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Go Home They say you can never go home again. Well, you can. Only you might find yourself staying at a Trave Lodge, driving a rented Ford Contour and staking out your childhood home like some noir private eye just trying to catch a glimpse of the Joh
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Cheering Someone Up Eleanor: Isnt it a beautiful day? The sun is shinning; the birds are singing. Its good to be alive! Porter: Okay, Pollyanna, go spread good cheer somewhere else. Eleanor: Whats wrong with you? You must have woken up on the wrong s
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Religion in Turkey 土耳其的宗教 Erasing the Christian past 抹煞基督教的历史 A fine Byzantine church in Turkey has been converted into a mosque 土耳其一座精致的拜占庭教堂成了清真寺 Jul 27th 2013 | TRABZON |From the prin
1. Republican presidential candidates debated for the second time in 24 hours ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Newt Gingrich accused Mitt Romney of spouting pious baloney for saying he is not a career politician. 2. A bomb hidden in the pack
Obama Visit Aims to Increase US-India Partnership 奥巴马出访旨在加强美印关系 From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. This weekend, President Barack Obama is set to make his second trip to India since taking office. The president
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Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases. 比勒达的口音中夹杂着水手腔、家乡土语和《圣经》上的话,显得有几分刺耳。 Avast there, avast
Holloa! he breathed at last, who be ye smokers? 嗨,你们,你们是谁? Shipped men, answered I, when does she sail? 水手。船什么时候开? Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye? She sails to-day. The Captain came aboard last night. 噢,
Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice copy of Watts in each seaman's berth. 水手
By Scott Stearns White House 10 June 2006 President Bush says the formation of a new government in Iraq and the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi made this past week a good one for the cause of freedom. Opposition Democrats say the pres
Don't sell that cow 别卖那头牛 The wise old Mother Superior was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed, trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.
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People always say: life is nothing but a sum of moments. I suppose everyone has their own moments, either high or low, up or down, such as being born, first learning to walk, laughing hard, bursting into tears, being touched by a child's smile, losin
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He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, 他是在对他那烟斗斧发狂思,那东西,在我们直接注意这个熟睡的索匠的时候,好