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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 The Hand

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　手

　　过感恩节的真正意义并不在于收受他人给予我们的有形物质，

　　而是借此机会回馈他人，无论是如何的微小的付出。

　　[1]A Thanksgiving Day editorial『社论』in the newspaper told of a school teacher who asked her class of first graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback『吃惊；惊讶』with the picture Douglas handed in… a smile childishly drawn hand.

　　[1]感恩节那天，报纸刊登了一篇社论，其中讲到这样一个故事：有位小学一年级的老师叫班上的小朋友画出他们感恩的东西。这些孩子均来自贫苦家庭，所以她料想他们多半会画桌丰富的感恩节佳肴，外加一只香喷喷的火鸡。但看到道格拉斯的作品后，她惊讶不已，上面画了一只手！

　　[2]But whose hand? The class was captivated『迷惑；困惑』by the abstract『抽象的』image. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child. "A farmer," said another, "because he grows the turkeys." Finally when the others were at work, the teacher bent『弯腰；屈身』over Douglas's desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, Teacher," he mumbled『咕哝；含糊地说』.

　　[2]这是谁的手？班上的小朋友都兴致勃勃地开始臆测，"这一定是赐给我们食物的上帝的手。"一个小孩说道。"是农夫，他用这手养出火鸡。"另一个小孩也有意见。在一阵猜测后，小朋友们又跑回座位继续画画。这时老师走到道格拉斯身旁，弯下腰问他那是谁的手。"那是您的手，老师。"他怯怯地回答。

　　[3]She recalled that frequently at recess『课间休息』she had taken Douglas, a scrubby『身材矮小的』forlorn『孤独的』child by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone's Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.

　　[3]道格拉斯个头矮小，平时落落寡欢，但老师在下课时总会过去牵牵他的手。她常这样握孩童的手，但对道格拉斯而言，意义格外重大。也许过感恩节的真正意义并不在于收受他人给予我们的有形物质，而是借此机会回馈他人，无论是如何的微小的付出。

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　　　　　　　　　Does Anyone Want a Nice Clean Plate?

　　Peter was ten years old. One day his friend Paul said to him, "I'm going to have a birthday party on Saturday, Peter. Can you you come?"

　　Peter asked his mother, and she said, "Yes, you can go." She phoned Paul's mother to tell her.

　　Before Peter went to the party on Saturday afternoon, his mother said to him, "Now, Peter, don't forget to be polite. Don't ask for food. Wait until someone gives it to you."

　　"All right, Mom," Peter answered, and he went to Paul's house on his bicycle.

　　There were a lot of children at the party. They played together for an hour, and then Paul's mother gave them some food; but she forgot to give Peter any. He waited politely for a few minutes, and then he held his plate up in the air and said loudly, "Does anyone want a nice clean plate?"

　　　　　　　　　　　 有人要干净的盘子吗？

　　彼德十岁了。一天他的朋友保罗对他说："彼德，星期六我要举办生日宴会，你能来吗？"

　　彼德问母亲，母亲说："没问题，你去吧。"她还打电话通知了保罗的母亲。

　　星期六下午，彼德去赴宴。临行前，母亲对他说："彼德，别忘了礼貌。别主动要吃的，等别人拿给你。"

　　"好的，妈妈。"彼德回答。然后他骑着自行车去了保罗的家。

　　宴会上孩子很多，他们在一起玩了一个钟头。这里保罗的母亲给他们分发食品。但她忘了给彼德。彼德等了几分钟，然后把盘子举在空中，大声说："有人要干净的盘子吗？"

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　　Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella and she had two ugly step sisters who were very unkind who made her do all the hard work. She had to sweep the floors, do all the dishes, while they dressed up in fine clothes and went to lots of parties.

　　One day a special invitation arrived at Cinderella's house. It was from the royal palace. The king's only son was a truly handsome prince was going to have a grand ball. Three girls were invited to come. Cinderella knew she wouldn't be allowed to go to the ball. But the ugly sisters, ho ho ho, they were excited. They couldn't talk about anything else.

