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最后发表： 采薇子
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许多人都相信，一旦他们达到了自己所设定的某个特定目标，他们就会开心、快乐。然而事实往往是，当你到达彼岸时，你还是不知足、不满意，而且又有了新的彼岸--新的幻想和憧憬。由于你总是疲于追逐一个又一个的彼岸，你从未真正欣赏、珍惜你已经拥有的一切。不安于现状的欲望人皆有之，由来已久，但重要的是要对它保持清醒的头脑。一方面，你的生活因为梦想和渴望而更加精彩。另一方面，这些欲望又使你越来越不懂得珍惜和享受现在拥有的生活。假如你能懂得感恩，学会知足，你就接近实现生活在现实中提出的要求。

　　感恩之心感恩是指你感激、珍惜自己当前所拥有的一切以及所处的人生境遇。心存感恩，你的心灵就充满愉悦，你就能真正领会人生路上的种种体验。如果你努力把眼光锁定在此时此刻，你就能感受它的美妙之处。

　　感恩之心需要经常加强。许多方法可以培育感恩之心，你不妨试试以下几种：

　　1．设想如果你失去了你现在所拥有的一切，你的生活将会怎么样。它肯定会使你回想起原来你是多么喜欢和珍视这一切。

　　2．每天都列出那些值得你感激的事物，那样你就能时时刻刻意识到自己的幸运。每天都要这么做，尤其是当你觉得好像没有什么可感激的时候。另外你也可以每天临睡前花几分钟感恩自己所拥有的一切。

　　3．花时间帮助那些没有你那么幸运的人，这样你也许会对生活有正确的认识。

　　其实，你选择何种方法去学会感恩，这无关紧要，真正重要的是你应该有意识地努力去欣赏和珍视你现在所拥有的一切，这样你就可以更快乐地享受你目前的生活。

　　知足常乐贫穷是人类最普遍的恐惧之一。许多人担心自己的所需所求不够，所以他们总是孜孜以求有朝一日能心满意足，别无他求。

　　艾伦和琳达都来自贫苦的工人家庭，都一直梦想着过上"好日子"。他们早早地成了家，然后就开始为他们共同的致富目标奋斗。他们拼命工作了好几年，终于积攒了一笔钱，从两居室搬到了一套坐落在最高档街区的富丽堂皇的七居室大房子。此后，他们费尽心思去积聚那些他们认为是代表富足的东西：当地惟一的一家乡村俱乐部的会员资格、豪华汽车、名牌服装，以及上流社会的朋友。但是，不论他们积聚了多少，似乎永远难以满足。他们俩谁都无法消除小时侯对贫穷的刻骨铭心的恐惧。其实，他们就需要学会知足常乐这一课。1987年，股市遭受重创，艾伦和琳达损失惨重。祸不单行，一场莫名其妙的昂贵的官司又耗尽了他们的一大笔积蓄，这一切使他们陷入了经济困境。他们不得不变卖家产，最后他们丢掉了乡村俱乐部的会员资格，失去了汽车和房子。艾伦和琳达努力奋斗了好几年才从困境中走出来。现在他们的生活毫不奢华，但是他们是自己生活的主宰，幸福而又知足。只有在这时，他们才掂量着那些尚未失去的东西，如稳固相爱的婚姻、健康的身体、可靠的收入、真正的朋友等等，他们终于认识到，真正的富足不是来自财富的积聚，而是来自对所拥有的一切的珍视。

　　贫穷感可以归因于"精神空虚综合症"，即我们试图用身外之物来填补内心的空缺。但是，就像拼图游戏一样，你不能把本来不属于那个地方的东西硬塞进去。任何身外之物、情感、关爱和关注都无法填补内心的空虚。我们拥有的已经足够，因此我们应该满足于内心世界的丰富与充实。

最后发表： 采薇子
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当他告诉我他要离开的时候，我感觉自己就像花瓶裂成了碎片，跌落在茶色瓷砖地板上。他一直在说话，解释着为什么要离开，说什么这是最好的，我可以做得更好，都是他的错，与我无关。虽然这些话我已经听上好几千遍了，可每次听完都让我很受伤，或许在这样巨大的打击面前没有人能做到无动于衷。
　

