mushy (overly romantic, sappy)
过分浪漫的，浪漫得有些愚蠢
● I sent him super mushy cards and stuffed animals on his
birthdays.在他生日的时候，我送给他超级浪漫卡片和动物玩具。
● I love movies with mushy endings.
我喜欢结局浪漫的电影。
necking (show affection, french

pawn
/po:n/ v. & n.
1. Something given as security for a loan; a pledge or guaranty. 抵押品，典当物当作借贷保证的事物；保证物或抵押物
2. The condition of being held as a pledge against the payment of a loan: 抵押当作偿付贷款的保证的条件： jewels in pawn. 典押的珠宝

injury
n. 1. Damage or harm done to or suffered by a person or thing: 伤害对人或事所做的、人或事遭受的破坏或伤害： escaped from the accident without injury; a scandal that did considerable injury to the campaign. 没有受伤地从事故中逃脱；一桩使整个运动深受其害的丑闻
2. A particul

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His Excellency Jiang Zemin's Speech
江泽民主席在财富论坛上的讲话
Mr. Levin,
Distinguished guests, friends and colleagues,
Ladies and gentlemen,
    On this splendid moonlit night in mid-autumn, as we gather in the b

President Clinton Addresses Fortune Global Forum Delegates
美国总统克林顿在财富论坛上的讲话
    I am delighted to have the opportunity to join all of you today for the FORTUNE Global Forum in Shanghai. With nearly 500 CEOs from all ar

Mayor Xu Kuangdi Discusses Shanghai's Growth
上海市长徐匡迪在财富论坛上就上海的发展的讲话
Distinguished Participants and Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
    It is a great honor for Shanghai to be chosen by the FORTUNE Global Forum

今天看到了一篇由>的著者L.G.Alexander所写的文章,令我捧读再三,文章的题目是"The only way to travel is on foot".看完全文我愈发体会到这里的travel不仅仅指向一般的旅游,文章所折射出的我们这个时代生活的方式,以及对成功,奋斗的价值取向,的确值得我们深思.就如文章中所说的:我们这个时代的人总是处于一种高速"旅游"的状态,不再用"foot"来描绘我们的人生之路,都成为了一种"legless man".是啊!看看我

Holidays in the U.S.
Every month of the year has something special to celebrate in the U.S. Throughout the years, the U.S.Congress has passed laws declaring special days as official observances known as federal holidays. Each federal

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people

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achievement n. 成就
about adv.． 关于
absence from U．S． 离开美国
academic a．专科院校的。研究院的；学术的
academic student 专科院校学生
address n．地址，住址
address for service(令状，传票的)送达地址
addresee n．收件人;收信人
addressor n．发件人；发信人
adjustment n．调整,适应
adj

ABIGALE 原为古希伯来名，意思是"最初的欢乐"或"欢乐之本"。在圣经撒母尔记上篇第二十五章中，讲到了一位早期名叫Abigale的人的故事。在这个故事之中，她是一位聪明、美丽的女人。她有过人的智能和谋略。因而，她后来成了以色列大卫王的妻子。
ABBYABBIE是ABIGAIL的简写。人们认为ABBY是娇小可爱的女人，文静，令人喜爱，个性甜美。
ADA (老式英语)"高贵"的意思。为ADELAIDE的简写。ADA给人的印象是年长保守，辛勤的工作者。

AARON(希伯来)启发的意思，AARON被描绘为不高但英俊的男人，诚实刻苦具有责任感，是个有效率个性沉静的领导者。
ABEL(希伯来)"呼吸"的意思，为ABELARD的简写，大部份的人认为ABEL是高大，强壮的运动员，能干，独立，又聪明。有些人则认为ABEL是瘦小，温顺的男孩。
ABRAHAM原为希伯来文，意为"民族之父"。后来，它演变成"万物之父"的意思。大多数人将ABRAHAM形容为高大壮硕留着胡子的领袖，诚实，庄严，聪明，像亚伯拉翰林肯总统一样

子曰：“吾十有五而志于学，三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命，六十而耳顺，七十而从心所欲，不逾矩。”
Confucius said, “Since the age of 15, I have devoted myself to learning; since 30, I have been well established; since 40, I have understood many things and have no longer been confus

When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire,take down this book,
And slowly read,and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once,and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace

max out (maximize)
尽量使用，扩大到最高限度
● You'll need a break after this busy summer, so max out the
last days of your vacation by relaxing.
这个夏天很忙，很需要休息休息。所以在假斯的最后几天，你应该尽量
轻松轻松。
●I felt bad when I maxed out all of my mom's cred

