爱你的一百个理由 in English

   1. 因为爱你 所以爱你

    because i love you，so i love you

    2. 因为你爱我 所以我爱你

    because you love me，so i love you

    3. 因为世界上没有人比我更爱你

    because no one in the world love you more than me

    4. 因为无时无刻想著你

    because i miss you every moment

    5. 因为你的温柔体贴

    because of your gentleness and considerate

    6. 因为你的坦白率真

    because of your frankness

    7. 因为你那可爱的笑容

    because of your lovely smile

    8. 因为你那迷人的眼睛

    because of your charming eyes

    9. 因为你的一举一动都让我著迷

    because your every action make me fascinated

    10. 因为你所散发出来的高贵气质

    because of your noble disposition

    11. 因为抱著你的感觉是这么温暖

    because of the warmth when i hold you in my arms

    12. 因为一个人寂寞的时候只有你陪著我

    because only you accompany me when i am lonely

    13. 因为爱你让我充满自信

    because loving you makes me confident

    14. 因为你的任性

    because of your wilfulness

    15. 因为照顾你是我的责任

    because it is my responsibility to look after you

    16. 因为有些是不必说出来你就能明白

    because of something you can understand without my explaination

    17. 因为只有你最了解我的个性

    because only you know of my personality best

    18. 因为只有你能包容我的一切

    because only you can tolerate everything of mine

    19. 因为没有你我就不知该如何活下去

    because i dont know how to continue my life without you

    20. 因为有你我的生活充满快乐

    because of you , my life is full of happines

    21 因为有你情人节才有花可送

    because of having you ,i can send flowers on Valentine

    22 因为所有的花都不及你漂亮

    because no flower is more beautiful than you

    23 因为我眼中只有你一个

    because i only have you in my heart

    24 因为即使海枯石烂我只爱你一个

    the seas may run dry and the rocks crumble,you are the only person i love

    25 因为喜欢过马路时牵著你的感觉

    because i love the feeling of holding your hands,when we cross the road

    26 因为感谢上天赐予我一个独一无二的你

    because thank the god to bestow unique person-you

    27 因为有你我就满足了

    because i am satisfied with you

    28 因为只有你陪我渡过不如意的时候

    because only you accompany me to pass unhappy days

    29 因为时间一分一秒过去爱你的感觉却与日剧增

    because although time passes by minute and second, the sentiments of loving you grow with each passing days

    30 因为我们俩最谈的来

    because we two get along well with each other

    31 因为你让我有保护你的念头

    because you make me have the thought of protecting you

    32 因为初见你的感觉是前所未有的

    because the feeling of seeing you for the first time never existed before

    33 因为你是我的梦中情人

    because you are the lover in my dream

    34 因为一见锺情在我的内心燃烧著

    because the feeling of falling in love at the first sight burns in my heart

    35 因为我是你倾吐心事的对象

    because you are the only person who listens to my mind

    36 因为你让我非常放心

    because you set my mind at ease

    37 因为有你让我对明天充满期待

    because i am full of expection for tomorrow with you

    38 因为我已不再对任何人动心

    because you make me never open my heart to others

    39 因为爱你是最温柔的不自由

    i love you because to me you are a gentle but "no freedom"