　　他走了，我尝试着继续过自己的生活。我烧开水，拿出红色杯子，看着咖啡粉末一点点地落入骨灰瓷的杯子里。这正是我自己的鲜活写照，不断地往下掉咖啡粉末，却从来没有真正地泡成一杯咖啡。

　　水开了，水壶发出警报声，我假装没有听见。迈克的离去也是一样，突如其来，并且无可挽回。要知道，我宁愿忍受分与不分的煎熬，也不愿意以这样的方式被宣判“死刑”。想着想着我就哑然失笑，自己竟然为一杯咖啡有如此多的人生感怀，我自己一定是老了。

　　可是镜子里回瞪着我的那个女孩还是那么年轻啊！明目皓齿，充满了前途与希望，光明的未来在向她招手。没关系的，反正我也从来没有爱过迈克。何况，生命中还有比爱更重要的东西在等待着我，我对自己坚持说。我将咖啡罐的盖子盖好，也将所有关于迈克的记忆尘封起来。

　　那天晚上，出乎意料的是，他并没有入到我的梦中。在梦里，我飞过田野和森林，俯瞰着大地。突然间，我掉了下来……醒来后才发现原来自己被猎人打中了，但是令我坠落的不是他的子弹，而是他的灵魂。我后来才渐渐明白，原来迈克就是那个使我坠落的猎人，而我是那只渴望飞翔的小鸟。到了第二天晚上，我仍然做了类似的梦，但是猎人不见了，我一直在自由地飞翔，直到遇上另外一只小鸟和我比翼双飞。我开始意识到，总有那么一只鸟，那么一个人在前面等我，这个人可能是我的爱人，可能只是朋友，但一定是知我懂我的人，这令我感觉如释重负。我想起曾经觉得自己像花瓶一样裂开了，才意识到原来自己已经把自己修理好了。迈克只是我生命过程中的小小过客，他仅仅了解我的表面，他仅仅是我生命中的小小一部分。

最后发表： eva_kong
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seafood, like oysters, mussels... I love seafood.so do I.
On Chiristmas eve, we went to woolworths to shopping. We got half price on small lobster, 7.2 each after discounted. So excited to get big discount!

最后发表： lilianaya
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多谢楼上各位。心里有谱了。

最后发表： eva_kong
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解释得真好，明白了，希望记得住，哈哈！

最后发表： 平一指
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意大利英语更好听，颤音不断哦！

最后发表： jessi
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more humorous than ours....haha

can find the fast meantally changing

最后发表： xblues
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最后发表： 泠泠
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很多阿三说话是不张嘴的~~~····好像含着一颗话梅。。。

最后发表： ritz
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This is my favorite:


and find more on Flickr Chinglish Pool

最后发表： xblues
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自己看他们网站啊

最后发表： 得分后卫
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gold digger?

最后发表： appleuu
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受教了~

最后发表： ritz
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rat race 是这个


from wikipedia article

最后发表： FaFa
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哦。明白了,谢谢！

[ 本帖最后由 FaFa 于 8-1-2009 20:27 编辑 ]

最后发表： melguy
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The boss is CEO now, before he was group executive.
Good writing, should be that way.

最后发表： 采薇子
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  I'd like you guys to come around, the more the better ~

最后发表： Vanelita
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praying for peace...

最后发表： jlcgydzq
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it was the age of waiting

最后发表： bigben23
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very very 3Q!  very very useful!

最后发表： barry2008
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我买了1个leadtek winfast dtv dongle gold，通过将它插到Desktop上，收看带有字幕的数字电视节目。
但现在的问题是，使用这个设备自带的antenna，好像搜索不到台。

这里有使用这个牌子的TZ吗？请介绍1下经验。

谢谢！

最后发表： belle_jia
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每个学校都有master by research的link，推荐仔细阅读。

最后发表： Widjaja
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这说法有问题吗？有时我也用呀。从每遇到问题。（场景--〉麦当劳）

最后发表： migao21
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如果你用数字接收器或者tv-tuner， 通过天线收的电视节目也是数码的，有字幕的。 当然数字信号要求稍微高点， 一般tv tuner外接天线信号效果比较好。

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv-guide/
你可以通过以上，选哪个地区，选free to air。这里面的频道都有数字频道。

最后发表： 月是故乡明
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谢谢分享！

最后发表： canberraharbour
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It depends. If you have many change to speak, read, listen, and write, you should improve your English and of course your IELTS concequenctly. But if you were living and working in a Chinese enviroment like me, I have to regretly say no way.

