英文欣赏:Swimming And Diving-Vacation-Explore 游泳与潜水-假期-探索

Dream vacation.Think tropical islands,beautiful sandy beaches,fresh salty breezes,and soft fizzing waves.It’s all about getting away from work and experiencing something different. 梦幻假期,想像着热带岛屿,美丽的沙滩,新鲜带味的微风,还有发出柔和嘶嘶声的海浪。全都象征着远离工作并体验一些不同的感受。 One popular activity that tropical islands like the Bahamas of...

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英文欣赏:Easter and April Fool 复活节与愚人节

Easter and April Fool’s-Journal 复活节与愚人节-日记 Dear journal, 亲爱的日记: Happy Easter!Easter is a day that celebrates life and rebirth.But some students could care less,and continue their drinking and partying.How was Friday?Had a good Good Friday?There were some disappointed faces here;since our school doesn’t give any one-day holidays off,suc...

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双语美文之似水流年 (85)追忆似水年华(2)

I would sit huddled into the wet mud, terrified, as the hails of bullets and mortars crashed down around me. I would clutch my rifle tightly to my heart, and think again of that very first day we met. I would cry out in fear, as the noise of war beat down around me. But, as I thought of you and saw you smiling back at me, everything around me would be become silent, and I w...

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双语美文之似水流年 (132)郁金香(2)

Among the pleasant villages and farms 乡间万物孕育着乐趣, Adjoin’d from each thing met conceived delight 谷物、干草、黄牛、牛乳, The smell of grain, or tended grass, or kine 每一处农家美景, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound 每一处乡间乐赋。 Those who are conversant in the writings of polite authors receive an additional entertainm...

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英文欣赏:Convenience Store便利商店

Convenience stores are convenient,as you can tell from the name.There are two near my home. One is very close;I can just walk there,but it is small. 便利商店是很方便的,你从它的名称就可以看得出来。在我家附近有两家便利店,一家非常近,走路就可以到,但是这一家比较小。 The other one is bigger,with more items and choices,but it is farther.I need to ride my bike to get to t...

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双语美文之似水流年 (123)经比萨和锡耶纳到罗马(6)

I might have known better; but,somehow,I had expected to see it,casting its long shadow on a public street where people came and went all day. It was a surprise to me to find it in a grave retired place,apart from the general resort,and carpeted with smooth green turf. But,the group of buildings,clustered on and about this verdant carpet: comprising the Tower,the ...

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双语美文之似水流年 (94)老人与海(7)

The fish never changed his course nor his direction all that night as far as the man could tell from watching the stars. It was cold after the sun went down and the old man’s sweat dried cold on his back and his arms and his old legs. During the day he had taken the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun to dry. After the sun went down he tied it arou...

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英文欣赏:Why-Talks-Weird Language 为什么-话题-怪誕的语言

Let’s face it: English is a stupid language. 不要怀疑:英语是一种愚蠢的语言。 There is no egg in the eggplant,no ham in the hamburger,and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.English muffins were not invented in England;and French fries had nothing to do with France. 茄子里没有鸡蛋,汉堡里也没有火腿,在凤梨即没有松木也没有苹果。英国松饼不是在英国发明的;而...

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双语美文之似水流年 (83)茶和交友(16)

Third, half of the art of making tea lies in getting good water with a keen edge; mountain spring water comes first, river water second, and well water third; water from the tap, if coming from dams, being essentially mountain water and satisfactory. 第三,烹茶的艺术一半在于择水,山泉为上,河水次之,井水更次,水槽之水如来自堤堰, 因为本属山泉,所以很可用得; Fourth, f...

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双语美文之似水流年 (90)老人与海(3)

One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna. 在一百英寻的深处有条大马林鱼正在吃包住钓钩尖端和钩身的沙丁鱼,这个手工制的钓钩是从一条小金枪鱼的头部穿出来的。 The old man held the line delicately, and softly, with his left hand, unleashed it...

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英文欣赏:E-Commerce-Shopping-Internet 电子商务-购物-国际网络

Online shopping has become very convenient in recent years.Most big name companies have wedsites offering information on their products and online stores allowing shoppers to purchase them in the comfort of their homes. 近年来网上购物已变得非常方便了。大多数品牌的公司都设有网站来提供他们的产品讯息以及网上商店来让顾客舒舒服服的在自己家里购物。 The first things that bec...

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双语美文之似水流年 (82)茶和交友(15)

In a true tea lover, the pleasure of handling all the paraphernalia is such that it is enjoyed for its own sake, 凡真正爱茶者,单是摇摩茶具,已经自有其乐趣。 as in the case of Ts’ai Hsiang, who in his old age was not able to drink, but kept on enjoying the preparation of tea as a daily habit. 蔡襄年老时已不能饮茶,但他每天必烹茶以自娱,即其一例。 There was...

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英文欣赏:Hospital-Health-General Ideas 医院-健康-基本概念

Hospital is the fundamental component of health care.The majority of physicians nowadays practice medicine in hospitals.They can be found in any town.Moreover,nearly everry hospital has an emergency room that is capable of dealing with life-and-death situations.Those facilities are essential in prolonging human lives.Besides local clinics,there are also large medical center...

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双语美文之似水流年 (92)老人与海(5)

“Eat it a little more,” he said. “Eat it well.” “再吃一些吧,”他说。“美美地吃吧。” Eat it so that the point of the hook goes into your heart and kills you, he thought. Come up easy and let me put the harpoon into you. All right. Are you ready? Have you been long enough at table? 吃了吧,这样可以让钓钩的尖端扎进你的心脏,把你弄死,他想。轻松...

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双语美文之似水流年 (124)经比萨和锡耶纳到罗马(7)

If Pisa be the seventh wonder of the world in right of its Tower,it may claim to be,at least,the second or third in right of its beggars. They waylay the unhappy visitor at every turn,escort him to every door he enters at,and lie in wait for him,with strong reinforcements,at every door by which they know he must come out. The grating of the portal on its hinges is th...

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英文欣赏:Full time and part time全职与兼职

Part Time and Full Time-Work-Job 找工与全职-工作-职业 Sandy Beethoven started her first job when she was eighteen.It was at a flower shop that sold flowers for all kinds of occasions. 珊蒂.贝多芬在18岁的时候开始她的第一份工作。那是在卖各种场合用花的花店里工作。 Her pay was only five bucks an hour,but she enjoyed the work.The money was used to buy herself some pe...

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双语美文之似水流年 (104)我生命中最重要的一天(2)

I felt approaching footsteps. I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother. Some onetook it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal allthings to me, and, more than all things else, to love me. 我感觉到了走近的脚步声,我伸出手,就像迎接母亲那样。有个人抓住了我的手,我被她紧紧地抱在怀中,她就是来向我揭示万事万物的人。事实上,比揭...

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双语美文之似水流年 (100)修女谢谢您的指教(2)

As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. When I walked back to Mark’s desk and removed the tape, his first words were, “Thank you for correcting me, Sister.” 我瞟了瞟马克看他有什么反应,结果看到他朝我眨了眨眼睛。而当我回到马克桌前给他撕下胶带时,他说的第一句话便是:“谢谢你指出我的问题,修女。” One Friday, I asked the students to...

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