    40 因为我俩一起看天看海看日落日出

    because we enjoy the sky, the sea and the sunrise, the sunset together

   41 因为沙滩印著我俩的足迹

    because there are our footprints in the sand beach

    42 因为只有你肯陪我看恐怖片

    because only you like to accompany me to watch horrible movies

    43 因为你曾为感人剧情而哭的淅沥哗啦的

    because you were ever moved to tears by the play

    44 因为我们侧夜长谈分享彼此

    because we talk all night and enjoy each other

    45 因为我们是天生一对

    because we were born of a couple

    46 因为爱过你就好

    because it is fine of experiencing love you

    47 因为只愿等你一个人

    because I only want to wait for you

    48 因为有你我看到美好的未来

    because you make me see the beautiful future

    49 因为有你我看到了其他人羡慕的眼光

    because of having you ,i see the envious sights of others

    50 因为你让我体验了爱情的伟大

    because i experience the great love with you

    51 因为你的善良

    because of your kind heart

    52 因为有我就有你

    because where there is me ,there is you

    53 因为你让我感到身为一个男人的骄傲

    because of you ,i am proud of being a man

    54 因为任何事与爱你抵触者无效

    because nothing will happen,if it is contradict with loving you

    55 因为除了我再也找不到另一个与你相配的男人

    because except me you can't find another perfect match

    56 因为我们俩曾互许终身

    because we ever promised to be life-long companions

    57 因为我们要做七世情人

    because we plan to be lovers of generations

    58 因为我要带你环游世界

    because i will show you around the world

    59 因为我要让每个地方都留下我俩的回忆

    because i want every place to have our two person's memory

    60 因为我要继续写爱你的理由

    because i will continue to write the reasons of loving you

    61 因为我不能放弃爱你的念头

    because i cant give up the ideas of loving you

    62 因为我恨没有早一些认识你

    because i regret not knowing you earlier

    63 因为你让我追的好辛苦

    because it is hard to chase you

    64 因为我要打败其他条件比我好的人

    because i want to defeat all the others of better conditions than me

    65 因为你选择了我

    because you choose me

    66 因为我发誓要好好照顾你

    because i promised to take good care of you

    67 因为我了解你对我的心

    because you know of my heart

    68 因为你喜欢放风筝

    because you love flying kites

    69 因为你的打扮很有个性

    because your make-up has a stong character

    70 因为我有占有你的私心

    because i have the selfish idea of owning you

    71 因为你喜欢打排球

    because you like playing volleyball

    72 因为你喜欢唱歌

    because you like singing songs

    73 因为你的生日快到了

    because your birthday is coming

    74 因为你喜欢看书

    because you like reading books

    75 因为你的开朗

    because of your sanguine disposition

    76 因为我们分隔两地却两心相系

    because we miss each others even if we live in differet places

    77 因为身边有你的欢笑

    because of your cheerful smile around me

    78 因为你喜欢贝壳

    because you love seashells

    79 因为一颗心只能爱你一个

    because one heart can only love you one

    80 因为没有人痴的像我

    because no one is infatuated like me

    81 因为你的心将我淹没了

    because i am addicted in your love

    82 因为有你我就不孤单

    because of you ,i am not lonely any more

    83 因为上辈子我们在一起

    because last generation we were lovers

    84 因为爱你是我甜蜜的负担

    because loving you is my sweet burden

    85 因为你我拒绝了其他的仰慕者

    because we two reject others

    86 因为我的朋友都叫我要好好的把握

    because my friends ask me to hold it well

    87 因为不爱你实在太过分了

    because not loving you is excessive

    88 因为不爱你实在太对不起自己了

    because i feel sorry for myself,if i don't love you

    89 因为不爱你我的朋友会打我

    because my friends will beat me ,if i don't love you

    90 因为我的目标只有一个...爱你

    because i only have one aim-love you

    91 因为说了那么多爱你的理由我不得不爱你

    because i have said so many reasons of loving you,i have to love you

    92 因为我渴望101次求婚的结局

    because i am eager to the result of the 101 proposal

    93 因为我期待每一个明天的到来

    because i expect the coming of every tomorrow

    94 因为我喜欢等你电话的感觉

    because i love the feeling of waiting for your telephones

    95 因为我有千千万万的理由爱你

    because i have thousands of reasons for loving you

    96 因为我只选择最爱你的一百个理由

    because i only choose these one hundred reasons to show my best love to you

    97 因为我特地在情人节这一天对你表白

    because i chose specially to assert my love to you on Valentine's Day

    98 因为我已经写的很累了

    because i feel very tired when i write here

    99 因为我要向世界大声说

    because i want to announce to the world loudly

    100 因为我爱你!!!

    because i love you!!

Joke:NO SEX TONIGHT!

　　I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so
　　much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have
　　never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.
　　
　　FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into
　　bed.
　　
　　Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel
　　like it, I just want you to hold me."
　　
　　I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"
　　
　　So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear...
　　"You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me
　　to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look
　　by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in
　　the bedroom?"
　　
　　Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.
　　
　　The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with
　　her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big
　　unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on
　　several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to
　　take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to
　　compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We
　　went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond
　　earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was
　　one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because
　　she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play
　　tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey."
　　She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
　　Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
　　dear, let's go to the cashier."
　　
　　I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel
　　like it."
　　
　　Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled
　　WHAT?"
　　
　　I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're
　　just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy
　　your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she
　　was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and
　　not for the things I buy you?"
　　
　　Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

Joke: five hundred times!

Five Hundred Times

　　In the traffic court of a large mid-western city, a young lady was brought before the judge to answer a ticket given her for driving through a red light. She explained to his honor that she was a school teacher and requested an immediate disposal of her case in order that she might hasten on to her classes. A wild gleam came into the judge's eye. "You are a school teacher, eh?" said he. "Madam, I shall realize my lifelong ambition. Sit down at that table and write 'I went through a red light' five hundred times."

joke:The Shiny-Walled Box Thingie

An Amish boy and his father were visiting a nearby mall. They were
amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny
silver walls that moved apart and back together again by themselves.

The lad asked, "What is this, father?"

The father, having never seen an elevator, responded, "I have no idea
what it is."

While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a
wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The
walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The
walls closed and the boy and his father watched as small circles lit
up above the walls.

The walls opened up again and a beautiful twenty-four-year-old woman
stepped out.

The father looked at his son anxiously and said, "Go get your mother."

joke: teacher and students

　　A teacher asked a child, "If your mother cuts two oranges and two bananas into ten pieces, what will you get?"
　　And the student said, "Fruit salad!"

the cat lover

One day, a fairy visits a lonely widow and says that she is there to give her three wishes.

''I wish I was 21 and beautiful!'' The wish is instantly granted.

''I wish I had a million dollars!'' The wish is granted.

''I wish that my cat here were the most handsome guy in the world and was madly in love with me.'' The wish is granted. The now young lady and her man go inside. They start to cuddle, and the man looks at her.

''Aren't you upset that you had me fixed?''

Joke: now we run!

A priest is walking down the street one day, when he notices a very small boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street.
However, the boy is very small and the doorbell is too high for him to reach.
After watching the boy's efforts for some time, the priest moves closer to the boy's position. He steps smartly across the street, walks up behind the little fellow, places his hand kindly on the child's shoulder and gives the doorbell a sold ring.
Crouching down to the child's level, the priest smiles and asks, "And now what, my little man?"
The boy replies, "Now we run!"

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new words:
crouch: Crouching down to the child's level...

What's Green Timer?

What's Green Timer?

Green Timer(URL: http://code.google.com/p/greentimer, Chinese name: 绿色报时器) is a little software that can notify you to do something, by displays a little message bolloon in the rightdown position of you screen. It can notity you to have a rest every one hours, or notify you to call a customer tomorrow morning.

So, you won't forget anything important now.

