys as their children sleep, but in Japan the holiday is as much for couples as for kids. Magazines aimed at the young

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语作文

Australia and Japan 澳大利亚和日本 Scrum-halves 逐利先锋 Closer security ties with Japan unsettle some Australians 一些澳大利亚人对澳日更紧密的国防关系感到不安 THE prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, flew to the Aust

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Dancing in clubs after midnight in Japan is no longer a crime as long as the lights stay on for deceny's sake, according to new regulations. 日本一项新法规定,只要保证充分照明,夜里零点以后在夜店跳舞不再算违法行为。

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

今天我们要学的词是interstate. Interstate 做为名词,有州际高速公路的意思。A bridge collapsed in Southern California, and forced the indefinite closure of Interstate 10. 美国加州南部的一座桥梁倒塌,迫使十号州际

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃

Criminal justice in Japan 日本的刑事司法 Forced to confess 屈打成招 Suspects in Japanese police cells are far too vulnerable to abuse日本监狱里的政治嫌犯极其脆弱,易受欺凌 ON THE face of it Japan's system of criminal jus

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

The United States, Japan and trade 亚太贸易协定:美国与日本 Don't treat trade as a weapon 别将贸易协定作为武器 An Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China 亚太贸

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列