I met lots of people who can speak good English without going abroad. You can not image it.

最后发表： MacroJ
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譬如想剪某一种发型，要不要把头发左右分啊，之类的

最后发表： fredliu
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There are a lot of meanings with "get hold of".
But here it definitely means "contact", "reach"

最后发表： Sally_Zoe
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haha....hehe...hahaho

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1hyMHJKj3s

最后发表： xblues
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JERUSALEM – Israel's bruising war on the Islamic militants who control Gaza has moved online, where sites like YouTube and Facebook are the new battlegrounds.
                        Israelposted video of its attacks on militants firing rockets over the pastfive days on a new YouTube channel to try to show the world the threatagainst it.
                        YouTube temporarily yankedthe clips on Tuesday after viewers, apparently supporters of Hamas,flagged it as objectionable and asked that it be taken down. Thevideo-sharing Web site restored the video a few hours later, labelingit inappropriate for minors.
                        Supporters of Gaza's Hamasrulers, meanwhile, have posted images of the devastating Israelioffensive on both YouTube and Facebook and on blogs, uploading imagesof the carnage and suffering in the tiny seaside territory.
                        Themilitants themselves regularly update their Web sites in Arabic andEnglish. In addition, they broadcast images of masked, uniformedfighters on Hamas TV, which was bombed by Israeli warplanes butcontinues to broadcast from a mobile unit.
                        "Theblogosphere and the new media are basically a war zone" in a battle forworld opinion, an Israeli military spokesman, Maj. Avital Leibovich,said Wednesday.
                        Gideon Doron, formerchairman of the Israeli agency that oversaw the privatization of thecountry's television and radio services, said today's warfare includesfighting through the media.
                        "Many of the victories of modern warfareare mediated by the media," Doron said. "We have Internet and all kindsof modern communication, and the Israeli military apparently decidedthat it has to broadcast its message through these tools."
                        Leibovichsaid the new YouTube channel and a new blog the military is launchingare an important part of Israel's attempt to explain its actions abroad.
                        One of the aerial surveillance videos Israelposted shows about a dozen figures that the military says are militantsloading rockets onto a truck. They are eventually targeted by anair-launched missile and disappear in a white cloud as the truckexplodes.
                        "We were saddened on Dec. 30,2008 when YouTube took down some of our exclusive footage," themilitary wrote on its YouTube channel page. "Fortunately, due toblogger and viewer support, YouTube has returned the footage theyremoved."
                        In the past, YouTube has beenpressed to take down videos depicting violence. The site has noautomatic review, however, so anything posted runs until a viewer flagsit and asks that it be taken down.
                        YouTube,which is owned by Google Inc., said it counts on community members toflag content that violates the community's guidelines.
                        "Wereview all flagged content quickly, and if we find that a video doesviolate the guidelines, we remove it, on average in under an hour,"Victoria Grand, Head of Policy at YouTube, said in a statement.
                        "Occasionally,a video flagged by users is mistakenly taken down. When this is broughtto our attention, we review the content and take appropriate action,which may include restoring videos that had been removed."
                        YouTube said it would not comment on individual videos or answer questions on the Israeli postings.
                        In May, Sen. Joseph Lieberman complained that the process was flawed because al-Qaida recruitment videos could still be seen on the site.
                        The Israeli military says its clips have attracted more than 230,000 views since going online Monday.
Israel launched the air assault on Saturday in response to rocket barrages launched from Gaza at Israeli towns. Hundreds of airstrikes across the Palestinian territory have caused huge damage and Gaza officials say some 390 Palestinians have been killed. Hamas says some 200 were members of its security forces, and the U.N. says at least 60 were civilians.
Militant rockets have reached farther into Israel than ever before, killing three Israeli civilians and a soldier.
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On the Web:
[url=http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_mi_ea/storytext/ml_israel_palestinians_youtube/30411652/SIG=112dj9h87/*http://www.youtube.com/idfnadesk]http://www.youtube.com/idfnadesk[/url]
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Associated Press Business Writer Andrew Vanacore contributed to this report from New York.

