英文欣赏之人生感悟 (90)固定电话的消亡 Is This the Death of Telephone?

Is This the Death of Telephone? 固定电话的消亡 The demise of the landline has gone almost unnoticed. 固定电话的消亡几乎是无声无息的。 After all, the din of mundane phone chatter is all around us-on the bus, at the next table in a restaurant. 毕竟,我们身边仍然充斥着日常电话聊天的嘈杂声-无论是在公交车上,还是在餐馆的邻桌处。 What difference does it make whether the cables lie...

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英文欣赏:不靠整容年轻十岁(下)

Retinoids go deep into skin where they stimulate cell division. 类维生素A可以深入皮肤,促进细胞分裂。 This has two effect: repairing the top layer of skin and promoting the production of collagen, a protein that makes skin supple. 这有双重效果:修复最表面的皮肤,促进胶原和让皮肤柔软的蛋白质的产生, Botox: Botox type A is becoming a top choice in Asia. There is little wonder:...

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英文欣赏:游戏有什么好玩的?(上)

What’s In a Game? 游戏有什么好玩的? Computer games are a $60 billion industry globally and playing games is a big part of many children’s daily lives. 电脑游戏在全球范围内是一个价值600亿美元的产业,它们占据儿童日常生活的大部分时间。 Parents are often concerned about the violent content of some computer games. 父母经常担心一些电脑游戏中有暴力的内容。 Games like G...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (117)英国人的姓氏 British Surnames

British Surnames 英国人的姓氏 The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. 英国的安格鲁撒克逊人无论男女通常只有一个名字。 Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. 有区别作用的称号很少加在他们的名字后。 These might be patronymic, descriptive or occupational. 这样的描述性词语可能源于父名,描述性词语或职业, They were, however, hardly surnames. 但在过...

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英文欣赏:"Sex”这个词怎么了?

What Happened to the Word “Sex”? “sex”这个词怎么了? What ever happened to sex? I had to fill out a government form the other day and it ask for my gender, giving town boxes to check, male or female. “sex”这个词怎么了?某天我得填一份官方表格,上面要求我填写性别是男是女。 It wasn’t too many years ago that it would have asked for my sex,...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (106)习惯性孤独 The Habits of the Solitary

The Habits of the Solitary 习惯性孤独 My bones have been aching again,as they often do in humid weather. 和平常一样遇到天气潮湿,我的骨头又疼起来了。 They ache like history:things long done with, that still remain as pain. 疼起来就像历史重演,很久之前就疼过,现在依然很疼。 When the ache is bad enough it keeps me from sleeping. 疼得厉害时,我无法入睡。 Every night I yearn for...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (64)大熔炉 Melting pot

“Melting pot” means a place where people from many different ethnic groups or cultures form a united society. 大熔炉是指这样一个地方,在那里来自不同种族或文化的人们形成了一个和谐统一的社会群体。 The idea comes from heating metals in a container. 此概念源自把各种金属放到冶炼容器里一起加热这一工序。 When they melt, the metals unite and become something new and stro...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (93)腹中新发现 The Belly of the Beast

The Belly of the Beast 腹中新发现 WHAT dinosaurs ate is, of course,a question as interesting and illuminating as what ate dinosaurs. 恐龙吃什么?当然,这个问题与什么吃恐龙?一样有趣,一样具有启发性。 In the case of one particular dinosaur,Microraptor, the matter was addressed in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology by Jingmai O̵...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (92)男性美容 Cosmetic Treatment for Men

Cosmetic Treatment for Men 男性美容 In GEORGES ROMAN’S clinic in London,women queue to see a cosmetic dermatologist renowned for zapping wrinkles and smoothing brows. 伦敦的乔治斯·罗曼的诊所外,女士们排着队来找这位在消除皱纹和眉间除皱方面着名的整容皮肤专家。 These days, alas, they have to share the waiting room with men. 啊呀,如今男士们也加入了进来。 In the past few y...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (15)十月的日出

An October Sunrise 十月的日出 I was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. 第二天凌晨,在十月的太阳升起之前,我已经起身并穿过了旷野和丛林。 The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; 十月的清晨乍寒还暖,日出的景象非常壮观。 peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge o...

