今天为大家提供十句常用语的表达方式，希望能让大家的语言“亮”起来！

    1.You're going to love it here.

    你一定会喜欢上这个地方的。

    要表达喜欢一个地方，你可以说I like / love this place.，或是说成更道地的I like /love it here.。这里的it是指「气氛」atmosphere而言，若是你要跟别人挂保证，担保他一定会喜欢上某个地方，你就可以对他说You're going to (You'll) like/ love it here.。

    2.I don't seem to fit.

    我跟这里格格不入。

    fit是指「合适」之意，这句话的意思就是「我跟这里格格不入。」之意。通常也会说成I don’t seem to fit in.当你觉得某个地方或场合，和你犯冲，待在那里就是让你浑身不对劲时，你就可以说：I don’t seem to fit in.

    3.You're well on the way.

    如果说way是指一段路途的话，那么be well on the way就是指在这段路途上很顺遂，有着好的开始。用be well on the way这个句型用来形容一个人学习的路途，就是指他「有慧根，悟性高」。

    4.You're out of your mind.

    你疯了

    mind是指「心智状态，神智」，be out of...是指「没有了…?，用完了……」，be out of one's mind的意思就是「（某人）丧失神智」，也就是「（某人）发疯」的意思。当你觉得有人做了非一般正常人会做的事，你就可以对他说You're out of your
mind.。当然这可以指暂时丧失神智，也可能是真的发了疯。

    5.I wouldn't look at it like that.

    我不会用这个角度来看。

    「每一件事都有两面。」There are two sides of a story.而对于同一件事的看法，每个人或许都不尽相同。下次当有人所提出的看法，你自己不能苟同之时，就可以用上这句话I wouldn't look at it like that.「我不会用这个角度来看。」以表示自己对于同一件事，持有不同的意见。

    6. It's all there for a reason.

    自有其存在的道理

    有许多的观念都是长久以来传袭下来的，诸如传统或是一些约定俗成的规章，若你觉得这些经过时间考验的规章、传统甚或观念，「自有其存在的道理」，你就可以用这句话It's all there for a reason.来表达你捍卫传统的立场。

    7.I don't have time for this.

    我没时间瞎搅和。

    I don't have time for this.这句话的使用时机主要有两个，一是当你参与了某个活动，你却发现整个过程却是在浪费时间，这时候你就可以说I don't have time for this.「我没时间瞎搅和。」以表示自己的不耐烦；另一个使用时机，就是当有人一味地拐弯抹角说话，你就可以用这句话要对方赶快切入正题。

    8.give this to you (real) straight

    讲清楚，说明白

    这句话的意思就是前一阵子政坛上最流行的一句话「讲清楚，说明白」，在美语中，give this to you straight最常用在男女朋友分手，好说歹说都没用时，逼不得已只好打开天窗说亮话：I'm gonna give this to you straight. I do not love you at
all.

    9.pain in the ass

    眼中钉、肉中刺

    这个句型虽然有点不雅，但是各位看官一定都记忆犹新，在各大电影、电视影集里都曾出现过，就字面上的意思不难了解，就是中文里「眼中钉、肉中刺」的意思。 想想看，屁股里的痛（可能是指痔疮吧），抓也抓不到，摸也摸不着，是不是让人很难受，很痛苦呢？形容的还真是传神！

    10. pass oneself off as...

    某人蒙混成……以过关

    pass oneself off as...的意思就是「某人蒙混成……以过关」，好比小孩装成大人去看限制级电影，这可能是服装的不同，或是整体打扮的乔装，甚至还包括语调口音的不同。

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Joke of Today

I can go home

    One day after  school the  teacher said to his  students, "Tomorrow morning, if any one of you can answer my first question, I will permit him or her to go home earlier."

    The next  day, when  the  teacher came into the  classroom,  he found  t he  blackboard  daubed. He  was  very angry  and asked, "Who did it? Please stand up!" "It's me," said   Bob,"Now, I can go home. Good-bye, Sir."