　　When the day of the ball came, they made such a fuss. Poor Cinderella had to rush about upstairs and downstairs. She fixed their hair in fancy waves and curls. She helped them put on their expensive new dresses. And she arranged their jewels just so. As soon as they had gone, Cinderella sat down by the fire and she said. "Oh I do wish I could go to the ball". The next moment, standing beside her was a lovely old lady with a silver wand in here hand. "Cinderella, she said " I am your fairy godmother and you shall go to the ball. But first you must go into the garden and pick a golden pumpkin, then bring me six mice from the mousetraps, a whiskered rat from the rat trap, and six lizards. You'll find the lizards behind the watering can.

　　So Cinderella fetched a golden pumpkin, six grey mice, a whiskered rate, six lizards. The fairy godmother touched them with her wand and the pumpkin became a golden coach, the mice became six grey horses, the rat became a coachman with the most enormous moustache, and the lizards became six footmen dressed in green and yellow, then the fairy godmother touched Cinderella with the wand and her old dress became a golden dress sparkling with jewels while on her feet was the prettiest pair of glass slippers ever seen. Remember said the fairy godmother you must leave the ball before the clock strikes twelve because at midnight the magic ends. "Thank you fairy godmother" said Cinderella and she climbed into the coach.

　　When Cinderella arrived at the ball she looked so beautiful that everyone wondered who she was! Even the ugly sisters. The Prince of course asked here to dance with him and they danced all evening. He would not dance with anyone else. Now Cinderella was enjoying the ball so much that she forgot her fairy godmothers warning until it was almost midnight and the clock began to strike. One. Two. Three. She hurried out of the ballroom. Four. Five. Six. As she ran down the palace steps one of her glass slippers fell off. Seven. Eight. Nine. She ran on toward the golden coach. Ten Eleven Twelve. Then there was Cinderella in her old dress. The golden pumpkin lay in her feet. And scampering down off down the road were six grey mice, a whiskered rat and six green lizards.. So Cinderella had to walk home and by the time the ugly sisters returned home was sitting quietly by the fire.

　　Now when Cinderella ran from the palace, the prince tried to follow her and he found the glass slipper. He said, "I shall marry the beautiful girl whose foot fits this slipper and only her. IN the morning the prince went from house to house with the glass slipper and every young lady tried to squeeze her foot into it. But it didn't' fit any of them.

　　At last the prince came to Cinderella's house. First one ugly sister tried to squash her foot into the slipper. But her foot was too wide and fat. Then the other ugly sister tried but her foot was too long and thin. Please said Cinderella, let me try. "The slipper won't fit you", said the ugly sisters. "You didn't go to the ball!" But Cinderella slipped her foot into the glass slipper and it fit perfectly. The next moment standing beside her was the fairy godmother. She touched Cinderella with the wand and there she was in a golden dress sparkling with jewels and on her feet was the prettiest pair of glass slippers ever seen. The ugly sisters were so surprised that, for once they couldn't think of anything to say. But the Prince knew what to say. He asked Cinderella to marry him.

　　And then there was a happy wedding. Everyone who had gone to the ball was invited, even the ugly sisters. There was wonderful food, lots of music and dancing. And the Prince of course danced every dance with Cinderella. He would not dance with anyone else.

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1、付帐(cash)：右手拇指、的食指和中指在空中捏在一起或在另一只手上作出写字的样子，这是表示在饭馆要付帐的手势。