Green Timer aim at a good time managment habit for you. When you can arrange your time rightly, you will find out that your job turnning easy, and you may find that you can spend more time staying with your family. So we call it "Green Timer".
You can learn more of time managment by Green Timer in our wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/greentimer/wiki/GreenIdeal


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User Forum:
(Google) http://groups.google.com/group/greentimer
(douban) http://www.douban.com/group/greentimer


Rational:
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JOKE: Girl Power!

Girl Power!

　　A little boy is playing with his new football and a little girl asks if she can play. He tells her, "No. These are for boys."
　　
　　The little girl runs into the house and tells her mother. The next day the girl sticks her tongue out at the boy and waves her new football in his face. The little boy angrily points to his boy's bike and says, "Oh yeah? Well, only boys can get these!"
　　
　　But the next day, the little girl has the same bike. The little boy gets furious, pulls down his pants, points to his unit, and says, "Look, only boys have these and your mom can't buy you one!"
　　
　　The next day he walks by and the little girl promptly pulls up her dress, points to her bits, and proclaims, "My mother tells me that as long as I have one of these, I can have as many of those as I want."

Everything I know about women . . .

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article3736523.ece

Everything I know about women . . .

. . . Our correspondent learnt from his two-year-old niece � from not making her cry to the art of gift giving

Tad Safran

As a single man in my mid-thirties, I've spent 20 years trying to understand women, with mixed results. It wasn't until six months ago, however, that I was given a clear insight into how the female mind works.

It came in the form of Lou-Lou, my two-year-old niece. I know, as a grown-up, that the onus is on me to teach her useful stuff rather than the other way around, but in this case, the instruction was mutual. I taught her how to wink, blow raspberries, burp and count to 10, sort of. "One, two, three, seven, nine, ten", which is good enough for me, as, personally, I've always thought the numbers four, five, six and eight were overrated.

In return, I learnt more about women in two months than I had gleaned on my own in two decades. This does not mean, by the way, that I think women are like two-year-olds and should be treated as such. I love my niece. I respect my niece. I'd dive on an unexploded grenade for my niece, and not just to amuse her. I would only dive on it if there was real danger of it exploding and hurting her. Women are all individuals and I'm making generalisations, but in the two-year-old Lou-Lou is the undiluted, unaffected essence � the "id" � of womanhood. Here's what I've learnt.

1 Ignore them

1If I come into a room and bounce up to Lou-Lou like a clown, trying to amuse and entertain, she blanks me completely. It's as if I don't exist. If I walk straight past her, however, I guarantee she will call out my name and want to play with me.

2 Bribe them

Gifts work. Preferably something noisy or sparkly. With Lou-Lou, that means stuffed animals that sing or sequined hair grips. With grown women, I suppose that equates to, say, cars and jewellery.

3 Compliment them

I've mistakenly always held that compliments are like diamonds: valuable only for their scarcity. Flood the market and they lose all value. Not so. Lou-Lou poos in her nappy, everyone cheers � as if she just came up with a workable solution to world hunger � and she beams like a lighthouse. The same works with grown women, although, of course, only the general principle applies rather than the specific example given here. (I learnt this one the hard way.)

4 Listen to them

I've spent my life trying to preempt what women want. I needn't have bothered. If I just pay attention, Lou-Lou will tell me exactly what she wants: eat, dance, doll, jump, run, sing, play, read. Then all I have to do is organise it. How much simpler my life would have been if I had listened and acted accordingly.

5 Apologise

It doesn't matter what you've done. It doesn't matter if you don't even know what you've done. I might have slighted Lou-Lou by putting the wrong doll in the pram. What seems to you or me like a minor infraction is, to her, on a par with genocide. The best policy is to throw yourself on her mercy and beg forgiveness. But you must sound sincere. You don't have to be sincere, just sound sincere. This is so elementary, yet how many men ignore this advice?

6 Let them do it

Whatever "it" is. No matter how ridiculous it may seem to you, let her do it. When Lou-Lou gets an idea into her mind, there's no talking her out of it. In fact, be supportive, encourage her even. Then sit back and hope she discovers for herself that it was a stupid idea. The downside is that she might decide it was an excellent idea. One day, I found myself playing dolls' tea party for two whole hours and drank so many cups of imaginary tea, I was imaginary peeing all afternoon.

7 Don't tell them what to do

The best way to guarantee that she doesn't do what I want is by telling her to do it. The clever thing is to make it seem like her idea � and make it seem fun. One of my proudest moments was convincing Lou-Lou that watching the rugby World Cup final would be more fun than playing in the sandpit.

8 Don't complain to them

This is a tricky one. What I mean by this is, don't burden her with your petty problems. When I complain to Lou-Lou about a bad meeting or a sore back, she couldn't care less, but if there's genuinely something wrong, she will instinctively sense it and, with one hug, pick me up more than I thought possible.

9 Don't argue

There's simply no point. You will never win, and if you do win, it will be a hollow victory because of the mood she'll be in for a long time afterwards. Quite frankly, who needs the aggro? This leads to my final and most important point:

10 Don't make them cry

There is nothing more distressing than watching Lou-Lou's enormous, innocent brown eyes overflow with tears, while her mouth becomes a gaping, drooling, mournful air-raid siren that pierces through to the core of my heart. I'm utterly defenceless when she cries. And there's no known antidote. Food? Monkey impressions? A pony? Stabbing myself in the eye with a chopstick? I will agree to anything to stop her crying � and doesn't she.