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    1. Virtue is lofty, but it requires you to give. -------- Qiao Anshan

    美德是高尚的，但美德需要付出和给予。---------乔安山

    2. To get along with others, one must learn to suffer losses---Zuo Zongtang

    与人共事，要学会吃亏。------左宗棠

    3. Friendship is like flower fragrance, the more delicate it is, the more attractive and longlasting it will be.------- Xi Murong

    友谊和花香一样，还是淡一点的比较好，越淡的香气越使人依恋，也越能持久。-------席慕容

    4. What makes me understand life is not the contact with others but the contact with books-- (France)  France

    使我懂得了人生的，并不是和人接触的结果，而是和书接触的结果。-----------［法国］法朗士

    5. A person who wants himself to have happiness should show the utmost solicitude to others,look after others

meticulously and treat others sincerely-------------(the Soviet Union) Sukhomlynsky

    要想自己成为幸福的人，就应当对别人关怀备至，体贴入微，赤诚相见。------［苏联］苏霍姆林斯基

    6. Leisure is enjoyable, while vacuity is suffering.----- Zhou Guoping

    闲是福气，无聊却是痛苦。---------------周国平

    7. Life is a journey. Do not care too much about minor matters-----Xie Juezai

    人生如寄，用不着争长些时与短些时。---------谢觉哉

    8. The ideal of life is to live for ideals.----Zhang Wentian

    生活的理想，就是为了理想的生活。 ——张闻天

    9. The fireworks that jump high and go for are beautiful.----(Denmark) Andersen

    凡是能冲上去的，能散发出来的焰火，都是美丽的。－－－[丹麦]  安徒生

    10. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.－－－Goethe

    人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。－－－歌德

    11. Things are judged not by the speed but by the perfection with which they are done.------Aesop

    事情不在于做得快而在于做得完美。------伊索

    12. You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.------Charles Chaplin

    人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 ------查尔斯·卓别林

    13. Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. ------Hegel

    目标有价值，生活才有价值。 ------黑格尔

    14. Life has its ups and downs.------Petronius Arbiter

    人生一世有起有落。------佩特罗尼乌斯

    15. To think is to live.------Cicero

    思考就是生活。------西塞罗

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Joke of Today

Who Are Crooks?

    A newspaper once carried an editorial which stated bluntly that half the city council were crooks.

    Under penalty of arrest,the editor issued following retraction: half the city council aren't crooks.

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    1.dude(老兄，老哥)

　　很多人认为该词单指“花花公子，纨绔子弟”的意思，实际上此词是叫男性年轻人的常用词，与guy的意思相同，只是guy用的范围更广。 例子：Hey dude look at that girl.(喂，老兄，看那个女孩)

　　2.chick(女孩)

　　容易被误解为“鸡，妓女”，实际上此词是叫女孩的常用词，语气中确实有轻佻、不尊重的倾向。例子：Look at that chick at the door.(看门口的那个女孩)

　　3.pissed off(生气，不高兴)

　　千万别认为是“尿尿”的意思，piss off在字典中则是“滚开，滚蛋”的意思，实际上此词是表示“生气，不高兴”的意思，与angry同意。例子：Man，is that guy pissed of ？(哎呀，那家伙真的生气了)

　　4.Hey，Give me five(嗨，好啊！)

　　此短语非常流行，经常在大片中出现，常在击掌庆贺时用。例子：Hey，dude！ Give me five！(嗨，老兄，好啊！)

　　5.freak out(大发脾气)

　　总是在片子中看到这个词，freak本义是“奇异的，反常的”的意思，但freak out是“大发脾气”的意思，out也可以省略，这个词在美语中很常见，老式说法是be very upset。例子：He’s gonna freak(他快要发脾气了)

　　6.Get out of here(别开玩笑了，别骗人了)

　　大家很容易联想到“滚开”的意思，其实，现在很多时候都用在“别开玩笑了，别骗人了”的意思里，在美国片子中常可以听到。例子：(Man：)You look very beautiful(你很漂亮)(Girl`)Get out of here.(别骗了)

　　7.gross(真恶心)

　　此词不是“混乱”的意思，字典中gross是“总的，毛重的”的意思，实际上此词是表示“恶心”的意思与gag相近，是美国年轻人一天到晚挂在嘴边的 词。例子：Yuck， what is this stuff?It looks gross.(哎呀，这是什么东西？真恶心)

　　8.Hello(有没有搞错)

　　并不总是打招呼的意思，有时是“有没有搞错”的意思，要根据上下文来判断。 例子：Hello，anybody home，we’ll be late！(有没有搞错, 我们要迟到了)

　　9.green(新手，没有经验)

　　不是“绿色”的意思，也不是“生气”的意思,有时表示“新手，没有经验”。例子：She’s really green，she looks nervous.(她是新手，看起来很紧张)

　　10.Have a crush on someone(爱上某人)

　　由于crush是“压碎，碾碎”的意思，因此整个短语容易被误解为“对某人施加压力”的意思， 实际上此词表示“爱上某人”，与fall in love with 同意。例子：She thinks she has a crush on John.(她认为她爱上约翰了)　

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Joke of Today

Different audiences

     Al Smith was governor of New York State． He was a famous man． He was born very poor on the East Side of New York City． He had little education． He worked very hard and won great success．

     One day， as governor， he was visiting the state prison at Sing Sing． Sing Sing is one of the largest prisons in the United States． The head of the prison asked Mr． Smith to say some thing to the prisoners． Mr.Smith had never spoken to this kind of audience before．He did not know how to begin．

     Finally， he said，“My fellow citizens…．” Then he remembered that when a man goes to prison he is no longer a citizen． He began again．“My fellow prisoners…．” That did not sound right， so he said：“Well， anyway， I'm glad to see so many of you here today．”

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    Now Or Never

    【歌曲介绍】：《歌舞青春3：毕业嘉年华》将于10月24日全球同步上映。《歌舞青春》原是2006年迪士尼播出的一部电视电影，在青少年中颇受欢迎，获奖无数。而它的续集《歌舞青春2》也再次创下收视纪录，并夺得美国青少年选择大奖(TEEN CHOICE AWARDS 2007)最佳电视电影奖在内的多项大奖。此时迪士尼电影公司放出了一款《歌舞青春3：毕业嘉年华》( High School Musical 3: Senior Year )1分半钟宣传片段，率先曝光的就是这首让人热血澎湃的野猫队赛场战曲《Now Or Never》。

    16, 16, 16 minutes left
    Better get it tied
    16, 16, 16 more minutes
    Get ready, game on!
    16, 16, 16 minutes left
    Running out of time
    16, 16, 16 more minutes
    It's on the line
    16, 16, 16 minutes left
    Gotta get it done
    16, 16, 16 more minutes
    'Til we're number one!
    Let's go team!

    Gotta get it together
    Yeah, pull up, shoot... score!
    Are you ready, are ya with me?
    Team? Team? Team? Yeah!
    Shake em' with a crossover (Wildcats!)
    Tell me what do we fear? (Four wins)

    'Cause we know that we're the best team
    Come on boys, come on boys... come on!
    The way we play tonight
    Is what we leave behind (That's right)
    It all comes down to right now, it's up to work (Let's go!)
    So what are we gonna be?
    T-E-A-M TEAM
    Gotta work it out

    Turn it on (Come on!)
    This is the last time to get it right
    This is the last chance to make it our night

    We gotta show what we're all about (Together!)
    Work together (Go!)

    This is the last chance to make our mark (Shoot!)
    History will know who we are (Yeah!)
    This is the last game, so make it count
    It's now or never
    W-I-L-D WILDCATS! (Attaboy)
    You go, come on
    W-I-L-D WILDCATS!
    Come on, come on
    West High Knights (Hey)
    Yeah, we're doing it right (Oh yeah)
    W-I-L-D WILDCATS!
    Now's the time!

    Gotta get it inside down low
    End the pain, now shoot... score! (Think fast)
    We gotta work it together

    Gimme the ball, gimme the ball... gimme the ball
    Press play, get the ball in control

    Let it fly from downtown
    Three, four!
    Show em' we can do it better (No way)
    Go, go, go (Come on boys!)
    WILDCATS!

    The way we play tonight (Yeah!)
    Is what we leave behind (That's right)
    It all comes down to right now, it's up to work (Let's go!)

    So what are we gonna be?
    T-E-A-M TEAM
    Gotta work it out
    Turn it on (Come on!)
    This is the last time to get it right
    This is the last chance to make it our night
    We gotta show what we're all about (Together!)
    Work together (Go!)

    This is the last chance to make our mark (Shoot!)
    History will know who we are (Yeah!)
    This is the last game, so make it count
    It's now or never
    Right now I can hardly breathe

    Gabriella:
    Oh, you can do it just know that I believe
    And that's all I really need
    Gabriella:
    Then come on
    Make me strong
    It's time to turn it up, game on!
    WILDCATS!
    Go tear it up
    GO WILDCATS!
    Yeah, we're number one!
    HEY WILDCATS!
    We're the champions!
    Go, go, go, team go!
    West High Knights (Hey!)
    Yeah we're puttin' up a fight!
    WILDCATS!

    We never quit it (What?)
    Gonna win it (What?)
    Let me hear you say hey hey, hey hey, hey hey
    This is the last time to get it right (Oh)
    This is the last chance to make it our night (Yeah!)
    We gotta show what we're all about (Together)
    Work together (Go!)
    This is the last chance to make our mark (Go boys! Go boys!)
    History will know who we are (Go boys! Go boys!)
    This is the last game, so make ït count (Go boys!)
    It's now or never...
    Yeah...

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Joke of Today

Thinking Back

     We were gathered together, all ten of us, for our widowed mother's 80th birthday. The conversation was of early struggles, walking to work and saving up in clothing clubs, when my elder sister said, "Of course, we were bound to be poor because we were such a big family. Mom, why did you have so many children?"

    Mother looked around at us all and said, "Well, where did you want to me to stop?"

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　　1. The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.

　　世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。

　　2. The world is but a little place, after all.

　　海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

　　3. The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.

　　水能载舟，亦能覆舟。

　　4. The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.

　　清者自清，浊者自浊。

　　5. The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.

　　螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。

　　6. There is no royal road to learning.

　　书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。

　　7. The style is the man.

　　字如其人。

　　8. The devil sometimes speaks the truth.

　　魔鬼有时也会说真话。

　　9. The die is cast.

　　木已成舟。

　　10. The end justifies the means.
 
　　只要目的正当，可以不择手段。

　　11. The end makes all equal.

　　死亡面前，人人平等。

　　12. The eye is bigger than the belly.

　　贪多嚼不烂。

　　13. The farthest way about is the nearest way home.

　　抄近路反而绕远路。

　　14. Talking mends no holes.

　　空谈无补。

　　15. Talk of the devil and he will appear.

　　说曹操，曹操就到。

　　16. Tall trees catch much wind.

　　树大招风。

　　17. Teach others by your example.

　　躬亲示范。

　　18. The best hearts are always the bravest.

　　无私者无畏。

　　19. The best man stumbles.

　　伟人也有犯错时。

　　20.The cat shuts its eyes when stealing.

　　掩耳盗铃。

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Joke of Today

The Receipt's Purpose

    At the traffic fine office, the police handed a motorist a receipt for his traffic fine. The motorist must have been fined for speeding.

    He grumbled, "What am I supposed to do with this?" The clerk advised him, "Keep it. When
you get four of these, you get a bicycle!"  By that time, he wouldn't be allowed to drive a car!

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    All Mum's Letters

    To this day I remember my mum's letters. It all started in December 1941. Every night she sat at the big table in the kitchen and wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been drafted that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

    I didn't understand why my mum kept writing Johnny when he never wrote back.

    "Wait and see-we'll get a letter from him one day," she claimed. Mum said that there was a direct link from the brain to the written word that was just as strong as the light God has granted us. She trusted that this light would find Johnny.

    I don't know if she said that to calm herself, dad or all of us down. But I do know that it helped us stick together, and one day a letter really did arrive. Johnny was alive on an island in the Pacific.

    I had always been amused by the fact that mum signed her letters, "Cecilia Capuzzi", and I teased her about that. "Why don't you just write 'Mum'?" I said.

    I hadn't been aware that she always thought of herself as Cecilia Capuzzi. Not as Mum. I began seeing her in a new light, this small delicate woman, who even in high-heeled shoes was barely one and a half meters tall.

    She never wore make-up or jewelry except for a wedding ring of gold. Her hair was fine, sleek and black and always put up in a knot in the neck. She wouldn't hear of getting a haircut or a perm. Her small silver-rimmed pince-nez only left her nose when she went to bed.

    Whenever mum had finished a letter, she gave it to dad for him to post it. Then she put the water on to boil, and we sat down at the table and talked about the good old days when our Italian-American family had been a family of ten: mum, dad and eight children. Five boys and three girls. It is hard to understand that they had all moved away from home to work, enroll in the army, or get married. All except me.

    Around next spring mum had got two more sons to write to. Every evening she wrote threedifferent letters which she gave to me and dad afterwards so we could add our greetings.

    Little by little the rumour about mum's letters spread. One day a small woman knocked atour door. Her voice trembled as she asked: "Is it true you write letters?"

    "I write to my sons."

    "And you can read too?" whispered the woman.

    "Sure."

    The woman opened her bag and pulled out a pile of airmail letters. "Read… please read them aloud to me."

    The letters were from the woman's son who was a soldier in Europe, a red-haired boy who mum remembered having seen sitting with his brothers on the stairs in front of our house. Mum read the letters one by one and translated them from English to Italian. The woman's eyes welled up with tears. "Now I have to write to him," she said. But how was she going to do it?

    "Make some coffee, Octavia," mum yelled to me in the living room while she took the woman with her into the kitchen and seated her at the table. She took the fountain pen, ink and air mail notepaper and began to write. When she had finished, she read the letter aloud to the woman.

    "How did you know that was exactly what I wanted to say?"

    "I often sit and look at my boys' letters, just like you, without a clue about what to write."

    A few days later the woman returned with a friend, then another one and yet another one--they all had sons who fought in the war, and they all needed letters. Mum had become the correspondent in our part of town. Sometimes she would write letters all day long.

    Mum always insisted that people signed their own letters, and the small woman with the grey hair asked mum to teach her how to do it. "I so much want to be able to write my own name so that my son can see it." Then mum held the woman's hand in hers and moved her hand over the paper again and again until she was able to do it without her help.

    After that day, when mum had written a letter for the woman, she signed it herself, and her face brightened up in a smile.

    One day she came to us, and mum instantly knew what had happened. All hope had disappeared from her eyes. They stood hand in hand for a long time without saying a word. Then mum said: "We better go to church. There are certain things in life so great that we cannot comprehend them." When mum came back home, she couldn't get the red-haired boy out of her mind.

    After the war was over, mum put away the pen and paper. "Finito," she said. But she was wrong. The women who had come to her for help in writing to their sons now came to her with letters from their relatives in Italy. They also came to ask her for her help in getting American citizenship.

    On one occasion mum admitted that she had always had a secret dream of writing a novel.

    "Why didn't you?" I asked.

    "All people in this world are here with one particular purpose," she said. "Apparently, mine is to write letters." She tried to explain why it absorbed her so.

    "A letter unites people like nothing else. It can make them cry, it can make them laugh.

    There is no caress more lovely and warm than a love letter, because it makes the world seem very small, and both sender and receiver become like kings in their own kingdoms. My dear, a letter is life itself!"

    Today all mum's letters are lost. But those who got them still talk about her and cherish the
memory of her letters in their hearts.

    【中文译文】：

    至今我依然记得母亲的信。事情要从1941 年12 月说起。母亲每晚都坐在厨房的大饭桌旁边，给我弟弟约翰写信。那年夏天约翰应征入伍。自从日本袭击珍珠港以后，他就一直杳无音信。

    约翰从未回信，我不明白母亲为何还要坚持写下去。

    可母亲还是坚持说：“等着瞧吧，总有一天他会给我们回信的。” 她深信思想和文字是直接相连，这种联系就像上帝赋予人类的光芒一样强大，而这道光芒终会照耀到约翰的身上。

    虽然我不肯定她是否只是在安慰自己，或是父亲，或者是我们几个孩子，但我们一家人却因此更加亲密。而最终我们终于等到了约翰的回信，原来他驻扎在太平洋的一个岛屿上，安然无恙。

    母亲总以“塞西莉娅•卡普奇”署名，每每令我忍俊不禁，还要嘲笑她几句。我问：“为什么不直接写‘母亲’呢？”

    以前我一直没有留意到她把自己当成塞西莉娅•卡普奇，而不是母亲。我不禁以新的眼光打量自己的母亲，她是多么优雅，又是那么矮小，就算穿上高跟鞋，她的身 高依然不足一米五。母亲向来素面朝天，除了手上戴的婚戒，她基本是不戴其他的首饰。她的头发顺滑乌亮，盘在颈后，从不剪短或烫曲。只有在睡觉的时候，她才 摘下那副小小的银丝眼镜。

    每次母亲写完信，就会把信交给父亲去邮寄。然后她把水烧开，和我们围坐在桌旁，聊聊过去的好日子。从前我们这个意裔的美国家庭可是人丁旺盛：父母亲和我们 八个兄弟姐妹——五男三女，济济一堂。现在他们都因工作、入伍或婚姻纷纷离开了家，只有我留下来，想想真觉匪夷所思。

    第二年春天，母亲也要开始给另外两个儿子写信了。每天晚上，她先写好三封内容不同的信交给我和父亲，然后我们再加上自己的问候。

    母亲写信的事渐渐传开。一天，一个矮小的女人来敲我们家的门，用颤抖的声音问：“你真的会写信吗？”

    “我写给我的儿子。”

    “那么你也能读信咯？”女人小声问。

    “当然。”

    女人打开背包，掏出一叠航空信。“请，请您大声读给我听好吗？”

    信是女人在欧洲参战的儿子写来的，母亲依稀还记得他的模样，他有一头红色的头发，常和他的兄弟一起坐在我们家门前的楼梯上。母亲把信一封接一封地从英文翻成意大利文读出来。听完，那女人双眼噙着泪水说：“我一定要给他写回信。”可是她该怎么办呢？

    “奥塔维娅，去冲杯咖啡来。”母亲在客厅大声叫我，然后把那女人领到厨房桌旁坐下，拿出钢笔、墨水和信纸开始写信。写完后为她大声读出来。

    “这正是我想说的话，您是怎么知道的呢？”

    “我也和你一样，常常坐在那里看儿子的来信，完全不知道写什么好。”

    几天后，女人回来，带来一个朋友，后来又来一个，再一个……他们都有儿子在战场上奋战，都需要写信。妈妈变成了我们城镇的通讯员，有时她一整天都在写回信。

    母亲常常坚持让大家签上自己的名字。一位头发灰白的女人要母亲教她怎么签名。“我真想亲手写下自己的名字，好让儿子可以看到。”于是母亲手把手地教她在纸上一遍一遍书写，直到她自己可以签名。

    第二天，母亲帮那个女人写好信，由她亲自签名，女人的面容在微笑中变得灿烂了。

    有一天她来我家，眼里全无希望的光芒，母亲立刻明白了。两人握着手，久久无语。后来母亲说：“我们去教堂吧。生命中有些事情太深奥，我们无法理解。”母亲回家后，一直记着那个红头发的小男孩。

    战争结束后，母亲收起纸笔，说：“都结束了。”可是她错了。那个曾让母亲帮忙给儿子写信的女人又来了，带着意大利亲人的来信。他们还让母亲帮忙帮他们的亲属申请入籍。

    一次母亲承认她心里一直有一个愿望，就是要写一本小说。“为什么不写呢？”我问。

    母亲试着解释她为何如此沉迷写信，“每个人来到这个世界都有一个目的。显然，我就是来写信的。”

    “信无可替代地把人与人连在一起，让人笑，让人哭。一封情书比任何爱抚更令人觉得亲爱和温暖，因为它让世界变小，写信人和收信人都成为自己世界里的国王。亲爱的，信就是生命本身！”

    今天，母亲所有的信已经遗失。但是那些收到信的人仍在谈论她，并把有关信的记忆珍藏在心。

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Joke of Today

Luckily Just A Dog

    There was a person who was very, very greedy when he was eating. One day, he was invited to a party. He sat there as if the whole table belonged to him,even though there were many guests around him.

    He kept eating, eating, eating, fast, fast, fast, all the time, one thing after another. The people didn't know how to stop him. Then suddenly, one person thought of a way of how to do it.

    He asked the eating-like-mad person, "What sign of zodiac do you belong to?" This person said, "I belong to the Dog, my zodiac sign."

    Then he asked, "We are in the middle of eating, why are you asking my zodiac sign? What for?"

    All the people said, "Why, so that we can be prepared to protect ourselves." The person who ate a lot said, "Prepare to protect yourselves from what?" Then, the man who thought of the way said, "Oh! It's okay now. Luckily you wereborn under the sign of the Dog. If you were born under the sign of the Tiger, then we'd have to run."

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     Take Time

    生活中，我们经常说的一句话就是：“我很忙”，而这又常常成为我们不作为的借口。所以哲人建议如果想生活更美好，我们都该花点时间做做下面的事：

    Take time to think--- It is the source of power.

    花点时间去思考―― 它是力量的源泉。

    Take time to read--- It is the foundation of wisdom.

    花点时间去读书―― 它是智慧的基础。

    Take time to play --- It is the secret of staying young.

    花点时间去玩―― 它是保持年轻的秘诀。

    Take time to laugh--- It is the music of the soul.

    花点时间去笑―― 它是灵魂的音乐。

    Take time to be friendly--- It is the road to happiness.

    花点时间去表示友爱―― 它是通向幸福的道路。

    Take time to love and be loved--- It is the God’s greatest gift.

    花点时间去爱与被爱―― 它是上帝最好的礼物。

    Take time to be quiet--- It is the opportunity to seek God.

    花点时间保持沉默―― 它是祈求上帝的机会。

    Take time to dream--- It is what the future is made of.

    花点时间去做梦―― 它组成了我们的未来。

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Joke of Today

An Ugly Woman

    Mike: My aunt was very embarrassed when she was asked to take off her mask at the party.

    Mary: Why was that?

    Mike: She wasn't wearing one.

 

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    33条攻克英语的致胜法则！33个英语成功的良好习惯！33段漂亮流畅的英文段落！每天脱口而出一条法则！每天实践一条法则。33天获得英语的巨大成功！

    You cannot improve the past but you can improve the future! When time is wasted, life is wasted!

    你不能改变过去，但你可让未来变得更好！浪费了时间，就浪费了生命！

    脱口而出下面的方法，创造伟大奇迹！