Unit Five Text If modern life is so wonderful, why do we feel so unhappy? In the following article, the author suggests that though living standards have improved, we, rather than feeling content, nev

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 大学英语精读第六册

Our story today is called Athenaise. It was written by Kate Chopin. Here is Barbara Klein with the story. Athenaise went away one morning to visit her parents, ten miles back on the Bon Dieu River in Louisiana. She did not return in the evening, and

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(六)月

IN THE NEWS - California Ruling Opens New Front in Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage A ban is overturned in the nation's largest state. Also, in another civil rights case, a federal court rules that America's paper money discriminates against the blind.

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2008年(五)月

Athenaise by Kate Chopin 短篇故事: 'Athenaise' 凯特肖邦 Athenaise went away one morning to visit her parents, ten miles back on the Bon Dieu River in Louisiana. She did not return in the evening, and Cazeau, her husband, was worried. Cazeau e

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今天我们要学的词是go south。 说一件事情to go south意思是出了问题。The stock market went south after a brief morning rally, 股票市场早上短暂上涨后迅速走跌。The secret mission went south and was immediately called

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语每日一词

在《华尔街日报》网上博客The Wallet中,新书《聪明女孩嫁给钱》(Smart Girls Marry Money)的两位作者与读者之间进行了颇有争议的问答。这是一本讽刺性自助书籍,它的一个重大使命就是:让女人和

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

This woman has only herself to blame if her latest marriage fails. 要是目前这桩婚事出现什么问题,这名新娘可怪不了别人。 Beautiful Existence a 42-year-old mother of two from Seattle who legally changed her name from Desiree L

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Please accept our most sincere congratulations upon your holy matrimony with... and very best wishesfor all the good future in the world.请接受我对你和的神圣结合的最诚挚的祝贺,并祝愿你俩幸福无量。 Allow me to join the

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[00:04]G:Brucy, you and the exquisite Julie Madison have been going out forever. [00:08]Are you going to tie the knot? [00:11]B:Uh, Marriage? Uh, uh, Marriage? Uh, uh.You want to give me a hand here? [00:17]J:Bruce and I are recklessly in love.

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EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER II Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on succee

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【原文】 Theres a moment in the Disney classic, Cinderella, when the ragamuffin1 heroine lays claim to2 her wayward3 glass slipper and Prince Charming4 adoringly sweeps her into his arms and waltzes her away. It s a scene that draws longing sighs

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FRAIDY REISS: Arranged marriage - where I grew up in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, this was just how marriage worked. And it was something I very much wanted to do. Most girls in my community were married at age 18 or 19, tops. And I had no qu

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JUDY WOODRUFF: It was a historic day at the Supreme Court, at stake, the definition of marriage. Justices split the issue into two questions: Must every state permit same-sex marriage? And, if not, do states have to recognize same-sex marriages perfo

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This week, HuffPost Weddings highlighted a handful of tweets that summed up the marriage experience. 本周,赫芬顿邮报婚礼专栏为大家带来了一系列推文,总结了婚姻生活经历。 Turns out, marriage is mostly just walking beh

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened up about her marriage in an interview with actress and activist Lena Dunham published Tuesday. 前国务卿希拉里?克林顿于9月29日接受采访,向演员兼政治活跃分子莉娜?杜汉姆敞开

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今天我们要学的词是same-sex。 Same-sex, 同性。 Same-sex couples, 同性伴侣。 Same-sex marriage, 同性婚姻。根据法院裁决,康涅迪克州成为美国第二个承认同性恋婚姻的州。 Connecticut begins issuing marriage

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寻物眼盲症大家都经历过吧?就是在屋里找一样东西,怎么也找不到,让家人帮忙找,结果发现那东西就在你眼前。在英语里,这种情况叫做domestic blindness。 经历过寻物眼盲症吗? Domestic blin

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

Every year in the United States alone, 2,077,000 couples make a legal and spiritual decision to spend the rest of their lives together ... (Laughter) and not to have sex with anyone else, ever. He buys a ring, she buys a dress. They go shopping for a

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What else is going on?Supreme court weighing gay marriage.Thinking about gay marriage. 还有什么 最高法院在商榷同性恋婚姻一事 在思考同性恋婚姻问题 This week supreme court deliberations on gay marriage have apparently reveal

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释义: would like to+动词 现在想做某事 would like to+名词表示眼下想要,在饭店点菜时表示给我来个。这是比 want+名词形式更恭敬的表达方式。另外,如果 would like 后面接动词的话则表示现在想要

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