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The priest who made up the finger alphabet also founded the first school for the deaf in Paris in 1760. Teachers and doctors who wanted to help deaf people went to Paris and learnt Abbe de l'Epee's system. Then they taught it to their students and patients. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries. 组成手势语的牧师1760年在巴黎也建立了第一个聋哑学校。教...
The newspaper I previously worked for employs a very friendly receptionist. All receptionists are supposed to be friendly, but Connie Abbott has such a positive tone, she could brighten your day by saying, "Did anyone ever tell you that you look like a movie star? You ought to go to Hollywood and audition for the title role in a new movie: The Return of King Kong."...
Lessons learning from daily life 从日常生活中学到的教训 When I was a child, I always like reading fairy tales about heros who were good, 当我还是个孩子时,我总是喜欢阅读那些非常好的英雄在其中的神话故事, who had to go through many difficult situations often battling the bad guys before he or she lived happily ever after. 他们往往与坏人战斗之前必须要经历许多磨难,之后他或她从此...
Identity Crisis 身份危机 With industrialization and modernization, more and more people are confronted with the problem of identity. 随着工业化和现代化的发展，越来越多的人要面对身份问题。 The most interesting example is that of a so-called "banana", 最有趣的例子是所谓的香蕉型人， which refers to an American who has an Asian face but holds Western values. 它代表长着...
Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. 生活中困难在所难免。 What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to the other side where the sun is still shining just for you. 最重要的是要挺过艰难的时刻，积极应对种种变故，冲破黎明前的黑暗，你终会看到只属于自己的灿烂阳光。 It takes a strong person to deal with tough times and...
Red 红色 When learning English, a good memory will help you, but a good imagination may help you even more. 在学英语的过程中,一个好的记忆将有助你的学习,但一个好的想象力可以帮助你更多。 For example, in English we don't have many words for colors, but we have many ways to describe a color. 举例来说,在英语里,对于颜色我们没有很多的词汇,但是我们有很多方式来描述一种颜色。 We s...
The sun is just rising in the morning of another day. What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop me but touch me rather, as they pass and gather strength. 朝阳又在新的一天中冉冉升起。我期许这一天带给我什么呢？我希望带给我的不是...
Noticing your age–getting older 注意你的年龄——年纪越来越大 When do you feel like you are getting older? 你什么时候感觉自己正在慢慢变老? Is it when the songs you liked when you were young are now considered all this but good east to the next generation? 是你年轻时喜欢的歌曲现在被下一代认为老掉牙的时候吗? When I was younger, I rarely liked classic music or jazz. 当我年轻...
Writing: Just a letter 写作:只是一封信而已 In the modern age, you can communicate in so many ways: text messaging, e-mailing, faxing, calling, but there is something about snail mail that is special. 在当今时代,你可以通过许多方面进行交流:比如发短信、电子邮件、传真或者打电话,但有一种邮局信件是很特别的。 When was the last time you received a letter from someone? 你上次收到一封...
The adolescent girl from Tennessee is standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in upstate New York. It's a beautiful day. But the girl doesn't feel beautiful. She's not the leggy, glamorous Hollywood type. In fact, she describes herself as dorky. 一名少女由田纳西州来到纽约北部，她站在戏剧夏令营的舞台上，虽然天气是那么好，她的心情却一点也不好。因为她不是那种身...
Relax. He is the same little boy you loved yesterday. I smiled trying to hold back the tears. “No he isn’t. Yesterday I dreamed he would be an astronaut. Today I am hoping he will learn to talk.” 放松。他仍是你昨天爱着的那个小男孩。我笑着,试图抑制住眼里的泪水。“不,他不是。昨天我还梦想着他长大后会成为一名宇航员,今天我只希望他能学会说话。” It was ...
One Girl Changed My Life 一位女孩改变了我的生活 My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts. And books, big Braille books that came with me on...
Being there,Done that 早已经历过 Have you ever heard the expression "being there done that"? 你听说过“早已经历过”这个表达吗? You say it to a friend when you want to let that person know that you've already experienced something. 当你要让那个人知道你已经经历过的时候，就对朋友使用这个表达吧。 You often say when want to emphasize that experience wasn't so good...
The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown And fit the earth like a leather glove. 同样的叶子，一回又一回！ 从投下树阴的高处飘落， 堆积成枯褐的纹理， 仿佛给大地戴上了皮手套。 Before the leaves can mount again To fill the trees with another shade, They must go down past things coming up. They must go down into the...
Karen, Judy and I were the last ones back in the school room after lunch. We put our metal lunch boxes on the shelf above the coat hooks, which were mostly empty. All of the other sixth graders were already outside, playing marbles or hop scotch or jumping rope, since it was a pleasant spring day. 卡伦、朱迪和我是最后三个吃完午饭回到教室的。当我们把各自的金属饭盒放到衣帽钩上...
The first snow 初雪 The first snow came.How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! 初雪来了。她是多么美丽。一整天，一整夜，静静地落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在人们居住的房顶上，落在沉寂的坟墓上！ All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding bl...
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundation though their melancho...
When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险...
Asking questions 问问题 Knowing how to ask questions is so important. 知道如何问问题至关重要。 I usually start an English class by writing questions on the blackboard, with words like who,what,when,where,why,how and which. 我通常通过在黑板上写问题开始上英语课，上面充斥着像谁、什么、何时、何地、为什么、怎样和哪一个这样的词语。 The most simple conversation is made up of questi...
You went to the butcher’s for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the packed, jumbled shelves around me? 到肉铺买肉、到药房买药、去食品杂货店买食品,这都很平常。可那年夏天我呆在纽约州沃里克...