Pre-Listening Vocabulary gender-neutral: does not identify a person as being male or female personal pronoun: a word that is used to identify a specific person or thing awkward: uncomfortable propose: to make a recommendation fad: something that is p

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 趣谈英语

If you could travel back in time, what would be your destination? We put the question to a group of contributors and guests, starting with the historian Patrick Dillon ... 如果你可以回到过去,你的目的地会在哪里?我们向一些本刊

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

It is time to reassess your relationship with your computer when....(到了重新评价你和你的电脑的关系时候了当......) 1. You wake up at 4 O'clock in the morning to go to the bathroom

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By Kari Barber Dakar 24 November 2006 As part of a week to raise awareness against gender violence in Africa, the U.N. Population Fund is training local journalists to report on the issue in a way that can help solve it. Kari Barber attended a day-l

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Weve had enough of these boys messing about. This is what Anna Soubry, UKs former business minister, said earlier last month, offering her backing of Theresa May in the running to become the UKs next prime minister. 我们受够了这些男生们的捣

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A billboard along an interstate in North Carolina reads, real men provide. Real women appreciate it. Those behind the message remain anonymous. And, needless to say, not everyone appreciates the sentiment. Bethany Chafin of member

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

In just two months, the latest buzzword from the Internet, diaosi, has spread so much that it can be found everywherefrom online forums to micro blogs. Many people even call themselves diaosi. Its not the first time a term has gone viral on the Inter

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Why Men Are Becoming More Like Women In its recent special on the state of American women, Time magazine announced that the gender wars were over and declared a tie. It's no longer a man's world, Time concluded. Nor is it a woman's nation. It's a coo

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三八国际妇女节的历史由来,三八国际妇女节介绍,三八国际妇女节简介 International Women's Day 妇女节 International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also comme

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人际交往中的十个粗鲁行为 1. 职场歧视 Discrimination in an employment situation 2. 危及他人安全的违章野蛮驾驶 Erratic or aggressive driving that endangers others 3. 在和人交谈、约会、开会的时候打电话或发短

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times who tackles tough topics for a living. Now she's entering a potential mind field with her second book, it's called

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录

What makes a good UN secretary general, a secretary or a general? That is the age-old question. Some diplomats and observers, including Britain's UN ambassador Matthew Rycroft, believe the world body needs someone with the qualities of a military com

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. We're taking a survey,she says, half-joking. Do you think I should have a baby? It will change your life, I

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

There are some people in this world who just can't get enough of Kimye's outfits and Kylie's lips. 这世上总有些人看不够金卡戴珊的着装和凯莉的嘴唇。 But if you're tired of keeping up with the Kardashians, an ad blocker has been

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

China's gender pay gap is widening, with no signs of pulling even, according to the Green Book of Population and Labor 2016, released by the Population and Labor Economics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Nov. 30. 中国社会科学

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

新潮流 男性下厨 Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University. The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

RACHEL TUTERA: My gender identity is really based in both my experiences as a woman and also it's just deeply rooted in the f the fact that I'm masculine IVETTE FELICIANO: Rachel Tutera says it wasn't until she started wearing boy's clothes as a pre-

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BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's average life expectancy rose to 74.83 years as of the end of 2010, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The NBS used data from the sixth national census to calculate the figure, which is 3.43 years

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It has long been assumed that the cavalier behavior of teenagers driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs is due in part to their characteristic disregard for mortality. Teens, as any beleaguered parent of one can atte

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Women in Saudi Arabia 沙特阿拉伯的女人们 One step forward, one step back 进一步,退一步 Progress for women is going into reverse under the new king 在新任国王的统治下,女性地位的进步又倒退了 WHEN Hind Al-Otaibi we

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