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  • The Column Tapes

    魏明;

    <正> The natural born killers waited until the parentswere asleep upstairs, before heading downto the basement to put on their show. The firstvideotape is almost unbearable to watch. Thesevideos, they predict, will be shown all around theworld one day-once they have produced theirmasterpiece and everyone wants to know how, andwhy. Harris and Klebold have an inventory of theirenumenical hatred: all "niggers, spics, Jews, gays,

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  • Some Kids Are Orchids

    James Garbarino;魏明;

    <正> Most of us think we know thekind of kid who becomesa killer, and most of the time we'reright. Boys commit about 85% ofall youth homicides, and in thosecases about 90% conform to apattern in which the line from badparenting and bad environment tomurder is usually clear. Through my work. I seethese boys and young men in the courtroom andin prison with depressing regularity. Their livesstart with abuse, neglect and emotional deprivation

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  • Thank Heavens for Brussels

    永风;

    <正> The opening of borders and markets inthe European Union has turned into abonanza for organised crime. Cross-efficient if the EU is to bring down crime Crime is increasingly international, andit is a big business. The United Nations1999 Human Development Report estimatesthat the global turnover of criminal

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  • 007 Movies

    宋云峰;

    <正> 6.On Her Majesty's Secret Service(1969). In the6th 007 movie. Bond is officially instructed to end hispursuit of Stavro Blofeld. but he surrenders his "licenseto kill" in order to continue his own personal search forBlofeld in Portugal. There he meets and marries thedoomed Tracy Draco. the daughter of the boss of a crimesyndicate. She helps Bond locate and penetrateBlofeld's impregnable Swiss mountain-top fortresswhere he is planning to sterilize the universe unless heis granted amnesty for all his past crimes.

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社会与文化

  • Monarchy at the Crossroads

    John Hay;宋云峰;

    英国王室历史悠久,举世闻名。但是,在新的千年里,英国王室是保持老样子还是进行变革以适应新情况?这是很多人从戴安娜王妃1997年去世时就开始关心的问题。

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短篇小说

  • THE LEGACY

    VIRGINIA WOOLF;君泽;

    Angela死了,而她的丈夫可能是最后一个知道她是自杀的。英国小说家沃尔芙笔下的这一家庭悲剧揭示的远非情感问题。

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语法·词汇

  • 漫谈英语中的拉丁词

    孟臻;

    <正> 大家可能会接触到这样一个单词:transatlantic(横渡大西洋的)。该词的前缀trans-源于拉丁语,有across,beyond,through的意思。相同前缀的常用词还有transform(转变),transcend(超出),translate(翻译),transmit(传送),transplant(移植),transport(运输)等等。我们可能还会碰到一个拉丁语的输入词缀semi-(半),它也可以作许多词的前缀,如semicolon(分号),semicircle(半圆)等。在科技英语中,来自拉丁语的前缀词更是随处可见,俯拾即是,如mal(bad),micro(small),multi(much),ultra(beyond)等。拉丁语的构词后缀也有很强的派生能力。由这类后缀构成的词的特征是以able,ible,al,ive和ium等拼写结尾的词语。如ium常用

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  • Feel like的含义及用法

    孙玉莲;

    <正> 在教学过程中我遇见过这样一个句子,"...When I got off the plane. I took one big deepbreath of the smog-filled air, my eyes began towater, I began to sneeze. and I felt like a new managain."我一下飞机,便深深地吸了一大口满是烟雾的空气,我的双眼开始流泪,我开始打喷嚏,于是我觉得自己脱胎换骨换了个人似的。该句中feel like是英语口语中较常用的一个习语,有几种含义和用法,有时易与would like, feel like oneself等习语相混淆,本文拟介绍一下它的一些主要含义和用法及与这两个习语的区别,供读者学习时参考:

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海外传真

  • 海外传真(英文)

    Yang Ruo;

    <正> Dear Wang Mei: Recently I received a letter from an editor of the magazine Travel & Leisure Golf. At the beginning, itsaid, "Dear Mr Yang Ruo: Recently a friend of mine won the lottery. He's been buying tickets for years.and suddenly he got lucky. The same could happen to you now. except there's nothing for you to buy."Hecontinued ."Just return the tickets below by April 17. If any one contains a winning grand prize number,we'll announce that Ruo Yang gets $1,666,675.00 !" I could be a millionaire! I was tempted.So a meat pie could drop from the sky. I could choose if I want to take the money in lump sum cash-a single payment of $833.337.00(the tax

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对照阅读

  • 气候变化与人为因素

    彭萍;闫海英;William K. Stevens;

