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看一部大片胜过在美生活十天
近日，一个名为《英语达人告诉你，如何用美剧真正提升你的英语水平》的帖子被网友热捧和广泛转载，大家在热烈讨论看美剧和大片对学习英语到底有没有用，以及选择哪部作品更有助于学习。
昨日，记者就此采访了几位从事英语教学多年的老师，他们承认在教学中也会给不同年龄层的学生推荐英文视听作品，以锻炼学生的听力和口语能力。在他们看来，这种方式也非常适合学生哥们在暑假使用。
影视剧
《辛普森一家》、《狮子王》、《玩具总动员》、《飞屋环游记》
《老友记》、《欲望都市》、《白宫风云》 、《我最好朋友的婚礼》、《假结婚》
适合人群
中学生
成人学生
经典美剧
推荐作品：《老友记》
理由：“相当于美国口语百科全书”
说到学习英语的美剧，几位英语老师推荐的都是经典美剧，其中《老友记》备受推崇，被老师们认为是最适合给英语初级水平的成人学生使用。对于推荐《老友记》的理由，广东外语外贸大学的庄老师表示：“很经典，对于英语初级水平的朋友来说是突破发音和对话交流最好的美剧。整部剧都是人物间谈话，而且都很简短，没有长句，词汇非常简单。”佛山科学技术学院刘老师则认为，该剧“相当于美国口语的百科全书”，“剧中把那些最常用的英语口语都集齐了，多看几遍一定有收获”。
不过，由于《老友记》中有不少成人间的话题，老师们认为并不适合中学生们拿来学英语。对于中学生们的学习，老师们的推荐也很一致——《辛普森一家》。该剧是美国电视史上播放时间最长的动画片，描述了辛普森家的生活：父亲Homer是Springfield核能工厂的安全检查员，心地善良，母亲 Marge曾经是一个很有深度的家庭主妇，Bart是家里的长子，不时惹麻烦，妹妹Lisa是个聪明的学生。这一家庭面临着所有普通家庭都会遇到的生活难题，但内容老少咸宜，适合中学生们边看边学习。
对于英语水平已脱离初级的学生，庄老师的推荐是《实习医生格蕾》、《绝望主妇》，刘老师推荐的则是《欲望都市》和《丑女贝蒂》。其中，《绝望主妇》讲述的是美国中产阶级的故事，所以用词和语言非常标准，相对于《老友记》有更多的长句和表达，非常适合中级水平的学生们学习。而《丑女贝蒂》也是内容相对深一点，有很多职场用语，适合中级和中级以上的学生学习。
对于英语水平已达到高级的学生，华南师范大学陈老师推荐了《白宫风云》，理由是“这是关于美国白宫的政治题材美剧，整部剧以对话为主，而且语速非常快，充斥着辩论和演讲，词汇也非常高级，听起来很有难度。如果能把这部剧都学习透，英语方面估计就没什么难关了。”
不推荐作品：《24》、《英雄》、《越狱》
理由：专业术语太多
当然，不是所有的美剧都适合学英语。比如《24》这样的动作片，《英雄》这样的科幻片，《豪斯医生》这种专业性很强的片子，难道是要用来学习 “呯”、“轰”、“啊”之类的开枪爆炸声英语和深奥的专业术语吗？此外，《越狱》也被认为是“不推荐作品”，一来黑道用语太多，二来还是太难了。
此外，庄老师提醒大家：“还有一个重要原则，上世纪90年代以前拍摄的美剧实在不适合，因为真的太过时了。故事背景发生在近代和古代的作品也不适合，道理就和外国人用《射雕英雄传》学中文一样。
学习TIPS
有人不无夸张地说：看一部美国影视剧胜过在美国生活十天。我们可以通过看英语影视剧来创造一种“习得听说”的英语语言环境。但老师提醒大家注意几大TIPS：
1.看中文字幕是没有用的
很多人喜欢开着中文字幕看美剧，其实这是在拖后腿。中文是母语，字幕对我们眼球有无比强大的吸引力。一般人永远会不自觉通过中文字幕理解英语，而不是通过“听懂-理解-记忆-重复”这样的过程学到英语。
2.《老友记》要看到笑不出来
大片或美剧，看一遍根本不能叫学英语，充其量只能叫娱乐，如果是抱着学习的目的，必须反复看反复听，理解句子词语的意思才行。比如看《老友记》看到笑不出来了，那差不多可以仔细听仔细学了。
3.要边看边记笔记
在学习时首先注意发音。其次，了解文化，用词和句式使用是否准确直接体现对异国文化了解的程度。还要准备好笔和纸，做好随时停顿和记录的准备。不过，记录的时候最好不要分析思考和尝试记忆，待整个章节观看完毕之后，再统一回顾和整理。
4.不妨试试角色扮演
在学习到一定程度后应进行一下角色扮演。比如，喜欢《老友记》中的哪个人物，就要刻意进行模仿，体会剧中角色的语音、语调、重音、节奏。这样既训练了听力，口语水平也会有大幅提升。
看一部美国影视
胜过在美生活十天
热辣大片
推荐作品：爱情片、动画片
理由：剧情轻松，语速相对缓慢
提到近年来好莱坞大片中比较适合学习英语的部分，刘老师首先推荐了几部经典动画片，包括《狮子王》、《玩具总动员》系列等，陈老师则推荐了《飞屋环游记》。在两位老师看来，这些动画片的英语非常地道，语速相对缓慢，而且语气夸张，比较能吸引中学生们的兴趣，对于他们听、说能力的学习很有好处。
对于英语初级水平的成人学生，老师们普遍认为，爱情片、生活片比较适合用于学习，《他不是那么喜欢你》、《风月俏佳人》、《我最好朋友的婚礼》、《假结婚》等，都在老师们的心水之列。为什么要推荐爱情片？陈老师说：“那些悬疑片之类的剧情发展太快的电影不太适合学习，大家看的时候都被剧情吸引住了，怎么能静下心来留意台词？爱情片就不同，故事很轻松舒缓，多数以人物的对话来推进剧情，这时对于口语的学习帮助会大一些。”
不推荐作品：《黑客帝国》、《星球大战》
理由：太复杂太深奥
除了悬疑片不被老师们推荐之外，《黑客帝国》、《星球大战》这类以科幻为主的影片也被认为是“只适合娱乐不适合学习”的作品。刘老师的说法很有代表性：“不少学生反映，这类科幻影片翻译成中文都看得不太懂，如果只听英文不带字幕的话，更是云里雾里的感觉。”而庄老师也认为，这些带有“外星术语” 的对话，学生们即使能学习下来，对于日常会话也没多大用处，还是带着纯娱乐的态度观赏好了。
此外，庄老师提醒大家，通过看电影学英语，也要看准片子。“例如，如果里面的角色是社会下层的，那么很多俚语，使用的场合也不多。”
英文情歌
推荐作品：《Yesterday once more》
理由：有助于培养兴趣和语感
不少网友认为，除了美剧和好莱坞大片外，英文歌曲也有助于英语学习，“都是英文的嘛，多听总会有好处”。对于网友的意见，庄老师直言：“英文歌作用不是很大，跟美剧和影片相比作用实在是不明显。”刘老师的意见也很相似：“电视剧、电影对英语能力提高的作用最直接，英文歌的直接作用不多，只在于培养兴趣和语感。”
对于学习英语过程中应该多听哪些方面的英文歌，老师们认为还是简单、抒情的歌曲比较适合，披头士的作品、乡村民谣、卡伦卡朋特的《Yesterday once more》、艾尔顿·约翰的《Sorry seems to be the hardest word》等歌曲都是他们认为值得多听的作品。不过，老师们也承认，他们近年来对英文流行歌曲这方面关注不多，所以选择的都是些经典老歌。对于英文歌的选择，刘老师的态度是：“新歌旧歌无所谓，关键是你要能听进去，觉得能学到，就OK了。”庄老师则建议：“听英文歌曲后，如果试着听写下来，对听力很有好处。”
不推荐作品：Hip-Hop
理由：太快了，难听清
虽然老师们谦称对于近年来英文流行歌曲知道的不多，但有一类歌曲是他们一致认为不使用用于英文学习的——Hip-Hop。饶舌歌曲，Rap，这些美国黑人文化中的重要组成部分对于中国学生的英文学习来说实在是“水土不服”。老师们认为，歌手们的说唱实在太快，学生们很难听清，而且文化上的差异也太大。(徐晖 莫斯其格)
来源：大洋网-广州日报
A group of kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on no baby talk.
"You need to use 'big people' words," she'd always remind them.
She asked Chris what he had done over the weekend. "I went to visit my Nana."
"No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use big people words!"
She then asked Mitchell what he had done. "I took a ride on a choo-choo."
She said, "No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. Use big people words."
She then asked Bobby what he had done. "I read a book," he replied.
"That's WONDERFUL!" the teacher said. "What book did you read?"
Bobby thought about it, then puffed out his little chest with great pride and said, "Winnie the Shit."
news, 7 九月 2010 |
大学女生实用的穿衣建议
What kinds of clothes do college girls need for school? When thinking about what to buy and what to bring, here's one word to keep mind: practical! You can be a campus fashion icon if that makes you happy, but most students prefer to spend their time and money on other things. College life is stressful, and you're going to want to be comfortable more often than you'll want to be stylish.
大学女生应该穿什么样的衣服呢？当你想自己应该买什么和戴什么的时候，有一个词是要时刻牢记的：实用！当然如果成为大学时尚达人让你觉得很幸福，你也可以朝这个方向努力。不过大多数的学生还是喜欢把自己的时间和金钱花费在其他的事情上。大学生活充满了压力，在舒适与时尚之间，大家总会偏向前者。
The norms on how students dress differ from campus to campus. Some college campuses are more "Abercrombie" than others. In most cases, though, there's not going to be nearly as much pressure to fit in with the latest fashions as there was in high school.
学生的穿衣标准因学校的不同而有所变化，比如有的学校就比其他学校更注重"Abercrombie"这种美国年轻人的流行品牌。不过，在大多数时候，你不必像在高中时候拼命地去追求潮流。
So what kinds of clothes should you bring to college? Here are a few practical fashion tips.
那么，大学生到底应该穿什么样的衣服呢？下面是一些很实用的时尚小建议：
Bring comfortable clothes.
穿舒适的衣服
You may be the type who doesn't mind a little discomfort in the name of fashion, and that's fine. But there will be days when cozy clothes are a must, like during finals or the day after a nasty breakup, so make sure you have them on hand. Think T-shirts, sweats, and cozy jeans. Also, bring comfortable things to sleep in that won't embarrass you in front of your roommate, or in front of the surprise guests that pop by at 3:00 a.m.
也许你可以忍受为了时尚而牺牲一下自己的舒适度，这无可厚非。但总有一天，比如在期末考试期间或者在和男朋友分手后，你会发现自己迫切需要舒适的衣服，所以务必在衣橱里备几件舒适的服装。你可以考虑T恤、毛衣和修身牛仔裤等。同时，不要忘记备几件舒服的睡衣，它不仅使你在与室友一起的时候避免尴尬，还能让你坦然对待那些凌晨3：00中跑过来找你的朋友。
Wear comfortable walking shoes.
穿轻便的鞋子
Unless you enjoy being miserable, this is mandatory. Ladies, please don't walk around campus in high-heeled pumps. This isn't Sex and the City--it's a college campus, and you're going to be walking constantly. Save the cute heels for the weekend.
如果你不想遭罪的话，这可是一件必需品。女孩子们，请千万不要穿着高根鞋在大学校园里走来走去。这里不是“欲望都市”(也不是gossip girl啦)——这里是大学校园，你是要在这里不停走动的。把高跟鞋留到周末穿吧。
Bring low maintenance clothes.
穿容易保养的衣服
Time is at a premium in college. If it needs hand washing, don't bring it. Heck, if it needs ironing, don't bring it.
在大学生活中，时间就是一切。那些需要手洗和熨烫的衣物，通通不要穿。
Bring weather appropriate clothes.
穿适合时节的衣服
Keep in mind that you'll be walking around campus all the time, so if your school is in a cold climate, bring a heavy coat, scarf, gloves, and waterproof boots. Wear whatever you need to keep warm even if it messes up your outfit. If whomever it is you're trying to impress likes you less with hat hair, this isn't someone worthy of your attention.
请你记住你会经常在校园里走动，所以如果学校很冷的话，一定要穿厚实的外套、围巾、手套和防水靴。尽量穿保暖的衣物，即便这会使你的形象打点折扣。如果你心仪的那个人喜欢你穿的少一点，那么这个人绝对不值得你去付出。
Bring weekend clothes.
备些周末穿的衣服
Go ahead and bring the cute stuff. You'll probably want to save it for the weekends, though. No need to get all dolled up for your 8:00 a.m. class.
尽情地买些可爱的装备吧。这些很可能在周末用得到。不过，如果一大早要去上课的话，还是不要穿这种卡哇伊的衣服吧。
Don't come to class half naked.
不要穿暴露的衣服去上课
This may be appreciated by some of the male students (and professors too, sadly)， but this is not the way to be taken seriously in the classroom. Save the sexy stuff for the weekends, and come to class looking a little more professional. Even outside the classroom, it can be sexier to leave a little to the imagination and show off just one feature at a time. If you wear a navel-baring shirt, wear baggy pants. If you wear a micro-mini skirt, pair it with a big sweater.
一些男同学可能会喜欢这样(很遗憾的是有些教授也喜欢)，但这绝不表示你需要穿这种衣服去上课。性感的衣服还是留在周末穿吧，上课还是穿得比较正式点好。即使在课堂之外，穿得稍微检点一点，留给别人想象的空间，可能要比近乎半裸更性感。如果你穿件露脐装，就搭件宽松的裤子；而穿小迷你裙的时候就可以用松垮的毛衣来搭配.
Bring clothes you can layer.
备些易于穿脱的衣服
You're going to be coming in from the cold into overheated classrooms, and in from the heat into classrooms fit for a polar bear.
你需要从寒冷的校园步入温暖的教室，也需要从温暖的环境切换到寒冷的户外。
Discover the joy of thrift shops.
享受发现实惠店面的快乐
Unless you're very lucky, you're probably not going to have the funds to maintain a chic wardrobe, so indulge your love of shopping by buying clothes at thrift stores. Most college campuses have funky used clothes stores nearby for inexpensive shopping sprees, and for selling your old clothes for a few bucks. For great bargains, also check out clearance racks and on-line sites like eBay.
除非你特别幸运，否则你很难有钱去把自己的衣橱弄得很炫。所以加油找些实惠的店面去买东西吧！大多数的大学校区都会有一些专门为廉价购物而打造的稀奇古怪的二手服装店，你还可以把自己的旧衣服拿出来换点钞票。如果你想省更多的钱，不要忘记关注清仓活动和易趣网店哦。
选自新浪英语
A six year old goes to the hospital with his grandma to visit his grandpa.
