The Truth about First Impressions First impressions are an interesting phenomenon. Just about every article or book chapter on this topic will tell you that first impressions are extremely important, so you have to ensure that you always make a great

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英语

Text Twelve Angry Men (Part One) by Reginald Rose Characters Narrator Foreman (Juror No. 1) Jurors No. 2 No. 12 Narrator: The scene is a jury room in a criminal court. Twelve men walk into the room. They are the jury for the trial of a boy charged wi

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 现代大学英语精读

moderate a.中等的;温和的 vt.使缓和 vi.变缓和 modern a.现代的,现代化的 modest a.谦虚的,客气的;适度的 modify vt.修改,变更;缓和,减轻 moist a.潮湿的,微湿的 moisture n.湿气,潮湿 mold n.模子,

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 大学英语四级词汇拼读版

Good morning from the CNN center here in Atlanta, I'm Melissa Long with a look at some of the news happening. This morning on this Monday, top republicans are demanding an apology from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of misleading Co

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2009年(五)月

A rescue plan to cap a blown-out well deep in the Gulf of Mexico is stalled. BP is using undersea robots to free a saw that got stuck while it was cutting through a pipe on the wellhead assembly. The goal is to at least contain the oil spill. With an

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

1、All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。 2、Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。 3、Failure is the mother of success.Thomas Paine 失败乃成

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 励志英语

Personally I think it was rash of Mr. Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained belief of a certain unpleasantness between his father and mother, 讲到我个人的意见,我认为思特里克兰德牧师在驳斥外间深入人心的一种

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 月亮和六便士

Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted. 没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为,确定一个目标吧。R.Peters Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 生活没有目标,就像航海没有罗盘。John Ruskin One

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

BBC Learning English6 Minute English Couch surfing NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript6 Minute English ? Kate: Hello, Im Kate Colin and this is 6 Minute English. Today I'm joined byRebecca Byrne and we're discussing couch surfing(

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

Anchor: Well, for years, people have been trying to keep up with the Joneses, but instead of competing with your neighbors, how about actually trying to get along with them? Joining us with some simpl

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Once upon a time the rivers combined against the sea,and con-verging into a whole,accused her,Why is it that when we rivers pour our water into you so fresh and Sweet,you straightway render it salty and unpalatable?The sea,observing the t

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A rich man lived near a tanner, and not liking the unpleasant smell of the tan-yard,he pressed his neighbour to move. The tanner put off his departure from time to time,saying that he would remove soon .But in fact,he still continued to s

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

To be able to motive yourself, or self-motivation, occurs when a person has the desire and willingness to do something and is internally motivated to do it. Sometimes it's very difficult to get ourselves moving and achieve what we want to achieve. Th

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

1. Police say they don't have a motive in the shootings that left three people dead and two others critically wounded in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Police said the two suspects arrested overnight will face three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2012(四月)

By all accounts Keith and Paul were close. Raised in Brooklyn and Staten Island, the brothers moved to New Jersey during the late 1980s. 基思和保罗关系密切。兄弟俩在布鲁克林和史坦顿岛长大,1980年代后期搬到了新泽西。

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(108) / 评论(0) 分类 人物杂志

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Former Manchester United and Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron has confirmed he will play in Argentina's fifth division next year. The 37-year-old ended his career with top-flight side Estudiantes in June but

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(196) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Just the other day, I was in a bookshop and spotted a volume entitled How to Make Friends with Foreigners by Li Yang of Crazy English fame.Naturally, as a foreigner who has been living in China for a year, I was curious to see what kind of advice a C

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

American business in wartime 美国的战时经济 Democracy's arsenal 民主阵营的兵工厂 Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. By Arthur Herman. 《铸就自由:美国工业如何赢得了二战》亚瑟赫尔

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

警员德州枪战中丧生 HOUSTON, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. police officer was killed and another wounded in a shootout with a gunman in central Texas, local media reported Sunday. Police officers went to an apartment complex in Killeen, a city 3

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Hello, I'm Sue Montgomery with the BBC news. Cyprus says it has agreed to an Egyptian request to extradite Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa, an Egyptian national accused of hijacking an Egypt air flight to the island last week. Aileen Young reports. The s

发表于:2019-02-20 / 阅读(198) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