Is Housing Reform Necessary?

Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary? Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reac

2008年ESL之购物 03 Finding a Bargain

26 Renting an Apartment GLOSSARY apartment manager a person whose job is to take care of problems in an apartment building, collect the rent, and find peopleto live in the building * When our toilet stopped working, we called the apartment manager. v

2013年ESL之商务英语 07 Types of Meetings

Types of Meetings Susanna: All right, then. This meeting is over. Well meet again next week for a status update. Juan: Hey, do you have a few minutes to talk about tomorrows teleconference? Susanna: Sorry, Ive got to run. Im late for my departments w

俚语口头禅:Take a breather

【句子对照】 Let's take a breather after we finish these homework exercises. 完成家庭作业后让我们休息一下。 【关键俚语】 take a breather (verb phrase) 英：to rest or stop doing something for a short period of time 中：休息片刻

办公室英语口语第180:Chatting about a new restaurant 谈

Chatting about a new restaurant A: Hi, Alex. How are you doing? B: Just fine, Karen. Im just taking a breather from all this paper work! A: I know the feeling. Im calling to let you know about this new Italian place I found. Its right around the corn

美国常用英语俚语:Take a breather

【句子对照】 You knucklehead! How could you have mixed the dog food with the cereal? 你这个笨蛋！你怎么会把狗食和谷类混到一块呢？ 【关键俚语】 knucklehead 英：A stupid person 中：笨蛋

英语四级作文 Housing Problem

Direction:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence of the three paragrapgs.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words,not including the words given.Remembe

英语新闻视频 China pushes low-rent housing

Affordable housing is one of the main goals of the government's policy of building a housing security system. In the last five years, 270,000 low-income families have been given access to low-rent housing. It appears that low-income families just ca

China allocates 20,000 hectares for low-income housing

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec

音乐咖啡厅:Each Other-Katharine McPhee

No more lonely nights to hurt me. No more tears left to spare. No more reasons to be unhappy. You threw them all up in there air. And I don't know how you did it But you made me a believer. I never thought that love Could turn someone into a dreamer

China urges expanded financing for affordable housing

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is encouraging local governments to make full use of their financing vehicles in 2012 in an effort to boost financial support for low-income housing projects, the country's top economic planner said Monday. The cent

2.96 bln yuan misused in affordable housing

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top auditor said on Wednesday that 2.96 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) earmarked for affordable housing programs was intercepted or embezzled last year. The report was based on auditing in 66 cities and c

China to regulate housing file management

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China will next year introduce a regulation to better manage the housing files of the country in terms of resources and applicants, according to an official announcement on Tuesday. The announcement, posted on the website

英闻天下——147 A Look at Housing in Third-tier Cities

China's real estate market in major cities is warming up, with home prices rising, and more people buying new apartments. However, this is not the case across the country. In smaller cities, real estate agents are finding it increasingly difficult to

ESL Podcast 884 – Types of Meetings

Susanna: All right, then. This meeting is over. Well meet again next week for a status update. Juan: Hey, do you have a few minutes to talk about tomorrows teleconference? Susanna: Sorry, Ive got to run. Im late for my departments weekly brainstormin

China starts construction on 5.8 mln low-income housing units

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China started building 5.8 million low-income housing units in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction on 3.6 million affordable homes has been ba

ESL Podcast 319 – Being Under Stress

Wei: Whats wrong? You look like youre in pain. Jason: My stomach is acting up again. Wei: Its all of this stress. I dont know how anyone can cope with the pressures youre under. Jason: Its nothing. Ill just take a pill for my stomach. Wei: That wont

China to continue regulating land supply for housing construction

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l

Chinese banks to hold differentiated housing loans

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China's four biggest state-owned banks said Thursday they will continue implementing the differentiated housing loan policy. The four state-run lenders, dubbed the Big Four, are Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ch

美国俚语: 呼吸声音很大的人 darth breather

darth breather的意思是指呼吸声音大的人(尤其是在安静的环境下)，就像Darth Vader一样。 【词源】 达斯维德（Darth Vader 旧译黑武士或达斯瓦德）原名安纳金天行者（Anakin Skywalker），是电影 《星际