When they get to the hospital, he runs ahead of his grandma and bursts into his grampa's room.
"Grampa, Grampa," he says excitedly, "as soon as grandma comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!"
"What?" said his grandpa.
"Make a noise like a frog because grandma said that as soon as you croaked, we're going to Disneyland!!!"
特蕾莎修女的人生箴言录
【百度百科小知识】：蕾莎修女，（Mother Teresa of Calcutta），1910年8月27日—1997年9月5日，又称做德兰修女、特里莎修女、泰瑞莎修女），是世界著名的天主教慈善工作者，主要替印度加尔各答的穷人服务。因其一生奉献给解除贫困，而于1979年得到诺贝尔和平奖。并被教皇约翰·保罗二世在2003年10月列入了天主教宣福名单 Beatification。目前德蕾莎修女的名称也变为真福德雷莎修女(Blessed Teresa）。
1、人们不讲道理、思想谬误、自我中心，不管怎样，还是爱他们；
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Love them anyway。
2、如果你做善事，人们说你自私自利、别有用心，不管怎样，还是要做善事；
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway。
3、如果你成功以后，身边尽是假的朋友和真的敌人，不管怎样，还是要成功；
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway。
4、你所做的善事明天就会被遗忘，不管怎样，还是要做善事；
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow; Do good anyway。
5、诚实与坦率使你容易受到欺骗和伤害，不管怎样，还是要诚实与坦率；
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway。
6、人都会同情弱者，却只追随赢家，不管怎样，还是要为一些弱者奋斗；
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway。
7、你耗费数年所建设的可能毁于一旦，不管怎样，还是要建设；
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; Build anyway。
8、如果你找到了平静和幸福，人们可能会嫉妒你，不管怎样，还是要快乐；
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway。
9、人们确实需要帮助，然而如果你帮助他们，却可能遭到攻击，不管怎样，还是要帮助；
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway。
10、将你所拥有最好的东西献给世界，可能永远都不够，不管怎样，还是要将最好的东西付出！
Give the world the best you have, And it may never be enough; Give the world the best you have anyway。
11、你看，说到底，它是你和上帝之间的事，而决不是你和他人之间的事。
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It is never between you and them anyway。
转自：环球时报
This Indian boy goes to his mother one day with a puzzled look on his face.
"Say, mom, why is my bigger brother named "Mighty Storm"?
"Because he was conceived during a mighty storm."
"Why is my sister named "Cornflower"?
"Well, your father and I were in a cornfield, when we made her."
"And why is my other sister called "Moonchild"?
"We were watching the moon landing while she was conceived."
"Tell me, Torn Rubber, why are you so curious?"
【谚语】闻言知人
通常来说谚语是人民群众口头流传的习用的固定语句，用简单通俗的话来反映深刻的道理，它们表达了人们丰富的社会生活经验，闪耀着人民智慧的光芒。因此，我非常想知道，某些谚语是不是也带给你一点生活的感触？你能将所想与我们一起分享么？
1、Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂装懂。
2、Talking mends no holes.
空谈无补。
3、A bargain is a bargain.
一诺千金。
4、Where bees are ,there is honey.
哪里有蜜蜂，哪里就有蜂蜜。
5、 A little learning is a dangerous thing.
浅学误人。
6、A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk.
闻其歌知其鸟，听其言知其人。
7、Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.
生命中的一天就是你历史上的一页。
8、Every tide hath its ebb.
兴盛之日必有衰退之时。
9、A fool always rushes to the fore.
傻瓜总爱强出头。
10、 A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby that I’ve ever seen. Ugh!”
The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming.
She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!”
The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”
【美文欣赏】华盛顿总统就职演说
THE CITY OF NEW YORK
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.
By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President "to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me from entering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good; for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.
To the foregoing observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.
【中文译文】：
美国人民的实验
乔治-华盛顿
第一次就职演讲
纽约 星期四,1789年4月30日
参议院和众议院的同胞们：
在人生沉浮中，没有一件事能比本月14日收到根据你们的命令送达的通知更使我焦虑不安，一方面，国家召唤我出任此职，对于她的召唤，我永远只能肃然敬从；而隐退是我以挚爱心憎、满腔希望和坚定的决心选择的暮年归宿，由于爱好和习惯，且时光流逝，健康渐衰，时感体力不济，愈觉隐退之必要和可贵。另一方面，国家召唤我担负的责任如此重大和艰巨，足以使国内最有才智和经验的人度德量力，而我天资愚饨，又无民政管理的实践，理应倍觉自己能力之不足，因而必然感到难以肩此重任。怀着这种矛盾心情，我唯一敢断言的是，通过正确估计可能产生影响的各种情况来克尽厥职，乃是我忠贞不渝的努力目标。我唯一敢祈望的是，如果我在执行这项任务时因陶醉于往事，或因由衷感激公民们对我的高度信赖，因而受到过多影响，以致在处理从未经历过的大事时，忽视了自己的无能和消极，我的错误将会由于使我误人歧途的各种动机而减轻，而大家在评判错误的后果时；也会适当包涵产生这些动机的偏见。
既然这就是我在遵奉公众召唤就任现职时的感想，那么，在此宣誓就职之际，如不热忱地祈求全能的上帝就极其失当，因为上帝统治着宇宙，主宰着各国政府，它的神助能弥补人类的任何不足，愿上帝赐福，侃佑一个为美国人民的自由和幸福而组成的政府，保佑它为这些基本目的而作出奉献，保佑政府的各项行政措施在我负责之下都能成功地发挥作用。我相信，在向公众利益和私人利益的伟大缔造者献上这份崇敬时，这些活也同样表达了各位和广大公民的心意。没有人能比美国人更坚定不移地承认和崇拜掌管人间事务的上帝。他们在迈向独立国家的进程中，似乎每走一步都有某种天佑的迹象；他们在刚刚完成的联邦政府体制的重大改革中，如果不是因虔诚的感恩而得到某种回报，如果不是谦卑地期待着过去有所预示的赐福的到来，那么，通过众多截然不同的集团的平静思考和自愿赞同来完成改革，这种方式是不能与大多数政府的组建方式同日而语的。在目前转折关头，我产生这些想法确实是深有所感而不能自已，我相信大家会和我怀有同感，即除了仰仗上帝的力量，一个新生的自由政府别无他法能一开始就事事顺利。根据设立行政部门的条款，总统有责任“将他认为必要而妥善的措施提请国会审议”。但在目前与各位见面的这个场合，恕我不进一步讨论这个问题，而只提一下伟大的宪法，它使各位今天聚集一堂，它规定了各位的权限，指出了各位应该注意的目标。在这样的场合，更恰当、也更能反映我内心激情的做法是不提出具体措施，而是称颂将要规划和采纳这些措施的当选者的才能、正直和爱国心。我从这些高贵品格中看到了最可靠的保证：其一，任何地方偏见或地方感情，任何意见分歧或党派敌视，都不能使我们偏离全局观点和公平观点，即必须维护这个由不同地区和利益所组成的大联合；因此，其二，我国的政策将会以纯洁而坚定的个人道德原则为基础，而自由政府将会以那赢得民心和全世界尊敬的一切特点而显示其优越性。我对国家的一片热爱之心激励着我满怀喜悦地展望这幅远景，因为根据自然界的构成和发展趋势，在美德与幸福之间，责任与利益之间，恪守诚实宽厚的政策与获得社会繁荣幸福的硕果之间，有着密不可分的统一；因为我们应该同样相信，上帝亲自规定了水恒的秩序和权利法则，它决不可能对无视这些法则的国家慈祥地加以赞许；因为人们理所当然地、满怀深情地、也许是最后一次把维护神圣的自由之火和共和制政府的命运，系于美国人所遵命进行的实验上。
我已将有感于这一聚会场合的想法奉告各位，现在我就要向大家告辞；但在此以前，我要再一次以谦卑的心情祈求仁慈的上帝给予帮助。因为承蒙上帝的恩赐，美国人有了深思熟虑的机会，以及为确保联邦的安全和促进幸福，用前所未有的一致意见来决定政府体制的意向；因而，同样明显的是，上帝将保佑我们扩大眼界，心平气和地进行协商，并采取明智的措施，而这些都是本届政府取得成功所必不可少的依靠。
On Christmas Eve Santa Claus met an honest politician and a kind lawyer while riding up in an elevator of a very exclusive hotel. Just before the doors opened the three of them noticed a 1000NT bill lying on the floor. Which one of them do you think picked it up?
Answer: Santa of course! Why? Because everybody knows that the other two don’t exist!
【资源推荐】7月21日-31日内容
为了方便大家阅读，我们决定每月分三次将上个月的“每日学口语”的句子整理上传。简短的句子，大家一定要学会哦^-^
本栏目中的口语皆由Dict.CN在美国为您新鲜录制。使用美国大学的专业录音棚和地地道道的美语发音。大家可以在美语老师的带领下，多多练习，天天动口。每天花您2分钟，就能学说一句常用英语。日积月累，慢慢的您就会随口说出许许多多日常用语了。
如下为2010年7月21日-31日的内容，努力加油啊：
[2010-07-21]
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
人人负责，等于没人负责。
[2010-07-22]
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
自己的命运自己掌握。
[2010-07-23]
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.
东西是新的好，朋友是老的亲。
[2010-07-24]
Example is better then percept(should be precept).
说一遍，不如做一遍。
[2010-07-25]
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
[2010-07-26]
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
明枪易躲，暗箭难防。
[2010-07-27]
Far from eye, far from heart.
眼不见，心不烦。
[2010-07-28]
Far water does not put out near fire.
远水救不了近火。
[2010-07-29]
Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
隔墙有耳。
[2010-07-30]
Fire and water have no mercy.
水火无情。
[2010-07-31]
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
风水轮流转。
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee".
The husband said, "You are in charge of the cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."
Wife replied, "No, you should do it, and besides it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."
Husband said, " I can't believe that, show me."
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says: "HEBREWS".
Tips:Hebrews的真正意思是<<圣经·新约>>中之<<希伯来书>>，而在这里妻子将它理解成“He brews.”brew vt. 泡(茶),煮(咖啡),调制(饮料)
等待离职良机十种方式
1. Ramp up your networking. Join LinkedIn and Plaxo, and ask for recommendations from current and past coworkers. Use Twitter to update the world on your current projects as well as network with other like-minded individuals. Look for local networking groups, and start attending them。
提升你的关系网 加入LinkedIn和Plaxo，向当前和过去的同事征求建议。利用Twitter更新你目前计划的范围，扩大与其他志同道合个人的联系。寻求当地的网络群体，并加入进去。
2. Prepare for success. Consider registering a web site in your name. You can then create a professional-sounding email address that will encourage people to visit your web site. Get a professional photograph taken. This is for your web site, your advertising, or anything else that you will be doing to promote your image as a serious professional. Order your own business cards in your name with your web site and business number. Basic business cards can be obtained for a very reasonable rate at Vista print. If you don't want your cell phone ringing with business calls at work, consider a Skype In number, which will cost you just $60 a year。
做好成功的准备 考虑以你的名字注册一家网站。这样，你就能创建一个给人印象深刻的职业电子邮件地址，并能鼓励人们访问你的网址。拍一张职业的照片。这将为你的网址，你的 广告，或任何其它你所能做的提升自己职业形象的事情做准备。定制印有你的姓名、网址和公司电话号码的自己的名片。基本的名片能够在Vista print获得非常合理的速度。如果你不想让手机在上班的时候收到业务电话，就考虑使用Skype In号码，每年只需花你60美元。
3. Expand your skill set. If you’re in the right career, critically examine where you may be lacking in experience or qualifications. If you’re weak at giving presentations, now is the time to join Toastmasters. This will improve your public speaking ability and eventually add solid achievements to your resume. Upgrade your credentials. Is there a certification of some sort that you can achieve? Perhaps it is time to consider finishing your MBA。
扩展你的技能 如果你有份合适的职业，那么，就精确地审视你可能缺乏的经验或资格。如果你不善表达，那么，现在就该加入Toastmasters。这将有助于提高你在公 共场合讲话的能力，也将为你的简历添上实在的业绩。升级你的文凭。看看你能获得哪种证明。也许是考虑完成你的MBA的时候了。
4. Start thinking of yourself as who you want to become. Rather than being a banker who paints as a hobby, you are an artist who supplements your income with your banking job. This inner psychology is very important to realizing your dream. If you always think of your dream as something you’ll be doing in the future, there’s a good chance it will always remain in the future. Claim it as your reality now, and that will encourage you to take action. If you’re in the habit of thinking it and believing it, doing it becomes much easier。
开始把自己看做你想做的那种人 与其做个银行家，而把绘画当成业余爱好，不如把自己当做靠银行的工作增加收入的艺术家。这种内心的暗示对实现你的梦想很重要。如果你总是把梦想当成将来要 做的事，那么，它很可能永远留在将来。现在就宣称你的梦想就是现实，这样会激励你采取行动。如果你常常考虑自己的梦想，而且习惯了相信梦想，实现梦想就会 更容易。
5.Do something to earn money outside of your current job. Consider consulting or selling your creations. Having an outside income helps take the sting out of a miserable work situation. Working in a job that is a bad fit can be a demoralizing experience. Earning a second income is a consistent reminder that you are able to earn money apart from your main source of income. You may eventually find that you can turn your secondary income into a full-time business。
做点挣外快的事情 考虑做做咨询或出售你的创意。挣外快有助于使讨厌的工作令人愉快。做一件不适合的工作可能是令人泄气的经历。挣到额外的收入会不断地提醒你，你能从主要收入来源之外挣到钱。最终，你也许就会发现自己可以将产生第二收入的工作转变为全职事业。
6.Post a visible reminder that this job is only temporary. When I once worked in a job I hated, I helped bide my time by hanging a reminder on my bulletin board that said, “This is only temporary. De-invest。” Now this was a home office, so I had freedom over my environment. However, I would suggest you post something at work that will symbolize this concept for you. It could be a phrase like this abbreviated in a way that only you will understand. For example, if you want to become a novelist, post an image of your dream home office or the front cover of a book. Make sure this is in a location where you will see it frequently; every time those stressful moments at work arise, you’ll have this reminder: This is only temporary. I will not be doing this forever。
醒目地标示这只是一个临时工作 当我做令自己讨厌的工作时，我等待时机的方式就是在电子告示牌上挂上提示：“这只是临时的。完全是投资。”这是一个家庭办公室，因此我能自由布置自己的工
作环境。不过，我建议你在工作时为自己发个邮件，把这个理念传达给自己。你可以发送一个只有自己明白的像这样的短语。比如，如果你想成为一名作家，就发送 一个你想象中的家庭办公室图像或一本书的封面。要保证把它显示在你能经常看见的地方。每次在工作中感受到压力增强时，你都会得到这样的提醒：这只是临时 的。不会永远如此。
7.Get busy in your off-work time. There are two halves to achieving a new reality: You must have time to dream, and you must take action. Give yourself time for creative visualization daily. Note ideas that come, and keep a record of these. Make a rule that you spend X amount of time daily taking action on your dreams. Artists produce artwork. Writers write. If you are not taking action, you will not achieve your dream。
在没上班的时候就开始工作 要想获得一种新的现实有两部分：你必须有时间梦想，你必须采取行动。给自己时间，创造形象化的每一天。关注并记录下出现的想法。形成每天花若干时间采取实 现梦想的行动的习惯。艺术家创作艺术作品。作家写作品。如果你不采取行动，就不会实现梦想。
8. View your current job as paid practice for your future dream job. Even in a miserable job, you have a wealth of opportunities to polish your skills. Have a boss who’s a hothead? This is your time to get paid to practice dealing with difficult people. Read about neuron linguistic programming (NLP)， and give it a try. Find ways to streamline the processes at work. How can you be more efficient in dealing with email and phone messages? How can you better manage your time? Build good habits now that you will take with you when you leave。
把目前的工作看成为未来梦想的工作付出的实践 即使在一个令人厌恶的工作中，你也能获得提高技能财富的机会。你的老板是个性急的人吗？这正是你练习与难相处的人合作的机会。看看《神经语言学设计 (NLP)》，并付诸实践。想办法把工作流程合理化。如何才能更高效地处理电子邮件和电话留言？如何能更好地安排时间？现在就养成好习惯，等你离开的时候 你可以带走这个好习惯。
9.Maintain a satisfactory job performance, but de-invest emotionally. This one takes practice, and meditation helps with this. Keep in mind that this job is temporary, so it is not worth your losing sleep over. Practice not engaging with people who try to push your buttons. Think of yourself as working for yourself, not for the company. Do your best to stay below the radar by making sure you are performing satisfactorily, but as much as possible, reduce work-related activities that consume your energy but have little to no return on investment。
保持一个令人满意的工作表现，不过不要全身心地投入进去。 这需要练习，深思也有助于此。牢记这是个临时的工作，因此不值得你失眠。练习不要与试图触动你的人交战。想象自己在为自己工作，而不是为公司工作。努力做 到表现令人满意，而不引人注意，不过，尽力而为即可，减少消耗你的精力又几乎没有任何投资回报的与工作有关的活动。
10.Get a life outside of work. This is vital to biding your time in a job you hate. When you have an active social life outside of the office, it becomes so much easier to tolerate mundane or stressful work. A balanced life helps to keep things in perspective。
争取获得工作以外的生活 这是在你痛恨的工作中等待良机的关键。 当你在办公室以外获得了积极的社会生活，忍受平淡或充满压力的工作就变得非常容易了。和谐的生活有助于保持对事物的洞察力。
Employing all of these techniques will help reduce stress while you wait until the appropriate time to change jobs. By taking these steps you retain your sense of dignity and worth as well as prepare for success in your future work。
利用所有这些技巧将有助于降低你在等待变换工作的时机过程中受到的压力。通过采取这些步骤，你保持了自己的尊严感和价值感，也为未来工作的成功做了充分的准备。
转自沪江英语
A man was helping one of his cows give birth, when he noticed his 5-year-old son standing pie-eyed at the fence, soaking in the whole event.