最后发表： maaboo
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多谢楼上各位，看来印尼这个MM的英语也不咋地。

最后发表： 小波
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谢谢分享！

最后发表： 采薇子
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  You are welcome
plz give out whatever u want to say

最后发表： 采薇子
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1. The Asian financial turmoil accelerated the pace of this correction.
亚洲金融风暴正好加快了这个调整过程。

2. The regional financial turmoil has resulted in a drastic adjustment of property prices.
亚洲金融风暴令物业价格大幅调整。

3. I will talk about the Asian financial turmoil and its impact on Hong Kong.
我也想谈谈亚洲金融风暴和这次风暴对香港所造成的影响。

4. Let me now talk about the Asian financial turmoil and how it has affected Hong Kong.
现在让我谈谈亚洲金融风暴和香港在这次风暴中所受到的影响。

5. The Asian financial turmoil which indeed has become increasingly global has given us additional degree of instability.
亚洲金融风暴使本港的情况更不稳定，事实上，这场金融风暴已经影响了全世界。

6. Hong Kong's economy has been greatly affected by the turmoil around us.
香港的经济一直大大受到区内金融风暴的影响。

7. The Asian financial turmoil has exposed the weaknesses of our rather narrow economic structure.
亚洲金融风暴暴露了香港经济结构比较狭窄的弱点。

8. With the turmoil around us there is obviously a sense of urgency in this.
我们深受金融风暴影响，显然急需稳定的局面。

9. As the Asian financial crisis swept through the region, our economy came under tremendous strain.
亚洲金融风暴席卷整个区域，香港的经济因而出现逆转。

10. In recent weeks, the financial turmoil in Asia has preoccupied the mind of many people.
亚洲近数星期的金融风暴，惹来不少人的关注。

最后发表： 采薇子
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最后发表： ritz
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南桥是个很有才华的美国新移民  

最后发表： Flytoau
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有没有TZ可以提供一些网站可以下载带有英文字幕的英文电影或连续剧啊？

最后发表： MacroJ
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这几个兵毁了……

最后发表： farawayee
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就是酒店之间日常的联络的邮件里常用的词汇都有什么啊？
商务英语的范围太广泛了，有很多东西基本都用不到。
因为想在短期内对这方面能有个了解，所以希望范围不要太大，尽量与酒店有关。

谢谢你对帖子的支持。

最后发表： 我爱猫眯
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Reporting from Dongguan, China -- Growing up in the Chinese countryside with only an elementary school education, Yang Yanjun had never heard of Christmas until she landed a job painting pink-cheeked cherubs to decorate trees.
But Christmas proved to be a miraculous holiday that would utterly transform her life. Over a decade, she worked in factories producing ornaments and toys that foreign children were told came from Santa's workshops. She earned up to $200 a month, unimaginable riches that allowed her to build a house for her family back home.  
Now the Christmas miracle has gone bust.
The financial meltdown that has thrown so many American families into crisis might be even worse on this side of the world. The precipitous drop in consumer demand has translated into a wave of factory closings that have spit millions of Chinese workers out into the ranks of the unemployed. The fallout is most obvious in Dongguan, a southern Chinese city that, despite its palm trees and sultry climate, may be the real-life North Pole.
Until recently, Dongguan had 3,800 toy factories, producing a staggering 30% of the world's toys. The Dongguan Trade Assn. estimates that 1,800 of them have closed or will close in the coming months.
The 37-year-old Yang lost her job making hairpieces for Barbie dolls in October, when Smart Union Toys abruptly closed down. A major supplier to Mattel Inc. and Disney Co. with 7,000 workers, it had been one of the largest employers in town. Now there are only a few security guards who watch over a courtyard strewn with empty toy boxes and soggy plush dolls, a scene looking like the morning after a Christmas party gone awry.
Most of the workers, migrants like Yang who came from central China, have gone home. Houses are empty, shops shuttered. The neighborhood looks like a ghost town. But Yang has stayed on looking for work, desperate for money to support her 13-year-old son and elderly parents who live near the city of Chongqing.
Every morning and every afternoon she goes out, walking past the padlocked gates hoping to find a factory still in business and perhaps hiring.
Notices are taped to some of the gates, but with too many people chasing too few jobs, employers are picky. The notices specify young workers with high school educations and computer skills. Some require that men be at least 5 feet 9 and women at least 5 feet 1. Height is one of a number of obsessions in the workplace here.
"No, nothing for somebody like me," says Yang, a ruddy-faced woman whose toothy smile stretches wide across her face, even as she peers at another notice saying job applicants must be younger than 30.

