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We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I d know better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover meatloaf. I really would.
My cherished grandson, I hope you learn humility by surviving
failure and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking.
I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the
car-and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born,
and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your
old dog to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And
it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he
wants to crawl under the covers with you because he s scared, I hope
you ll let him.
And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him.
I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make
one instead of buying one. I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read
books, and when you learn to use computers, you also learn how to add
and subtract in your head.
I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on
a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory
soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face. I don t
care if you try beer once, but I hope you won't like it. And if a
friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to
realize that person is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a
neighbor s window, and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give
her a plaster of pared mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.
【中文译文】：
我们竭尽全力想让我们的儿女们过得更好，而结果却是适得其反。对我的孙辈们，我就明智得多了。
我真的希望他们能够了解什么是兄长传下来的旧衣服，家制的冰淇淋，以及吃剩的肉糕。我真的希望。
我的宝贝孙子，我希望你在经受失败的考验之后能学会谦卑，也希望你能学会诚实，即使在没有人注视你的时候。
我希望你能学会自己叠被子，自己刈草坪，自己洗车--我还希望在你满十六岁时没有人送给你一辆崭新的轿车。
假如你至少有一次机会看见小牛犊出生，假如你不得不为你的老狗送终，那时有一位好朋友在场为你作伴--那样该有多好啊！
我希望你能为自己的所信仰与人斗得眼青脸肿。
我希望你能和你弟弟共一间卧室--即使你在卧室中间划一条分界线也没关系。可是，当弟弟因为害怕而要爬进你的被窝时，我希望你会接纳他。
当你要出去看迪斯尼电影，你的小弟弟想做你的小尾巴时，我希望你能带上他。
我希望你能和朋友们一起爬山，而在你所生活的城市里做这项运动不会有什么危险。
如果你想要一把弹弓，我希望你父亲能教你怎样自己做一把，而不是为你买一把现成的。我还希望你能学会挖泥巴和读书；而当你学会使用电脑时，你也应该学会加减法的心算。
当你第一次恋上一个女孩时，我希望你会受到朋友们的嘲弄；而当你跟你母亲顶嘴时，希望她叫你尝一尝象牙肥皂的滋味。
但愿你能在爬山时弄破膝盖上的皮，或者在炉子上烧伤手，或者让舌头粘在结冰的旗杆上。
我希望吸烟者对着你的脸上喷吐烟雾时，你会感到恶心。如果你尝试喝一次啤酒，我不会在意；但是我希望你不会喜欢上它。如果有一位朋友请你吸一口含大麻的香烟，或者任何毒品，我希望你明智地意识到他不是你的朋友。
我当然希望你能抽时间来陪你爷爷在门廊上坐一坐，或者陪你叔叔钓钓鱼。
如果你把捧球扔进了邻居的窗户，我希望你母亲惩罚你。如果你能剪掉指甲，用石膏做一只自己的手的模型送给你妈，我希望她会给你拥抱和亲吻。
我希望你能经历：艰难的岁月，挫折和失望；希望你努力工作，幸福快乐。
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Joke of Today
It's Me All Right
A pretty young lady went to cash a check at a bank.
The teller examined it, then asked, "Can you identify yourself?"
Looking puzzled, the girl dipped into her handbag and pulled out a small mirror.
She glanced into it for a moment, then smiled, "Yes, it's me all right."
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【歌曲介绍】：首先让我们来看看KerenAnn何许人也？她是法国乐坛最受瞩目的民谣才女，她出生在以色列，从小学吉他时就开始扒Joni Mitchell的曲子，11岁举家迁往巴黎。2000年KerenAnn的首张专辑《LaBiographie De Luka Philipsen》融入了俄国文学、犹太民谣和法国诗歌，并以Trip-Hop、民谣及法国流行乐的融合形式现身，一举在欧洲赢得巨大成功。
KerenAnn的民谣实在“清新”，和古老的传说联系在一起，和远去的岁月里绵绵的小故事牵手，直接承载于简陋的乐器声中。这首not going anywhere传承了她一贯的清新风格。伴随着寂寥连绵的吉他声和缓缓加入的悠扬的小提琴声，让人仿佛置身于潺潺的溪水、幽静的山谷之中。
【歌词】：
this is why i aways wonder
i'm a pond full of regrets
i always fry to not remember rather than forget
this is why i always whisper
when pagabonds are passing by
i fend to keep myself away from their goodbyes
fide will rise and fall along the bay
and i's not going anywhere
i'm not going anywhere
people come and go and walk away
but i'm not going anywhere
i'm not going anywhere
this why i always whisper
i'm a riper with a spell
i like to hear but not to listen
i like to say but not to tell
this why i always wonder
there's nothing new under the sun
i won't go anywhere so give my love to everyone
fide will rise and fall along the bay
and i'm ont going anywhere
i'm not going anywhere
people come and go and walk away
but i'm not going anywhere
i'm not going anywhere
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"Professor, I did the best I could on this test. I really don't think I deserve a zero."
"Neither do I. But that's the lowest grade I'm allowed to give."
