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1.Pull a Mental High-Five“What consumes your mind controls your life.” -Creed It is time to pull out the mental high-fives. Make a daily list of what you did well. It does not matter how big or small. It certainly does not matter if you cheat with an easy one. What you need to do is establish that ...

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 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of ...

英语中，有些句子在形式上是主动的，但意义上却是被动的，这就是所谓的主动表示被动（active passive voice）。其特点是，句子中语法上的主语是逻辑上的宾语。主动表示被动常见于以下八种情况。 一、某些系动词后加形容词，如look, smell, taste, feel, sound, prove 等。 1. It smells terrible. 气味难闻死了。 2. The mo ...

英语在不同的行业与应用中是有不同的表达方式的，也因而形成了不用的专业英语。例如专业英语可分为金融，酒店，外贸，办公，旅游，机械，通用等等。学习专业英语，比我们在学校课堂上学的英语要更困难与专业。平时我们的英语书本翻译为中文时的用词挺广泛的，但专业就需要用到专业用语，否则翻译时随时都会闹笑话。 ...

主任刚外出，就有找他的电话，秘书接起电话，询问有何事，可以帮他留言。请看下面的电话英语情景对话。 Secretary: Hello,this is ABC company.May I help you? 你好。ABC公司。有什么可以为你效劳的？ David: This is Daivd , is Director Carlos here ? 我是大卫，请问卡洛斯主任在吗？ Secretary: Wait a minute .. ...

No matter what you wish to achieve in life, the richest, most complete life experience requires that you have an enhanced clarity about life and your goals for life. When you have this clarity, goal achievement comes as a natural result. Of course, clarity isn’t something most of us naturally wa ...

Are you waiting for life events to turn out the way you want so that you can feel more positive about your life? Do you find yourself having pre-conditions to your sense of well-being, thinking that certain things must happen for you to be happier? Do you think there is no way that your life stresse ...

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.Note: This is a guest post by Naveen Kulkarni who blogs at Planet Naveen on personal development issues. An airplane is cruising at an altitude of 40000 feet. A minor malfunction in one part of ...

备受关注的伦敦奥运男子100米飞人大战中，“闪电”博尔特以9秒63成绩打破奥运纪录夺冠。今天我们就来看看田径比赛中遇到的各种专业名词英文怎么说。 track and field 田径stadium 体育场sprint 短跑middle-distance race 中距离跑long-distance race 长跑marathon 马拉松relay race 接力赛跑hurdles 跨栏跑the 400 meter hu ...

求职面试的时候，我们经常会谈到benefits package（福利包），也就是该公司能够为员工提供的各项福利待遇，大部分可能都体现在金钱方面。其实，很多公司虽然工资待遇不是很高，但是提供的soft benefit（软福利）却相当吸引人。Soft benefit is a type of non-monetary compensation offered by employers to members of the ...

最近，微博上有人撰文分析启东排海项目遭抗议是因为“邻避效应”，也就是英语中的not in my backyard（NIMBY）。今天，咱们就来说说这个表达。NIMBY or Nimby is an acronym for the phrase "not in my backyard". The term is used pejoratively to describe opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development ...

In the Olympic Village in East London, performers and volunteers have been welcoming members of the Olympic Family as they arrive from around the world. Euan Paterson works in the gym of the Athletes Village. "It's vey exciting time. We're very lucky to be able to work in the environment. Seeing the ...

In the Olympic Village in East London, performers and volunteers have been welcoming members of the Olympic Family as they arrive from around the world. Euan Paterson works in the gym of the Athletes Village. "It's vey exciting time. We're very lucky to be able to work in the environment. Seeing the ...

由于医药事业的发展如今人的寿命普遍延长。这一来老年人也越来越多。老年人成为人口中举足轻重的群体。商界发现老年顾客是他们市场上的大主顾。政界也因为老年选民队伍的壮大而深感老年人的需求和呼声不可怠慢。 另一方面，这些年逾花甲的先生女士们迈过了生命的顶峰正走在下坡路上。这条自然规律让好多老人感伤却无可奈何 ...

How many ways are there to say “No” without offending anyone’s feeling? Well, there is “No, I can’t”, “No, I don’t have time” and “No, I don’t want to”. But the problem is that many of us try to avoid situations that require us to say “No” to people. In almost every culture this little ...

Breaking up with his girlfriend forced one lonely guy to takedrasticaction - and he ended up reaching out to thousands of people all over the world. 一位孤独男孩失恋之后作出惊人之举，结果是他结识了全世界几千位陌生人。 When a devastated Jeff Ragsdale, a stand-up comedian and actor from New York, was ...

7月11日，中国人民解放军海军1艘护卫舰在南沙半月礁附近海域执行例行巡逻任务时意外搁浅。7月15日，该护卫舰在救援兵力协助下自主脱浅成功，舰艇艏部轻度受损，人员安全，事发海域未造成污染。请看报道： A navy frigate thatran agroundin the waters off China's Nansha Islands wasrefloatedwith the help of the navy's ...

拼爹游戏 　　继“富二代”、“官二代”、“贫二代”等网络流行词引发热议后，近日，网络上又出现一个热词——“拼爹游戏”。很多网友认为，在贫富差距越来越明显的社会，子女的贫富意识也越来越明显，这就造成了子女比拼各自的父母，例如：经济能力、社会地位等等，这些人认为自己学得好，有能力，不如有个“成功”的老爸 ...

导读: 夏日里有那湛蓝的令人向往的天空，还有那轻声吟唱的微风。夏日是一叶小舟上的船夫，是你四岁时不小心沾在裙子上的冰琪淋。夏日是浸入你脚趾间的湿漉漉的沙子，是朝阳初升前一小时的那花园里的清香味。夏日就是那丝绸段，那盛开的天竺葵，以及从远方飘来的悠悠长笛声！ 　　Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me ...

For Lisa Hanson, a stay-at-home mother in San Francisco, the alarm that used to rouse her out of sleep most mornings was the sound of her toddler.　　对于丽萨.汉森这位生活中旧金山的全职妈妈来说，经常在早上把她从睡梦中叫醒的就是她一岁的儿子的发出的声音了。 　　“He wakes up at 5:30 screaming sometime ...

英语世界有自己的一套网络语言吗？当然有！如今的潮人聊天都喜欢用简写，玩谐音，越是让外人看起来高深莫测，自己心里头越是得意非凡。有些人批评年轻人喜欢使用简化英语的现象，认为这是语言退化的象征，所以老师不该教，年轻人也不该学。但是，语言是沟通的工具，既然这些简化的网络语言在年轻人的网络世界通用，那么年轻 ...

本人与手外医生有过一些交流，知道他（她）们的辛苦。常常超时工作，一个手术做好长时间，加班是家常便饭，所以，为了表示本人对他们的敬意，特别引用如下“加班”的表达。谢谢你们的辛苦努力。 对于上班族来说，最不待见的字眼就是“加班”，特别是没有加班费的加班。但是很多人为了“赶任务”、“给领导留下好印象”等原 ...

Promise yourself to dream more and hesitate less. 努力让自己多一点如心所愿，少一些己所不愿。 To believe in yourself more and judge yourself less by the accomplishments of others. 多一点相信自己，少一点将他人成就作为自我评价的标准尺度。 To appreciate your family and friends for all the wonderful wa ...

Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. I think people everywhere dream about having lots of money. I know I do. I would give anything to make money hand over fist. I would like to earn large amounts of money. You could win a large amount of money in the United States through l ...