Some Famous sentences in movies

source: http://blog.beanwoo.com/english/31/2008/05/23/542

今天为大家介绍一些比较经典的台词，只是某些其中蕴涵的深意已随时间流逝了，我也班门弄斧的品评一番，也算经典的"平民化"吧？ 

    《飘 (乱世佳人) Gone with The Wind》

    1.Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts.

    土地是世界上唯一值得你去为之工作, 为之战斗, 为之牺牲的东西,因为它是唯一永恒的东西。

    注：这是封建社会以来根深蒂固的观点吧，土地作为不动产，价值是不可估量的，正如我们中国人对房产的热爱，存在并非完全不合理吧？ 

    2.I wish I could be more like you.

     我要像你一样就好了。

    注：这是一句日常用语，感叹或者羡慕夹杂其中，我们是可以活学活用的。

    3.Whatever comes, I'll love you, just as I do now. Until I die.

    无论发生什么事,我都会像现在一样爱你,直到永远

    注：虽然绝大多数时候这都是一句空话、假话，但是又有哪个人在面对如此深情的表白的时候能够无动于衷呢？况且人间自有真情在，地震中，为妻子挡飞石的、将 妻子的尸身捆缚送至太平间的，岂不正是一曲"上穷碧落下黄泉"的生死赞歌？爱，是需要表达的，无论语言，还是身体力行……

    4.I think it's hard winning a war with words.

    我认为纸上谈兵没什么作用。

    注："纸上谈兵"的成语咋翻译过来，就觉得韵味尽失呢？不知道是不是我理解有问题？ 

    5.Sir, you're no gentleman. And you miss are no lady.

    先生,你可真不是个君子,小姐,你也不是什么淑女 

    6.I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

    我做任何事不过是为了有所回报,我总要得到报酬。

    注：这真是一句实话，只是很多人敢做而不敢言。故而，真小人总比伪君子更让人待见。套用鲁迅的一句话，这是一个想做君子而不得的时代，那么直来直去又何妨呢？

    7.In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you.

    哪怕是世界末日我都会爱着你

    8.I love you more than I've ever loved any woman. And I've waited longer for you than I've waited for any woman.

    我从未像爱你一样爱过任何女人，而且我也从未像等你一样等过别的女人。

    注：都说女人是傻的，乐于陷于情网，爱听情话，可期盼着一段幸福有错吗？

    9.If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again!

    即使让我撒谎,去偷,去骗,去杀人,上帝作证,我再也不要挨饿了

    注："仓廪实而知礼节"，在最恶劣的环境下，人们的原始道德才备受考验。很多事情只有经历过才知道能否承受，所以对待弱者，请多给予一些宽容和支持吧！

    10.Now I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death. A world in which there is no place for me.

    现在我发现自己活在一个比死还要痛苦的世界,一个无我容身之处的世界

    11.You're throwing away happiness with both hands. And reaching out for something that will never make you happy.

    你把自己的幸福拱手相让,去追求一些根本不会让你幸福的东西

    注：这是一个哲学命题：你最需要的是什么？这样的拷问总是深入肺腑。在这个物质的年代，很多人忘却了身边的快乐，忽略了最亲爱的人，却孜孜以求一些阿堵物之类，值得吗？ 时不我与，人生是一条单行线，抓住每一时刻的风景，好好欣赏吧，鱼和熊掌是一对永恒的博弈！

    12.Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

    家,我要回家.我要想办法让他回来.不管怎样,明天又是全新的一天。

    注："明天又是全新的一天"，多好的话！无论是充满希望也好，自欺欺人也罢，明天真的是我们未曾经历过的，不要轻易对明天失去信心，前方没有路，可希望在转角。

    《泰坦尼克号 TITANIC 》

    1.Outwardly, I was everything a well-brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.

    外表看,我是个教养良好的小姐,骨子里,我很反叛.

    2.We're the luckiest sons-of bitches in the world.

    我们是真***走运极了.(地道的美国骂人)

    3.There is nothing I couldn't give you, there is nothing I would deny you, if you would not deny me. Open you're heart to me.

    如果你不违背我,你要什么我就能给你什么,你要什么都可以.把你的心交给我吧.

   注：这实在是一句自私至极的情话！可很多被爱情遮住了双眼的少男少女们，却愣呆呆的一头扎进这个精心编织的网中，便被缚上了枷锁再也逃不出来。如果感情是 完全以一方的意志为主导，以牺牲自尊为代价，这是真正的爱吗？父母尚不能要求子女无条件服从，何况一求爱之人？此类的感情真要弃若敝履，一点也不值得怜 惜！ 

    4.What the purpose of university is to find a suitable husband.

    读大学的目的是找一个好丈夫.

    注：有不少媒体都如此转载女大学生的话，但是请相信，即使有个别真实情况存在，这也是极其片面的，"一叶障目，不见泰山"，实在是要不得的！

    5.Remember, they love money, so just pretend like you own a goldmine and you're in the club.

    只要你装得很有钱的样子他们就会跟你套近乎。

    注：很多人笑贫不笑娼，此话是对劣根性的最好注解！但，有时候我们就是牢笼里挣脱不得的金丝雀，明明渴望自由的天空，却也只能婉转的唱出和谐的清啼。商场上，为了订单， 手段、伪装，无所不用其极，即使痛恨，又能如何？

    6.All life is a game of luck.

    生活本来就全靠运气。

    注：贝多芬说"要扼住命运的咽喉"，可怀才不遇之人古今中外比比皆是。生活，有时候真的需要运气，当你失意的时候，请记住，只是你的运气尚未光顾！但还有一句话应该补充在后面，"机遇只垂青有准备的人"，这样就相得益彰了吧？

    7.I love waking up in the morning and not knowing what's going to happen, or who I'm going to meet, where I'm going to wind up.

