My Father's Son

Lesson 39 Text A My Father's Son It's hard being an astronaut's son. I mean, everybody expects you to be special or perfect, and I'm just an average elevenyear-old kid. I'm an average student, and I'm

Take Away English-Father's Day 父亲节

Happy Father's Day! Father's Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother's Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. The origins of the celebration are American a

TED演讲 :我选择和平(1)

On November 5th, 1990, a man named El-Sayyid Nosair walked into a hotel in Manhattan and assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League. 1990 年 11 月 5 日， 一位名叫埃尔塞伊德诺塞尔的男子，走入曼哈顿的

TED演讲 :我选择和平(3)

Then there was The Daily Show. 接着，有个每日秀的节目出现了。 On a nightly basis, Jon Stewart forced me to be intellectually honest with myself about my own bigotry 每一晚，乔恩斯图尔特催促我诚实面对自己的偏见，

TED演讲:美国人在健康问题上的共识是什么(6)

Listening to her, I felt this familiar panic rise in me, the residue of my own childhood. 听着她的描述，我感到熟悉的恐慌在我心中升起，来自我童年的阴影。 When I was 10 years old, my father lay on the living room floor in

TED演讲:在垃圾之城创造50栋建筑的彩绘(2)

The Zaraeeb, that's how they call themselves, which means the pig breeders, 照片上的这个人所代表的是自称Zaraeeb的一个群体，意思是猪的饲养者 have been collecting the garbage of Cairo and sorting it in their own neighborhood

NPR 06-26:Father vs. Father: Two Traditions Square Off这就是我的父

Tony Gargagliano's father came to New York from Italy and held on to many of his Old World ways Time again for StoryCorps, the project that is travelling the country recording your stories. Today it's hailed from New York City, that is where Cathie

英语歌曲:Dance with my father

Dance with my father 与父亲共舞 Back when I was a child, 小时候， Before life removed all the innocence, 天真懵懂。 My father would lift me high, 父亲会把我高高举起， And dance with my mother and me, 跟我和母亲一起翩翩起

TED演讲:医生们可以互相学习(2)

So no wonder that some of my old colleagues are frustrated. 怪不得我过去的同事们那么沮丧。 At BCG, we looked at this, 在BCG（波士顿咨询公司），我们分析了这个问题， and we asked ourselves, 我们问自己， this ca

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(3)

Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations pla

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(1)

Mom, who are these people? 妈妈，这些人是谁? It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three. 这是来自我小女儿Alia的天真的疑问，大概是在她三岁的时候。 We were walking along

The Date Father Didn’t Keep （父亲失约）

The Date Father Didnt Keep （父亲失约） It happened in one of those picturesque Danish taverns that cater to tourists and where English is spoken． I was with my father on a business－and－pleasure trip，and in our leisure hours we were hav

You are his father

This bloke (人，家伙）is lying on his deathbed, surrounded by his weeping wife and his four children. Three of the children are tall, good looking andathletic, but the fourth and youngest is an ugly runt（矮子）. Darling, the husband whisper

英文歌曲:I Believe In Father Christmas

I Believe In Father Christmas I Believe In Father Christmas They said there''''ll be snow at Christmas, They said there''''ll be peace on earth, But instead it just kept on raining, A veil of tears for the Virgin birth. I remember one Christmas morni

TED演讲:一位敢去开车的沙特妇女

Allow me to start this talk with a question to everyone. 请允许我以一个问题开始 You know that all over the world, 你清楚世界各地 people fight for their freedom, 有人为了自由而奋斗 fight for their rights. 有人为了权利而

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(2)

I was born in a refugee colony in the capital city of India, New Delhi. 我出生在印度首都新德里的一个难民营里， And my father was a freedom fighter. 而我的父亲是一位自由战士。 My mother was, well, just a fighter like mo

TED演讲:我从全职奶爸经历中学到的知识(6)

Start to freak out, you know what I'm saying? 有点吓到我了，你们懂我说的吗？ He was trying to confide in me -- I said, You have no idea what you're talking about. 他觉得我是他一伙的--我说，你压根不知道自己在说些什

英语歌曲:My father 我的父亲

My father 我的父亲 Artist：Judy Collins 茱迪科林斯 Song：My Father My father always promised me That we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine And I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio then He worked in the mines On his dreams

TED演讲:拥抱你的内心少女(6)

In that hut, we walked in, 我们走进那间小草屋 and her father and his four wives were sitting there, 她的父亲和四个妻子坐在那里 and her sisters who had just returned because 她的姐妹们也回来了， they had all fled when s

TED演讲:拥抱你的内心少女(5)

In Kenya, in August, 今年8月，在肯尼亚 I went to visit one of the V-Day safe houses for girls, 我参观了一个专门为女孩开设的V日安全避难所 a house we opened seven years ago 那是我们7年前设立的 with an amazing woman