MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: How do you write a memoir if you don't trust your memory? That's a question at the heart of Mark Slouka's new memoir Nobody's Son. It covers his childhood in Pennsylvania, also the lives of his Czech parents who lived through

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 听一分钟英文-I

Glossary alley n.小路, 巷 bitterness n.苦味, 悲痛, 怨恨 call it quits 停止 civil war 内战 Congressman n.国会议员, 众议院议员 dirt road 土路 down and out 落魄 drip n.水滴vt.(使)滴下vi.(使)滴下 druggist n.药商, 药材商

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 现代大学英语精读

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been almost 25 years since a film called Not Without My Daughter captured the world's attention and thrust a Michigan mother and her child into the international spotlight. The movie starred Sally Field and was based on a me

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Welcome to WORDMASTER. I'm Adam Phillips, sitting in for Avi Arditti and Rosanne Skirble. See if you can identify what these three sentences have in common: Found true love. Married someone else. Young, skinny: ridiculed. Old, skinny: envied. And one

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Argentinian travellers are the most likely to indulge in hotel misappropriation, a survey has suggested, with 73 percent admitting to taking items not including toiletries from their room. 调查表明,阿根廷游客最喜欢从酒店顺东西73%的

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl whose tweets from besieged Aleppo drew the world's attention to the human toll of the Syria conflict, will publish her memoir this fall. 在被围困的阿勒颇,七岁的小女孩巴娜埃伯德的推文使叙利亚冲

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Palestinian Authorities continued a crackdown on militants in the West Bank today following the shooting attacks on Israeli settlers this week. NPR's Deborah Amos reports from Jerusalem. As many as 600 Palestinians have been arrested in the largest c

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

Its common for pregnant women to experience some sort of depression. With so many physical, psychological, emotional changes happening, sometimes it gets too overwhelming for the pregnant woman. The sudden mood swings brought on by hormonal changes a

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 英语小短文

Happiness Equates with Fun? I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still equate happiness wit

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

The radiance falls on all of us, and we are nothing without each other. 只有和大家团结在一起,每个人才是光芒四射的。 Instead, I flew back to Oregon, 可现实是,我飞回了俄勒冈, and as I watched the evergreens and rai

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Memoir of the Middle East;Scent of dreams; 文艺;书评;中东回忆录;梦之味; I Was Born There, I Was Born Here. By Mourid Barghouti. 《我在那里出生,我出生在这里》,穆里德巴尔

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Books and Arts; Book Review;Diana Athill's letters;Dear Edward; 文艺;书评;戴安娜阿西尔的信;致亲爱的爱德华; Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend. By Diana Athill. 并不是一本书,只是些给朋友的信。戴安娜阿

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Books and Arts; Book Review;Joseph Heller and his fiction;The first cut is the deepest; 文艺;书评;约瑟夫海勒和他的小说;一刀见血; Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller. By Tracy Daugherty. 《只有一条军规:约瑟夫

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New fiction 新小说 The self stripped 自我剖析 A novel masquerading as a tell-all memoir 看似自传,畅所欲言;实则小说 How Should a Person Be? By Sheila Heti. 《应该如何做人?》作者:希拉海蒂。 THE confessional tal

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

2017, ahoy! These are the books ― among others! ― that we cant wait to read. 你好,2017!以下这些书已经让人迫不及待、蠢蠢欲读啦! The Man Who Shot My Eye Out Is Dead by Chanelle Benz 夏奈尔宾士《那个向我眼睛开枪

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

1. The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold; 400 pages 1. 《可爱的骨头》,艾丽斯西伯德著(400页) Because Susie made us trust -- and cry for -- a ghost. 推荐理由:(女主人公)苏西让我们信任一缕孤魂,并为之哭泣。

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I can't wait to get my hands on all of these books! From the soul-soothing words of Brene Brown to the historical observations of Margo Jefferson, there's something here for everyone. 这些书我全都迫不及待想一睹为快。从布琳布朗安抚

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

When she was a little girl, best-selling author and Momastery writer Glennon Doyle Melton was often described as pretty or adorable. People commented on her childhood beauty, and strangers were drawn in by her smile. But when a young Glennon would sp

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

莱克星顿 希拉里克林顿新书欠精彩 influencers 对这本枯燥乏味回忆录的最好诠释是为代理人和有影响力者写就的简明手册 Hard Choices, a new memoir published on June 10th. As she worked tirelessly to prepare for

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

吃货们,你们有食忆录吗?食忆录是一种个人体验记录,着重描述食物,并把食物作为表达个人体验的手段。 Foodoir is a memoir that includes recipes or that is focused on food, meals, or cooking. 食忆录是一种包

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