The man thought, "Great... he's 5 and I'm gonna have to start explaining the birds and the bees. No need to jump the gun - I'll just let him ask, and I'll answer."
When everything was over, Dad strolled over to his son and said, "Well Willie, do you have any questions?"
"Just one," gasped the pie-eyed lad. "How fast was that calf going when he hit that cow?"
十二星座约会恋人各有"禁忌"
约会不总是轻而易举。我们时常经历一些这样的约会：事先看起来应该有戏，事后却发现失败得一塌糊涂。怎么会这样呢？下面有一些基于星座的原因
Dating isn’t always easy. Sometimes we’ve experienced dates that, beforehand, seemed as though they'd be a success, only to find them a complete failure later. Why does this happen? Here are some reasons why a date could go awry based on your sign, and how to prevent them from happening again。
约会不总是轻而易举。我们时常经历一些这样的约会：事先看起来应该有戏，事后却发现失败得一塌糊涂。怎么会这样呢？下面有一些基于星座的原因，让你知道为什么约会走上了歧途，以及如何预防这种事情再次发生。
Aries: Remember that the world doesn’t revolve around you, Aries. Aries can often think about themselves first, after all, they rule the first house of “self”. Be sure to find out what your sweetie wants, too。
白羊座：白羊们要记住，世界不是围着你转。白羊座的人可能通常先想到自己，毕竟，你们是最“自我”的一类。但也一定要弄清楚你的情人想要什么。
Taurus: Need to know where your partner is all the time or what they’re doing can easily put you on damage control. When you get into a new relationship or begin dating someone, love without being possessive。
金牛座：想要时刻知道你的对象在哪里或者在做什么，会轻易让你时刻警惕着以防自己受伤。当你处于一段新的恋情或者开始约会某人时，用心去爱，但别想着占有。
Gemini: You love to do the talking, but let your sweetie share some words, too. Be an active listener on your next date. Keep eye contact with them at all times, be sure to be empathetic and keep your focus on THEIR story。
双子座：你很爱说，但也要让你的情人 Don’t Be A Dating Disaster! 说上几句。下次约会时一定要做一个积极的聆听者。始终保持眼神交流，一定要投入感情，而且把注意力集中在“他们”的故事上。
Cancer: Watch your mood swings around your sweetie, Cancer, especially on dates. Be careful you don’t flip a switch
at that restaurant or even worse do it to your server. Sometimes it can be more embarrassing to see your date be rude to your server than to you even. Watch your emotional energy and keep it in check especially in public!
巨蟹座：巨蟹们，有情人相伴时一定要注意自己的情绪波动，尤其是约会时。一定不要在餐馆闹情绪，更不要冲服务员发火。有时候，看到自己的伴侣对服务员粗鲁甚至比对自己粗鲁更难堪。注意自己的情绪，并及时控制，尤其是在公众场合！
Leo: You have a great sense of selfesteem, but don’t let your confidence turn to cockiness. Too many comments that are self-serving could make you seem like you’re implying you’re better than average. Keep it real, home slice! Your sweetie will prefer a more humble nature。
狮子座：你有很强的自尊心，但不要让你的自信变成自大。太多褒扬自己的话会让你看上去是在暗示你自己比普通人强。现实点吧，朋友！你的情人会喜欢更加谦卑的个性。
Virgo: You like everything to be perfect, but when you’re on a date, try not to nit-pick
over every single thing to your waiter or sweetie. A dirty spoon or a fly in your soup are good reasons to call over your server. But to fuss over every little thing will most definitely be a turn off to your date。
处女座：你希望所有事都完美无缺，不过，当你约会时，注意不要什么事都对服务员或者你的情人进行挑剔。勺子脏或者汤里有只苍蝇都是可以把服务员召唤过来的理由，但是对所有事都吹毛求疵的话，一定以及肯定会让你的情人兴趣索然。
Libra: Avoid name-dropping! Scales love expensive and beautiful things. Even people who are associated with beauty and wealth can be a conversation of delight for glamorous Libra. Just try not to name-drop those jeans or that celebrity you know in every conversation。
天秤座：别借别人来抬高自己！天秤们喜欢昂贵美丽的事物，就连那些和美丽、富足扯上关系的人都可以成为迷人的天秤座兴致勃勃谈论的话题。试着不要每次谈话都要提到那些牛仔裤或你认识的那个名人来抬高自己。
Scorpio: You love passion in a relationship, and that’s why sometimes you can move too fast. When you first meet a guy or girl, don’t rush into intimacy. Rein that sexual energy in, folks! And get to know the person。
天蝎座：你喜欢恋情里有激情，这就是为什么有时候你可能进展得太快的原因。当你第一次约见某个男子或女子的时候，不要急于亲热。把性活力控制在体内，伙计们！要试着了解对方。
Sagittarius: Don’t be flighty! You’re truly a social butterfly and love to scatter your energy everywhere. Don’t flake out on plans with your sweetie or a new date. This will most definitely be a turn-off because it will show you aren’t reliable。
射手座：不要举止轻浮！你的确是个社交花蝴蝶，喜欢到处挥洒自己的活力。在计划你和情人或新的约会对象的安排时，不要玩得太过了。这百分百会让他们兴趣索然，因为这种举动表明你不可靠。
Capricorn: You’re very responsible, Capricorn. You want everything to be in working order all the time and that can lead to an excessive amount of over explaining and even controlling situations. We realize you’re being overly efficient, but half the time most people will tune out the information they don’t need, so you’re just wasting your breath. Keep it simple!
摩羯座：魔羯，你很负责。你期望所有事情都时刻正常运转，而这会让你进入一而再再而三地过度解释甚至过度控制的处境。我们发现，你说话的效率太高了，但有一半时间，大多数人会忽略他们不需要的信息，所以，你只是白费唇舌而已。说话要简短！
Aquarius: You can easily be wrapped up in causes for a higher good, because you’re ruled by the planet that rules technology! When you’re on date, don’t open that PETA email that just popped up on your blackberry. Your sweetie will begin to think your messages are more important than them. Try to live in the moment, and leave your iphone or blackberry out of the picture for a bit。
水瓶座：你会很轻易就武装上更好的装备，因为控制着你的星球也控制着科技！约会时，不要打开黑莓手机里刚冒出来的那封超大邮件。你的情人会开始认为你收到的信息比他/ 她更重要。试着珍惜约会的每一分钟，不要把你的苹果手机或黑莓手机牵扯进来。
Pisces: Your dreamy nature easily allows you to be in your own little world. Sometimes your sweetie or crush could wonder if you’re even listening. When you’re on a new date or out with your sweetie, try to snap into reality. And be careful of wearing your heart on your sleeve too quickly in relationships。
双鱼座：你爱幻想的本质很容易就让你沉迷于自己的小世界。有时候，你的情人或迷恋你的人会猜想你是否在听他们说话。当你开始一次新的约会或与情人外出时，试着快速融入现实世界。还要注意，谈恋爱时，不要很快就表明自己的感情。
Vocabulary:
1. damage control: An effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss. 损害管制。
2. mood swing: 情绪波动。
3. flip a switch: 拨开关。文中形容情绪变化得快。
4. home slice: A good friend。
5. nit-pick: 挑剔，吹毛求疵。
6. name-drop: To mention casually the names of illustrious or famous people in order to imply that one is on familiar terms with them, intended as a means of selfpromotion. 借名流权贵来抬高自己。
7. rein v . 驾驭，控制。
8. flighty a. 充满幻想的，轻浮的。
9. flake out: Go crazy; also, cause someone to go crazy。
10. wear your heart on your sleeve: Display one’s emotions openly。
转自国际在线
Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the road when she sees the Big Bad Wolf crouched down behind a log.
"My what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf," says Little Red Riding Hood.
The surprised wolf jumps up and runs away. Further down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again, this time he is crouched behind a tree stump.
"My what big ears you have Mr. Wolf," says Little Red Riding Hood.
Again the foiled wolf jumps up and runs away. About 2 miles down the road, Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again, this time crouched down behind a road sign. "My what big teeth you have Mr. Wolf," taunts Little Red Riding Hood.
With that the Big Bad Wolf jumps up and screams, " For Chrissakes!! Will you get lost?! I'm trying to take a dump!"
品电影译名学地道英语
单从电影的外语译名而言，曾有多少国外电影，因为异常出彩的中文译名，打动了无数中国观众的心灵，从这个全球最大市场赚了个盆满钵满；又有多少国产电影，用别有韵味的英文译名更加深入地诠释了整个影片的内涵和意境。
现在就让我们从电影译名开始，重温那些过去的经典、过去的故事、过去的年代……
1.《Streetcar Named Desire》——《欲望号街车》
马龙·白兰度和费雯丽主演的这部影片诠释了爱慕虚荣的代价。Streetcar 指国外一种古老的有轨电车，车身与电线相连，按照既定的轨迹运行，但现在并不多见，更多的是以旅游观光车的形式出现。
2.《Face Off》——《变脸》
Face off并不是一种通俗的用法，根据电影的内容，可以理解为一种身份的互换，不同的角色设置。曾有人翻译成《夺命双雄》，易落俗套，而《变脸》看上去简洁神秘，以令人视觉迷离的角色互换，正邪两方的冲突和激战，吊足观众的胃口，贯穿影片始终，可以说生动地反映了警察与杀手的对立而又微妙的关系。
例如，两队开始比赛时：Both teams are ready to face off；准备与某人争辩或竞争：The candidates are preparing to face off on TV tonight。
3.《Romantic of Three Kingdoms》——《三国演义》
这是按照电影名称的字面翻译。Romantic当名词用时，有贬义的成分。如果说某人是Romantic，通常指他们的想法脱离实际，与真实生活不契合。例如，He is a romantic who longs for adventure。因为《三国演义》只是小说，不完全遵照历史，有类似戏说的成分，所以用Romantic而不是Romance来表述原著的内容。
Romantic：当形容词用时，与爱情相关，指拥有一段亲密的恋爱关系。例如：I'm not ready for a romantic relationship。
Romance：一般描述情侣之间的亲密关系。例如：Hemingway's romance with his nurse inspired him to write 'A Farewell to Arms'。
4.《It Happened One Night》——《一夜风流》
《一夜风流》片名新颖醒目，善于制造悬念，渲染气氛。以下是一些常见的调情英语：调情(flirt)、邂逅(meet each other by accidence)、一夜情(a one-night-stand)、热恋(fall in love)、分手(split-up or break up)、重逢(come across)、艳遇(bump in each other，指没有预期地见到某人，还可以说have affairs with somebody，这种用法一般专指外遇。)
5.《Midnight Cowboy》——《午夜牛郎》
Midnight Cowboy中的cowboy本意为“牛仔”，是美国特有的文化，与中国文化中的“牛郎”并无关系。在西部美国农场的建立和逐渐扩大过程中，产生了大批牛仔，他们通过辛勤劳动创造财富，牛仔文化反映了美国的个人主义和自由主义的精神，也是美国思想中最核心的部分：“美国梦” ——指一个白手起家的人最终能发大财。
6.《Playing By Heart》——《随心所欲》
Playing by heart指做事情喜欢以一时的心情或本能来做决定，而不是通过理智来分析。简单来说，就是随心所欲。
By heart 等同于 off by heart，这个词条前面可以添加各种动词，例如play music by heart，意味着某人对整首音乐铭记于心，演奏时候无需察看乐谱。不过by heart一般仅用于表示记忆层面，如 I’ve dialed the number so many times I know it by heart. She’s learnt the whole speech off by heart。
7.《Farewell My Concubine》——《霸王别姬》
Farewell是说再见的一种更正规、更书面的用法；而Goodbye更口语化。
8.《Ashes of Time》——《东邪西毒》
Ashes of time的翻译就跟影片本身一样令人难以琢磨，却别有一番韵味，无论武功多高强，最终都会像沙砾一样随风飘尽，成为时间的灰烬，十分符合影片的意境。
9.《In the Mood for Love》——《花样年华》
In the mood for love体现了男女主人公的恋爱心境，虽然共是婚姻的受害者，但是面对婚外无法启齿的爱情，只能默默抚慰彼此寂寞的心灵，美好的花样年华只能带着几丝伤感和怀念悄然逝去。
You are in the mood for something，意指你想做什么事，或者想拥有什么东西。所以如果我们说in the mood for love，就是说很想与某人建立恋情，享受恋爱的感觉。
本文选自《新动力外语》的博客
Son: Dad, is French difficult to learn?