    <正> 地球大气层正在转暖,这种迹像日趋明显,这向人们提出了一个重大问题,即:地球变暖在多大程度上应归咎于人类的活动,又在多在程度上是自然原因引起的?科学家们正在寻求答案,但是进展缓慢。联合国设有关于气候变化的政府问专门小组,由这一领域一些公认的权威科学家组成。该小组断定:全球气候受到了"显而易见的人为影响"。目前,该专门小组又一次开展了对全球气候变化的全方位定期科学评估。一些专家认为,人类对气候的影响

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新书博览

  • 自然界的能量

    Jane Burion;Kim Taylor;杨晓洪;

    <正> Energy in nature comes in many different forms. Heat is aform of energy. A lot of heat energy comes from the sun.Heat can also come from a forest fire or, in much smallerquantities, from the warm body of a mouse. Light is anotherform of energy. It also comes from the sun and from the stars.Some animals and even plants produce small amounts of lightenergy. Radio waves and ultraviolet rays are other forms ofenergy. Then there is electricity, which is yet another sort of

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动手做

  • 能量无处不在

    <正> 有关能量的一些事情很难理解。能量不断地从一种形式转变为另一种形式,就像一位化装艺术家一样。当你自认为了解它的时候,它突然又变成了另一种完全不同的形式。但是有一点是肯定的:能量永远不会消失,同样,它也不会无端地产生。过去,人们认为能量和物质是两种完全不同的东西。现在我们知道,能量和物质是可以相互转换

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新词快揽

  • Keep-up English

    <正> II. WORD. FoRMATl0N WITH NEO-CLASSICALCOMBINING FORMS Most of the new words created in this way have to do withhigh tech development. 1. biobypass or bio-bypass([医]生物旁通术): the useof genes to trigger new blood vessel growth in treatment of heartdisease —Their hope was that the gene would make the musclecells produce a protein called VEGF for a week or so, and that theVEGF would spur the heart into growing its own new bloodvessels. It is a "biologic bypass" or "biobypass," in the words of

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语言·文化

  • 从英语谚语看英美人对金钱的看法

    罗德喜;

    <正> 《朗曼现代英语词典》(Longman Modern EnglishDictionary)给谚语(proverb)作了这样一个解释,说它是"一种广为流传的表达人们智慧的简短格言,它语言凝练,常具有鲜明的形象和一定的韵律,易于记忆。"(a brieffamiliar maxim of folk wisdom, usually compressed in form,often involving a bold image and frequently a jingle thatcatches the memory)。《牛津现代高级英汉双解辞典》(Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current Englishwith Chinese Translation)上的解释为"民间流传的简洁的警世格言"(popular saying, with words of advice or

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  • 鼻子趣谈

    刘向红;

    <正> 鼻子作为脸部的五官之一,其作用是用于呼吸和嗅气味。然而,它也可以为脸部增加美感或表现出个性化的特征。西拉诺·德·贝尔热拉克(Cyrano de Bergerac)曾说过,一个大鼻子可显示出伟人的特点,即有胆识、谦恭、充满智慧、具有男子汉的气概。而一个著名的女诗人曾希望自己有两个鼻子来闻玫瑰花的芳香。法国哲学家,布莱斯·帕斯卡(Blaise Pascal)曾对克娄巴特拉(公元前51年——公元前31年埃及女王)的鼻子作过有趣的评论。他说,如果克娄巴特拉的鼻子当时若短了一些,整个世界的面貌会不同。因此,现在人们常用Cleopatra's Nose(克娄巴特拉的鼻子)来比喻历史发展的偶然性。由此可见,鼻子的作用是举足轻重的。在英语语言文化中,鼻子带来了丰富的联想。人们用鼻子来表达他们的情感,如愤怒、骄

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  • IT MAKES YOU THINK

    丹丹;

    <正> The ship was nearly ready to leaveLondon, and a lot of people in it werewalking about. They were askingquestions and looking for their rooms. In one of the larger rooms of the shiptwo men sat quietly. They were having adrink. All their bags and other things werein their rooms. "Are you going far?" asked one ofthem, a doctor. "Egypt," said the other, a writer. "Andyou?" "India." Through the windows the doctorcould see some of the big buildings which

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留学英国

  • 英国人谈“天”

    邹力;

    <正> 你知道吗,为什么英国人总是以谈天为话题开头?除了避免谈及涉及个人隐私的话题,伤害他人感情的原因外,在英国的亲身体验使我找到了另外的答案。原来,英国地处大西洋东北部,气候温暖湿润,多雨雾,日照较少。英国的气候变化多端,风雨交加是"家常饭",雨中行更是"小菜一盘",尤其在冬春季节,阳光明媚的日子很少,连续几个晴天就会使人感到极不寻常,兴奋的人们就会纷纷走出门户,享受阳光。所以谈"天"成为英国人生活中的一个重要话题。

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考试辅导

  • CET中的倒装

    董晓波;

