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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...

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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...

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Thank you 谢谢你 Magic words,There are so many of them. 这是一句有魔力的词语，而且有很多这样的词语。 Let's talk about another magic word in English. 让我们来谈谈在英语的世界里另一个具有魔力的词。 If someone does something for you,it's considered polite to thank him. 如果有人为你做了什么事情,感谢他被认为是一种礼貌。 A simple "Thank you " or "Thanks"...

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Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you’ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, they are always there for you—whether it’s in person or via late night phone calls—through good times and bad. But as the years pass, it becomes increasingly difficult to see each oth...

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The sun shone brightly in the cloudless blue Wabash, Indiana, sky. 　印第安纳州沃巴什县晴空万里的蓝天上，太阳光芒四射地照耀着。 “That was an especially beautiful sunny day,” recalls Jimmy Mitchell, a statuesque man in his early thirties. 　“那是一个特别美丽的晴日。”吉米•米切尔回忆道。他30出头，五官轮廓分明。 That day Jimmy was driving his car beh...

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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...

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After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was weak and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of fresh orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with a note saying, "Drink your juice." Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned my Mom:...

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Graduation and moving on 毕业并继续前进 At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. 至少每年一次,会有很多的毕业典礼。 It’s a time when a lot of people move on, 这是一个很多人继续前进的时刻, from where they were, to another school or another class, 从那里的人们会到另一个学校或另一个班级, or out into a real world. 或者到了一个真实的世界。 To graduate means to take a ...

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Welcome what comes or Run? 坦然面对到来的…还是逃落荒而逃? Some people say that we should welcome whatever comes our way. 有些人说我们应该欢迎无论什么降临到我们头上的事情。 If unpleasant are directed at us, that's all the better. 如果是针对我们的不愉快,那一切就更美好了。 The best way to deal with it is by absorbing it. 最好的应对方法是通过汲取其中。 If we can digest whate...

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I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our seminars is the retention of quality employees—a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants, "What has caused you to stay long ...

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Being Young: A State of Mind 保持年轻:一种精神状态 I recently went on a family outing. 我最近参加了一次家庭郊游。 The kids were running around, 孩子们到处乱跑, being crazy like kids do, 就像孩子们那样疯狂, and my wife and I taking care of them. 而我的妻子和我负责照顾他们。 My mother-in-law also came to have fun and help, 我的婆婆也来参加并且帮助我们, and believe it or not, ...

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Finally, for the first time in my life, I was going to move into brand-new house and it was an absolute beauty. I spent hours upon hours walking up and down the hallway just looking at that sunken living room. I had never actually seen one of those before and always thought they were only for rich people. It sure made me proud to now have one for my very own. I smiled real b...

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Being Clean 保持清洁 I don't spent a lot of time grooming myself before I start the day. 在开始一天之前我不会花大量的时间来修饰自己。 But I do make sure that I'm Clean. 但我要确保自己是干净的。 I shave. I brush my teeth. 我刮胡子。我刷牙。 I put on clean clothes. 我穿上干净的衣服。 I make sure that my bag is ready for the day, 我确保我的包已经为这一天准备就绪, and af...

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Hearing 听觉 Are you good at lip reading? 你擅长读唇吗? It's not that easy, you should try it sometime. 这并不是那么容易,你应该找个机会试试。 Turn off the volume of your television, and try to understand what is being said. 关掉你电视的声音,并且努力理解其中所说的是什么。 If you are watching a slow drama, you can catch more of the dialogue. 如果你在观看一部缓慢的戏剧,你可...

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Terry Evanshen was one of Canadian football’s greatest receivers——a little man in a big man’s game who carried the ball for more than 10,000 yards in 14 bone-jarring seasons.He played every down as if it was his last. And in all his years in the pros a career that put him in the top 10 in total catches with a remarkable 92 touchdowns he surrendered on...

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Trust 信任 Are you quick to trust others? 你很快就会相信别人吗? If you are, chances are you haven't been burned. 如果你是这样，那是你还没有被引火烧身的机会。 By “burned”, I'm talking about having a bad experience with trusting others. 借用“引火烧身”这个词,我正在谈论的是一个信任他人不好的经历。 If you take someone into your confidence and you trust him with a secret, ...

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What will matter? 什么才重要？ Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。 那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟。 你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手中。...

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Your place–somewhere to be alone 你的地方-孤独之所 "I'm singing in the shower, just singing in the shower", I do sing when I am in the shower, does anyone out there do the same? "我在淋浴时唱歌,只是在淋浴时唱歌",我只有在淋浴的时候才唱歌,有人做同样的事情吗? There're something about the sound, the acoustics, the steam perhaps…. the mixed...

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Staying in touch with old friends 与老朋友们保持联系 I recently met an old friend I hadn’t seen in ages. 我最近见了一位许久没见面的老朋友。 He said that he had been busy and also didn’t really know to contact me. 他说自己过去一直很忙,也真的不知道与我联系。 I told him the same. 我告诉我也是一样。 The truth is, we have a few mutual friends, if we had really wanted to contact e...

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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 ...

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