Father: My boy, at the beginning it is, but after that it becomes easy.
Son: That's great! I'll learn the latter half.
【学习方法】懒人学习英语的方法
此文为转帖
先我是一个懒人，懒到没有兴趣就不愿意去学。
另外我是一个笨人，笨到没有联系就记不住东西。
所以，我通过电影（含美剧）来学习英语。
我希望，每个人都能找到适合自己的学习方式。不管你认为下面说的多有煽动性，多美好，毕竟只是我自己个人体会和方法。并不是贴谁身上都合适的万能膏药。毕竟各方面条件相同的实在是不怎么现实。
再次声明：以下为个人意见，本人并不否定其他学习方式，如果您有不同想法欢迎交流。
通过电影学英语是目前我所知的最有效，最便捷，最实用的学习方式，也是我正在运用的方法。
原因有很多，一个是其可操作性和易操作性。
1, 目前有专门看电影学英语的软件工具，大家可以在网上搜搜。
2，双语字幕电影资源很容易获得。网上很多可以下载获得
3，现在笔记本3000多就能买个双核的液晶显示的。台式机不要液晶屏大约2000左右，这已经可以看电影了。
4，相关操作相当的简单，很容易上手。
从学习方法的本身来说看双语字幕学电影有如下好处：
1，不枯燥，不易产生厌学情绪。因为英语是看电影学会，就好像只有文字的书谁看着都头痛，但是配上插图，即使内容不变也会让人感觉到容易，类似小孩的画册。
2，记忆牢固，很难忘记，因为知识和情节和故事融合在一起，大部分词汇是相当的扎实的。很多同学整天抱着个字典背单词，背多少望多少还不是因为没有联系？记忆需要联系，各位可以回想一下，小时候多事都记不清了，但是父母在床边讲过的故事情节有的却还很清晰--清晰的让你自己都吃惊。
3，英语学习的所有方面都可以涉及。
4，英语电影和美剧里的台词是最直白，最实用，最贴近口语的语言大家都知道口语也分正式场合和日常交际，来个简单的例子。如果你想让对方停止说话。日常的你可以说“knock it off”,但在会议上呢？要说“XX will suspend”。
电影根据片子类型的不同口语类型也不同，所以更方便我们了解不同语境和口语的英语口语。同时，电影台词是简练的不能再简练，精确的不能再精确，简单的不能再简单的语言。
简练：一个投资几千万上亿美元的大片，往往就几百句台词。每一个字母都是语言大师级的人物锤炼出来的。
精确：如果不精确就会影响剧情和观众的理解，人物的塑造。
简单：这个很重要，美国大片向来是票房论英雄。票房靠观众，试想一个电影拍的只有博士能看懂，能看出好来，票房能高的了？起码就我几年看电影的经验，一般比较成功的片语言都很生活化。
下面是我的学习方式，再次声明，这是我个人长期摸索出来证明适合我个人的学习方式，不一定也不可能适合随便某某用，这里只是提供给各位当作借鉴。学不学，怎么去学，要靠各位自己找到最适合自己的学习方式。
工具：电脑+电影文件+英语视听软件
步骤：
1，看第一遍电影，不要试图去学什么东西，完全丢开学英语的念头，尽一切努力去理解剧情和潜台词，可以让字幕不显示。
2，看第二遍电影，仍然不要学什么东西。努力把电影台词的意思吃透，尽量把没看懂的情节弄明白。
3，看第三遍的时候，你已经大概知道哪个人物大概在什么时候大概说些什么了。试着不去看台词，用脑袋里的记忆去套剧中人的话。
4，看第四编的时候，能飞软件播放的时候隐藏掉字幕。以听为主，把画面当作辅助。
5，最后一遍。一点一点的把电影梳理一遍，只要看到生词随时暂停，用金山词霸查出来，然后模仿剧中人的口气和速度说上几遍，在软件上标注出来。要注意，不要贪多。如shallow这个词我是从变形金刚里学的，我只记里面“肤浅”那个意思，不会刻意去记浅的，浅滩之类的意思，因为人的联想记忆是有限的，如果想记得牢固，绝对不能贪多。
6，第六遍，看电影自由复习。
说起来是很简单，其实这个过程又长又累。很考验人的耐心。我知道很多人说看电影根本就学不会什么。这个很简单，电影是表现现实的艺术，如果一个片子你只看一遍两遍，连剧情本身都领悟不了，何谈用来学习？就算你想硬学，那也只能是顾此失彼。
所以，学英语里的电影一定要建立在对电影剧情，潜台词和内涵的对清楚的了解上。比如电影里的幽默，人都说幽默是智慧过剩的表现，幽默不是谁都能理解的，谁都能理解那叫贫嘴。很多时候别人笑得出来，我们笑不出来是因为我们个人知识素养没达到。电影可以帮助你在学习英语的过程中同步提高和学习。
举个例子《绝世天劫》，10多年前的片，在西方貌似口碑很差--我们外教没一个不骂的，不过大牌很多，也是我学的比较早的几部电影之一。里面有很多科学上的东西你能翻译，词你也认识但就是不知道怎么去理解。
学电影收获是相当大的，大到你自己都不敢相信。我学变形金刚整整用了5天--课余时间。学会了大约200个生词。
完全的生词70个--以前都没见过，也没听说过的。
半生词40个------以前听过见过，就是没用过的--比如"inbound"，我在游戏“三角洲”见过N次，就是没正二八经的学。
组合词20个------俩词都见过，放一起又是一个新的意思
旧词新意60多----以前认识但是不知道影片中的意思。
大略算下来，真正的生词也就100来个，但是一个英语专业本科生毕业的词汇量才有多少了？8000！
When Tom Howard was seventeen years old he was as tall as his father, so he began to borrow Mr. Howard's clothes when he wanted to go out with his friends in the evening.
Mr. Howard did not like this, and he always got very angry when he found his son wearing any of his things.
One evening when Tom came downstairs to go out, his father stopped him in the hall. He looked at Tom's clothes very carefully.
Then he said angrily, "Isn't that one of my ties, Tom?"
"Yes, Father, it is." answered Tom.
"And that shirt's mine too, isn't that one of my ties, Tom?"
"Yes, that's yours too," answered Tom.
"And you're wearing my belt!" said Mr. Howard.
"Yes, I am, Father," answered Tom. " You don't want your trousers to fall down, do you?"
《小王子》经典温情语录重温
1、You know — one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…
你知道的—当一个人情绪低落的时候，他会格外喜欢看日落……
2、If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, "Somewhere, my flower is there…" But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened… And you think that is not important!
倘若一个人对一朵花情有独钟，而那花在浩瀚的星河中，是独一无二的，那么，他只要仰望繁星点点，就心满意足了。他会喃喃自语：“我的花就在星河的某个角落……”可是，这花一旦被羊吃掉了，一瞬间，所有星星都将随之黯淡无光……那你也认为这不重要吗？
3、Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…
花总是表里不一，而我太年轻了，不知道该怎样爱护她……
4、For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower…
她其实是不愿意让小王子看到自己哭泣。她曾经是多么高傲的一朵花……
5、My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left on my planet, all alone!
我的花生命是短暂的，她只有四根刺可以保护自己，抵御世界，我却将她独自留在我的星球上了！
6、His flower had told him that she was only one of her kind in all universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!
他的花朵曾经告诉他，自己是宇宙间仅有的一种花；可是仅仅在这座花园里，就有五千朵和她一模一样的花！
7、I thought that I was rich, with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was a common rose. A common rose…
我总以为自己很富有，拥有一朵世上独一无二的花；实际上，我所拥有的不过是一朵普通的玫瑰而已。一朵普通的玫瑰花……
8、To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world。
对我而言，你只是一个小男孩，和其他成千上万的小男孩没有什么不同。我不需要你。你也不需要我。对你而言，我也和其它成千上万的狐狸并没有差别。但是，假如你驯服了我，我们就彼此需要了。对我而言，你就是举世无双的；对你而言，我也是独一无二的……
9、The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat。
麦田和我没有任何关联，真令人沮丧。不过，你有金黄色的头发。想想看，如果你驯服了我，那该有多好啊！小麦也是金黄色的，那会使我想起你。我会喜欢听麦田里的风声……
10、It is your own fault, I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you... but now you are going to cry! Then it has done you no good at all!
这是你的错，我根本无意伤害你，可是你却愿意让我驯服你……可是你现在却想哭！那驯服根本对你毫无好处！
11、It has done me good, because of the color of the wheat fields. Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world。
驯服对我是有好处的——因为麦田的颜色。再回头看那些玫瑰花吧！到时你就明白你的玫瑰花仍是举世无双的一朵花。
12、And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes。
这是我的一个秘密，再简单不过的秘密：一个人只有用心去看，才能看到真实。事情的真相只用眼睛是看不见的。
13、It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important。
你在你的玫瑰花身上耗费的时间使得你的玫瑰花变得如此重要。
14、Men have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…
人们早已忘记了这个道理。可是你不应将它遗忘。你必须永远对自己所驯服的东西负责。你要对你的玫瑰花负责。
15、Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry…
只有小孩子知道自己在找什么。他们把时间花费在布洋娃娃身上。因此对他们而言，洋娃娃就变得很重要。一旦有人将娃娃拿走，他们就会号啕大哭……
16、As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water。
如果是我，要是我有五十三分钟可以自由运用，那我会悠哉游哉向一道清泉走去。
17、The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen。
星星真美，因为有一朵看不见的花。
18、What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well…
沙漠之所以美丽，是因为在它的某个角落隐藏着一口井水……
19、The house, the stars, the desert – what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
古屋、星星和沙漠——赋予它们美丽的是某种看不见的东西……
20、What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower – the image of a rose that shine through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep…
这个熟睡的小王子最叫我感动的地方是，他对一朵玫瑰的感情——甚至他睡着了，那朵玫瑰花的影子，仍像灯光一样照亮他的生命……
21、The men where you live, raise five thousand roses in the same garden – and they do not find in it what they are looking for. And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water. But eyes are blind. One must look with the heart…
你所居住的星球上的人们，在同一座花园培育了五千朵玫瑰——却无法从中找到他们所要寻找的东西。但是，他们所寻找的，其实是可以从一朵玫瑰花或一滴水中找到的。然而眼睛往往是盲从的。人还是必须用心去看……
22、All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You – you alone – will have the stars as no one else has them…
每一个人都有自己的星星，但其中的含意却因人而异。对旅人而言，星星是向导；对其他人而言，它们只不过是天际中闪闪发光的小东西而已；对学者而言，星星则是一门待解的难题；对我那位商人来说，它们就是财富。不过，星星本身是沉默的。你——只有你——了解这些星星与众不同的含义……
23、In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… You – only you – will have stars that can laugh…
我就在繁星中的一颗上生活。我会站在其中的一颗星星上微笑。当你在夜间仰望天际时，就仿佛每一颗星星都在笑……你——只有你——才能拥有会笑的星星……
24、And when your sorrow is comforted time soothes all sorrows you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure… And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, "Yes, the stars always make me laugh!"
当你不再感到伤心的时候(时间会冲淡一切伤痛)，你就会因认识我而感到心满意足。你是我永远的朋友。将会和我一起欢笑。为了欢乐，你会经常打开窗子……当你的朋友看到你因仰望天空而大笑时，一定会感到莫名其妙！到时候，你可以对他们说：“是的，星星总让我开心而笑！”
25、And no grown-ups will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!
但是，大人们永远也不会了解这件事有多么重要！
转自环球时报
Little Johnny and her mother were out and about. Little Johnny, out of the blue, asked her mother, "Mommy, How old are you?" The mother responded, "Honey, women don't talk about their age. You'll learn this as you get older.
Little Johnny then asked, "Mommy, how much do you weight?" Her mother responded again, "That's another thing women don't talk about. You'll learn this too, as you grow up."
Little Johnny still wanting to know about her mother, then fires off another question, "Mommy, Why did you and Daddy get a divorce?"
The mother, a little annoyed by the questions, responded, "Honey, that is a subject that hurts me very much, and I don't want to talk about it now."
The Little Johnny , frustrated, sulks until he is dropped off at a friend's house to play. He consults with his friend about him and her mother's conversation. His friend says, "All you have to do is sneak and look at your mother's driver's license. It's just like a report card from school. It tells you everything."
Later, the Little Johnny and her mother are out and about again. The Little Johnny starts off with, "Mommy, Mommy, I know how old you are, You're 32 years old."
The mother is very shocked. She asks, "Sweetheart, how do you know that?"
The Little Johnny shrugs and says, "I just know. And I know how much you weight. You weight 130 pounds."
"Where did you learn that?", said the mother again.
The Little Johnny says, "I just know. And I know why you and daddy got a divorce. You got an "F" in sex."
【美文欣赏】杰弗逊总统就职演说
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1801
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS,
Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye -- when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of the undertaking. Utterly, indeed, should I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world.
During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety. But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter -- with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens -- a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it. Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest revolutionary character, whose preeminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. The approbation implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all.
Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And may that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favorable issue for your peace and prosperity.