    <正> 英语句子的一般语序为"主语部分+谓语部分"。如果把谓语放在主语的前面,我们称之为倒装,倒装分完全倒装和部分倒装。把谓语部分完全放到主语前称为完全倒装,把助动词或情态动词放在主语之前,我们称之为部分倒装。纵观历年CET考题,"倒装"是常考的项目。本文对有关"倒装"的试题进行有关的总结和归纳。文中绝大部分直接取自历次CET考试真题。一.代词neither,nor,no more用于后面分句句首,但前面分句必须是否定句,且后面分句不仅用倒装结构,而且(包括助动词)必须和前句一致。so作句首的分句前面须是肯定句。 1.否定形式:neither(nor)+be,have,助动词或情态动词+主语

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翻译园地

  • “巧妇难为无米之炊”的翻译

    王青;

    <正> "巧妇难为无米之炊"这句谚语在中国几乎尽人皆知,但要译成恰当的英语却不是一件容易的事情。《实用汉英词典》给出的译文是: 1.Even a clever housewife cannot cook a mealwithout rice. 2.One cannot make bricks without straw. 《现代汉英词典》给出的译文是: 1.The cleverest housewife can't cook a mealwithout rice. 2.One can't make bricks without straw. 3.You cannot make an omelet without breakingan egg. 《中国翻译》98年第2期第27页也提供了两个译文:

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  • 从汉语名言特点谈英语名言的汉译——兼评《世界名言集锦》一书的汉译

    石爱伟;白书婷;

    <正> 翻译的定义,最完整到位的莫过于现代翻译家EugeneA.Nida博士给出的了:Translation consists in reproducingin the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of thesource language message, first in terms of meaning and secondlyin terms of style. (所谓翻译,是指从语义到文体上在译语中用最切近而且最自然的对等语再现原语的信息。)我国翻译家严复提出的"信、达、雅"翻译三原则,给译者指出了方向,同时也提出了要求。故而林语堂译《浮生六记》后叹曰"译事难矣",鲁迅先生在论及翻译时也曾況过"为求一字,绕室终日"的话。难则难矣,然而不同文化的交流,仍离不开广大翻译工作者的不懈努力。虽然翻译界一向有"翻译无理论"一说,然而倘若我们细加研究起来,却会发觉其

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有问必答

  • 英语用法问答A~Z

    刘承沛;

    <正> need & require ●问:The electric shaver needs repairing. 改写成Theelectric shaver requires to be repaired. 行不行? ◆答:require虽与need同义,但它的用法与need有别,一般不用不定式作宾语。遇到这种疑难问题时,查阅带例句的英一英词典是可以解决的。手头的一本词典给了几个例句,抄录如下: This suggestion requires careful thought. The floor requires washing. His health requires that he (should) go to bed early. 唯独没有require to do这样的例子。但是,require作为demand的同义词,在被动语态的句子里,是可以跟不定式的,例如:

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悠闲读物

  • Crossword

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  • A Load of old Rubbish

    张晓光;

    <正> Miss Darby was one of those people who never threwanything away. 'You never know when you might need it.'was one of her favorite sayings. She lived alone in a largeVictorian house across the road from us. Although I neverwent into her house. I knew it was full of valuable things:antique furniture, Persian carpets and so on. She loved art;every inch of her walls was taken up by paintings. I canremember my father saying that she was 'a Staffordshire

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  • Two of a kind

    刘星;

    <正> I did not believe two people could be thesame. Then l met Dick Stone. I met Stone in a shop. He was buying anewspaper and I was standing next to him. I couldnot see his face, but the girl in the shop could. She looked at Stone and then she lookedat me. 'Are you brothers?' she asked. Then Stone turned and I saw his face. Itwas my face. His hair and his face were the sameas mine. He laughed. 'Did we come out of the samebox?" he asked. He gave me his hand. Tm DickStone.' he said. ‘I’m happy to meet you.' I told him my name. ‘This has never happened to me before,' hesaid. 'And it won't happen again. I can't believe

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  • Not Copied

    小乐;

    <正> In May 1934, some passengers in a ship crossingthe Atlantic Ocean discovered that there was anelephant on board. This started a discussion aboutelephants, and the discussion developed into anargument. The loudest voice was Robinson's: heseemed to know everything about elephants, andindeed about most things. 'My dear Canning,' he said to a painter who wason his way to London, 'I know what I'm talking about.I've shot elephants myself and examined their mouths.Indian and African elephants have different kinds ofteeth. I could write a book on elephants.'

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习作评改

  • My Hometown

    郭棲庆;

    <正> We strolled along the wide and flat cement-block street lit by the shiningmoon. "please comehere quickly, and taste these delicious roast pork slices!""It's cheap,really...let's agree How about 10 Yuan?" Like the others, we would surrounded by peddlers, pushed and shovedin all directions. We feel conscience-smitten if we refused the smiling facesand hospitable greetings of the peddlers. We sit down at an outdoor streettable, covered (?) a pure white tablecloth, to have a second supper.

