日期：2009-04-08 1.希望和信任是蜥蜴的尾巴，即使被切断，但它们还会再长出来。 1.Hope and trust is the tail of a lizard, which can reproduce even after being cut off. 2.宁可失败在你喜欢的事情上，也不要成功在你所憎恶的事情上。 2.To lost in something you love is better t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-08 Well readers the Paralympics finished this week and a new drama has quickly replaced it at the top of the headlines. Unfortunately it is a sad story and it concerns milk powder products for babies. At the center of the drama is the possibility that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-08 Every year when universities enroll new students, there are always some who stand apart from the average - the youngest, the oldest, the ones who have acquired some social fame before being enrolled, and so on. As one would expect, they are the most... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-08 After the successful Olympic opening ceremony, director Zhang Yimou rode a carousal of media interviews. In one of them he revealed that a member of the organizing committee of the 2012 London Games invited him to their show. Zhang turned down the o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 今天我们要给大家介绍四个和帽子，也就是hat相关的习惯用语。二次世界大战以前，美国人一年四季都戴帽子。男人一年之中大多数时间戴毡帽，到了夏天就戴草帽。女士们要是没有一顶时髦的帽子就不好意思出门。而现在，大多数美国人一年到头根本就不戴帽子。有些年轻人恐怕... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 burst into laughter 突然大笑 crack a smile 展颜微笑，莞尔一笑 explode with laughter 哄堂大笑 force a smile 强作欢颜 burst into gales of laughter 爆发出阵阵笑声 grin with delight 高兴的咧嘴而笑 a hearty burst of laughter 一阵爽朗的欢笑 in stitches 笑... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 The New York Times reported that a pair of statues, a gift from China, has received the cold shoulder in Italy. A cultural exchange program between Ningbo and Florence has unexpectedly hit an aesthetic roadblock. Florence gave Ningbo a replica of Mi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 作为2008年奥运会一座独特的历史性的标志性建筑，这里真正成为了一个用树枝般的钢网把10万人的体育场编织而成的温馨鸟巢！鸟巢的英文名字是Bird's Nest stadium，今天我们就来讲讲和孕育与呵护生命、并且寄托人类对未来希望的巢nest相关的几个习惯用语。 Nest这个词有... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 With the Olympics over the media has gone back to politics and, for students who have also gone back to the classrooms this week, now may be a good time to practice some of that politico-speak. With the US election scheduled for November 4, we are a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 用于文章承转句 1. 那就是（说）；亦即 That is to say, = That is, = Namely, 例：我们生活需有规律。也就是说，早睡早起戒除烟酒。 We need to live a regular life. That is, we can keep good hours and refrain from smoking and drinking in the daily activitie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 A British customer bought an iPhone set, in which he found a few photos of a woman worker on the assembly line of what obviously was the plant producing the mobile phones. Instead of feeling angry at the manufacturer's mistake, the customer posted t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 写作名人名言 写作在第一段介绍背景或给出观点时可以引用名人名言,同样在主体段证明观点时恰当使用名人名言也会使你的文章更具说服力.这里仅摘取部分名言: You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor ) 人必... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 Last Sunday night at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, among all the celebrations, Yao Ming was seen hugging a female athlete. I blurted out: China's online sleuths are going to flush out the identity of this woman, and she's going to cr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-07 一、琅琅上口的叠声词 英语中有很多叠声词（组），复合词或词组前后发音相近，读起来朗朗上口，富有音乐感。 Tit for tat：针锋相对 Tweedledum and tweedledee：半斤八两 hum and haw：表示犹豫或支吾的嗯嗯呃呃声 cling-clang：叮当作响，铿锵声。 rat-tat, rat-a-ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-04 The Beijing Summer Olympic Games proved to be a near-perfect success, not because the host country harvested the most gold medals and the second largest collection of all medals but because the Games perfectly illustrated the Olympic goals of being... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-04 A while ago when Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, I wrote a blog to explain why it was unlikely for him to pick the latter as his running mate. I used handsome to describe him, and one of the responses was What? Do you co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-04 At present I'm reading an autobiography by Lee Iacocca who is a legend in the US auto industry. Son of an immigrant Italian, who grew up during the Depression years, the book makes good, inspiring reading and is suitable for any intermediate or abov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-04 By Patrick Whiteley A Beijing newspaper was recently critical of its fellow citizens for trying too hard to paint a perfect, unrealistic picture of their country. We should exhibit the true and natural China to the outside world, the editorial said.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-03 Everyone wants to get the best education. A much heard clich says 'knowledge is power' and I agree with this. Ideally, learning promises to lift people out of poverty and improve life outcomes. For students trying to choose which campus to attend th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-04-03 At the medal-awarding ceremony after the women's 10m air pistol shooting competition on Sunday, silver medalist Natalia Paderina from Russia and bronze winner Nino Salukvadze from Georgia embraced each other. The scene must have moved everybody who... 阅读全文>>