2、"动脑筋"(use your brain)"机敏一点"(being clever)：用手指点点自己的太阳穴。

3、"傻瓜"(fool)：用拇指按住鼻尖摇动其四指，或十指分开。也常常食指对着太阳穴转动，同时吐出舌头，则表示所谈到的人是个"痴呆""傻瓜"。

4、"讲的不是真话"(lying)：讲话时，无意识地将一食指放在鼻子下面或鼻子边时，表示另人一定会理解为讲话人"讲的不是真话"难以置信。

5、自以为是(complacent assertion)；用食指往上鼻子，还可表示"不可一世"(overbearing)。

6、"别作声"(stopping-talking)：嘴唇合扰，将食指贴着嘴唇，同时发出"hush"嘘嘘声。

7、侮辱和蔑视(insulting and scorning)；用拇指顶住鼻尖儿，冲着被侮辱者摇动其它四指的鸡冠或手势。

8、赞同(agreement)：向上翘起拇指。

9、祝贺(congratulation)：双手在身前嘴部高度相搓的动作。

10、威胁(menace)：由于生气，挥动一只拳头的动作似乎无处不有。因受挫折而双手握着拳使劲摇动的动作。

11、"绝对不行"(absolutely not)：掌心向外，两只手臂在胸前交叉，然后再张开至相距一米左右。

12、"完了"(that's all)：两臂在腰部交叉，然后再向下，向身体两侧伸出。

13、"害羞"(shame)：双臂伸直，向下交叉，两掌反握，同时脸转向一侧。

14、打招呼(greeting)：英语国家人在路上打招呼，常常要拿帽子表示致意。现一般已化为抬一下帽子，甚至只是摸一下帽沿。

15、高兴激动(happiness and excitement)：双手握拳向上举起，前后频频用力摇动。

16、愤怒、急燥(anger and anxiousness)：两手臂在身体两侧张开，双手握拳，怒目而视。也常常头一扬，嘴里咂咂有声，同时还可能眨眨眼睛或者眼珠向上和向一侧转动，也表示愤怒、厌烦、急燥。

17、怜悯、同情(pity)：头摇来摇去，同里嘴里发出咂咂之声，嘴里还说"that's too bad."或"sorry to hear it."

18、"太古怪了"(too queer)：在太阳穴处用食指划一圆圈。

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　眼球身份证

Open Your Eyes And Let's See Who You Are

睁开你的眼睛，让我们瞧瞧你是谁

1. Inventors have developed a new way to identify people, using a machine that scans their eyeballs. Developed by IriScan, this new technology takes advantage of the fact that the iris of each person's eye is unique, and remains unchanged throughout a lifetime.

发明家已经开发出一种验明身分的新方法，使用的是一台扫描眼球的机器。这项由虹彩扫描公司开发的新技术，利用到一项事实：每个人眼球的虹膜独一无二，而且终其一生都不会改变。

2. The process will replace an older technology called retina identification, which compared the pattern of veins in the back of the eye. Used to control access to nuclear weapons, retina identification has never caught on with the public because it requires the user to put their eyeball right up against a lens. Iris scanning, on the other hand, works from a distance.

这项程序将取代称为网膜辨识的旧技术。网膜辨识比较的是眼睛后方血管的模式，曾被用来管制核子武器的操控权，但是它始终未能风行，因为使用者得把眼球凑到透镜上。虹膜扫描则可以在一定的距离之外操作。

3. The iris of the eye is photographed from up to one meter away. The patterns of the iris are translated into digital code, and stored in a PC database, along with personal information. Glasses and contact lenses do not interfere with the scanning process, and it takes only a 6)brief moment.

眼睛的虹膜最远可在一公尺外的距离接受摄影。虹膜的图案转译为数码，然后与个人资料一起储存在个人计算机数据库里。一般眼镜与隐形眼镜都不会干扰扫描过程，而且仅需短暂的时间。

4. The new technology will be useful for banking and police work, as well as for the Internet economy. Before long, your computer monitor may be equipped with an iris scanner that can identify you when you shop online, thus preventing fraud.

这项新技术将可用在银行、警务工作以及网络经济。不久，你的计算机屏幕或许将配备虹膜扫描仪，当你在线上购物时可以辨识你的身分，以防诈欺。

5. There will be no ID cards to carry in your pocket, and no long numbers to memorize. And eyes will be very difficult to counterfeit.

你的口袋里将不再放着身分证，你也不必再熟背长串的数字。而且眼睛将是非常难以仿造的。

6. Did you lose your ID card? No, you didn't. It's still right up there beside your nose.

你掉了身份证吗？不，你没有。它就在你的鼻子旁边。

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I want to get a job at the Olympics./我想为奥运会工作。

A: Hi, I'm Feng. I'm Mr Li's son.

A: 嗨，我是峰。我是李先生的儿子。

B: Hi, Feng. Nice to meet you. You're a student, aren't you? Your dad tells me you love athletics.

