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(137) / 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

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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.

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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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President Obama now says same-sex marriage should be legal. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports the White House has been under pressure to clarify the presidents position since Vice President Joe Biden expressed support for gay marriage on Sunday. The president

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From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Naamua Delaney.Thanks for checking in with us, and here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. President Obama will hold a news conference tonight. He's expected to discuss his efforts to shore up the econo

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07 Moving in Together GLOSSARY to go out to date someone; to be involved in a romantic relationship withsomeone, but not be married* Did you hear that Wendy and Gil started going out last month? heart-to-heart a serious and sincere conversation betwe

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Lesson 126 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises Note-taking: Marriage Rules Britain: 1. illegal to ___________ _____________________ 2. an offence to ________ 3. against the law to ___ ______________________

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Unit9 Section(A) Premarital Agreements A future husband wanted to be sure that if his marriage didn't work out, he could keep his treasuredice-cream collection safely stored away in a freezer. A woman insisted on verifying who would walk thedog. One

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今天要学的一个词组: split up. Split up是分手的意思。最近呢,Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson are splitting up after nearly six years of marriage, said her publicist. Kate Hudson和丈夫结婚将近六年决定分手。哎,又一对

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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

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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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