【中文译文】：
同心同德地团结起来
托马斯-杰斐逊 第一次就职演讲
华盛顿,星期三,1801年3月4日
朋友们、同胞们：
我应召担任国家的最高行政长官，值此诸位同胞集会之时，我衷心感谢大家寄予我的厚爱，诚挚地说，我意识到这项任务非我能力所及，其责任之重大，本人能力之浅簿，自然使我就任时忧惧交加。一个沃野千里的新兴国家，带着丰富的工业产品跨海渡洋，同那些自恃强权、不顾公理的国家进行贸易，向着世人无法预见的天命疾奔——当我思考这些重大的目标，当我想到这个可爱的国家，其荣誉、幸福和希望都系于这个问题和今天的盛典，我就不敢再想下去，并面对这宏图大业自惭德薄能鲜。确实，若不是在这里见到许多先生们在场，使我想起无论遇到什么困难，都可以向宪法规定的另一高级机构寻找智慧、美德和热忱的源泉，我一定会完全心灰意懒。因此，负有神圣的立法职责的先生们和各位有关人士，我鼓起勇气期望你们给予指引和支持，使我们能够在乱世纷争中同舟共济，安然航行。
在我们过去的意见交锋中，大家热烈讨论，各展所长，这种紧张气氛，有时会使不习惯于自由思想、不习惯于说出或写下自己想法的人感到不安；但如今，这场争论既已由全国的民意作出决定，而且根据宪法的规定予以公布，大家当然会服从法律的意志，妥为安排，为共同的利益齐心协力，大家也会铭记这条神圣的原则；尽管在任何情况下，多数人的意志是起决定作用的，但这种意志必须合理才瞩公正；少数人享有同等权利，这种权利必须同样受到法律保护，如果侵犯，便是压迫。因此，公民们，让我们同心同德地团结起来。让我们在社会交往中和睦如初、恢复友爱，如果没有这些，自由，甚至生活本身都会索然寡味，让我们再想一想，我们已经将长期以来造成人类流血、受苦的宗教信仰上的不宽容现象逐出国上，如果我们鼓励某种政治上的不宽容，其专演、邪恶和可能造成的残酷、血腥迫害均与此相仿，那么我们必将无所收获。当旧世界经历阵痛和骚动，当愤怒的人挣扎着想通过流血、杀戮来寻求失去已人的自由，那波涛般的激情甚至也会冲击这片遥远而宁静的海岸；对此，人们的感触和忧患不会一样，因而对安全措施的意见就出现了分歧，这些都不足为奇。但是，各种意见分歧并不都是原则分歧。我们以不同的名字呼唤同一原则的兄弟。我们都是共和党人，我们都是联邦党人，如果我们当中有人想解散这个联邦，或者想改变它的共和体制，那就让他们不受干扰而作为对平安的纪念碑吧，因为有了平安，错误的意见就可得到宽容，理性就得以自由地与之抗争。诚然，我知道，有些正直人士担心共和制政府无法成为强有力的政府，担心我们这个政府不够坚强；但是，在实验取得成功的高潮中，一个诚实的爱国者，难道会因为一种假设的和幻想的疑惧，就以为这个被世界寄予最大希望的政府可能需要力量才得以自存，因而就放弃这个迄今带给我们自由和坚定的政府吗？我相信下会。相反，我相信这是世界上最坚强的政府。我相信唯有在这种政府的治理下，每个人才会响应法律的号召，奔向法律的旗帜下，像对待切身利益那样，迎击侵犯公共秩序的举动：有时我们听到一种说法：不能让人们自己管理自己。那么，能让他去管理别人吗？或者•我们在统治人民的君王名单中发现了无使吗？这个问题让历史来回答吧。
因此，让我们以勇气和信心，迫求我们自己的联邦与共和原则，拥戴联邦与代议制政府。我们受惠于大自然和大洋的阻隔，幸免于地球上四分之一地区发生的那场毁灭性浩动；
我们品格高尚，不能容忍他人的堕落； 们天赐良邦，其幅员足以容纳子孙万代；我们充分认识到在发挥个人才干、以勤劳换取收入、受到同胞的尊敬与信赖上，大家享有平等的权利，但这种尊敬和信赖不是出于门第，而是出于我们的行为和同胞的评判；我们受到仁慈的宗教的启迪，尽管教派不同，形式各异，但它们都教人以正直、忠诚、节制、恩义和仁爱；我们承认和崇拜全能的上帝，而天意表明，他乐于使这里的人们得到幸福，今后还将得到更多的幸福——我们有了这些福祉，还需要什么才能够使我们成为快乐而兴旺的民族呢？公民们，我们还需要一件，那就是贤明而节俭的政府，它会制止人们相互伤害，使他们自由地管理自己的实业和进步活动，它不会侵夺人们的劳动果实。这就是良好政府的集粹，这也是我们达到幸福圆满之必需。
公民们，我即将履行职责，这些职责包括你们所珍爱的一切，因此，你们应当了解我所认为的政府基本原则是什么，确定其行政依据的原则又是什么。我将尽量扼要地加以叙述，只讲一般原则，不讲其种种限制。实行人人平等和真正的公平，而不论其宗教或政治上的地位或派别；同所有国家和平相处、商务往来、真诚友好，而下与任何国家结盟，维护备州政府的一切权利，将它们作为我国最有权能的内政机构，和抵御反共和趋势的最可靠屏障；维持全国政府在宪制上的全部活力，将其作为国内安定和国际安全的最后依靠；忠实地维护人民的选举仅——将它作为一种温和而稳妥的矫正手段，对革命留下的、尚无和平补救办法的种种弊端予以矫正；绝对同意多数人的决定，因为这是共和制的主要原则，反之，不诉诸舆论而诉诸武力乃是专制的主要原则和直接根源；建立一支训练有来的民兵，作为平时和战争初期的最好依靠，直到正规军来接替；实行文职权高于军职权；节约政府开支，减轻劳工负担；诚实地偿还债务，庄严地维护政府信誉；鼓励农业，辅之以商业；传播信息，以公众理智力准绳补偏救弊；实行宗教自由；实行出版自由和人身自由，根据人身保护法和公正选出陪审团进行审判来保证人身自由。这些原则构成了明亮的星座，它在我们的前方照闸，指引我们经历了革命和改革时朗，先皙的智慧和英雄的鲜血都曾为实现这些原则作出过奉献，这些原则应当是我们的政治信条，公民教育的课本，检验我们所信曹的人的工作的试金石，如果我们因一时错误或惊恐而背日这些原则，那就让我们赶紧回头，重返这唯一通向和平、自由和安全的大道。
各位公民，我即将担当起你们委派给我的职务。根据我担任许多较低职务的经验，我已经意识到这是最艰巨的职务，囵此，我能够预期，当一个并非尽善尽奏的人从这个职位卸任时，很少能像就任时那样深手众望。我不敢奢皇大家如同信任我们第一位最伟大的革命元勋那样对我高度信任，因为他的卓著勋劳使他最有资格受到全国的爱戳，使他在忠实的史书中占有汲辉煌的一页，我只要求大家给我相当的信任，使人足以坚定地、有效地依法管理大家的事务。由于判断有误，我会常常犯错误。即使我是正确的，那些不是站在统筹全局的立场上看问题的人，也会常常认为我是错误的，我请求你们宽容我自己犯的锗误，而这些错误决不是故意犯的，我请求你们支持我反对别人的错误，而这些人如果通盘考虑，也是决不会犯的。从投票结果来看，大家对我的过去甚为嘉许，这是我莫大的安慰；今后我所渴望的是，力求赐予我好评的各位能保持这种好评，在我职权范围内为其他各位效劳以博得他们的好评，并为所有同胞们的幸福和自由而尽力。
现在，我仰承各位的好意，恭顺地就任此职，一旦你们觉得需要作出你们有权作出的更好的选择，我便准备辞去此职。愿主宰夭地万物命运的上帝引导我们的机构臻于完善，并为大家的和平与昌盛，赐给它一个值得赞许的结果。
A ventriloquist is performing with his dummy on his lap. He’s telling a dumb- blonde joke when a young platinum-haired beauty jumps to her feet.
"What gives you the right to stereotype blondes that way?" she demands. "What does hair color have to do with my worth as a human being?" Flustered, the ventriloquist begins to stammer out an apology.
"You keep out of this!" she yells. "I’m talking to that little jerk on your knee!"
四大高招挽救你失败的面试
There are many ways for an interview to go wrong. You show up late. There's a stain on your shirt. You accidentally insult the interviewer's mother. All avoidable mistakes。
搞砸一个面试的方法有很多。你迟到了，你把衬衫弄脏了，你无意中侮辱了面试官的妈妈。所有这些都是可以避免的错误。
Sometimes, however, there simply isn't a clear explanation for why an interview isn't going well. Sometimes, no matter what you do or say, an interview just fizzles。
但是有时候，并没有一个清楚的理由来解释为什么面试会变得很失败。有时候，不管你做什么或是说什么，面试就是失败了。
Don't panic--you can save this interview。
别惊慌失措--你还能把面试挽救回来。
The first step: Smile。
第一步：微笑。
Body language plays an important part in an interview. If you relax your shoulders and give a big ol'grin, you'll feel more comfortable ... and so will the interviewer. Smiling also helps increase your energy and project confidence -- all plusses in an interview。
肢体语言在面试中能起到非常大的作用。如果你放松你的双肩加上一个大大的笑容，你会觉得更舒服。面试官也一样。微笑能够提升你的能量，增强你的自信--这在面试中都会被加分。
While smiling is a good start to turning an interview around, there are other steps you can take。
微笑是转变面试方向的一个好的开始，下面还有一些你能采取的步骤：
Ask the Interviewer Questions
向面试官提问
This is known as the “switcheroo.”
这叫做"突变" 。
If you feel that you just aren't giving the right answers to an interviewer's questions, try changing tactics--and ask the interviewer a few questions of your own。
如果你感觉对于面试官的提问你就是不能做出正确的回答，试试换个策略--问面试官一些你自己的问题。
If you momentarily switch the focus from yourself to the interviewer, it will give you a chance to regroup and compose yourself. Also, it will make the interviewer do some talking, perhaps giving you a clue to what he or she is looking for。
如果你能暂时性的把焦点从你自己这里转移到面试官那边，你就有机会重新理清思路。同时，还能让面试官说说话，也许能给你一点有关面试官在寻找什么特质的人的提示。
Be sure to prepare your questions in advance and make sure they are appropriate. Some examples:
一定要提前准备好问题，并且确定这些问题问得合适。这里有一些例子：
What's your favorite thing about working at this company?
在这家公司工作你最喜欢什么？
How would you describe the working environment here?
你觉得这里的工作环境怎么样？
What's a typical day like in the department?
这个部门通常一天是怎么过的？
Get Feedback
寻求反馈
If an interviewer seems bored or cold while you're answering a question, all is not lost。
如果面试官在你回答一个问题的时候看上去很不耐烦冷冰冰的，你还没有失去一切。
Stop and ask if your answer is going in the direction they're looking for. That way, you can avoid talking about the wrong things and begin talking about the right things。
停下来然后询问你的回答是否是他们想要的。这样你可以避免在错误的答案上越走越远，并重新回到正确的一边。
Maybe you misunderstood the question. Or maybe the question wasn't phrased clearly. That doesn't mean you have to struggle--just ask the interviewer for some clarification。
也许你误解了这个问题，或者这个问题没有问得很清楚。这不意味着你要苦思冥想--直接让面试官做个进一步的说明就行了。
If you still feel like the interview is going poorly, ask if the interviewer has any concerns or questions regarding you as a candidate. That way, you can respond to any worries directly。
如果你仍然然感觉面试不太顺利，问问面试官对于你应聘这个职位有什么顾虑或者疑问，这样你可以直接对这些担忧做出回应。
The key point to remember: If an interviewer is getting bored or appears distracted, cut your answer short and get some feedback。
要记住的关键问题：如果一位面试官看上去很不耐烦或者很无聊，你要赶快长话短说然后寻求一些反馈。
Flattery Will Get You Everywhere
拍拍马屁会让你心想事成
Everyone likes to feel good about themselves. Even interviewers。
所有人都是自我感觉良好，即便是面试官也是如此。
So to put an interviewer in a better mood, offer a compliment。
所以，给面试官一个好心情，说点称赞的话。
Say a nice word or two about the company, the office's location, the view from the window -- something that will make the interviewer feel good. Paying a compliment also indicates you are a positive person, an attitude many hiring managers seek in candidates。
对面试的公司说一两句好话，比如办公地址很好啦，从窗子往外看风景不错啦，说说这些会让面试官感觉很好。称赞的同时也暗示出你是一个积极的人，这是很多面试官希望从求职者身上看到的品质。
Giving a compliment about the company is especially useful, since it will offer you a chance to show that you did research on the company before the interview, proving you're well prepared。
赞美公司特别有用，因为这给了你一个展示的机会表明你在面试前对公司做了些研究，说明你对面试准备得很好。
A note of caution: Your compliments should not be too numerous, too obvious or too personal. If you suddenly begin gushing about how GREAT the interviewer's haircut is, the interviewer will see right through your charade. Better to keep your compliment simple and safe, such as saying how friendly everyone seems to be。
提醒：你的赞美不能太多、太明显或者太私人。如果你突然大谈特谈面试官的发型多么好，面试官马上就能看穿你的小心思。赞美的话最好说的简单安全，比如说，这里的每一个人看上去都很亲切和善。
You May Not Be the Problem
也许问题不在你
If you feel like you've done everything possible to succeed in your interview but you're still getting the cold shoulder, then follow this advice: Just do your best and move on。
如果你觉得自己在面试中尽了一切努力却仍然得到轻视，听从这个建议：尽力表现继续前进。
Perhaps the interviewer fought with his or her spouse that morning, or perhaps the interviewer is sick. Or perhaps, for no reason, the interviewer is just in a foul mood。
也许面试官今天早晨和另一半吵架了，或者面试官生病了。甚至可能什么原因都没有，面试官今天就是心情不好。
There are innumerable reasons why an interviewer may have been in a bad mood ... many of which have nothing to do with you. Interviewers are people too and everyone has bad days。
面试官可能心情不好的原因有千千万，其中一些和你根本没关系。面试官也是人，是人就有不太顺的时候。
So remember to trust yourself and not let it get you down. Just do the best you can and try not to worry about things you can't control。
所以，要记得相信自己，别让这些状况打击到你。你要做的就是尽自己的全力去表现，不要担心那些你不能控制的事情。
转自沪江英语
During a good manners and etiquette class being held for young children, the teacher says to her students:
"If you were courting a well educated young girl from a prominent family and during a dinner for two you needed to go to the toilet, what would you say to her?"
Mike replies: "Wait a minute, I'm going for a piss."
The teacher says: "That would be very rude and improper on your part."
Charlie replies: "I'm sorry I need to go to the toilet, I'll be back in a minute."
The teacher says: "That's much better but to mention the word ''toilet'' during a meal, is unpleasant."
And Little Johnny says: "My dear, please excuse me for a moment. I have to go shake hands with a personal friend, whom, I hope to be able to introduce to you after dinner. "
【资源推荐】7月11日-20日内容
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如下为2010年7月11日-20日的内容，努力加油啊：
[2010-07-11]
Constant dripping wears away a stone.
水滴石穿，绳锯木断。
[2010-07-12]
Content is better than riches.
知足者常乐。
[2010-07-13]
Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.
来而不往非礼也。
[2010-07-14]
Do as you would be done by.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
[2010-07-15]
Don't claim to know what you don't know.
不要不懂装懂。
[2010-07-16]
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
不要班门弄斧。
[2010-07-17]
Do well and have well.
善有善报。
[2010-07-18]
Each bird love to hear himself sing.
