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Despite bulging order books, the mood at Airbus and Boeing is far from celebratory. Both aviation giants are moaning loudly that their production systems and supply chains are flawed, albeit for ostensibly different reasons. This week Louis Gallois, the boss of EADS, the Franco-German aerospace cons ...

原文地址 What is the definition of a good person?” Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, asked at a graduation address in July. His answer: “He does not cheat in exams, or plagiarise another scholar’s work, or cut corners in construction projects, or sell f ...

Scourge of China's academic fakes attacked By Clifford Coonan in Hong Kong Thursday, 23 September 2010 Fang Zhouzi's website built up a powerful reputation for highlighting academic fraud Beijing police have arrested four men, including a professor, over a hammer attack on China's top "science c ...

A boy or a girl? That is usually the first question asked when a woman gives birth. Remarkably, the answer varies with where the mother lives. In rich countries the chances of its being a boy are about 5% higher than in poor ones. Equally remarkably, that figure has been falling recently. Several th ...

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself。 　　专心致志，锲而不舍，埃及平原上终于建起了宏伟的金字塔。 精通一行的人可以养家糊口，样样精通的人却不能养活自己。 　　Now I know that in order to grow and flourish I must spare no efforts in doin ...

在开放的现代社会，跨文化的言语交际显得愈发重要，已经成为现代交际中引人注目的一个特点。交际中的文化差异随处可见，言语环境中的文化因素受到普遍重视。下面是英汉文化中十大常见差异。 1．回答提问 中国人对别人的问话，总是以肯定或否定对方的话来确定用“对”或者“不对”。如： “我想你不到20岁，对吗？” “ ...

《思考致富》作者拿破仑希尔谈什么是真正的富裕 Napoleon Hill best quote on TRUE RICHES 每个人都想富有，但很多人并不知道什么是富有！ 很多人认为富有是钱所能买到的物质产品! 下面十二条是富有的真正含义： 一是positive mental attitude 积极思考； 二是sound physical health 棒棒的身体； 三是harmony i ...

Japanese prosecutors say they will release a Chinese trawler captain who has been detained since his boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels in disputed waters. The incident enraged China, which retaliated by canceling meetings with Japanese officials and, traders say, halting shipments of essent ...

Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House September 25, 2010 This week, the economists who officially decide when recessions start and end declared the recession of 2008 to be over. But if you’re one of the millions of Americans who lost your home, your job, or your savings ...

1. abide by(=be faithful to ; obey)忠于；遵守。 2. be absent from…. 缺席，不在 3. absence or mind(=being absent-minded) 心不在焉 4. absorb(=take up the attention of)吸引…的注意力(被动语态):be absorbed in 全神贯注于…近:be engrossed in ; be lost in ; be rapt in ;be concentrated on ; be focused o ...

刚看到一则小品文，颇有感触，和大家分享如下： One evening an old man told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside people. 一天晚上，一个老人给他的孙子讲到了人内心深处的一场打斗。 He said, "My son, the battle is between the two wolves that live inside us all." 他说，“孩子，我们内心深处 ...

采一轮松间明月供你观赏，织一件秋日的凉爽为你披上，斟一杯月宫的琼浆醉你心上，做一份仲秋的祝福圆你梦乡。 An inter-mining Mingyue for your viewing, weave a cool autumn you covered, as appropriate pieces of glass Moon Palace drunken your heart, and do a blessing Zhong Yuan your dreams. 又是一年月圆夜， ...

Scores of workers from MTV Networks walked off the job yesterday afternoon, filling the sidewalk outside the headquarters of its corporate parent, Viacom, to protest recent changes in benefits. The walkout highlighted the concerns of a category of workers who are sometimes called permalancers: perma ...

After receiving a six-year prison sentence on July 31st, Sanjay Dutt, an Indian film star, begged for bail while he appealed against it. “Sir, I made a mistake,” he said. But the judge said no. Mr. Dutt's crime—to have procured two guns from Muslim mobsters who were responsible for bomb attacks i ...

When Catholic clergy or “pro-life” politicians argue that abortion laws should be tightened, they do so in the belief that this will reduce the number of terminations. Yet the largest global study of abortion ever undertaken casts doubt on that simple proposition. Restricting abortions, the study ...

　The haunting paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, on show in the final leg of a travelling tour that has already attracted thousands of visitors in Hamburg and The Hague, may come as a surprise to many. Few outside the Nordic world would recognise the work of this Finnish artist who died in 1946. More ...

UNIT TWO TEXT ONE The bride and groom, a guitar-wielding rock vixen and a muscle-rippling dragon-slayer, make an odd couple—so it is hardly surprising that nobody expected their marriage. But on December 2nd the video-game companies behind “Guitar Hero” and “World of Warcraft”, Activision and V ...

China's self-appointed science fraud buster was assaulted yesterday afternoon in Beijing. Fang Shimin, better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzhi, has used his Web site New Threads and his microblog to expose scientific misconduct, debunk crackpot medicine and pseudoscience claims, and catch cheaters ...

TEXT FOUR Just as Norman Mailer, John Updike and Philip Roth were at various times regarded as the greatest American novelist since the second world war, John Ashbery and Robert Lowell vied for the title of greatest American poet. Yet the two men could not be more different. Lowell was a public fig ...

TEXT THREE Controled bleeding or cauterisation? That was the unappealing choice facing UBS, a Swiss bank which has been badly hurt by the carnage in America’s mortgage market. The bank opted for the latter. First it opened the wound, by announcing a hefty $10 billion write-down on its exposure to s ...

TEXT TWO He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was ...

UNIT ONETEXT ONETesco is preparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal that has cost consumers £270 million. Failure to prove that it had no part in collusion with other supermarkets and dairy processors may land it with a fine of at least £80 million. ...

Snarky no more: UK issues Olympics etiquette guide Hold off from hugging an Indian, don't be alarmed if the French are rude and never mistake a Canadian for an American. Britain's national tourism agency issued guidelines Wednesday on the etiquette of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of forei ...