1.我想扩大自己的词汇量，但当我看到那么多生词就灰心了。有什么捷径吗？
如果你经常阅读本栏目，你应该已经读到不少关于增加词汇量的建议了。记住，你的接受型词汇量（即你听或 阅读英语时能理解的部分）比你的积极词汇量（即你在说 或写时能自如运用的词汇）要大得多。如果要扩大词汇量，最好的办法是多听英语，多读英语，但不要超出自己的水 平。阅读那些比你目前水平稍低的书。另外，书店有很多 词汇练习册，很适合自学使用。这对增加你的词汇量会有帮助。查阅出版社的“英语语言教学”目录

1. Head
The head is thought to be the most important part of the human body. So a leader is often compared to a head (首脑). Thus we have Head of State or the head of a delegation.
The head is where the brain is located. It is na

Glories of the Storm
It begins when a feeling of stillness creeps into my consciousness. Everything has suddenly gone quiet. Birds do not chirp. Leaves do not rustle. Insects do not sing.
The air that has been hot all day becomes

Throw the book at Somebody 和先生从car wash(洗车场)里开出来，车上的水珠还依稀可见，这让先生想起一件事：曾经有一个美国人在高速公路上超速开车，时速达100多英里。警察当然把他截下来。在法庭上，他辩解之所以开快车，是因为想让风尽快把刚刚洗过的车吹干。我听了好笑，更好奇结果如何。
先生答曰：结果是"They threw the book at him"。我不禁诧异，想像着他被"砸书"的样子。原来并非如此，"Throw the bo

I don't feel very well.
I don't feel very well.我感觉不舒服。这是一个谈论身体情况的句型，可根据实际情况选用其它的词或其它的句型。例如：
I am feeling ill.
我感觉病了。
I feel bad.
我感觉有病。
I think I catch a cold.
我想我感冒了。
I've got a headache and a cough.
我头痛还咳嗽。

You are just in time for….
You are just in time for….你正好赶上…。In time 表示“及时”，类似词组还有on time表示“准时”。例如：
Thank godness,we come in time.
谢天谢地，我们按时来了。
We are going to Beijing tomorrow morning on time.
我们明天早上准时到北京。
We were play

Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.
钞票不是万能的,有时还需要信用卡.
One should love animals. They are so tasty.
每个人都应该热爱动物,因为它们很好吃.
Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.
要节约用水,尽量和女友一起洗澡.
Love the neighbor. But don't get ca

The Frog in the Well
A frog live in a shallow well.
" Look how well off I am here ! " he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. " I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my

tiger 老虎
Most tigers are orange with black stripes or a pale colour with brown stripes. The colour and the stripes help a tiger hide well in long grass or in the shade of trees.
大多数老虎毛色橙黄，带黑斑纹，或呈苍白色，带褐色斑纹。毛色和斑纹有助于老虎隐藏在深草丛中或树荫之下。

健康食油
Sunflower oil is a polyunsaturated fat, a good choice for the health-conscious eaters. Avoid blended oils, which may contain coconu

自制面包糠
Dry uncooked breadcrumbs are the best for coating food before frying. Make the fresh crumbs, then dry them out in a very cool plac

今天在阅读网文时，看到这么一段：
"You can go out and network and not show anything for it," says Fuller. "But to generate a referral - which I believe is an endorsement - that is a whole different ball game. There's more meat to it."
（http://.winre

呵呵，随手又翻了一个网页，看到这么一段读者的书评：
"I just finished reading your book "How to Make a Million Dollar First Impression" and I wanted to write to tell you how good it is. The content is really precise and to the point. The book could easily have

dumping的意思是：The act of getting rid of something useless or used up 本来是把无用的东西扔掉的意思，不过，现在的世界贸易摩擦不断，这个词就指“倾销”了，也可以说：dump。此外，还有几个词：
反倾销措施 anti-dumping measures
反倾销诉讼 anti-dumping charge
也是热门词汇。而且，大部分这样纠纷或词汇好象都跟美国有关系，来看看NPR上面的一则新闻，下面还有

偶尔看到一个吉尼斯纪录：
Hair Splitting
The greatest reported achievement in hair splitting has been that of Britains's Alfred West. who succeeded in splitting a human hair 17 times into 18 parts on eight occasions. All the divisions were made fro

继续这篇Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, preventing and overcoming breast cancer。
先看原文：
Fortunately Jane's profession had led to her working all over the world. She frequently visited China and was aware that the incidence of

The Language of Music
A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibiliti

Schooling and Education
It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction betwee

Electricity
The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grop

The Beginning of Drama
There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. I

Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the

Suburbanization
If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the ninetee

Types of Speech
Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expression

Archaeology
Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any other historian, an

Museums
From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or

A Rare Fossil Record
The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Icht

the war between Britain and France
In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only o

