英文欣赏:交际面面观 Levels of Communication(1)

Levels of Communication 1 交际面面观 Phatic communication: Using conventional messages to establish rapport, 交际沟通:使用传统的信息建立密切关系, to break the ice, and/or to end a conversation. 打破僵局,以及/或结束一段对话。 You might hug, kiss, shake hands, bow, smile, make eye contact, and face one another. 你可能会拥抱、接吻、握手、鞠躬、微笑、眼神接触,并面对彼此。 We...

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英文欣赏:保持清洁

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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英文欣赏:Hearing听觉

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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英文欣赏:丢失记忆的男人

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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英文欣赏:如果我休息,我就会生锈

If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息,我就会生锈 The significant inscription found on an old key—“If I rest, I rust”—would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the un...

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英文欣赏:Trust 信任

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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英文欣赏:什么才重要? What Will Matter?

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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英文欣赏:Your place-somewhere to be alone你的地方-孤独之所

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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英文欣赏:与老朋友们保持联系

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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英文欣赏:你令爱了不起

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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英文欣赏:我的一方小天地

My room at home was too small for me. I barely had room for all the little knickknacks I'd collected over the years. There were so many things I had to pack away in boxes and store in closets all over the house. Oftentimes I didn't quite remember exactly where everything was. 我在家里的房间很小,偏偏我平时又喜欢搜集一些可爱的小玩意,几年下来,各种各样小玩意就渐渐摆满...

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英文欣赏:Toughest Job in the World 世界上最艰苦的工作

Mom, the Toughest Job in the World 母亲,世界上最艰苦的工作 If you know me, you know that I always describe moms as our domestic engineers as having the toughest jobs in the world. 如果你认识我,你知道我一向都描述妈妈像国内工程师一样是世界上最艰苦的工作。 They have so many hats to wear, so many balls to juggle, the cleaning, the cooking, the kids education, and on and on. 她...

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英文欣赏:当爱召唤你 When Love Beckons You

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...

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英文欣赏:成功之道 The Road to Success

The Road to Success 成功之道 It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice...

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英文欣赏:穷人 The Poor

It’s the anarchy of poverty Delights me, the old Yellow wooden house indented Among the new brick tenements 贫穷的无序景致 使我愉悦:陈旧的 黄色木屋陷入 新的砖造分租公寓的包围中 Or a cast iron balcony With panels showing oak branches In full leaf. It fits The dress of the children 一个铸铁阳台的镶板间 露出长满树叶的 橡树枝桠。它和 孩子们的服装契合 Reflecting every stage and ...

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英文欣赏:假如拥有三天光明

All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose...

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英文欣赏:展翅高飞 On Eagle’s Wings

In the middle of a beautiful day, I was feeling lost, as if the world was crashing in on me. I didn't know which way to go, except to head out to the countryside. On days like this I love to find a place where silence rule where the wind in the tall pine trees sounds like ocean waves crashing along some deserted beach I've walked along in my memory. 在一个美好的日子...

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英文欣赏:Sign Language 手语(上)

There is one language that is in use in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, thin and fat, short and tall. It is everybody's second language. It is easy to understand, although you can not hear it. It is sign language. 有一种语言在全球每个国家都在用。使用这种语言的人或年轻或年老,或瘦或胖,或高或矮。这是每个人的第二语言。尽管不能听到它,但...

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英文欣赏:夕阳无限好 Leaving Work to Gaze at Sunsets

I believe in leaving work at five o’clock.In a nation that operates on a staunch Protestant work ethic, this belief could be considered radical. Working only 40 hours a week? I just don’t know many people who punch out at five o’clock anymore. It seems downright quaint, like pocket watches and shoe shines.My father tried to teach me the importance of hard w...

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英文欣赏:红色 Red

Red 红色 It says poison, passion and stop right there. It is the most powerful colour on the planet and it is 1)rife with contradictions. Its universal meanings are heat, blood, danger and emotion. 红色意味着毒药、激情和立即停止。红色是世界上最有力的颜色,总是与矛盾联系在一起。红色最普遍的意思是灼热、鲜血、危险和感情。 A red light means that the doctor is in. Red cars are se...

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