How to Describe Yourself

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PHILLIPS: Well, it's spring break at Cornell University and you'd think that students would be celebrating. Their basketball team's unlikely birth in the NCAA's Sweet 16 tournament. But instead, there is a depressing reality at that Ivy League school

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15_Never Judge A Book by Its Cover

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president of Harvard’s out

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Lily is talking to her singer friend, Chad. L: Chad, what a lucky guy you are! C: What do you mean? L: Well, you've got everything a person could ask for: a lovely family, money and fame. C: Nothing's

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36 if I were a boy again

If I were a Boy Again 假如我又回到了童年 If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice, says a wise author. We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may

假如 我又回到了童年

If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. There are only two creature

态度决定生活

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer (contractor) of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to reti

Life is a do-it-yourself project

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They coul

The Dancing Bear

A bear who had for a long time earned his living by dancing，at length escaped from his master，and returned to his former companions in the woods．His brethren welcomed him with their most friendly growls．The traveller then related what he had

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假如我又回到了童年，我就要事事乐观。生活犹如一面镜子：你朝它笑，它也朝你笑；如果你双眉紧锁，向它投以怀疑的目光，它也将还以你同样的目光。内心的欢乐不仅温暖了欢乐者自己的

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生活如同为自己打造的工程

The builder An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retir

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It rains when Heaven deems fit, mother remarries when she wants toa popular saying often heard in China, what's the source of it? It comes from a legend. 中国有句老话叫：天要下雨娘要嫁人。这句话从何而来呢？来自一个古老的

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First impressions are everything, so if you're shy by nature, you need to break out of your shell if you're trying to impress someone. This is extremely crucial during a job interview and in fact, shy people need to express a high level of self-confi

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Vienna has also outlined plans to erect a fence at a border crossing with Italy. With migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Italy in growing numbers, Austria has said Rome must stop them or it will have to introduce border controls at th

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Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment. So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranqu