How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions: Advice from the Experts
　　如何才能保持新年决心，专家给你的建议
　　About half of all American adults (48%， according to a Marist polltaken in December) say they are at least somewhat likely to make a NewYear’s resolution this year. Their top vows: to lose weight (19%)， quitsmo

People have been passionate about roses since the beginning of time. In fact, it is said that the floors of Cleopatra’s palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals, and that the wise and knowing Confucius had a 600-book library specifically on how to care for roses.
　　人类有史以来就钟情于玫瑰。据说，克娄巴特拉的宫

The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airpo

When our then-22-year-old daughter told us in the fall of 2008 that she intended to move out of our house and live in New York City on her own, we told her it would be tough.
2008年秋天，当22岁的女儿玛丽安娜(Mariana)告诉我们她打算从家里搬出去、独自在纽约市生活的时候，我们告诉她日子会很艰难。
She didn’t believe us.
她不相信我们的劝告。
Mariana proved u

1. That woman just checked you out. 那个美女正在挑逗地看着你呢。

Yes, this helps his self-confidence. But it also tells him that you just saw another woman looking at him and you’re not afraid to tell him. It shows that you’re confident enough to know that he won’t be lured away by another gal.

没错，这样说可以

每年一月，比尔·盖茨都会撰写一封年度公开信，评价比尔及梅琳达盖茨基金会的工作成果，以及基金会达成目标的进展情况。在今年的公开信中，比尔·盖茨表示，创新将成为影响未来社会的一个要素。信中也说明了基金会将会为哪些理念提供资金支持，并将谈论到每个项目的益处，时限以及风险。

Every January, Bill writes an Annual Letter, which includes his thoughts on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and progress it is ma

　　都说80后的青年男女都流行“闪婚”，这个势头还没有过去，又来了一个“闪孕”的趋势。据说是好多女白领担心在经济危机期间丢了工作而采取的应对措施。可是，有点不解的是，下一次经济危机的时候她们怎么办呢？

　　They are female white-collar workers. They didn’t have any plan to have a child until the economic crisis struck. Then they decided to get pregnant - as quickly as possib

美国总统奥巴马终于拨通海地总统普雷瓦尔的电话，他表示美国”全力支持”对海地的救援及长期重建。此后奥巴马关于此事发表演讲，其中谈到来自海地总统表达的三声感谢催人泪下

 奥巴马讲话文本： 

President Barack Obama :  Good afternoon, everybody.  I wanted to just make a brief statement on the latest situation in Haiti so that the American people are fully up to date

1、”生命在他里头，这生命就是人的光。光照在黑暗里，黑暗却不接受光。”（《新约·约翰福音》第1章） 
What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not o vercome it. “John 1-4,5″ 　　 
这是我最经常诵读的一段经文，也是基督教神学思想的核心。这里的”光”指的是耶稣基督，”生命”指的是永生–战胜死亡

　　如果我问大家提高英语水平的关键是什么？大概有的人会回答语法，有的人会回答词汇，我看都没有击中要害，我认为提高英语水平的第一个关键是词法，即如何选词造句以英文常用的方式准确、精炼的描述事物，表达意思。这里的人很多年纪都不小了，孩子要么在这里出生的，要么在这里长大的，观察孩子们讲的英语，他们词汇量并不大，语法大概更不懂，但和我们相比，他们的英文用词造句非常准确、精炼、地道。我年轻时刚来读学位的时候，老板逼着我上本科生的英文写作课，课堂上满屋子的学生，除了我以外，都是北美当地人，和他们一起上英文写作课，天天写十几页的英文文章，那时也没有Word、电子字典、互联网什么的，只能翻大部头中英、英英字典