B: 嗨，峰。很高兴认识你。你是一个学生，对吗？你爸爸告诉我你喜欢体育。

A: Yes. I run a bit. I like running.

A: 是的，我时常跑跑步。我喜欢跑步。

B: Are you looking forward to the Olympics?

B: 你期待奥运会的召开吗？

A: Oh, yes. I want to get a job at the Olympics.

A: 啊，是的。我想为奥运会工作。

B: That's a great idea. You should be able to get some work. They need lots of people.

B: 这是一个好主意。你应该能够找到一些活儿干。他们需要很多人手。

Notes 注释

1. To tell someone about your intentions or wishes, e. g to work at the Olympics, you can say: I want to get a job at the Olympics.

要告诉某人你的打算或者愿望，例如在奥运会上工作，你可以说：I want to get a job at the Olympics. (我想为奥运会工作)

2. To encourage someone when they tell you their plans, you can say: That's a great idea.

当某人告诉了你他的计划时要这样鼓励他：That's a great idea. (这是一个好主意。)

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. {2} If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. {3} If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. {4} Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. {5} It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. {6} Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. {7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. {8} Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. {9} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {10} but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. {11} When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. {12} Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. {13} And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. , 1 Corinthians 13 NIV

Love and stoplights can be cruel. , Sesame Street, U.S. children's television show

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

-- Diane Ackerman

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

-- Anonymous

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

-- Anonymous

We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.

-- Anonymous

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

-- Anonymous

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.

-- Anonymous

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

-- Marcus Aurelius

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

-- Lynda Barry

All you need is love.

-- The Beatles, song title

And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song

ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

-- Countess of Blessington

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

-- Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

-- David Chambless

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

-- G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

-- Joan Crawford

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

-- Lord Dewar

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

-- Albert Einstein

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

-- French Proverb

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

-- Sigmund Freud

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

-- Erich Fromm

Where there is love there is life.

-- Gandhi

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

-- Khalil Gibran

We love because it's the only true adventure.

-- Nikki Giovanni

We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

-- William Gladstone

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

-- John Harrigan

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

-- Louise Hay

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

-- Helen Hayes

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

-- M. Hirschfield

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

-- Lisa Hoffman

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

-- Elbert Hubbard

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

-- Victor Hugo

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

-- Zora Neale Hurston

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

-- Indigo Girls, song lyric

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

-- Robert G. Ingersoll

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

-- Samuel Johnson

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

-- Lao Tzu

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

-- D. H. Lawrence

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

-- Michael Leunig

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

-- Harold Loukes

To love another person is to see the face of God.

-- Lyric from Les Miserables

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

-- Lyster

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

-- H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

-- H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

-- H. L. Mencken

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

-- Dr. Karl Menninger

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

-- Jeanne Moreau

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

-- Mother Teresa

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

-- Mother Teresa

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

-- George Jean Nathan

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part: On Reading and Writing

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

-- Petrarch

Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.

-- Theodor Reik

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

-- Agnes Repplier

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

-- Tom Robbins

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

-- George Santayana

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

-- George Santayana, Reason in Religion

The course of true love never did run smooth.

-- William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

-- George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.

-- Dinah Shore

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

-- Sophocles

Love is stronger than justice.

-- Sting

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

-- Karen Sunde

'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

-- Mother Teresa

We can do not great things - only small things with great love.

-- Mother Theresa

The first duty of love is to listen.

-- Paul Tillich

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

-- Lily Tomlin

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.

-- Judith Viorst

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

-- Judith Viorst

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

-- Judith Viorst

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

-- John Wesley

Who, being loved, is poor?

-- Oscar Wilde

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

-- Marianne Williamson

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

-- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

-- Henny Youngman

Honor the ocean of love.

-- George de Benneville

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

-- Fran?ois de La Rouchefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

-- Fran?ois de La Rouchefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

-- Fran?ois de La Rouchefoucauld

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

-- Mme de Sta?l

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June 2, 2007

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, I will travel to Europe to attend the G8 summit. At this meeting, the leaders of industrialized nations will discuss ways we can work together to advance trade, fight disease, promote development that works, increase access to education, and address the long-term challenge of global climate change.