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英文欣赏:何为强迫型过度饮食症(上)

What Is Compulsive Overeating? 何为强迫型过度饮食症? Compulsive overeating is a health problem, which can affect women or men, though it appears twice as often among women. 强迫型过度饮食是一个事关健康的问题,男性和女性都有可能患上,但女性患上几率比男性多两倍。 In this serious eating disorder, a person eats a lot of food in a short amount of time. This is called bingeing. Co...

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英文欣赏:你的眼神令你无可抵御(上)

When a woman walks into a crowded room, 一位女士走进拥挤的房间, what her eyes do in the first moments may determine, 对于任何一个与她目光相遇的男士来说, how attractive she is to any man meeting her gaze. 她前几秒钟的眼神可能决定了她是否迷人可爱。 If she turns her eyes deliberately toward a particular man, 最新研究表明:如果她有意将眼神转向某个男士, he immediately rates h...

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英文欣赏:中西方不同的友谊(下)

If one can afford to treat the other to a meal at an expensive restaurant and the other does not have enough money to do the same, it will cause problems in the relationship. 如果一个人能够支付起请朋友去昂贵餐厅吃饭的费用,而另一个人却没有足够的钱回请,那么这样的友谊会产生问题。 Westerns expect friends to be independent. 西方人希望朋友间是相互独立的。 Western people prefer p...

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英文欣赏:何为强迫型过度饮食症(下)

Compulsive overeating generally has a gradual beginning, often starting in early childhood when eating patterns are formed. 强迫型过度饮食最初基本上都开始于从幼年时期形成的饮食习惯。 It usually starts very subtly, when a child turns to food whenever they were upset. Over time, you learn that food in fact will soothe the upset feelings. 起因往往很微妙: 如果在幼年时期一感到沮...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (63)情人节

Americans celebrate Valentine’s Day each year on February fourteenth. 美国人在每年的2月14日庆祝情人节。 It is a holiday for lovers. 这是情人们的节日。 Valentine’s Day is a good day for a man to ask his girlfriend to marry him. 情人节是男士向女友求婚的好日子。 It is also a good day for couples to get married. 同样,情人节也是情人们结婚的好日子。 Other couples might...

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英文欣赏:超级名模的靓丽诀窍(上)

Beauty Tips from Supermodel Cindy Crawford 超级名模的靓丽诀窍 When I met supermodel Cindy Crawford, I was amazed that her skin was so perfectly smooth that she appeared not to have pores. 当我见到超模辛迪·克劳馥时,我被她完美光滑的肌肤震惊了,看上去几乎没有小毛孔。 She sits in one of the Hilton’s best rooms and there are no light tricks used to make a photographic subj...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (12)健全的人生

The wholeness of life 健全的人生 Once a circle missed a wedge. 从前,一只圆圈缺了一块楔子。 The circle wanted to be whole, 它想保持完整, so it went around looking for its missing piece. 便四处寻找那块楔子。 But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, 由于不完整,所以它只能慢慢地滚动。 it admired the flowers along the way. 一路上,它对花儿露出羡...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (87)盲目乐观的好处 The Optimism Bias

The Optimism Bias 盲目乐观的好处 We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. 我们喜欢把自己当作理智的生物。 We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. 我们总会提防背后的危险,权衡胜负的几率,随身携带雨伞以防下雨。 But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. 但神经学和社会学都揭示,我们的乐观性大于现实性。 O...

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英文欣赏:情商之说The Concept of EQ (上)

We have been conditioned to believe that IQ is the best measure of human potential. 我们总认为IQ是衡量个人潜力的最佳方式。 In the past 10 years, however, researchers have found that this isn’t necessarily the case – 在过去十年里,研究者发现,事实并非如此。 that in fact, your emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) might be a greater predictor of success. 实际上,情...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (94)孩子起名学问大 Baby Names

Baby Names 孩子起名学问大 Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring. 给自己的孩子取名完全是个人私事, Yet laws regulating the choice of both first names and surnames are common around the world. 但世界上对孩子取名有所限制的国家还真不少。 Denmark expects new parents to choose from a register of acceptable names;Portugal lists banned and approved ones. 丹麦...

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