    我喜欢早上起来时一切都是未知的,不知会遇见什么人,会有什么样的结局。

    注：其实这是一种很好的心态吧，以初生婴儿的好奇心看待周围的一切，又怎会觉得生活索然无味呢？ 

    8.I figure life is a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.

    我觉得生命是一份礼物,我不想浪费它,你不会知道下一手牌会是什么,要学会接受生活。

    9.To make each day count.

    要让每一天都有所值。

    注：说着容易，可每天我们虚掷了多少时光呢？真理有时候就是最最简单的，只是我们明知却不为！ 

    10.We're women. Our choices are never easy.

    我们是女人,我们的选择从来就不易。

    11.You jump, I jump. (another touching sentence)

    你跳,我就跳.

    注：这是这部电影中最感动的话之一，生死相随， 不离不弃，大家都向往，只是事到临头，退缩者恒有之……

    12.Will you give us a chance to live?

    能不能给我们留一条生路?

    13.God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death. Neither shall there be sorrow or dying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former world has passed away.

    上帝擦去他们所有的眼泪.死亡不再有,也不再有悲伤和生死离别,不再有痛苦,因往事已矣.

    14.You're going to get out of here. You're going to go on and you're going to make lots of babies and you're going to watch them grow and you're going to die an old, an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here. Not this night. Not like this.

    你一定会脱险的,你要活下去,生很多孩子,看着他们长大.你会安享晚年,安息在温暖的床上,而不是今晚在这里,不是像这样的死去。

    注：爱一个人就是让她幸福，不在于朝朝暮暮、长相厮守，只是想着心爱的人与别人共结连理，是会心如刀割吧？故而，我没有那么高尚，于我，两个相爱的人就是比翼鸟的双翼，相互契合，除非不得已，爱就绝不能轻易放弃，记得给爱留一个机会，给爱一丝生机！

The Top Ten Myths of Marriage

this page comes from: http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/pubmyths%20of%20marriage.htm

The Top Ten Myths of Marriage
David Popenoe

1. Marriage benefits men much more than women.

Contrary to earlier and widely publicized reports, recent research finds men and women to benefit about equally from marriage, although in different ways. Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives when they are married. Husbands typically gain greater health benefits while wives gain greater financial advantages.¹ [Source] 

2. Having children typically brings a married couple closer together and increases marital happiness.

Many studies have shown that the arrival of the first baby commonly has the effect of pushing the mother and father farther apart, and bringing stress to the marriage. However, couples with children have a slightly lower rate of divorce than childless couples.² [Sources]

3. The keys to long-term marital success are good luck and romantic love.

Rather than luck and love, the most common reasons couples give for their long-term marital success are commitment and companionship. They define their marriage as a creation that has taken hard work, dedication and commitment (to each other and to the institution of marriage). The happiest couples are friends who share lives and are compatible in interests and values.³ [Sources]

4. The more educated a woman becomes, the lower are her chances of getting married.

A recent study based on marriage rates in the mid-1990s concluded that today's women college graduates are more likely to marry than their non-college peers, despite their older age at first marriage. This is a change from the past, when women with more education were less likely to marry.⁴ [Sources]

5. Couples who live together before marriage, and are thus able to test how well suited they are for each other, have more satisfying and longer-lasting marriages than couples who do not.

Many studies have found that those who live together before marriage have less satisfying marriages and a considerably higher chance of eventually breaking up. One reason is that people who cohabit may be more skittish of commitment and more likely to call it quits when problems arise. But in addition, the very act of living together may lead to attitudes that make happy marriages more difficult. The findings of one recent study, for example, suggest "there may be less motivation for cohabiting partners to develop their conflict resolution and support skills." (One important exception: cohabiting couples who are already planning to marry each other in the near future have just as good a chance at staying together as couples who don't live together before marriage).⁵ [Sources]

6. People can't be expected to stay in a marriage for a lifetime as they did in the past because we live so much longer today.

Unless our comparison goes back a hundred years, there is no basis for this belief. The enormous increase in longevity is due mainly to a steep reduction in infant mortality. And while adults today can expect to live a little longer than their grandparents, they also marry at a later age. The life span of a typical, divorce-free marriage, therefore, has not changed much in the past fifty years. Also, many couples call it quits long before they get to a significant anniversary: half of all divorces take place by the seventh year of a marriage. ⁶ [Sources]

7. Marrying puts a woman at greater risk of domestic violence than if she remains single.

Contrary to the proposition that for men "a marriage license is a hitting license," a large body of research shows that being unmarried―and especially living with a man outside of marriage―is associated with a considerably higher risk of domestic violence for women. One reason for this finding is that married women may significantly underreport domestic violence. Further, women are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce a man who is violent. Yet it is probably also the case that married men are less likely to commit domestic violence because they are more invested in their wives' wellbeing, and more integrated into the extended family and community. These social forces seem to help check men's violent behavior.⁷ [Sources]

8. Married people have less satisfying sex lives, and less sex, than single people.

According to a large-scale national study, married people have both more and better sex than do their unmarried counterparts. Not only do they have sex more often but they enjoy it more, both physically and emotionally.⁸ [Sources]

9. Cohabitation is just like marriage, but without "the piece of paper."

Cohabitation typically does not bring the benefits―in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing―that marriage does. In terms of these benefits cohabitants in the United States more closely resemble singles than married couples. This is due, in part, to the fact that cohabitants tend not to be as committed as married couples, and they are more oriented toward their own personal autonomy and less to the wellbeing of their partner.⁹ [Sources]

10. Because of the high divorce rate, which weeds out the unhappy marriages, people who stay married have happier marriages than people did in the past when everyone stuck it out, no matter how bad the marriage.