孤芳自赏。
[2010-07-19]
Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃饭是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃饭。
[2010-07-20]
Every advantage has its disadvantage.
有利必有弊。
A student once sent a telegram to his parents reading: "Mom - flunked all courses. Kicked out of school. Prepare Pop."
Two days later he received a response: "Pop prepared. Prepare yourself."
【名人名言】企业要逐利
名人名言即经典性的著作和权威性的言论，这样的语言总是会带来振聋发聩、醍醐灌顶的效果，所谓“一句话改变人生”就是如此吧。如果某一天，在某一个地方，曾经有那么一句话深深出动了你柔韧的心房，希望你愿意与我一起分享。
1、The consumer isn\'t a moron; she is your wife. You insult her in-telligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.——Davik Ogilvy, American advertisement manager
消费者不是傻瓜；她是你的妻子。如果你认为仅凭 句口号，几个干巴巴的形容词就能诱使她掏腰包购买任何东西的话，那么你就亵渎了她的智慧。——美国广告经营者 奥格尔维 D
2、When you are skinning your customers , you should leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again.——NikitaKhrushchev, Statsman of the former Soviet Union
如果你要剥客户的皮，你应当给他们留点皮，别剥光，让它长新皮，这样你下次还可以继续剥他们的皮。——前苏联政治家 赫鲁晓夫 N
3、Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes．——H．J．Kaier， American businessman
困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。——美国实业家 凯泽 H J
4、There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.——Alfred P.Sloan. American businessman
在竞争的经济中，没有企业休息的地方。——美国实业家 斯隆 A D
5、Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.——Mark Twain, American writer
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。——美国作家 马克·吐温
6、There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.——Disraeli, British statesman
没有效率就没有经济。——英国政治家 狄斯雷利
7、A at part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.——Adams Franklin , American humorist
我的大部分知识都是这样获得的：在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料。——美国作家 富兰克林. A.
8、The trouble with the profit system has always been that is was highly unprofitable to most people.——E.B.White, American writer
利润制度的最大弊端始终是绝大多数的人是绝对无利可图的。——美国作家 怀特 E B
9、The best cure for the national economy would beeconomy.——Ashoey Cooper, British novelist
拯救国家经济的最好办法就是节约。——英国小说家 库珀 A
10、Necessity never makes a good bagain.——Benjamin Franklim, American Pesident
急需难买便宜货。——美国总统富兰克林 B
11、Men trifle with their business and their politics, but they never trifle with their games.——George Burnard Shaw British dramatist
男人拿生意和政治当儿戏，可是他们玩起来却从不当儿戏。——英国剧作家 肖伯纳 .G.
12、If Enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.——John Maynard keynes British economist
如果企业在进展，不论节俭不节俭，财富也在衰落。——国经济学家 凯恩斯 .J.M.
Once in a physics examination, Nick finished the first question very soon, while his classmates were thinking it hard.
The question was: When it thunders why do we see the lightening first, then hear the thunder rolls?
Nick's answer: Because our eyes are before ears.
【趣味英语】最打动情人的14句话
1、This card is to let you know that I still love you after all of these years.
这张卡片是要让你知道，纵使时光荏苒，我却爱你如初。
2、After 25 years, our love is even stronger than before.
25年已经过去，我俩的爱情历久弥坚。
3、To my one and only Valentine: I love you.
献给我惟一的爱人：我爱你。
4、You have always been there for me, and I will always be there for you. Happy Valentine’s Day.
你永远在那里等待着我，而我也将永远在那里守候着你。情人节愉快。
5、I fell in love with you when I first saw you, and I still am after 40 years.
40年前，我对你一见钟情。到如今，对你的感情仍丝毫未减。
6、I didn’t think that I could ever trust happiness. Then I met you. Happy Valenti ne’s Day, Dear.
我一直不相信有真正的“幸福”，直到不久以后，我邂逅了你。亲爱的，情人节快乐。
7、Our love grows stronger with every passing year. Happy Valentine’s Day, Baby.
我俩的爱，一年比一年更坚定。小宝贝，情人节快乐。
8、You have been and still are my only trValentine.
从过去到现在，你一直是我惟一真正爱恋的人。
9、To the girl of my dreams and the mother of our child: you are the only Valentine for me.
献给我梦中的女孩及我们孩子的母亲：你是我惟一的爱人。
10、I will be your Valentine until the end of time.
我将是你的情人，直到地老天荒。
11、After all these years I still feel like a schoolboy when I hold your hand. I’m thinking of you this Valentine’s Day.
纵使多年已过，但每当我紧握你的手时，仍有一种自己还是高中生的感觉。我在这个情人节，一直思念着你。
12、I made the right choice when I decided to marry you. Be my Valentine forever.
决定跟你结婚，是正确的选择。愿你今生今世做我的情人。
13、No one has ever loved me the way you do. I love being your little Valentine.
从来没有人像你这般地爱我。我喜欢做你的小情人。
14、On this Valentine’s Day, just like every day, all I have is love for you.
如同每一个平常的日子，我在这个情人节里所拥有的东西，就是对你的爱。
本文选自《新东方在线》的博客
A new primary school teacher starts her first day of class. She begins by asking students to stand and introduce themselves
The first child stands and says, "My name is Mary Johnson."
"Thank you, Mary", says the teacher.
The second student says, "My name is Sam Smith."
"Thank you, Sam."
The third student says, "My name is Johnny Fuckhour."
The teacher is horrified, and tells Johnny that this type of language will not be allowed. He replies, "Honest, my name is Johnny Fuckhour. If you don't believe me, check up in the fifth grade where my brother is."
So the teacher walks up to the fifth grade class, and asks, "Do you have a Fuckhour in here?"
One boy stands in the back of the room and says, "Hell, no! We don't even get a nap hour in here!"
用地道俚语点缀口语
Sweet or Lame：好，坏
小工 留学地:美国
美国年轻人常在口语中用到一些“通感”的方法。比如sweet，除了可以表示口感甘甜，也可以说sweetgirl——甜姐儿。但到美国之后才发现不仅可以用这个词来夸赞女孩子，对于其他好东西也是通用的。
比如世博开幕式的时候，有一个美国同学来我家看焰火——我家就住浦东，二十楼，看焰火视角绝对VIP。当时那美国妞就乐翻了，手舞足蹈地大喊：“We got a good spot and had the sweetest view of the fireworks。”意思就是说“我们的视角绝佳，焰火胜景尽收眼底。”
在俚语里，sweet的反义词是lame：糟糕的、“ 差劲的”，可以用来形容各种令人生厌的情况。比如在美国念书的时候，多数课程都还是挺有意思的，但也有个别老师的课实在是枯燥乏味，还要求出勤率。遇上这种课，大家通常会抱怨：The class is so“lame! Iwant to swith classes!”：“这课真是太糟糕了，我要换班！”在美国大学里，课程通常可以试听。在试听了两周后，学生决定自己是否要选这门课。试听时不喜欢，可以自由选择其他班级。但如果已经选定了课程，要换，就要递交申请了。所以老师通常会在最初两节课使出浑身解数留住学生。当然，也有开头平平无奇，越听到后来，越有收获的。
Bloody：该死的
MK 留学地:美国
刚去美国的时候对俚语不大熟悉吧，常被同学的口语吓一跳。比如“bloody”这个词吧，意思是“鲜血淋淋的、血腥的”。
在国内第一次对这个词有直观的感受是在酒吧，Bloody Mary。关于这款鸡尾酒的来历有两种说法，一种认为是来自屠戮异己的玛丽一世，一种认为是来自一种欧美通灵游戏。但这款鸡尾酒却是用番茄汁和酒调制的，喝起来一点也不血腥。
到美国之后，有一次听到两个人吵架，其中一个吼了一句：“Get out of here!I don't want your bloody money。”前一句毋庸置疑，后一句就让我浮想联翩了。“bloody money”天哪，这难道是说对方的钱来路不正？翻译成中文，这不就是“沾满鲜血的钱”么！在美国的某些州，是可以合法持有枪支的——虽然真的有枪的人并不多，有些生活在偏远地区的人家里会有一支猎枪——防熊的。有一段时间校园枪击案层出不穷，搞的人心惶惶。难道这个“bloody money”是持械打劫来的？想想也不对，老美不至于把这些挂嘴上说吧。后来问了旁边的同学，才知道这里的“bloody”意思是“该死的”，这是个语气非常强烈的词。类似的说法比如“I hate these bloody people!”意思是“我恨这些该死的家伙！”而非“我恨这些血淋淋的家伙！”美国人常用于表示厌恶的词还有f*ck，相当于国内的“三字经”啦。
I got the short end of the stick我吃亏了
秋秋 留学地:美国
英语中有很多俚语，是从一些行为中演绎出来的。比如吃亏的说法。有一次大伙AA制出去，最后帐有点没算清。我同屋的美国人回来之后念叨良久，蹦出一句：“I felt like we were getting the short end of the stick。”我一开始没听明白：“我们拿到了棍子的短头？”本着内事问百度，外事问谷歌的原则，我google了一下。原来这句话的英文正解是：“to feel that you are being treated particularly badly in comparison with other people; to suffer the bad effects of a situation。”即“觉得与他人相比，你受到了特别不好的待遇；遭受一种坏的情形的影响。”
据说，这种表达方式来源于拔河比赛，输的一方手里握着绳子短的一头。而习语后半部分的stick是随着时间的演变加上去的。而更加常用的说法是“get the short end”。在中文中，长-短、盈-亏相对，不知道英文中“占便宜”的说法会不会是“get the long end”了！
转自申江服务导报
A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son said, "All of you sons of bitches who want off, get the hell off now, cause this is the last stop! And all of you sons of bitches who are getting on, get your asses in the train, cause we're going down the tracks."
The mother went nuts and told her son, "We don't use that kind of language in this house. Now I want you to go to your room and you are to stay there for TWO HOURS. When you come out, you may play with your train, but I want you to use nice language."
Two hours later, the son comes out of the bedroom and resumes playing with his train. Soon the train stopped and the mother heard her son say, "All passengers who are disembarking from the train, please remember to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you for riding with us today and hope your trip was a pleasant one. We hope you will ride with us again soon." She hears the little boy continue, "For those of you just boarding, we ask you to stow all of your hand luggage under your seat. Remember, there is no smoking on the train. We hope you will have a pleasant and relaxing journey with us today."
As the mother began to smile, the child added, "For those of you who are pissed off about the TWO HOUR delay, please see the bitch in the kitchen."
五大人群学英语的18个误区
决定英语学习好坏的五大人群是：英语老师、校长、教育局官员、家长和学生。这五大人群中老师是第一责任人，依此类推。
这五大责任人分摊下面的18个英语学习误区，令人难以理解的是英语老师的误区最多。英语老师既懂专业，教学经验又丰富，为什么他们的误区和迷雾最多？人们常常说：河里淹死会水的。
英语老师的八大误区之一：英语必须从字母学起。请问全世界的孩子都会说妈妈这个词，英文的mama并没有按字母表的顺序来，hello一张嘴就说出来了，如果用字母来拼h-e-l-l-o，一遍一遍地练，既浪费时间又极其低效。
英语老师的误区之二：学英语=背单词。问题是记住单词并不能单独使用，如学会了apple，总不能见了人就说：“苹果”吧？实用的英语应该是： apple（吃颗苹果吧） 一些句子即便学会了也绝对是白学。如： eyesnose这类句子，你见了英美人士时能说：我有两只眼睛。我有一个鼻子吗？这么白痴的句子就出现在我们现行课本上。如果说要练习have这个句型，也只能说：bag book
英语老师的误区之三：学会语法就能考好英语。英语老师太想让学生学好语法了。经常把好端端的课文拆得支离破碎，面目全非，然后给你分析哪个是主语，哪个是从句。一节课就那么点时间，只讲不练，学生不会做题，又骂学生笨，实际上是自己在方法上最笨。不知道让学生整体把握，练主题句。
英语老师的误区之四：口语学得再好也考不上。说这话的老师语音保准很一般，他才把听说读写对立起来，只能说他没有全局观，怕学生的发音超过他。
英语老师的误区之五：没有英语环境。这个说法一是给自己没学好英语找借口，二是把自己不建设英语环境的责任推到社会上去。
英语老师的误区之六：题海战术，追求过级和考试成绩。听说没过关就让学生做单选，使学生没有建立正确概念就在错误的三个选项上转圈。不做类型题，认为只要题做得多就有可能碰到高考试卷里的题。
英语老师的误区之七：一发现学生发音或语法错误就揪住不放，直到把学生的自信心纠正掉。其实一开始学英语真需要用南郭先生吹竽的方法。教室里有点嗡嗡声学生们还敢说话，一旦鸦雀无声了，孩子们更怕出错，谁还敢说？再说了，谁不爱面子，有个错儿你不能下课后再问他吗？
英语老师的误区之八：把书面语当口语教。一看某单元的口语，就说这忒简单了，没必要学。实际上根本说不了，做听力题时也听不懂。所以现实是孩子们从小学中学再到大学十几年仅学会十句英语。平均一年连一句都没学会，这样的学习成本也太离谱了吧！在校大学生能说出下面十句话已经不错了。排序为：
1Ho aryou?2Finethanyouanyou3What’youname4M nam iTom 5 Ho olaryou6I’ twenty7Thanyou8Good-byeBye-bye9Wheraryofrom10I’ fro China.