Of Studies
论读书
培根
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of busine

Children’s numerical skills
People appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long aft

Modern American Universities
Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral char

The Origin of Sports
When did sport begin? If sport is, in essence, play, the claim might be made that sport is much older than humankind, for , as we all have observed, the beasts play. Dogs and cats wrestle and play ball games. Fish

The Historical Significance of American Revolution
The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplic

Ford
Although Henry Ford’s name is closely associated with the concept of mass production, he should receive equal credit for introducing labor practices as early as 1913 that would be considered advanced even by today’s standards. S

Piano
The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries --- the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the har

Scientific Theories
In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced. A good exa

Changing Roles of Public Education
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schoo

British Columbia
British Columbia is the third largest Canadian provinces, both in area and population. It is nearly 1.5 times as large as Texas, and extends 800 miles(1,280km) north from the United States border. It includes Canada’s

Botany
Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It i

Plankton
Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plants and animals are too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with the currents, pro

Oil Refining
An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil war. Crude oil, or petroleum – a dark, thick ooze from the earth – had been known for hundreds of years, but little use had ever been made of it. In the 1850’s

Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading
The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle. The lithos

Icebergs
Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being--somewhere--in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and spla

Topaz
Topaz is a hard, transparent mineral. It is a compound of aluminum, silica, and fluorine. Gem topaz is valuable. Jewelers call this variety of the stone “precious topaz”. The best-known precious topaz gems range in color from ri

Cohesion-tension Theory
Atmospheric pressure can support a column of water up to 10 meters high. But plants can move water much higher; the sequoia tree can pump water to its very top more than 100 meters above the ground. Until the e

American black bears
American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these brown, red, or even yellow coats. To the north, the black bear is actually gray or white in

Statistics
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of government units (states and statistics come from the same

Vision
Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment. In the dense complex world of a tropical forest, it is more important to see well that to develop an acute sense of smell. In the course of evolut

Folk Cultures
A folk culture is a small isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom and race with a strong family or clan structure and highly developed rituals. Order is maintained th

Bacteria
Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth of a millimeter: a pinhead is about a millimeter across. R

Cells and Temperature
Cells cannot remain alive outside certain limits of temperature and much narrower limits mark the boundaries of effective functioning. Enzyme systems of mammals and birds are most efficient only within a narrow

Part D　英语中的有关爱情、婚姻的几个词令人再三回味。
第一个词是adore，不，决不是love。即使是在英语尚不普及的中国，love也是一个被用滥了的词。在我眼中，love意味着煽情、媚俗。“sweetheart,I love you”，永远只能是电影的对白，如同迅速流行开的麦当劳、可口可乐一样，迅速失去了它的韵味。记得小时候（80年代吧）看过一篇小说，其中有关于可口可乐的介绍，说是：“想来喝起来既可口又可乐”，然而，现在，给我们的感觉呢？

Part F
美国人尽管喊了多少年的「性开放」，但很多美国人在谈情说爱方面，
仍然喜欢采用一些含蓄保守的词句或语句，表现文明和礼貌。以下举一些例句，或许能说明一二。
to have a crush on (someone)；
to feel an instant magnetism；
to catch one’s eyes； to hit it off；
to have the hots for (someone)；
to

大家在青少年的时候一定有很多恋爱的经历或是见闻。比如在上中学的时候，谁和谁好上了，都是大新闻。那时候谈恋爱是不被允许的，因为老师家长们的意见是学生早恋会影响学习。现在想起来，他们的话还是有道理的，因为那时候心智发育还很不成熟，既不懂得如何爱对方，也不懂得如何爱自己。不过，这是人生中不可避免的一课，关键还是如何正确疏导。对于这种早恋，美语里就成为puppy love或者calf love，它的意思就是年纪轻轻时的第一次恋爱。Puppy是小狗的意思，而calf是小牛的意思，这个

Jessica and Joyce were best friends in ninth grade. They did almost everything together. Then one day, after a misunderstanding, Joyce stopped talking to Jessica. For more than three months, Joyce refused to talk to Jessica or answer her n

1． Good to the last drop． 滴滴香浓，意犹未尽。（麦斯威尔咖啡）
2． Obey your thirst． 服从你的渴望。（雪碧）
3． The new digital era． 数码新时代。（索尼影碟机）
4． We lead． Others copy． 我们领先，他人仿效。（理光复印机）
5． Impossible made possible． 使不可能变为可能。（佳能打印机）
6． T

The Generation Gap
I remember that when I was in my teens, I used to rebel at many of the “do’s” and “don’ts” my parents used to dictate to me. For example, when I kept on playing jazz records on the record player, my father used t

