Hopes were dashed this week for bold congressional action to slow the growth of Americas $15 trillion national debt. A special bipartisan committee failed to agree on ways to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion. But if Congress has shown itself incapab

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(267) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Startup founders are just like us. They may know how to negotiate term sheets, but when it comes to their own personal finances, billion-dollar valuations be damnedtheyre just as lost as we are. 企业家们和我们并没有什么两样。他们也许

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball. It won't be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature. Mentally, I'm exhausted, I don't feel I have a challenge. Physically, I feel GREat. the last time in 1993 I had

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

退休后去哪里?澳洲最受青睐 Australia ranks tops for retirement Australia is the country most workers and retirees around the world would like to live in 20 years' time, an international survey found. Australia is the country most workers

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General Motors Company and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract late Friday in Detroit, Michigan. Details of the settlement are being withheld, pending a review meeting with local union leaders and r

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

一、Dear sir/madam: Im delighted you have accepted our invitation to speak at the Conference in [city] on [date]. As we agreed, youll be speaking on the topic from [time] to [time]. There will be an additional minutes for questions. Would you pleas

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Matt: This morning on today's Two Cents: Getting your finances in order. The annual ride of packing up the kids and sending them off to school can be the perfect time for mom and dad to do a little fi

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 访谈录

Chinese athletes have cast off the shadow of star hurdler Liu Xiang's retirement to restate the country's challenge to world powers in track and field. 中国运动员已从栏王刘翔退役的阴影中走了出来,并重新向世界展现中国田径

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

1. It's cool. cool 是青少年(teen-agers) 常用的字,(有时也用 debonaire) 其真正意思是指可以接受的好事;或是情况可以控制;或是保持冷静、文雅、礼貌、外表不错,能够合乎年轻人的标准。(可指

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

有关延迟退休的说法近日流传甚广,实行了几十年的退休年龄真的要改了吗?人力资源和社会保障部有关负责人9月15日表示,我国暂时不会调整退休年龄,有关部门目前只是在研究一些延迟退

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Dear sir/madam: I'm delighted you have accepted our invitation to speak at the Conference in [city] on [date]. As we agreed, you'll be speaking on the topic from [time] to [time]. There will be an additional minutes for questions. Would you please te

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming has been nominated for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in a move that could make him the first Chinese player to receive the honor. 原休斯顿火箭队中锋姚明正式获得了奈史密斯篮球

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Nobel laureates sometimes display as much ingenuity when deciding how to spend their prize money as they did on the work that won them the award in the first place. 有的诺贝尔奖得主使用奖金的方式就像他们的获奖作品一样匠心独

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- With the retirement of basketball legend Yao Ming, who led the Chinese sports delegation to the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony, Liu Xiang and Sun Yang will spearhead the Chinese athletes next year in London in pursuit of a

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Are We Living a Meaningful Life? Are we living a meaningful life or are we in a rut and living a life leading us to nowhere? Are we living or just merely existing and what sort of legacy will we leave behind? These and many other similar questions co

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

这是一个星期六,Larry 和李华来到学校附近一个社区,那里的住户当天都把家里没用的东西拿出来廉价销售。 李华会学到两个常用语:shindig 和a steal。 LL: Li Hua, this community yard sale is huge. It i

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 美国之音《流行美语》

Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the country, 思特里克兰德太太的父亲在印度当过文职官吏,退休以后定居到英国偏远的乡间, but it was his habit

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 月亮和六便士

Chapter 7 七 The season was drawing to its dusty end, and everyone I knew was arranging to go away. 喧嚣纷扰的社交季节逐渐接近尾声,我认识的每一个人都忙着准备离开这里。 Mrs.Strickland was taking her family to the co

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 月亮和六便士

We all know what's good about it, so I'm going to talk about what's bad about it. 我们都知道它的好处。那么就让我来说说它的不好之处吧。 All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. 所有这些选择对人

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