According to what people have reported in several large national surveys, the general level of happiness in marriages has not increased and probably has declined slightly. Some studies have found in recent marriages, compared to those of twenty or thirty years ago, significantly more work-related stress, more marital conflict and less marital interaction.¹⁰ [Sources]

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¹ The research on this topic is reviewed in Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, The Case for Marriage (New York: Doubleday, 2000): Ch. 12 [back to text]

² Carolyn Pape Cowan and Philip A. Cowan, When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Jay Belsky and John Kelly, The Transition to Parenthood (NewYork: Dell, 1994); Tim B. Heaton, "Marital Stability Throughout the Child-rearing Years" Demography 27 (1990):55-63; Linda Waite and Lee A. Lillard, "Children and Marital Disruption" American Journal of Sociology 96 (1991):930-953 [back to text]

³ Finnegan Alford-Cooper, For Keeps: Marriages the Last a Lifetime (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998); Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee. The Good Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995); Robert Lauer and Jeanette Lauer, "Factors in Long-Term Marriage" Journal of Family Issues 7:4 (1986): 382-390 [back to text]

⁴ Joshua R. Goldstein and Catherine T. Kenney, "Marriage Delayed or Marriage Forgone? New Cohort Forecasts of First Marriage for U. S. Women" American Sociological Review 66 (2001):506-519 [back to text]

⁵ Alfred DeMaris and K. Vaninadha Rao, "Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability in the United States: A Reassessment" Journal of Marriage and the Family 54 (1992):178-190; Pamela J. Smock, "Cohabitation in the United States" Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000); William G. Axinn and Jennifer S. Barber, "Living Arrangements and Family Formation Attitudes in Early Adulthood" Journal of Marriage and the Family 59 (1997):595-611; Susan L. Brown, "The Effect of Union Type on Psychological Well-Being: Depression Among Cohabitors Versus Marrieds" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41 (2000):241-55; Catherine L. Cohan and Stacey Kleinbaum, "Toward a Greater Understanding of the Cohabitation Effect: Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Communication" Journal of Marriage and the Family 64 (2002): 180-192 [back to text]

⁶ Norval D. Glenn, "A Critique of Twenty Family and Marriage and Family Textbooks" Family Relations 46-3 (1997):197-208 [back to text]

⁷ Jan E. Stets, "Cohabiting and Marital Aggression: The Role of Social Isolation" Journal of Marriage and the Family 53 (1991):669-680; Richard J. Gelles, Intimate Violence in Families, 3^rd ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: 1997); Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, The Case for Marriage (New York: Doubleday, 2000): Ch. 11 [back to text]

⁸ Linda J. Waite and Kara Joyner, "Emotional and Physical Satisfaction with Sex in Married, Cohabiting, and Dating Sexual Unions: Do Men and Women Differ?" Pp. 239-269 in E. O. Laumann and R. T. Michael, eds., Sex, Love, and Health in America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001); Edward O. Laumann, J. H. Gagnon, R. T. Michael and S. Michaels, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994) [back to text]

⁹ Stephen L. Nock, "A Comparison of Marriages and Cohabiting Relationships" Journal of Family Issues 16-1 (1995): 53-76; Amy Mehraban Pienta, et. al., "Health Consequences of Marriage for the Retirement Years" Journal of Family Issues 21-5 (2000):559-586; Susan L. Brown, "The Effect of Union Type on Psychological Well-Being: Depression Among Cohabitors versus Marrieds" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41(2000):241-255; Susan L. Brown and Alan Booth, "Cohabitation Versus Marriage: A Comparison of Relationship Quality" Journal of Marriage and the Family 58 (1996):668-678. [back to text]

¹⁰ Norval D. Glenn, "Values, Attitudes, and the State of American Marriage" Pp. 15-33 in David Popenoe, D. Blankenhorn and J. B. Elshtain (eds.) Promises to Keep: Decline and Renewal of Marriage in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996); Stacy J. Rogers and Paul R. Amato, "Is Marital Quality Declining: The Evidence from Two Generations" Social Forces 75 (1997); Stacy J. Rogers and Paul R. Amato, "Have Changes in Gender Relations Affected Marital Quality?" Social Forces 79 (2000):731-753; General Social Survey, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. [back to text]

English saying:defense

The best defense is a good offense.

进攻是最好的防守。

English Joke: Dinner Choices

Dinner Choices

　　A guy is on a trip on a small airline.
　　The stewardess says, "Would you like dinner?"
　　He says, "What are my choices?"
　　She says, "Yes or no."
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new words:
stewardess: the waiter in ship or airplane

English joke: My Father, The Whorehouse Piano Player

English joke: My Father, The Whorehouse Piano Player

A grade school teacher was asking students what their parents did for a living. "Tim, you're first," she said. "What does your mother do all day?"

Tim stood up and proudly said, "She's a doctor."

"That's wonderful. How about you, Amie?" Amie shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, "My father is a mailman."

"Thank you, Amie," said the teacher. "What about your father, Billy?"

Billy proudly stood up and announced, "My daddy plays piano in a whorehouse."

The teacher was aghast and promptly changed the subject to geography. Later that day she went to Billy's house and rang the bell. Billy''s father answered the door. The teacher explained what his son had said and demanded an explanation.

Billy''s father said, "I'm actually an attorney, but how can I explain a thing like that to a seven-year-old?"

