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第26届世界大学生夏季运动会在深圳盛大开幕，本次大运会共设24个大项、306个小项，其中包括田径、游泳、三大球等21个奥运会项目，这也是继北京奥运会、广州亚运会后，中国举办的又一项世界性体育盛会。 我们来看一段英文报道： The city called on its citizens to reduce the amount of time they spend driving during ...

Man's youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he nevr comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow and regret, it is the thing whose loss with a sad a ...

今天，Wang Fei穿得特别正式，这是为什么呢？让我们去了解一下。 Wang Fei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, I'm Wang Fei. William: And I'm William. Welcome to the programme. You look very smart today, Wang Fei. Wang Fei: (false modesty) Mm, really? Do you think so? William: Oh, yeah - ver ...

仍在人生路口徘徊，仍在为是否应当选择光明坦途而犹豫不决的人们啊，请记住：当青春不再，当你的双脚在黑暗的山岭间跌绊时，你会痛苦地呼喊”啊，青春，回来吧！啊，还给我往昔吧！“此时，一切已是徒劳。 It was New Year's night.An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the ...

I don’t believe that there is any one recipe for success. Instead, I believe success is the result of a combination of a lot of different factors - and not all of them are needed for success. The more factors you have on your side, the more likely you are to succeed, and positive attitude is just ...

如果你下定决心坚持到底，那个小小的想法或念头就会是你成就伟大事业的开始。 Are You Ignoring That Little Thought What happened to that brilliant idea that you once had? Did you ignore it because you thought that it was just a little thought ? Have you ever considered what that little thought would h ...

1. Let's start from very beginning again. 我们再从头开始吧. 2. Let's go back to square one. 我们重新开始吧. 3. Let's go back to the drawing board. 我们重新开始吧. 4. Let's start from scratch again. 我们重新开始吧. 5. Let's do it all over again. 我们重新来过吧. 6. Let's make a fresh start. 我们重新开 ...

周三凌晨大连的浓雾弥漫中，令国人翘首以盼的航母终于开启了它的处女航。 请看《中国日报》的报道： China's first aircraft carrier set out on a low-profile sea trialWednesday, its first journey under the Chinese flag. 周三，中国第一艘航母低调出海试航，开启了它在中国国旗下的处女航。 文中的sea trial就是 ...

美国债务危机引发了全球关注和热议。周日，美国总统奥巴马宣布，国会两党领导人已就提高美国债务上限达成一致意见，美国政府的违约风险有望解除。 请看相关报道： Obama, Congress reach a debt deal: President Barack Obama says Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have reached an agreement ...

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I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searching. Until this winter, I believed in outward things, in beauty as I found it in nature and a ...

The other day an acquaintance of mine, a gregarious and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and spent the "empty" time looking at things in solitary bliss. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as ...

1. When I say I know you,I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now. 　　当我说认识你的时，我是说我认识昨天的你。 　　我不认识现在的你。 　　——Kaishnamurti 克里什纳默尔迪 　　2.Wonders are many,and nothing is more wonderful then man. 　　天下奇迹无数，却无一比人更奇妙。--Sophocles ...

亚太旅游协会成立60周年庆典暨年会4月11日在北京举行。国务院副总理王岐山在会上指出，在今后五年中，中国政府将把旅游业培育成国民经济的战略性支柱产业。 请看新华社的报道： Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan said on Monday that the country would strive to develop tourism into a strategic pillar industry of ...

近来，网络在线服务工具—“离婚计算器”相当流行，财产分割、诉讼费用、律师费用、抚养费、误工费用、租房费用等，加加减减一算，得到一个天文数字。算完之后，网友们大多都发出了“离婚真的伤不起”的感慨。 请看相关报道： A 'divorce calculator' to work out the cost of splitting up has been put online by the g ...

我们今天要说的两个习惯用语都用来描绘人的忠诚可靠，不偏不倚和品行端正。 第一个习惯用语是: straight shooter。Shooter是射手，枪手，而straight在这儿的意思是“正直的”。 Straight shooter这个习惯用语把我们带回美国西部的拓荒生活，人不离枪的西部英雄除暴安良、讲究信义。虽然开发西部的年代早已成为过去，但是 ...

本周三，姚明在上海召开新闻发布会，正式宣布退役。他打通了NBA和中国之间的门户，为NBA和中国篮球开创了一个新的时代，然而，随着小巨人的退役，这一切，都将画上一个休止符。 请看相关报道： Basketball star Yao Ming announced his retirement on Wednesday after a trail-blazing career that made him China's best ...

中国有钱人增多了？对于那些高档车制造商们来说，答案无疑是肯定的，因为高档豪华车在中国卖的是越来越好了。 请看《中国日报》的报道： BMW now expects to achieve an "even greater improvement in pre-tax earnings than originally predicted" for 2011. The world's largest premium carmaker expects sales this y ...

民政部近日下发通知，规定各地要运用基本生活费用支出法、恩格尔系数法或消费支出比例法制定城乡低保标准，建立和完善城乡低保标准与物价上涨挂钩的联动机制，并随当地居民生活必需品价格变化和人民生活水平提高定期调整。 请看新华社的报道： Local governments should take the basic subsistence costs, local Engle c ...

外表红彤彤的西红柿，捏起来硬邦邦的，切开后籽是绿的，吃起来像是没长熟；黄瓜通身碧绿带刺，“身板”笔直，顶上还有一朵小黄花……这些被催熟的蔬菜在各地菜场随处可见。令人担忧的是，催熟剂的使用处于监控盲区，其有无害处仍无权威说法。 请看相关报道： Illegal chemical ripening method imperils India’s mango t ...

据报道，日本福岛县又发现87头吃了遭核辐射污染饲料的牛，这些牛已经被屠宰，牛肉可能已经流入市面。这加剧了民众对辐射牛肉的担心。据估计，截至目前为止，日本的“辐射牛”已达143头。 请看外电的报道： Japan's second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated fe ...

在东莞生产，拉到意大利贴个洋标签，再运回国内，就摇身一变成为高档进口家具，单品价格动辄数十万。达芬奇家具“出国一日游”近日被曝光后，引起消费者的声讨，而其老总竟哭诉创业艰难，称家具原产地标错，拒绝退货，更引起消费者的强烈指责。 请看《中国日报》的报道： A retailer of international brand furniture, w ...

在东莞生产，拉到意大利贴个洋标签，再运回国内，就摇身一变成为高档进口家具，单品价格动辄数十万。达芬奇家具“出国一日游”近日被曝光后，引起消费者的声讨，而其老总竟哭诉创业艰难，称家具原产地标错，拒绝退货，更引起消费者的强烈指责。 请看《中国日报》的报道： A retailer of international brand furniture, w ...

欧洲单一货币从最初构想到成为现实，经历了30多年的漫长岁月。在亚洲能否也实行单一货币，以减少投机性资本流入引发汇率动荡的风险，并降低区域内贸易结算成本？这成为很多经济人士的构想。 请看《中国日报》的报道： China should take the lead in formulating a single currency for Asia, given the large size of it ...

每年暑期，北大、清华等名校都会迎来大量参观游览者。此前有报道称，暑期每天进入北大、清华两所学校的参观者超过一万人次，高校却板起了一副“冷面孔”。暑期高校游出现“一边热”的趋势。 请看相关报道： Students' summer pilgrimage to top universities 学生掀起暑期高校游 Tens of thousands of students from al ...