[00:01.40]Be Happy! [00:05.44]The days that make us happy make us wise.John Masefield [00:12.33]When I first read this line by England's Poet Laureate, it startled me. [00:17.47]What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, [00:21.73] I ha

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[00:03.61]A Place to Stand [00:05.00]If you have ever gone through a toll booth, [00:09.82]you know that your relationship to the person [00:11.78]in the booth is not the most intimate you'll ever have. [00:14.38]It is one of life's frequent non-enco

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Be Happy Lloyd Morris (1613-1680) The days that make us happy make us wise. --John Masefield When I first read this line by Englands Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the

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During his days of crime, Darwin Coon was a reckless young man. He robbed five banks in the Midwest and escaped from the Nevada State Penitentiary. At Alcatraz, the isolation and boredom worn Coon down. This is 127. This is where I've spent four year

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核心句型: Do you have rocks in your head? 你脑袋进水了吗? have rocks in one's head字面意思是:脑袋里有石头,想想看脑袋被石头堵住了,人的思路就不清晰,脑袋就不好使了吧。这也就是汉语里面所

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但我认为与其虔诚地思考而不采取行动,不如有一点宗教信仰并付诸实践。 How to Refill an Empty Life by Albert J Nesbitt One day about fifteen years ago I suddenly came face to face with myself and realized there was someth

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The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so acc

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Chapter 8 Make Your Partner a Real Partner 第8章 让你的另一半成为你真正的人生搭档 Being a mother has been an amazing experience for me. Giving birth was not. 做母亲对我来说是相当不可思议的经历,但分娩过程却不是

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It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. (Winston Churchill, British prime minister) 不能爱哪行才干哪行,要干哪行爱哪行。(英国首相 丘吉尔.W.) My phi

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英语作文-中考 写作题目:Should Women Return to the Kitchen? Directions: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Should Women Return to the Kitchen? You should write no less than 150 words and base your com

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A long time ago, when I was living in my favorite apartment behind a bamboo patch in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I wrote my first love letter. It was a liquid hot afternoon, and I was sitting on my screened porch, enjoying my boredom, thinking that I was fu

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American Expressions in the Home Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watchin

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Refugees Improve English Skills While Waiting for Resettlement 难民等待安置的同时提高英语能力 For many refugees around the world, boredom is a fact of life. While the United Nations High Commission on Refugees or UNHCR works on resettl

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Love's delight, intimacy, and warmth helps us overcome our fear of the world, 爱的愉悦,亲密,和温暖帮助我们克服对这世界的恐惧, escape our lonely shells, and engage more abundantly in life. 逃脱我们孤独的外壳,让我

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Some advantages, particularly to this age, are not to be denied. Boredom seems to have been vanquished! There is always something to do, but hasn't this translated into a perpetual distraction in our lives? In the bathroom, at the dinner table, in th

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Boring vs Bored 如果要形容某个事物,某种体验(thing)令人感到无聊用boring: The movie was boring. 电影很无聊。 The class was boring. 课程很无聊。 但如果是表达某个人(person)感到无聊就用bored: Th

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9. When I was running, I sprained my ankle. 我跑步的时候扭到了脚踝。 还能这样说: I stumbled and gave my ankle a painful wrench while running. I twisted my ankle when running. 应用解析: a bad sprain 严重的扭伤; sprain o

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之前看过一部叫做Dead Poets Society《死亡诗社》的电影。它是罗宾威廉姆斯、领衔主演的一部励志电影。该片讲述的是一个有思想的老师和一群希望突破的学生之间的故事。电影中有两个场景我

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chapter 5 - Part 2 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain. For half a minute there wasnt a sound. Then from the living-room I heard a sort of choking murmur a

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The ways successful people defeat procrastination. 成功人士战胜拖延的方法。 They have self awareness. 他们有自我意识 Self-awareness is a common trait many successful people have. Having self-awareness allows you to properly underst

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