22-02-08 Ways to ask 如何问 当你在社交场合遇到某人，你想知道他们做什么工作，最常见的问题是： What do you do? 这是一个简短的问句: What do you do for a living? 可以多次快速的朗读下面例句， What do you do? Im a teacher. What do you do for a living? I work in ph...

20-04-16 Places cosmopolitan (environment) metropolitan (city) downtown city centre urban the suburbs / suburban areas (NOTE: when referring to the suburbs, we generally always use THE) rural the outskirts CBD (Central Business District) city hall coastal ci...

14-05-11 Alexander Imich, an 111-year-old Polish immigrant and Soviet gulag survivor who lives in Manhattan, became the world's oldest living man last month when the previous record-holder, Arturo Licata, died just days before his 112th birthday. 上个月意大...

14-03-05 Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward visualizing small biomolecules inside living biological systems with minimum disturbance, a longstanding goal in the scientific community. In a study published March 2nd in Natur...

13-09-12 The living will is the oldest form of advance directive. It was first proposed by an Illinois attorney, Luis Kutner, in a law journal in 1969. Kutner drew from existing estate law, by which an individual can control property affairs after death and...

13-01-28 For many people the idea of living under a rock might seem like the punchline of a joke. But for one Mexican couple, a hut wedged below a 130-foot boulder in Coahulla, Mexico has been home for the past 30 years. 对许多人而言，在岩石底下居住这一想法...

12-09-03 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure（诱惑） of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so...

12-08-03 Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling（玩杂耍） five balls in the air. You name them: work, family, health, friends, and spirit, and you're keeping all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop i...

11-03-25 Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside a mask. People who have this joy dont need to talk about it, they r...

11-01-12 A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. Timmy stood up and said, My mom is a Doctor! Sarah stood up and said, My father is a Professor! Little Johnny stood up and said, My dad is a piano player in a whorehouse...