除了上面这十句，大部分同学连“今天是几号”都不会说。而且大多讲得不流利，开口音发不好。家长们，你的孩子十年寒窗就学了这么几句话，你不觉得亏啊？那么是谁动了你的奶酪，谁损害了你的利益？你需要去争取权益。
校长的三大误区之一：认为英语学得好与坏只是学生的问题，忽视了应该是从校长到老师，再到每位同学的事。
校长的误区之二：认为学好英语是靠老师讲出来的，因此滥讲拖堂成风。人们常常说：会看的看门道。校长和其他领导大多只是看仪表，看导课，看用不用电化设备，互动了没有，预留作业这些八股。其实有很多用电子设备的课反而更倒退。五年前曾听过省实中刘岩老师一节课。他没有用任何一件电化设备，用的还是旧教材，但他全班学生用英语参与的课型是最前沿地使用英语，超越教与学这两个阶段。
校长的误区之三：把知识当技能，查老师的教案就认为老师认真备课了。有的校长就认手写的教案，你用电脑打印的，用软件制作的课件都不能算教案。
教育局官员的一大误区：提倡所谓的“趣味”教英语，使有的老师弄些看上去花里胡哨、热闹却没有效果的课蒙骗领导。
家长的四大误区之一：学校里完不成教学任务，必须到培训班学习。
家长的误区之二：速成。效率是可以提高的，但是绝对不可能速成，一如感冒的输液，急功近利，时间长了，血管变薄，容易得脑溢血。
家长的误区之三：迷信老外。老外发音的确准，但英美来的人鱼龙混杂，老外发音不错，但目的性不强，也不大会教发音。
家长的误区之四：不能让孩子输在起跑线上。这样揠苗助长的办法成为家长，尤其是妈妈们的最爱。遗憾的是这么小就在起跑线上跑得吐血了，你还能看到他的后劲和未来吗？英国新任首相卡梅伦小学时不仅成绩在班里倒数第一，而且极为害羞。不影响他现在当首相吧？
学生的两大误区之一：通过汉字标音记忆英语单词和句子。这不知道是谁专门发明来害中国人的办法。
学生的误区之二：太想依赖于别人提高英语了。如找个好学校，找个好老师，找个好同桌等等，但最终得靠自己。别人到高考的时候帮得了你吗？
上述这些误区错综复杂，盘根错节，乱花迷眼，最后的结果是老师、学生、家长、领导、社会都已经在这些误区里渐渐习惯成自然了。
如果说大家都已经喝醉，由其中一个人醉驾，交警问：有人喝酒了吗？回答是：我们都没喝！
夏阳老师简介：
国内最早原创素质教育（九位一体）学习法的专家；十年的高中英语语音老师；《英语周报》小学版的创刊人；国内最早提出学英语必须用超短句概念的学者；国内最早将学英语误区细分成为五大人群和18个误区并提出解决方案的有识之士；划时代英语听说突破——《超级音标》一书的作者。夏阳老师的研究成果旨在打破英语学习的苦闷现状，开创快乐学习英语之风，培养学生学习英语的乐趣，还原语言学习的本来面目，成就一代学子。
来源：三晋都市报
One winter morning, an employee explained why he had shown up for work 45 minutes late. "It was so slippery out that for every step I took ahead, I slipped back two."
The boss eyed him suspiciously. "Oh, yeah? Then how did you ever get here?"
"I finally gave up," he said, "and started for home."
【智慧之言】长情夫妻的爱情格言
七夕节就要到了，提前祝大家节日快乐！
七夕是牛郎织女相会的日子，“迢迢牵牛星，皎皎河汉女。 纤纤擢素手，札札弄机杼。 终日不成章，泣涕零如雨。 河汉清且浅，相去复几许？ 盈盈一水间，脉脉不得语。 ”
现代人当然没有他们那么凄楚，只是相隔咫尺有时却不能恒久牵手，所以跟大家一起分享一下明星们的保鲜秘诀吧！
A、13年婚姻：史密斯夫妇
婚姻之道——威尔·史密斯：经营家庭就像做生意。关键在于有一个人能够纵观全局，了解需求，将所有人有力地组织起来。我妻子就是这样一个人。
13 Years Will Smith Jada Pinkett Smith — December 31, 1997
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Will: "Families are like a business. The key is one person having a vision of what it needs to be and being able to pull everyone together. That's Jada for sure."
B、17年婚姻：米歇尔·菲佛与大卫·E·凯利
婚姻之道——米歇尔·菲佛：相互包容很重要，彼此尊重也一样。其实这样很性感。我们都是恋家的人。我觉得相互对立不靠谱，一开始可能会很吸引人，但是最终会让人分道扬镳。
17 Years Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley — November 13 1993
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Michelle Pfeiffer: "Compatibility is important, and respect. Because that's sexy to me. We're both homebodies. I'm not sure about the opposites thing. It may attract initially, but it's what eventually breaks people apart."
C、18年婚姻：安妮特·贝宁与沃伦·贝蒂
婚姻之道——安妮特·贝宁：心平气和一点儿。总的来说没什么大不了的。你是人们议论的一个话题而已，我老公红了那么多年已经是即成的现实。这又不是我能掌控的。
18 Years Warren Beatty and Annette Bening — March 10, 1992
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Annette Bening: You’ve got to make peace with it. By and large it’s okay. You’re an object of people’s projections, certainly with my husband being so famous for so many years. That’s out of your control.
D、19年婚姻：斯皮尔伯格夫妇
婚姻之道——史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格：我们的婚姻之所以能这么长久，完全是因为我们没有意见相左的时候。老婆说什么都是对的。
19 Years Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw — October 12 1991
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Steven Spielberg: "I’ve stayed in my marriage this long because I never disagree with my wife. Whatever she says is the right choice."
E、19年婚姻：特拉沃尔塔夫妇
婚姻之道——凯莉·帕斯顿：婚姻需要创造。我们无所不谈，共同成长变化，因为没有什么是一成不变的。必须时刻准备着。
19 Years John Travolta and Kelly Preston — September 12, 1991
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Kelly Preston: "You have to keep creating a marriage. We talk about everything. We grow and change together, because nothing ever stays the same; you've got to continue evolving."
F、35年婚姻：帕特里克·斯韦兹和丽莎·妮米
婚姻之道——保持爱情的生命力，反反复复坠入爱河，不要以为遇见彼此是理所当然的，宽容，信任，至少对我们来说是如此。
35 Years Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi — June 12, 1975
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — "I suppose it's about keeping love alive, learning how to fall in love over and over again, not taking each other for granted, forgiveness, trust. Whatever it is, it works for us."
G、56年婚姻：道格拉斯夫妇
婚姻之道——柯克·道格拉斯：迷恋她坏坏的幽默感。那年我在巴黎过生日，她出人意料地给我办了一场生日派对，把那儿所有跟我出双入对过的姑娘都请来了。
56 Years Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens — May 29, 1954
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Kirk: "Her vicious sense of humor. The surprise birthday party she threw for me that year in Paris when she invited every girl I'd gone out with there."
H、22年婚姻：迈克尔·福克斯和特瑞西·宝兰
婚姻之道——迈克尔·福克斯：我觉得自己真是幸运至极，聪明绝顶。有时候我看着她就有两个感受。第一，她每一秒每一秒都在变漂亮；更重要的是，我看着她然后告诉自己说：要命，你丫还真聪明，你真选对了人了！
22 Years Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan — July 16, 1988
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Michael: "I feel really lucky and smart. I look at Tracy sometimes and I have two feelings. One is that she becomes more beautiful every second; and more important, I look at her and say to myself, Damn, you're smart. Boy, did you make the right choice."
I、22年婚姻：汉克斯夫妇
婚姻之道——丽塔·威尔逊：我们总是能让对方欢笑，保持坦诚的交流，能和他在一起，我总是觉得感恩。
22 Years Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson — April 30 ,1988
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Rita Wilson: "We always make each other laugh, have honest communication, and I never take him for granted."
J、27年婚姻：华盛顿夫妇
婚姻之道——丹泽尔·华盛顿：最终都能回到起点，那就是我们的友谊。当然还有对彼此的尊重。了解各自在婚姻中扮演的角色，并且演好自己的本分。献身于婚姻。
27 Years Denzel Washington and Pauletta Washington — June 25 1983
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Denzel Washington: I think it hopefully ends where it starts, which is friendship. And obviously, respect. Understanding our—for lack of a better word—roles. And just getting on with it. Commitment.
K、28年婚姻：丹尼·迪维图和雷亚-普尔曼
婚姻之道——爱吧，爱吧。谁知道呢？也许婚姻的成功就在于不要去寻找什么所谓秘诀。
28 Years Danny DeVito and Reha Perlman — January 28, 1982
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — "Love. Love. I mean, really. You know what? Who knows. The secret to success is to try to never figure that out!"
L、 22年婚姻：名导与女强人
婚姻之道——凯拉·塞吉维克：他对于我的演艺事业全身心支持。从来不会埋怨说“你出去抛头露面我么呆家里”那样。从来没有。跟了他20年，现在我还是会从他身上看到新鲜的东西。
22 Years Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick — September 4, 1988
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Kyra Sedgwick: He continues to be unfailingly supportive in every way. There has never been a moment of "You get to go out there and work, and I'm here at home." Never a moment. We're married 20 years, and I still find new things about him.
M、35年婚姻：霍华德夫妇
婚姻之道——罗恩·霍华德：结婚结得对，就是一场转变，你从此步入了崭新的世界。
35 Years Ron Howard and Cheryl Howard — June 7, 1975
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Ron Howard: "See, getting married, if you’re doing it right, is transforming, because the you that will result from that is not the same you as before you entered into that new state."
N、52年婚姻：保罗•纽曼和乔安娜·伍德华
婚姻之道——保罗·纽曼：家有花香，何必捻草？
52 Years Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman — January 29, 1958
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Paul Newman: "I have steak at home; why go out for hamburger?"
O、 14年婚姻：蒂姆·麦格罗与菲丝·希尔
婚姻之道——菲丝·希尔：不能坐视不管。我和我老公都觉得婚姻是头等大事。我们相互尊重，理解彼此，明白必须为此投入。
14 Years Faith Hill and Tim McGraw — October 6 1996
Quotes about the Love and Marriage — Faith Hill: "You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it."
One day mom was cleaning juniors room and in the closet she found a bondage S+M magazine. This was highly upsetting for her.
She hid the magazine until his father got home and showed it to him.
He looked at it and handed it back to her with out a word.
She finally asked him, "Well what should we do about this?"
Dad looked at her and said, "Well, I don't think you should spank him."
【趣味英语】美利坚十怪
都说云南有十八怪，殊不知美利坚也有十怪。这些超级爆笑的现象可是除了美国哪里都找不到的，现在就快来跟着小编每日一乐，边笑边学英语吧！
1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
只有在美国……叫pizza比叫救护车快。
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
只有在美国……残疾人专用停车位被设在滑雪道前面。
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
只有在美国……药店把售药窗口设在后门，要病人绕一大圈过去买；而用前门的好位子来向正常人出售香烟。
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
只有在美国……才有人点双份乳酪汉堡、大份炸薯条、外加一瓶无糖可乐。
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
只有在美国……银行把大门全开，却把要营业的柜台封了。
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
只有在美国……人们把上千美元的好车停在路边，把自家的车库用来停报废的破车。
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
只有在美国……才有人用电话答录机记录下所有的来电、以防错过那些我们从一开始就不想回电的人。
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
只有在美国……才有人买十个一包的热狗、八个一包的小饼。（饼是用来包热狗的，数量根本对不上号！）
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
只有在美国……才能把“政治”(politics)这个字的背后含义描述得如此精准：拉丁语里"poli"意思是“许多”，而"tics"指的是“吸血的怪物”。
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
只有在美国……才有专门为开车设计的自动提款机（就是不需要人下车，直接操作，像加油站的麦当劳那样），并且有可供盲人操作的布莱叶点字法。
转自昂秀外语
Grandpa and granddaugher were sitting talking when she asked, "Did God make you, Grandpa?"
"Yes, God made me," the grandfather answered. A few minutes later, the little girl asked him, "Did God make me too?"
"Yes, He did," the older man answered. For a few minutes, the little girl seemed to be studying her grandpa, as well as her own reflection in the mirror, while her grandfather wondered what was running through her mind. At last she spoke up. "You know, Grandpa," she said, "God's doing a lot better job lately."
【美文欣赏】林肯总统入职演说
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861
Fellow-Citizens of the United States:
In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of this office."
I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement.
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that--
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming Administration. I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause--as cheerfully to one section as to another.
There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:
No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution--to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up" their oaths are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?
There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority, but surely that difference is not a very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others by which authority it is done. And should anyone in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept?
Again: In any law upon this subject ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not in any case surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?
I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession administered the executive branch of the Government. They have conducted it through many perils, and generally with great success. Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted.
I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as acontract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it--break it, so to speak--but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union."
But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and Ishall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere. Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such offices.
The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union. So far as possible the people everywhere shall have that sense of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thought and reflection. The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised, according to circumstances actually existing and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections.
That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events and are glad of any pretext to do it I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak?
Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?
All profess to be content in the Union if all constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right plainly written in the Constitution has been denied? I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution that controversies never arise concerning them. But no organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say. May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say.
From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. There is no other alternative, for continuing the Government is acquiescence on one side or the other. If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority. For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new union as to produce harmony only and prevent renewed secession?
Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive- slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, can not be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.
Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it. I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others, not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse. I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution--which amendment, however, I have not seen--has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have referred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance no Administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years.
