and then I walk down to the skating rink. A few couples and little kids are skating. The kids chase each other and skate backward and do figure eights. I rent a pair of more-or-less my size skates, lace them on, and walk onto the ice. I skate the per

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I want to be with people, I want to be distracted. I suddenly think of the Get Me High Lounge, a place where anything can happen, a haven for eccentricity. Perfect. I walk over to Water Tower Place and catch the #66 Chicago Avenue bus, get off at Dam

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I didnt mean to put all this sadness on you. I just find Christmas.. .difficult. Oh, Henry! Im so glad youre here, and, you know, Id rather knowI mean, you just come out of nowhere, and disappear, and if I know things, about your life, you seem more.

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The Berghoff is warm, and noisy. There are quite a few people, eating and standing around. The legendary Berghoff waiters are bustling importantly from kitchen to table. I stand in line, thawing out, amidst chattering families and couples. Eventually

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Arrgh. Ill never get this. I stand up and stretch. I desperately need to go for a walk. My grandmothers room is comforting but claustrophobic. The ceiling is low, the wallpaper is dainty blue flowers, the bedspread is blue chintz, the carpet is white

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Before Philemon could ask any questions, the elder stranger inquired in a deep voice, 菲利蒙还没来得及问问题,那个年长的陌生人用低沉的嗓音问道, Was there not, in very old times, a lake covering the spot where now stands

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To my immense relief he does say yes. We plan to meet tonight at a nearby Thai restaurant, all the while under the amazed gaze of the woman behind the desk, and I leave, forgetting about Kelmscott and Chaucer and floating down the marble stairs, thr

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Sometimes you feel euphoric. Everything is sublime and has an aura, and suddenly you are intensely nauseated and then you are gone. You are throwing up on some suburban geraniums, or your fathers tennis shoes, or your very own bathroom floor three da

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HENRY: How does it feel? How does it feel? Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black

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She was wearing dark lipstick and I insisted on going to bed with her lip prints on my cheek. I remember her sitting on a bench in Warren Park while my dad pushed me on a swing, and she bobbed close and far, close and far. One of the best and most pa

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I run my hands over her hair and come away with a small handful of snow that melts immediately. Whats wrong? Clare takes in the untouched food, my uncheerful demeanor. Youre sulking because theres no mayo? Hey. Hush. I sit down on the broken old La-Z

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BBC Learning English Weekender Corner Shops Jackie: Hello, welcome to Weekender, I'm Jackie Dalton. As part of BBC Learning English's special focus on Pakistan this month, we're going to find out about one of the things Pakistani migrants and their

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thirty num. 三十 this ? a. pron.? 这,这个 thorough a. 彻底的 those ? a. pron.? 那些 though conj. 虽然,可是 thought n. 思考,思想 ;念头 thousand num. 千 thread n. 线 three num. 三 throat n. 喉咙 through prep. 穿(通)过;

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BBC Learning English Weekender Actor or actress? Amber:Hello, I'm Amber, and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Weekender today, we consider a linguistic dilemma - should we call a woman who acts an actress? Does the use of the word actor

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BBC Learning English Weekender Mexicans and Economies Yvonne:Hello, this is bbclearningenglish.com - Im Yvonne Archer! Now terms like the black economy and indirect taxes shout business, but how do they connect to ordinary people?Well find that out

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BBC Learning English Weekender Mothering Sunday Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is Weekender. This Sunday is a special day in Britain. It's not an official national holiday and not everybody will be doing anything different, but it is ma

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BBC Learning English Weekender Humour part 1 Jackie: Hello, I'm Jackie Dalton, you're listening to BBC Learning English dot com. Today: what's the point of humour? We all know having a laugh is a way of making our lives better, but exactly how does

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NASA wants to send your messages to aliens. 美国国家航空航天局想要将你的消息发给外星人。 Back in the 1970s the Voyager 1 probe was sent out into space containing a record of images and words selected by Carl Sagan and others. Th

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 I think about it. Yeah. Well, anyway, the stuff you were drinking was about forty proof. And you had two whiskeys.. .but you seemed perfectly fine and then all of a sudden you looked awful, and then you passed out, and I thought about it and realiz

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