2009/10/30 题目

1.    That patient is only too glad to go home.

2.    今天我们要学的词组是ramp up。 Ramp是斜面、斜坡，也指登机的梯子。作为动词，ramp up有加强、增加的意思。比如加强机场保安 -- "ramp up airport security."

还比如日本公司为满足市场需求而增加生产等离子平板电视，"Japanese companies ramped up their output of LCD flat screen televisions." 政府加紧批评联邦法官对恐怖主义案件的处理方法， "The government ramped up its criticism of how federal judges handled terrorism cases."

好了，今天的作业是：中国加强了与外国的文化交流(用过去时）。用英语怎么说呢

3.    翻译: 我们非常乐意为你做推荐。

翻译: No sweat！

2009/10/29/题目

1.    翻译: Charlie dances with Jenny only once in a blue moon.

2.       Will: ladies,I... I don't even know what to say. You did such a good job. I don't know what you guys did, but whatever it was, keep doing it.
_____(我们的特邀评委要难以抉择咯)_____.

影视来源：《欢乐合唱团》

3.       翻译: Ford is on the wrong side of 66.

4.    今天我们要学的词组是rally。 Rally的意思是集合、集会。成千上万的美国人在首都华盛顿集会，抗议最高法院34年前的一项裁决导致堕胎合法化， "Tens of thousands of people rallied at an anti-abortion march in Washington."

Rally也有病情好转的意思。比如有人生病了，"He had a bad night but rallied by morning," 他夜里病得很厉害，早上病情好转。人们也用rally来形容股票价格止跌回稳， "Tech stocks rallied due to Microsoft's strong earnings." 科技股因为微软公司大幅盈利而有所回升。

好了，今天的作业是：他们要举行一个集会。用英语怎么说呢

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 I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
----Albert Einstein

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.——Harriet Beecher Stowe

Things are not always what they have seen，the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what he’s carefully been hidden.
---- Phaedrus

What was silent in the father speaks in the son. And often I’ve found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
----Friedrich Nietzsche

The minute people fall in love, they become liars.
----Harlan Ellison

No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
----Sigmund Freund

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
----Stuart Chase

You don’t pay a prostitute for sex. You pay her to leave afterwards.
----Dashiell Hammett

Light thinks it travels faster than anything. But it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first and is waiting for it.
---- Terry Pratchett

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.
----Flannery O’Connor

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.——Oscar Wilde

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.——Plato

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