My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
【中文译文】：
永久联邦与总统权力
亚伯拉罕-林肯
第一次就职演讲
星期一,1861年3月4日
我今天正式宣誓时，并没有保留意见，也无意以任何苛刻的标准来解释宪法和法律，尽管我不想具体指明国会通过的哪些法案是适合施行的•但我确实要建议，所有的人，不论处于官方还是私人的地位，都得遵守那些未被废止的法令，这比泰然自若地认为其中某个法案是违背宪法的而去触犯它，要稳当得多。
自从第一任总统根据我国宪法就职以来已经72年了。在此期间，有15位十分杰出的公民相继主持了政府的行政部门。他们在许多艰难险阻中履行职责，大致说来都很成功。然而，虽有这样的先例，我现在开始担任这个按宪法规定任期只有短暂4年的同一职务时，却处在巨大而特殊的困难之下。联邦的分裂，在此以前只是一种威胁，现在却已成为可怕的行动。
从一般法律和宪法角度来考虑，我认为由各州组成的联邦是永久性的。在合国政府的根本法中，永久性即使没有明确规定，也是不盲而喻的。我们有把握说，从来没有哪个正规政府在自己的组织法中列入一项要结束自己执政的条款。继续执行我国宪法明文规定的条款，联邦就将永远存在，毁灭联邦是办不到的，除非采取宪法本身未予规定的某种行动。再者：假如合众国不是名副其实的政府，而只是具有契约性质的各州的联盟，那么，作为一种契约，这个联盟能够毫无争议地由纬约各方中的少数加以取消吗？缔约的一方可以违约——也可以说毁约——但是，合法地废止契约难道不需要缔约各方全都同意吗？从这些一般原则在下推，我们认为，从法律上来说，联邦是永久性的这一主张已经为联邦本身的历史所证实。联邦的历史比宪法长久得多。事实上，它在1774年就根据《联合条款》组成了。 1776年，《独立宣言》使它臻子成熟并持续下来。1778年《邦联条款》使联邦愈趋成熟，当时的13个州都信誓旦旦地明确保证联邦应该永存，最后，1787年制定宪法时所宣市的日标之一就是“建设更完善的联邦”。
但是，如果联邦竟能由一个州或几个州按照法律加以取消的话，那么联邦就不如制宪前完善了，因为它丧失了永久性这个重要因素。
根据这些观点，任何一个州都不能只凭自己的动仪就能合法地脱离联邦；凡为此目的而作出的决议和法令在法律上都是无效的，任何一个州或几个州反对合众国当局的暴力行动都应根据憎况视为叛乱或革命。因此，我认为，根据宪法和法律，联邦是不容分裂的；我将按宪法本身明确授予我的权限，就自己能力所及，使联邦法律得以在各州忠实执行。我认为这仅仅是我份内的职责，我将以可行的方法去完成，除非我的合法主人——美国人民，不给予我必要的手段，或以权威的方式作出相反的指示，我相信大家下会把这看作是一种威胁，而只看作是联邦已宣布过的目标：它将按照宪法保卫和维护它自身。
以自然条件而言，我们是不能分开的，我们无法把各个地区彼此挪开，也无法在彼此之间筑起一堵无法逾越的墙垣。夫妻可以离婚，不再见面，互不接触，但是我们国家的各个地区就不可能那样做。它们仍得面对面地相处，它们之间还得有或者友好或者敌对的交往。那么，分开之后的交往是否可能比分开之前更有好处，更令人满意呢？外人之间订立条约难道还比朋友之间制定法律容易吗？外人之间执行条约难道还比朋友之间执行法律忠实吗？假定你们进行战争•你们不可能永远打下去；在双方损失惨重，任何一方都得不到好处之后，你们就会停止战斗，那时你们还会遇到诸如交往条件之类的老问题。
总统的一切权力来自人民，但人民没有授权给他为各州的分离规定条件。如果人民有此意愿，那他们可以这样做，而作为总统来说，则不可能这样做。他的责任是管理交给他的这一届政府，井将它完整地移交给他的继任者。
为什么我们不能对人民所具有的最高的公正抱有坚韧的信念呢？世界上还有比这更好或一样好的希望吗？在我何日前的分歧中，难道双方都缺乏相信自己正确的信心吗？如果万国全能的主宰以其永恒的真理和正义支持你北方这一边，或者支持你南方这一边，那么，那种真理和那种正义必将通过美国人民这个伟大法庭的裁决而取得胜利。
就是这些美国人民，通过我们现有的政府结构，明智地只给他们的公仆很小的权力，使他们不能力害作恶，并且同样明智地每隔很短的时间就把那小小的权力收回到自己手中。只要人民保持其力量和警惕，无论怎样作恶和愚蠢的执政人员都不能在短短4年的任期内十分严重地损害政府。我的同胞们，大家平静而认真地思考整个这一问题吧。任何宝贵的东西都下会因为从容对待而丧失，假使有一个目标火急地催促你们中随便哪一位采取一个措施，而你决不能不慌不忙，那么那个目标会因从容对待而落空；但是，任何好的目标是不会因为从容对待而落空的，你们现在感到不满意的人仍然有着原来的、完好元损的宪法，而且，在敏感问题上，你们有着自己根据这部宪法制定的各项法律；而新的一届政府即使想改变这两种情况，也没有直接的权力那样做。那些不满意的人在这场争论中即使被承认是站在正确的一边，也没有一点正当理由采取鲁莽的行动。理智、爱国精神、基行教义以及对从不抛弃这片幸福土地的上帝的信仰，这些仍然能以最好的方式来解决我们目前的一切困难。不满意的同胞们，内战这个重大问题的关键掌握在你们手中，而不掌握在我手中，政府不会对你们发动攻击。你们不当挑衅者，就下会面临冲突。你们没有对天发誓要毁灭政府，而我却要立下最庄严的誓言：“坚守、维护和捍卫合众国宪法。”我不愿意就此结束演说。我们不是敌人，而是朋友。我们一定不要成为敌人。尽管情绪紧张，也决不应割断我们之间的感情纽带。记忆的神秘琴弦，从每一个战场和爱国志上的坟墓伸向这片广阔土地上的每一颗跳动的心和家庭，必将再度被我们善良的夭性所拨响，那时就会高奏起联邦大团结的乐章。
Lil' Johnny attended a horse auction with his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horses' legs, rump, and chest.
After a few minutes, Johnny asked, "Pop, why are you doing that?"
"Because I'm thinking of buying these horses."
Johnny looked worried, "Then I think we'd better hurry home right away!"
"Why?" his father asked.
"Because the UPS man stopped by yesterday, and I think he wants to buy Mom!"
【资源推荐】7月1日-10日内容
为了方便大家阅读，我们决定每月分三次将上个月的“每日学口语”的句子整理上传。简短的句子，大家一定要学会哦^-^
本栏目中的口语皆由Dict.CN在美国为您新鲜录制。使用美国大学的专业录音棚和地地道道的美语发音。大家可以在美语老师的带领下，多多练习，天天动口。每天花您2分钟，就能学说一句常用英语。日积月累，慢慢的您就会随口说出许许多多日常用语了。
如下为2010年7月1日-10日的内容，努力加油啊：
[2010-07-01]
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
[2010-07-02]
Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
读书健脑，运动强身。
[2010-07-03]
A young idler, an old beggar.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
[2010-07-04]
Beauty lies in the love's (should be lover’s) eyes.
情人眼里出西施。
[2010-07-05]
Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。
[2010-07-06]
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
[2010-07-07]
Business is the salt of life.
事业是人生的第一需要。
[2010-07-08]
By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.
读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。
[2010-07-09]
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。
[2010-07-10]
Caution is the parent of safety.
At school, a boy was told by a classmate that most adults are hiding at least one dark secret, and that this makes it very easy to blackmail them by saying, "I know the whole truth".
The boy decides to go home and try it out. He goes home, and as he is greeted by his mother he says, "I know the whole truth."
His mother quickly hands him $20 and says, "Just don't tell your father."
Quite pleased, the boy waits for his father to get home from work, and greets him with, "I know the whole truth."
The father promptly hands him $40 and says, "Please don't say a word to your mother."
Very pleased, the boy is on his way to school the next day, when he sees the mailman at his front door. The boy greets him by saying, "I know the whole truth."
The mailman drops the mail, opens his arms, and says, "Then come give your father a big hug."
职场必备：用市场化的标准打造自己
不论你是否已经找到了工作，还是正打算找工作，你都可以采取一些措施，使自己更能吸引潜在的雇主。以下来自专家的8点建议，可让你提高自身市场。
The economy is shaky -- and it may feel like your job is, too。
经济正在衰退——你的工作也可能正如此。
Whether you're already job hunting or believe you may need to soon, there are steps you can take to make yourself more attractive to potential employers. Here are eight tips from the experts on increasing your marketability:
不论你是否已经找到了工作，还是正打算找工作，你都可以采取一些措施，使自己更能吸引潜在的雇主。以下来自专家的8点建议，可让你提高自身市场。
1. Use your name as your brand, especially in email。
Don't confuse potential employers by using your maiden name on your resume and your married name in your email. And the nickname your friends find funny may not look professional。
将自己的名字作为商标，尤其是写邮件的时候。不要在简历中写结婚前的姓名，而在邮件中写结婚后的姓名，这样会让你的潜在雇主产生混淆。另外，你朋友为你取的昵称是非正式的，不适合用在找工作上面。
"Manager jobs don't go to people with cute email addresses," said Marianne Adoradio, a recruiter and career counselor。
Marianne Adoradio是一位职业顾问，同时也是猎头，他说：“经理的工作不需要可爱的邮件地址。”
2.Meet an employer's need。
Employers "want a round peg for the round hole," said Kathryn Ullrich, a career expert and executive recruiter。
满足雇主的需求。职业专家兼招聘主管Kathryn Ullrich说：“雇主需要的是为该职位找到最合适的人选。”
You may want to stretch yourself by trying a job you've never done before, but there's not much in that for the employer. Any time you apply for a job, make sure you can tell a story about your career that shows why you would be the best person for the job. "It's really about what the employer is looking for," Ullrich said。
你可能想找一份你从未涉足的工作来提升自己，但是雇主可不会这么想。不管什么时候，在你求职时，你都需要向你的雇主阐述你的职业经历以证明你是适合此职位的最佳人选。Ullrich说：“其实找工作就是满足雇主的需求。”
3. Maintain a smart online profile。
"All that stupid stuff you put on Facebook -- take it off," said Richard Phillips, owner of Advantage Career Solutions. At the same time, find industry blogs and forums and start contributing comments。
建立一份聪明的在线资料。“将你在Facebook上存放的那些愚蠢的东西都删掉吧。” Advantage Career Solutions的老板Richard Phillips建议说。同时，登录一些商业博客，论坛，上去发表你的高见。
4. Ask for help。
"Ask everyone for one thing they would suggest you do if they were in your shoes," Adoradio said. "It seems to reveal things that you wouldn't have thought to ask."
寻求帮助。Adoradio说：“问问别人如果在你的处境上会怎么做。这样你就能知道自己想不到的事情。”
5. Become active in a professional association。
This means doing more than paying dues and showing up for meetings. Find a way to help: For example, perhaps you can organize expert speakers in your field to be on a panel. It will boost your resume, build you self-esteem and give you valuable connections. "You're building up relationships with people who are going to hire you," Ullrich said。
积极参与专业协会。这就意味着，不再只是交交会费，出席一下会议。你要更积极的参与，例如，你可以将你协会的专家组织起来，成立一个专家小组。这样做会提高你的简历特色，增加你的自信，为你建立有价值的关系网。Ullrich说：“你正在与将来可能成为你上司的人建立友谊。”
6. Take a class or get a certificate。
This is especially helpful if it teaches you a skill -- new technology that's being used in your field, for example -- that you don't already have。
参加培训课程，获得一份证书。如果你能从中学到新的技能，而这些项技能是你原来所没有的，并可以运用到新的工作中的话就更好了。
7. Take on a new project at work。
It should be "something that lets you add something new to your resume," Phillips said. "Think in terms of the resume that you're going to be writing. What do you want to have on there that isn't on there now?"
在工作上开发一个新项目。“而这个新项目应该是你可以将其添加到你的简历上的，想想你要在简历上写的工作经验，那些是原来没有而你想增加的条款呢？” Phillips建议说。
8. Be flexible。
You may not want to commute more than 10 miles, but being willing to bend a bit will open up more opportunities. It will also make you a more attractive candidate because it signals to employers that you're able to handle change。
灵活处事。你可能不想乘车上下班的路程超过10英里，但是找工作时，如果你愿意稍微屈服一点的话会给你带来更多的机会。这样会让你成为更有吸引力的候选人，因为，你的潜在雇主会因此认为你有能力妥善的处理好工作中的变动。
选自沪江英语
A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She started her class by saying, "Everyone who thinks you're stupid, stand up!"
After a few seconds, Little Johnny stood up. The teacher said, "Do you think you're stupid, Little Johnny?"
"No, ma'am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!"
【资源推荐】6月21日-30日内容
为了方便大家阅读，我们决定每月分三次将上个月的“每日学口语”的句子整理上传。简短的句子，大家一定要学会哦^-^
本栏目中的口语皆由Dict.CN在美国为您新鲜录制。使用美国大学的专业录音棚和地地道道的美语发音。大家可以在美语老师的带领下，多多练习，天天动口。每天花您2分钟，就能学说一句常用英语。日积月累，慢慢的您就会随口说出许许多多日常用语了。
如下为2010年6月21日-30日的内容，努力加油啊：
[2010-06-21]
A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
[2010-06-22]
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
患难见真情。
[2010-06-23]
A good beginning is half done.
良好的开端是成功的一半。
[2010-06-24]
Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊补牢，为时未晚。
[2010-06-25]
A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事，不怕鬼叫门。
[2010-06-26]
One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.
百闻不如一见。
[2010-06-27]
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
[2010-06-28]
A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.
戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。
[2010-06-29]
A leopard cannot change its spots.
积习难改。
[2010-06-30]
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
有心栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫。
Bill and Marla decided that the only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon quickie with their 10-year-old son in the apartment was to send him out on the balcony and order him to report on all the neighborhood activities.
The boy began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation. "There's a car being towed from the parking lot,"he said. "An ambulance just drove by." A few moments passed.
"Looks like the Anderson's have company," he called out. "Matt`s riding a new bike and the Coopers are having sex."
Mom and dad shot up in bed. "How do you know that?" the startled father asked.
"Their kid is standing out on the balcony too," his son replied.
当代语出惊人的名言集锦
名人名言即经典性的著作和权威性的言论，这样的语言总是会带来振聋发聩、醍醐灌顶的效果，所谓“一句话改变人生”就是如此吧。如果某一天，在某一个地方， 曾经有那么一句话深深出动了你柔韧的心房，希望你愿意与我一起分享。
1、“It's defying the law of gravity。”
“这违背了万有引力定律。”
- Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, on the record 8.8 million iPhone sales in the three months that ended on March 27; the sales pushed Apple's net income up by 90% and sent shares of its stock rocketing to an all-time high
——Piper Jaffray分析员杰尼？曼斯特这样形容iPhone的惊人销量。今年1月到3月27日，苹果在三个月不到的时间内卖出了创纪录的880万部 iPhone，使得该公司的净利润猛增90%，并将其股价推到了历史最高点。
2、“The earthquake showed no mercy, but we have love。”
“地震无情，人间有爱。”
- Qiang Wei, the Communist Party secretary of China's Qinghai province, during a national day of mourning to mark the 7.1-magnitude temblor that claimed more than 2,000 lives and left thousands injured
——青海省委书记强卫在为纪念地震遇难同胞而举行的全国悼念活动上这样说。青海玉树7.1级强烈地震导致2000多人遇难，上万人受伤。
3、“Today's average sodium intake is several times what the body requires, and its long-term effects are very serious。”
“现在平均的钠摄入量是身体需要的7倍，长此以往，后果严重。”
4、- An FDA Statement, saying it will work to build consensus on reducing sodium levels in the wake of an Institute of Medicine report calling for national standards for salt that is added to processed food and prepared meals
——美国食品药品管理局的一份声明称，将努力普及减少钠摄入量的认识。最近美国药学会发布一份报告，呼吁设定加工食品和饭菜中食盐使用量的国家标准。
5、“Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, and to make it look like a piece of candy is recklessly playing with the health of children。”
“尼古丁是一种十分容易使人上瘾的药物，把它做得像糖是完全不把孩子们的健康当回事儿。”
6、- Gregory Connolly, director of the Tobacco Control Research Program, on Camel Orbs, dissolvable nicotine pellets that are flavored with cinnamon or mint
——控烟研究项目主任格雷戈里-康诺利严厉批评骆驼球。骆驼球是雷诺烟草公司在美国推出的一款可溶性尼古丁颗粒，添加有肉桂或薄荷。
7、“We make our food very similar to cocaine now。”
“我们现在的食物很像可卡因。”
8、- Jack Wang, doctor with US Department of Energy lab, on study confirming fatty foods may be addictive
——美国能源部实验室杰克-王医生称，实验证明高脂食品可能会使人上瘾。看来，还是少吃高脂食品为好，为了健康，要多吃蔬菜和水果。
Joke of Today
Father: Well, Tom, I asked to your teacher today, and now I want to ask you a question. Who is the laziest person in your class?
Tom: I don't know, father.
Father: Oh, yes, you do! Think! When other boys and girls are doing and writing, who sits in the class and only watches how other people work?
Tom: Our teacher, father.