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new words:

1.Whorehouse: whore house. The place of porn. Relative letters:whoredom, the same with whorehouse;whoreson, for curse.

2.attorney:lawyer

A little poet: who care?

WHO CARES?
                     --Diane Collett
As the clouds move in the skies,
I listen to the Indians' cries.

It hurts my heart and tears my soul,
How can the whites be so cold?

Do they not care what they have done?
Can't they hear the cries of the little ones?

One by one they're fading away,
Their land was taken in a passing day.

But I want you to know someone does care.
I wish I could have only been there.

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I found this poem in a book with the name "savage honor", which I'm reading for English learning.

Einestein quote of the day: pfenning and idea

Einestein quote of the day: pfennig and idea

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.

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new words:
pfennig:  芬尼，German penny

English joke: respectfully cheating

English joke: respectfully cheating

Jack and Betty are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

"Betty, I was wondering -- have you ever cheated on me?"

"Oh Jack, why would you ask such a question now? You don't want to ask that question..."

"Yes, Betty, I really want to know. Please."

"Well, all right. Yes, 3 times."

"Three? When were they?"

"Well, Jack, remember when you were 35 years old and you really wanted to start the business on your own and no bank would give you a loan? Remember how one day the bank president himself came over to the house and signed the loan papers, no questions asked?"

"Oh, Betty, you did that for me! I respect you even more than ever, that you would do such a thing for me! So, when was number 2?"

"Well, Jack, remember when you had that last heart attack and you were needing that very tricky operation, and no surgeon would touch you? Remember how Dr. DeBakey came all the way up here, to do the surgery himself, and then you were in good shape again?"

"I can't believe it! Betty, I love that you should do such a thing for me, to save my life! I couldn't have a more wonderful wife. To do such a thing, you must really love me darling. I couldn't be more moved. When was number 3?"

"Well, Jack, remember a few years ago, when you really wanted to be president of the golf club and you were 17 votes short?"

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English learning: new words
anniversary: celebration of a year
tricky: (job)difficult,hard
surgeon: doctor
surgery: operation

sentences:
1.have you ever cheated on me?
2.I respect you even more than ever.
3.I couldn't have a more wonderful wife.
4.I couldn't be more moved.

English joke: Two blondes

English joke: Two blondes

Two blondes are waiting at a bus stop.

When a bus pulls up and opens the door, one of the blondes leans inside and asks the bus driver:''Will this bus take me to 5th Avenue?''

The bus driver shakes his head and says,''No, I'm sorry.''

At this the other blonde leans inside, smiles, and twitters: ''Will it take ME?''

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English learning: new words
1. blonde: the beauty that with golden hair and blue eyes.
2. Avenue: road, street.
3. twitter: speaks in a pretty way.

Einstein quote

Einstein quote of the day:

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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A funny remark. If you do think so, any travel must be happy to you. Also, more than travel.

English Joke: Tough love

English Joke: Tough love

A dying man smells his favorite oatmeal raisin cookies cooking downstairs. It takes all the strength he has left but he gets up from the bed and crawls down the stairs. He sees the cookies cooling on the counter and staggers over to them. As he reaches for one, his wife's wrinkled hand reaches out, smacks his and she yells:

"No, you can't have those! They're for the funeral!"

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new words:
Tough: hard, rough
oatmeal: 燕麦(粥)
raisin: 葡萄干
crawl: 爬行
stagger: 蹒跚，摇摇晃晃（地走）
wrinkled: 干皱的
smack:hit
yell: shout

English Joke: Chastity Belt

English Joke: Chastity Belt

A man decided to march in the holy crusades. Concluding that his wife should wear a chastity belt while he is gone, he locks up her nether regions and gives the key to his best friend. He tells him, "If I do not return within four years, unlock my wife and set her free to live a normal life."

So, the husband leaves on horseback and about a half hour later, he sees a cloud of dust behind him. He waits for it to come closer and sees his best friend. "What's wrong?' " he asks.

"You gave me the wrong key!"

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new words:
holy crusade: 十字军东征。Everyone who knows a little about the history of Europe should familiar with it.
chastity belt: A kind of underwear.  The husbands let  their  wife  to wear it, so that the  woman  can't  copulate with  others.  But  she can pee of course:)

English saying:Beggars can't be choosers.

每日一词

subtle　 (a.) 不明显的;微微的;隐约的

Body language is sometimes subtle, so watch closely!
肢体语言有时不太明显,所以要注意看。

每日一句

Beggars can't be choosers.
乞丐没有选择的余地。人穷志短。有实力才有自由。

　　这个短短的句子在英语和汉语的语境中都常常听到，汉语中类似的说法还有，"要来的饭别嫌馊"，"乞丐没的挑"。英文的解释是，beggars have to accept whatever they get. A poor person has very few choices in life.（乞丐不得不接受他们多得到的。一个贫穷的人在生活中很少有选择的余地。）如今，这句话更多是作为励志的形式出现，告诉人们，生活中胜利的永远是强者，乞求是无法得到尊重的。

Three English poems

Below is three English poems, which I learned it from the Enyglish Lession tonight. The poem is easy to read and remember, so it's a good material for English learniing. What is more, the second one is not so easy to understand. Using your heart to read it:)
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Brotherhood

Brotherhood is always around.
It's in the city, it's in the town.n
It's in the country and everywhere.
It's a kind of blessing the we should share.
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To my mother
                   Robert Louis Stevenson
You too, my mother, read my rhymes
    for love of unforgotten times.
And you my chance to hear once more
    the little feet along the floor.