Two Tickets Please
A young man was in love with a girl. At one weekend, he invited his girlfriend to the cinema. When they were at the ticket box, the young man said to the ticket seller, "Two tickets, please. "
When the tick

The Attraction of the Map
Mr. Smith taught English at a school .At the beginning of his lesson, he liked to have one of his students give a report on any subject. When it was Jack's turn, he told his audience about his elder brother

An Adult Decision
The year before my son turned 18, he constantly pleaded to be allowed to a tattoo, but I refused to sign permission for one. He argued that soon he would be a man and he should be able to make adult decisions. Sure

What Grade
Kristin,, my 17-year-old niece, had just gotten her driver's license and offered to take her mom's car to the gas station. She pulled up to the full-service pumps, and the attendant asked, "What grade, miss?"
"Elev

We're on That Mountain Over There
My son and I became lost while hiking high in the southern Rockies. I immediately went to work with my map and compass to determine where we had gone off course. My son, an electronics engineer, pro

SEVEN SKILLS FOR QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES IN 21ST CENTURY
    Technical and technological skills will take on greater importance. There will be a growing need for people who can understand and fix systems--from computer systems t

Whose Dog Was the Smartest
Four friends were arguing over whose dog was the smartest. The first man, an engineer, called to his dog, "T Square, show your stuff. " The dog trotted over to a desk, pulled out a paper and pencil, and dr

10.What Will Be the Headline
When a man in Macon, Ga. , came upon a wild dog attacking a young boy, he quickly grabbed the animal and throttled it with his two hands. A reporter saw the incident, congratulated the man and told him t

13. A Pleasant Surprise
A friend of mine had been wanting new kitchen cabinets for a long time, but her husband insisted they were an extravagance. She went to visit her mother for two weeks, and when she returned, she was overjoyed

12.You're Not Going to Make it
Gravely ill, a man went to the doctor with his wife. After the examination the physician motioned for the wife to meet him in the hallway.
"Your husband is very sick, " the doctor said, "but the

The Nobel Academy
For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Acad

16. Mother's Feet
To prevent our dog, Lacy, from pestering visitors to our house, my mother often massaged her as she lounged beneath the kitchen table, her favorite resting spot. One day a contractor came over to talk about a home-

17. I Want to Get Out
A bar owner locked up his place at 2 a. m. and went home to sleep. He had been in bed only a few minutes when the phone rang." What time do you open up in the morning ?" he heard an obviously inebriated man inq

19. I Never Work after Supper
A penny-pinching farmer didn't want his hired hand to stop working. One morning, he told the farmhand, "It's such a nuisance to come in from the field,, wash up for lunch and take time to eat. Why don't

18.Nest and Hair
My sister, a primary school teacher, was informed by one of her pupils that a bird had built its nest in the tree outside the classroom.
"What kind of bird?" my sister asked.
"I didn't see the bird, ma

Obtaining Fresh water from icebergs
The concept of obtaining fresh water from icebergs that are towed to populated areas and arid regions of the world was once treated as a joke more appropriate to cartoons than real life. But now it

I'm Going to Let My Chauffeur Answer it
A famous scientist was on his way to yet another lecture when his chauffeur offered an idea. "Hey, boss, I've heard your speech many times, I bet I could deliver it and give you the night off.

22. Job Technique
Vacationing on the island of Oahu, we were waiting in our tour bus for some stragglers to show up. A man, obviously not with our group, approached the bus and was about to board. How would our driver handle the sit

24. Saving Grace
Vacationing in Hawaii, my husband and I went out to dinner one night at one of its finest restaurants - When presented with the check, my husband reached into his pocket for his wallet, but somehow lost his balance

25. A Woman Who Fell
It was rush hour and I was dashing to a train in New York City's Grand Central Terminal - As I neared the gate, a plump, middle-aged woman sprinted up from behind, lost her footing on the smooth marble floor and

mope (dawdle, gloomy)
闲荡，闷闷不乐
● When I have no date on Saturday, I just stay home and mope
about in the house.
星期六晚上，如果我没有约会，我只好呆在屋子里闷闷不乐。
● After I moped around for a few weeks, my friends gave me a
surprise party for m

27. A Plumber
My daughter Judy, who works for a plumbing company, found herself in need of a plumber at home. When she got to work, she asked that a plumber be sent. For several days her request was ignored.
In desperation,

28.A Tough Teacher
A school teacher friend of mine injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. On his first day of the term, still with the cast under his shirt, he was assigned to teach the mo

29.I'm a Police Officer
When my husband, Jack, was a police officer, he once approached a home guarded by two ferocious dogs. They lunged at the screen door with such force that it opened, and they tore out into the yard.
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