I find myself in crowds, audiences, mobs. Just as often I am alone, in a field, house, car, on a beach, in a grammar school in the middle of the night. I fear finding myself in a prison cell, an elevator full of people, the middle of a highway. I app

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My mom wears lipstick, eye liner, mascara, blush, and eyebrow pencil to go to the dry cleaners. Dad is much as he always is, tall, spare, a quiet dresser, a wearer of hats. The difference is his face. He is deeply content. They touch each other often

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旅游英语单词 journey, trip 旅行 tourism 旅游 pleasure trip 游览,漫游 business trip 商务旅行 organized tour 组团旅游 circular tour 环程旅行 package tour, inclusive tour 包办旅行 outward journey 单程旅行 return journey, round trip 往返旅行 holiday 假

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BBC Learning English Weekender Keeping fit Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is Weekender. Today, Friday April 7th is World Health Day. A day promoted by the World Health Organisation to raise awareness of health issues around the world. T

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BBC Learning English Weekender Housekeeper Jackie:Hello, welcome to the programme, Im Jackie Dalton. Margaret Hello, my name is Margaret McMullen Jackie:Today were going to explore some work-related language and find out about a certain job. Any ide

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BBC Learning English Weekender Handwriting Anna:Hello, Im Anna Jones and youre listening to Weekender. And this week were talking about handwriting. Just how much can you tell about a persons personality just by looking at how they write? And why do

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BBC Learning English Weekender Bournemouth Jackie: Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton. Welcome to Weekender and what better to do with your weekend than go to the seaside to get some fresh sea air? England perhaps doesn't have the long, rolling golden beaches

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BBC Learning English Weekender World Affairs Anna:Hello, I'm Anna Jones and in todays programme we re going to be talking to a BBC journalist who reports from all over the world. Mark Doyle works for the BBC World Service as a World Affairs Correspo

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BBC Learning English Weekender The Housewife Yvonne:Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer and this is Weekender from bbclearningenglish.com! Today, womens lives around the world are often very different from the lives of their grandmothers or even their mothers.

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I had spent my childhood thus far being carted around the capital cities of Europe, so the Field Museum satisfied my idea of Museum, but its domed stone facade was nothing exceptional. Because it was Sunday, we had a little trouble finding parking, b

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Clare counts. I race around picking underwear and socks from the floor, collecting spoons and coffee cups from various horizontal surfaces and chucking them into the kitchen sink. As she says Nine hundred and sixty-seven, I remove the tie from her ey

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I sat on the landing and hatched the light come up. A family of ducks came swimming by, and a raccoon appeared on the landing across the river and looked at me curiously before washing its breakfast and eating it. I may have fallen asleep. I heard Mo

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It makes it more multi-sensory. I offer him the package of Oreos. He hesitates, unsure if its all right, hungry but unsure how many he can take without being rude. Take as many as you want. Ive already eaten ten, so you have some catching up to do. H

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Pretty please? Okay, Ill try. She stands up, slowly. This is the year Clare got tall, quickly. In the past year she has grown five inches, and she has not yet become accustomed to her new body. Breasts and legs and hips, all newly minted. I try not t

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I help myself to a doughnut. Its a Bismarck, my favorite. The frosting is melting in the sun a little, and it sticks to my fingers. Clare finishes her doughnut, rolls up the cuffs of her jeans and sits cross-legged. She scratches her neck and looks a

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Ruths parents are in San Francisco for a week, so at least she will have some time to repair, clean, and explain, but Im glad its not my house all the same. Ruths older brother, Jake, has also invited his friends, and altogether there are about a hun

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HENRY: A long time has passed, maybe an hour or so. I eat half the potato chips and drink the warm Coke Clare has brought along. I nap a bit. Shes gone for so long that Im starting to consider going for a walk. Also I need to take a leak. I hear heel

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Clare is going to kill me for this. Im a friend of Clares parents. They were worried about her taking the car to a party where there might be alcohol, so they asked me to go along and play chauffeur in case she got too pickled to drive. Helen pouts.

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Spanked? Clare looks at me, smiling, her eyebrows halfway to her hairline. Never mind. So you went to a movie, and...? Oh. Well, then he wanted to go to Travers. What is Travers? Its a farm on the north side. Clares voice drops, I can hardly hear her

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Nell and Etta always got mad when I did anything in their kitchen beyond getting myself a Coke, and since Ive moved to Chicago I dont have anybody to cook for, so I havent been motivated to work on it. Mostly Im too busy with school and all, sol just

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