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在西方，演讲作为一种专门的课程被教授给学生，尤其是政治家们在年轻时代就娴熟地掌握了这一技巧。美国的政治家一般都是很棒的演说家，其中美国总统的就职演说有许多经典名篇，例如大家耳熟能详的肯尼迪总统和他的“不要问国家为你做了什么，而要问你为国家做了什么。”奥巴马尚未就职，这篇演讲是在他选举获胜后对芝加哥民众发表的演说。我们一起来欣赏一下这篇好评如潮的演讲——《我们的变革》：
下载地址：压缩包里包含了三个MP3文件及中英文版本的演讲文稿
直接下载
A friend of mine who teachs European history at Washington University in St. Louis tell about the time he spotted a plagiarized term paper.
He summoned the student to his office. "This isn't your work." he said.
"Someone typed it for you straight out of the encyclopedia.
"You cann't prove that!" the student sputtered.
My friend smiled and show him the paper.
Circled in red was: "Also see article on communism."
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Oral English:(口语学习方法总汇)
(1).We study spoken English so as to make oral communications, so this order of importance of oral English study should be followed: Fluency, Accuracy, and Appropriateness. That is to say, we have to pay more attention to practical communicating ability instead of only laying emphasis on the grammatical correctness.
我们学习口语目的是为了与别人进行交流,所以英语口语中的几个要素的重要次序应为:流利-准确-恰当.
(2).Try to find some partners practicing oral English together and English corner is a good place as where we may exchange English study experience, widen our sight and improve interest in English.
寻找学伴一起练习口语.英语角是个不错的地方,在那我们不但可以练习口语,还可以交流英语学习经验,开拓视野,提高英语学习兴趣.
(3).If English partners are not easy to get, then we have to create an English environment ourselves by speaking English to ourselves.
如果找不到学伴或参加英语角的机会很少,那么也没有关系,有很多种方法可以自己练习口语.比如通过自己对自己将英语来创造英语环境.可以对自己描述所看到的景物,英语口述自己正在作的事情.
(4).This method is very effective and easy to insist on--interpreting Chinese-English novels or books. First we read the Chinese parts and then try to interpret them into English and then compare our interpretation with the original versions in the novels or books so that we can find out the mistakes, shortcomings and progresses in our interpretation.
*这种方法非常有效且很容易坚持---口译汉英对照(或英汉对照)的小说或其它读物.首先我们先读汉语部分,然后逐句直接口译成英文,完成一小段后,去看 书上的对应英文部分并与我们的口译进行比较,我们马上可以发现我们口译的错误,缺点和进步. 请注意:开始要选择较简单的读物,且应大量做,只做一两篇效果是不明显的.开始可能较慢,费时较多,但请坚持,整体上这是一个加速的过程. 高级阶段请计时练习,以加快反应速度和口语流利度.
*作为成人学英语,记忆力差是个拦路虎,作复述练习或背诵课文往往力不从心,或者由于词汇量太小觉得直接作口译太难,那么这样做可以非常有效地解决这个问 题:：先学习英文课文,通篇理解透彻后,再来看汉语译文, 把汉语译文口译回英文. 这样等于既作复述练习又作口译(语)练习,可谓一石双鸟!
*这样作的好处:
1.自己就可以练习口语,想练多久,就练多久.
2.始终有一位高级教师指出您的不足和错误---英文原文.
3.题材范围极广,可以突破我们自己的思维禁锢,比如我们总是喜欢谈论我们自己熟悉的话题,所以我们总是在练习相同的语言,进步当然就缓慢了.
4.选择小说,幽默故事或好的短文阅读,使我们有足够的兴趣坚持下去.
5.有一些我们在直接学习英语课文时被我们熟视无睹的地道的英语用法会被此法发掘出来.
6.对所学知识和所犯错误印象深刻.这等于我们一直在作汉译英练习,很多英文译文是我们费尽心思憋出来的,所以印象相当深刻.比直接学习英文课文印象要深的多.
7.经过大量的练习,你会有这样的感觉:没有什么东西你不能翻译,你的翻译水平大大加强了,你的口语表达力大大提高了!
(5).Interpreting what you hear---Changing Roles: Three people make a group: one speaks Chinese, one speaks English acting as the foreigner, one acts as interpreter. Then change roles. This is a good interpreting training method and is good for studying from one another. In addition, it may improve the responding ability and speed of students. The advanced stage of this method is simultaneous interpretation.
听译法-角色互换:三人一组,模拟翻译实战.一人将汉语,一人将英语,扮演老外,一人作翻译.练习一段时间后互换角色.这是一种非常好的翻译训练方法,也 是很好的相互学习,取长补短的方法.而且可大大提高反应速度和能力.此法的高级阶段为同声传译,我们可以在听广播或看电视或开会时,把所听内容口译英文.
(6).Oral composition and 3-minute training method: This method is suitable for intense training. Making an oral composition about a certain topic for one minute the first time and record the composition on tape at the same time. Then listen to the composition and find out the room for improvement. Then make the same composition for two minutes for the second time and also record it. And at last repeat the above-mentioned for three minutes.