After the toy factory closed, she got a job at a shoe factory. But she was fired after five days when the boss realized she needed to wear eyeglasses. Then a job at a handbag factory lasted only 12 days before it closed because of a lack of orders.

"In the past, you didn't need skills to get hired. The factories just needed workers and they would take anybody," Yang said.

China has not released figures on job losses, but the influential magazine Caijing quoted an unnamed Labor Ministry official saying that 10 million migrant workers had lost jobs this year through November. Nearly 5 million of those workers had already returned to their hometowns.

Dongguan's residents, most of whom came from elsewhere to reap the rewards of the manufacturing boom, liken the situation to a wave that has spread around the globe.

"First, you had banking problems in the United States, then factories closed, and now we have lost our jobs. It is an economic tsunami that has now hit us," said Han Guoren, 24, a laid-off toy factory worker who was selling Santa Claus hats (salvaged, he said, from a closed factory) in downtown Dongguan.

The entire Pearl River Delta, the manufacturing hub that extends from Hong Kong to Shenzhen and Guangzhou, is suffering. But toys are particularly vulnerable. Even before the downturn, the industry was reeling from product recalls. Toys are almost entirely an export industry, with 90% of the product shipped overseas. Profit margins are tight and consumers fickle.

"Nobody is doing well at the moment, but toys are really hurting," said Christopher Devereux, a British business consultant whose company, China Savvy, is in Guangzhou. He says that many of the toy manufacturers, faced with rising costs and mounting losses, decided to pull out.

"This is a city of not only migrant workers, but migrant entrepreneurs," Devereux said. "They literally disappear into the night."

Even larger factories went poof. Smart Union employees had been working overtime to fill Christmas orders when they learned that the top managers had fled to Hong Kong. The municipal government had to fork out more than $2 million to pay the wages they were owed.

"Nobody could find the bosses," Yang said.
Other migrant workers were not so lucky. When their factories went bust, they were left without their final pay and without lodging, if they had been boarding in a company dormitory. In some cases, they lacked the money to get home.

"Let us help you go home," read giant red billboards around Dongguan erected by a private company that is helping migrants raise train fare.
If anything, industry insiders predict that next year will be worse. The orders for this Christmas season came in months before the impending financial debacle was obvious.
"Toys are a happiness business," said Leung Chung Ming, managing director of Lung Cheong International Holdings, a company with a large factory in Dongguan that specializes in remote-control toys. "If there is no good news, if the market situation is tough, people don't want to buy a $99 toy for their child."

The Chinese government has promised to take measures to spur domestic consumer spending, with the hope that it will help pick up the slack. But Chinese consumers are unlikely to bail out the beleaguered toy industry.
Although many Chinese have come to love Christmas, decorating trees and windows, piping the ubiquitous carols into elevators and stores, one thing they don't do is shop. The big consumer holiday here is the lunar New Year -- and parents buy clothing and shoes for their children, not toys.
"All these toys we make are for the foreign children," said 40-year-old Long Sunjun, who runs a small shop near the closed Smart Union factory. She says that even the children of the toy factory workers seldom were given toys other than squirt guns or balls.
"Chinese kids can make their own toys. Besides, they should be studying, not playing with toys."