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Election night 2008 was a night that tore me in half. 2008年的大选之夜，我激动万分。 It was the night that Barack Obama was elected. 这一夜，巴拉克奥巴马当选总统。 years after the end of slavery, 奴隶制废除后148年，

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The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. 解决的办法是抛弃亲麻瓜的寓意，保留

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李华正在兴致勃勃地给Larry将她去看医生的经过，没想到被Larry泼了一盆冷水。李华今天要学两个常用语，TMI和PDQ 。 LL: Oh, Li Hua, that is really TMI. I'm sorry you had to go to the doctor, but I really don't wan

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For our 10th anniversary my wife and I vacationed in Hawaii, where we went snorkeling. After an hour in the water everyone got back on the boat, except for one beautiful young woman and me. As I conti

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 03 January 2008 A crackdown on racist abuse by unruly Australian cricket fans has begun in Sydney. After Indian supporters complained of offensive and ugly chants during a test match in Melbourne just after Christmas, officials

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It seems like everyone is using Twitter these days. You know, sharing little messages with each other on phones and computers. It turns out that all these little messages, if you look at them all at once, become an easy way to find people, news and t

让简历更有吸引力

According to Ric Edelman, author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth, the purpose of a rsum is not to get a job, it's to get an interviewyou will get the job. A rsum should not list all your skills, but rather tease the employer with your achiev

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Debt is of the very highest antiquity. 在古代的风俗习惯中，债是非常高级的东西。 The first debt in the history of man is the debt of nature, and the first instinct is to put off the payment of it to the last moment. 人类在历史上

Overcoming Writer’s Block

Because writers have a various ways of writing, a variety of reasons can cause writer's block. When you are blocked, consider these causes and try the strategies that sound most promising. IF You have attempted to begin a paper without doing any prel

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natality 生育 fertility 生育率 fecundity 生育能力 birth rate, natality rate 出生率 births 出生人数 parity 胎次 premature birth 早产 life birth 活产 stillbirth 死产 birth peaks 出生高峰 mortality 死亡 mortality rate 死亡率

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The purpose of a letter of applicationis to help the applicant obtain the job he is interested in. It should state clearly what position the applicant wants, and should tell what his abilities are and what he has to offer. It should provide a quick,

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1. Tell me about yourself! 对策：Keep your answer to one or two minutes; don't ramble. Use your resume summary as a base to start from.. 2. What do you know about our company? 对策：Do your homework before the interview! Spend some time online

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and perhaps the gentleman may have contracted his habits of oratory by conversing more with those of his own age 绅士们也许通过与其说讲些符合自己年龄的话， than with such as have more opportunities of acquiring knowledge, and mor

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有人常会觉得小孩子学语言学得比大人快，为什么呢？因为小孩子学语言不像我们死记文法，苦背单字。他们就是用所谓的pick up，看在什么场合，别人用什么字，就一个一个把它记下来。这样

Chit chat 闲聊

Larry告诉李华他连续几天给他哥哥打电话，可是总也找不到他。 LH: Larry， 你那么急着找你哥哥，有要紧的事吗? LL: No, not really. I just want to chit chat. LH: Chit chat是什么意思啊? LL: To Chit Chat is to t