口语作文和3分钟训练法:此法适用于强化训练.找好一个题目作一分钟的口语作文,同时将其录音.听录音,找出不足和错误,就此题目再作两分钟的的口语作文,同样录音,再听并找出不足与进步,继续作三分钟口语作文.这是高级口语训练,效果不俗.
(7).Retelling exercise: Retell some articles or English stories in our own words.
复述练习:最简单也是最有效的口语学习方法.从治本上攻克英文的方法,特别适合初学者和中级学者,用自己的话背颂所听的英语故事或文章短文,应该大量地练习.
(8).If possible, we may read some English tongue twisters loudly and quickly with one or two cakes of candy in our mouth (just as the Chinese cross-talk actors do.) to train our oral cavity muscle and tongues suitable for English pronunciation.
如果可能我们也可以大声且快速朗读英文绕口令(就象相声演员练嘴),还可以同时口中含块糖以加大强化训练的力度.这样来强我们的口腔肌肉迅速适应英文发音,使我们的口语相当流利,清晰,而且还有自信.例如:
☆A big black bug bit the back of a big black bear. The big black bear bit back the big black bug.
☆This fish has a thin fin; That fish has a fat fin;
This fish is a fish that has a thinner fin than that fish.
(9).Paying more attention to phrases and small words as one major shortcoming of Chinese English (especially Chinese oral English) is that Chinese students tend to use big words in their oral language, but the idiomatic oral English is abundant with short, active and vivid phrases. And most of such phrases are made of small words.
特别注意短语(词组)和小词的运用,中国式的英语尤其是口语一个很大的缺点就是中国学生喜欢用大词,而真正地道的英语口语确是充满着短小,活泼,生动的短语,富有生气.而这些短语大部分有小词构成.
(10) Thinking in English.英语思维的培养。
1. 大量根据图片来了解生词的含义,故事的情节.这是少儿英语中常用的方法,也试用于成人.
2. 习惯于使用英-英字典而不是英-汉字典会起相当重要的作用.
3. 加强听力训练,尤其是听用英语解释英语的课程讲解.
4. 如果没有机会拥有封闭的语言环境的话, 就最好尝试一下自我封闭语言环境的创造与训练.如:强迫自己在一周内所有要表达的话,全部用英语表达.只要你能坚持一周,效果就相当明显,而无论你所表达的英语有多糟!.
(11).Oral English has its own features, but it is closely combined with other aspects of English, for example, writing may make oral English precise and accurate.
口语虽自有特色,但与英语的其它方面紧密相连.比如,经常练习写作,可使口语精密,准确.
转自考试吧
Joke of Today
Best Reward
A naval officer fell overboard. He was rescued by a deck hand.
The officer asked how he could reward him.
"The best way, sir," said the deck hand, "is to say nothing about
it. If the other fellows know I'd pulled you out, they'd chuck me in."
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这是博客新开的【话题讨论区】，大家可以针对给出的话题谈谈自己的看法，以锻炼大家的语言组织能力。
【话题讨论】回帖要求：
使用中英双语来回答或单纯用英语回答，篇幅不限，但至少包含一个完整的句子；如果某个单词词组不会写，建议大家采取在群里问询、给我留言、查询词霸、查询英语新闻等各种方式寻求答案，相信只要努力，必有所收获。
热心的朋友可以将生活中的有趣话题推荐给我们，希望我们可以共同将这个板块建设好，共同提高大家的英语水平。
Today's topic:
I don't know whether it's the right way to talk about death here.
I just learnt that one of my classmates died. To be honest, I felt blue, for his youth and sorrow. When reportas came into me that he passed away, they weren't taken seriously, for I thought it was a lie. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, I couldn't help myself being sad, especially after another friend confirmed the news.
In fact, we weren't that familiar,because I was not so active in the university that I could't make close friends with isolated others. But we are still classmates, at least I'm convinced that I am the evidence he was alive and among us.
After graduation, we grow up, and have to face all kinds of things inevitably. What life has given us is not only the happiness and joy,but also the pain and the lost. No one can get everything as you want, for it's the cold rule in the world. If you would rather choose the other side than show your smile to the world, who can save you from the hell?
I want to know if you have had the same situation? When someone you really cared about left the world forever, what did you do?
Anyway, I wish you in a good journey, my friend.
Best wishes
今日话题：
不知道死亡算不算一个沉重的话题
近日得知，一位大学同学身亡，心里很不是滋味。其实我并不是一个长袖善舞的女孩，恰巧那位男同学又有点孤僻，所以大学四年我们也并未有所交集，只是在听到这个噩耗的一霎那，还是有些心酸。
毕业了，长大了，每个人都不可避免的面临一些好的坏的事情。生活给予我们的，不单单是幸福还有失落、痛苦和彷徨。大家对这位同学的离去唏嘘不已，可是却不约而同的表示无能为力，当一个人不想自我拯救的时候，即使天使来了，又能改变什么呢？
不知道你是不是也曾经面临过亲人或朋友离去的情况？还记得当时你的反应吗？
无论如何，逝者已矣，祝福他们一路走好，希望在另一个世界有你们希翼的幸福！
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