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休闲篇

  • 休闲篇

    <正> Typing Most of the student at the boardingschool are more computer literate than theteacher. So she was surprised to find onesophomore writing a term paper on anelectric typewriter. In a reminiscent mood she said. "WhenI was in school nay typewriter wasn't evenelectric." The student looked up in shock andasked. "Do you mean it was battery-operated?"

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有奖提问

  • CUP有奖提问

    刘承沛;

    <正> ●问:(安徽繁昌刘青)在外研社出版的学生英语文库《简爱》中,第156页第7段有这样一句话:Mrs. Fairfax's room andyours are the nearest to master's; but Mrs. Fairfax said she heardnothing; when people get elderly, they sleep heavy.句中为什么用elderly而不用old?又elder已是形容词,为什么用elderly? ◆答:elderly是形容词,和old同义。在讲人的年龄大时用old不客气,用elderly就客气些。这有些像汉语里不说"老"而说"年纪大"。讲物的新旧,一般用old而不用elderly,但是也可

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二十世纪名人走廊

  • Isadora Duncan: American Dancer

    江风;

    <正> "I spent long days and nightsin the studio, seeking that dancewhich might be the divineexpression of the human spiritthrough the medium of the body'smovement. For hours l wouldstand quite still, my two handsfolded between my breast.covering the solar plexus... I wasseeking and finally discovered thecentral spring of all movement, the

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  • 英语专家如是说

    李赋宁;

    <正> ★目前我国知识界的英语听、说能力已有很大的提高,但英文写作水平仍不能令人满意。我在两年前曾读过美国一流杂志《纽约人》(The New Yorker)的印度专号,介绍印度作家和印度各行各业的专家用英文写的作品和文章的片断,包括诗歌、散文、评论以及科技、医药、法律等方面的报导等。其中有些文章简直可与当代英、美优秀作家的英文写作技能相比美,有的甚至超过。我一向佩服林语堂、韩素音等人的英文写作,但是像他们这样的英文高手在我国人当中毕竟太少,而今日的印度却涌现出众多这样的

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  • The Coming E-Commerce Boom

    Alan Reynolds;侯毅凌;

    20世纪末诞生的互联网是一场意义难以估量的信息革命,它几乎具有渗透和影响人类生活众多方面的特征和潜力。在它催生的产儿中,电子商务无疑是最具发展前途的。在发达国家,社会许多层面在很大程度上已经为形形色色的".com"(com即代表commerce)所操纵。本文作者是美国Hudson Institute的高级经济研究员,他在这里介绍了电子商务的一些特点,它的发展趋势以及它对经济将会产生的影响。

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  • Spirit of Valentine's Day Can Last All Year

    侯毅凌;

    说起来,中国农历七月七的"鹊桥会"算得上是我们本土的"情人节"。但这个传说总是缠着点悲欢离合,情侣们对这个日子的冷淡大概是有点潜意识的吧。西方的圣瓦伦丁节倒是风和日丽的明快,趁着西风东渐,带着玫瑰、温馨卡和巧克力喜气洋洋地栖落到了中国情侣的爱情枝头上,2月14日便是一片燕语呢喃了。其实,不管是哪儿的节,只要对爱是祝福,乐得你又喜欢,拿来主义就是。不过情人节一年过一天,未免有点像T形台上模特的时装。天天过情人节自然会叫人幸福得一塌糊涂,但总是不太现买。那么一年其它364天里,爱的生活怎样才能保持玫瑰的记忆呢?

    2000年07期 No.343 7页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 99K]
  • INTERNET SITE OF THE MONTH

    废石;

    在这个Hi-tech的社会,我们每天耳闻目睹的是网络文化。请紧跟上时代步伐,走进网络天地,让生活更加缤纷多彩。

    2000年07期 No.343 29页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 582K]
  • Searching the Web with Yahoo!

    宋德富;

    □□在网上要找到您所需要的东西除了采用浏览的办法外,还有一个比较快捷的方法是搜索。在搜索框内击入你所要找的关键单词或短语,就很有可能出现大量的与之匹配的网页。如何减少网页的搜索结果又能找到您所需要的东西,这就是我们应该掌握的艺术。

    2000年07期 No.343 35-37页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 421K]
  • Illustrated Idioms

    Christine Root;Karen Blanchard;

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    2000年07期 No.343 38页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 45K]
  • Biological Clocks

    <正> A High School class in Floridaconsisted of a particularly well-motivatedgroup of juniors. Students felt free to askquestions on any Subject that concernedthem. One afternoon a girl raised her hand and

    2000年07期 No.343 56页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 768K]
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