It is in America's interests to help these efforts succeed. When we help lift societies out of poverty, we create new markets for American goods and new jobs for American workers. When we help reduce chaos and suffering, we make America safer, because prosperous nations are less likely to breed violence and export terror. And this week, my Administration took several important steps to advance peace and opportunity across the world.

On Tuesday, America took new actions to address the ongoing genocide in Darfur. On my orders, the Department of Treasury tightened our existing economic sanctions against Sudan and imposed additional ones. I also directed Secretary Rice to work with our allies on a new U.N. Security Council Resolution that will seek to impose new sanctions, expand the arms embargo, and prohibit Sudan's government from conducting offensive military flights over this troubled region. The people of Darfur have suffered long enough. We will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world.

On Wednesday, the United States demonstrated leadership on another crisis affecting Africa: HIV/AIDS. In 2003, my Administration launched a $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS relief, and that plan has supported treatment for more than one million people. This is a good start, but only a start. So I've asked Congress to double our initial commitment for HIV/AIDS prevention to $30 billion over the next five years. By making this commitment now, we will help deliver lifesaving treatment, prevent new infections, and support care for millions of people across Africa.

As we fight violence and disease, America is also using its influence to help struggling countries transform themselves into free and hopeful societies. And on Thursday, I announced three new initiatives that will help the developing world.

The first initiative is a new project called the Africa Financial Sector Initiative. This initiative will help bring African nations the technical assistance they need to strengthen their financial markets. And it will encourage the international financial community to create several new private equity funds that will mobilize up to $1 billion of new private investment in Africa. By taking these steps, we can help African entrepreneurs access capital, so they can grow their businesses and create jobs across the continent.

The second initiative is a new effort to help more of the world's poorest children get an education. In 2002, my Administration launched the Africa Education Initiative, which has provided about $300 million to improve educational opportunities throughout that continent. Now, with the support of Congress, we will devote an additional $525 million over the next five years to help provide a quality basic education for up to four million children in poor nations. With this initiative, we will help young people get the skills they need to succeed and a chance to achieve their dreams.

The third initiative is a proposal to help developing nations meet their growing energy needs while protecting the environment and addressing the challenge of global climate change. Under my proposal, by the end of next year America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases. And to meet this goal, we must help developing countries harness the power of technology. The United States is investing billions of dollars in clean energy technologies and coming up with new ways to share these technologies with other nations. Through the spirit of innovation, we will help developing nations grow their economies and be responsible stewards of the environment.

In all these endeavors, the American people can be proud of our global leadership and generosity. Our Nation is delivering aid and comfort to those in need. We're helping expand opportunity across the world. We're laying the foundation for a more peaceful and hopeful future for all our citizens.

Thank you for listening.

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?词语大辨析?-§①

abandon，desert，forsake，quit都含有一定的"放弃"之意

abandon 指完全、永远地放弃,尤指对之负有责任或义务者,放弃一个项目或计划

desert 强调故意违背自己的义务、责任或誓言等(擅离职守)

forsake 指遗弃以前所爱的人或事物,着重于断绝情感上的依恋 eg.forsake one's wife and children遗弃妻儿;forsake bad habits摈弃坏习惯

quit 指突然或出其不意地放弃,现一般指"停止" eg.quit work停止工作

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exercises(choose the best answer & translate every sentences):

1.His presence of mind never __ him.

A.deserted B.left C.lost D.quit

2.Despite some difficulties,they're not going to __ the plan.

A.abandon B.desert C.forsake D.quit

3.__ it out!

A.Forsake B.Quit C.Give up D.Desert

4.Arnold Schwarzenegger has __ the theater for politics.

A.deserted B.forsook C.quit D.exchanged

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1.His presence of mind never deserted him.他从不失去镇静.

2.Despite some difficulties,they're not going to abandon the plan. 尽管他们遇到了一些困难,但并不打算放弃这个计划.

3.Quit it out!住嘴./住手.

4.Arnold Schwarzenegger has forsook the theater for politics.阿诺德?施瓦辛格弃艺从政了

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