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Friendship

I met a little friend
    Who came from another land
I couldn't speak his language
   But I took him by the hand
We sang together
    And have such fun!
Singging is a language
   You can speak with anyone.

some quote of the day

Leadership quote of the day:
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~ Dwight Eisenhower

Einstain quote of the day:
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

JOKE:What animal is this

Eddie's first-grade class was having a game of Name That Animal. The teacher held up a picture of a cat and asked, "What animal is this?"

"A cat!" said Suzy.

"Good job! Now, what's this animal?"

"A dog!" said Ricky.

"Good! Now what animal is this?" she asked, holding up a picture of a deer.

The class fell silent. After a couple of minutes, the teacher said, "It's what your mom calls your dad."

"A horny bastard!" called out Eddie.

NAIL IN THE FENCE

NAIL IN THE FENCE

A Good Story for Great Friends.....Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence!

 There once was a little girl who had a bad temper.  Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence.  Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the
number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all.  She told her mother about it and the mother suggested that
the girl now pull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper.  The day passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were gone.

The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.  She said, "You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one." You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us .

The Farmer’s Donkey

The Farmer's Donkey

A story from The Feel Good Page

One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; so it just wasn't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. Realizing what was happening, the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.

Then, a few shovel-fulls later, he quieted down completely. The farmer peered down into the well, and was astounded by what he saw. With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back, the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to the shock and astonishment of everyone.

The Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing, and not let the dirt bury you, but to shake it off and take a step up. Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

JOKE:the wrong way

As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his cell phone rang.

Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there''s a car going the wrong way on Route 280. Please be careful!"

"It's not just one car," said Herman, "It's hundreds of them!"

Chinese Poem: A Moonlit Night On The Spring River

A Moonlit Night On The Spring River

 原著：张若虚  英译：许渊冲

In spring the river rises as high as the sea,
And with the river's rise the moon uprises bright.
She follows the rolling waves for ten thousand li,
And where the river flows, there overflows her light.

The river winds around the fragrant islet where
The blooming flowers in her light all look like snow.
You cannot tell her beams from hoar frost in the air,
Nor from white sand upon Farewell Beach below.

No dust has stained the water blending with the skies;
A lonely wheellike moon shines brilliant far and wide.
Who by the riverside first saw the moon arise?
When did the moon first see a man by riverside?

Ah, generations have come and past away;
From year to year the moons look alike, old and new.
We do not know tonight for whom she sheds her ray,
But hear the river say to its water adieu.

Away, away is sailing a single cloud white;
On Farewell Beach pine away maples green.
Where is the wanderer sailing his boat tonight?
Who, pining away, on the moonlit rails would learn?

Alas! The moon is lingering over the tower;
It should have seen the dressing table of the fair.
She rolls the curtain up and light comes in her bower;
She washes but can't wash away the moonbeams there.

She sees the moon, but her beloved is out of sight;
She'd follow it to shine on her beloved one's face.
But message-bearing swans can't fly out of moonlight,
Nor can letter-sending fish leap out of their place.

Last night he dreamed that falling flowers would not stay.
Alas! He can't go home, although half spring has gone.
The running water bearing spring will pass away;
The moon declining over the pool will sink anon.

The moon declining sinks into a heavy mist;
It's a long way between southern rivers and eastern seas.
How many can go home by moonlight who are missed?
The sinking moon sheds yearning o'er riverside trees.

春江花月夜

张若虚

春江潮水连海平，海上明月共潮生。

滟滟随波千万里，何处春江无月明！  

江流宛转绕芳甸，月照花林皆似霰；

空里流霜不觉飞，汀上白沙看不见。  

江天一色无纤尘，皎皎空中孤月轮。

江畔何人初见月？ 江月何年初照人？  

人生代代无穷已，江月年年望相似。

不知江月待何人，但见长江送流水。  

白云一片去悠悠，青枫浦上不胜愁。

谁家今夜扁舟子？何处相思明月楼？

可怜楼上月徘徊，应照离人妆镜台。

玉户帘中卷不去，捣衣砧上指还来。

此时相望不相闻，愿逐月华流照君。

鸿雁长飞光不度，鱼龙潜跃水成文。

昨夜闲潭梦落花，可怜春半不还家。

江水流春去欲尽，江潭落月复西斜。

斜月沉沉藏海雾，碣石潇湘无限路。

不知乘月几人归? 落月摇情满江树。

JOKE:The Mexican smuggler

Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders.

The guard stops him and says, "What''s in the bags?" "Sand," answered Juan. The guard says, "We'll just see about that get off the bike." The guard takes the bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.

He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man''s shoulders, and lets him cross the border. A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got?" "Sand," says Juan. The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand.He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle. This sequence of events if repeated every day for three years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a Cantina in Mexico. "Hey, Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about..... I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?" Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."

Daily English: independent

每日英语Daily English

每日一词

independent　 (a.) 独立的

She loves the freedom of independent travel.svE中国英语学习网
她喜爱自助旅行自由的感觉。

每日一句

Sorry, I put my foot in my mouth.svE中国英语学习网
对不起，我说错话了

　　这就是当你说了不该说的话时，突然发觉你说错话了，就会这么说。有一次我跟老美在聊天，他跟我说某某人是 Jerk（俚语：A dull, stupid, or fatuous person），想不到他一回头，那人就在我们旁边。他就很快说了一句，"I put my foot in my mouth."（本句选自《小笨霖英语笔记本》） 。svE中国英语学习网

每日对话

Elaine: Oh, no! My stub! I can't believe it―I flushed it down the toilet! [Elaine exits the stall, and sees Mark]svE中国英语学习网
Mark: Excuse me, ma'am! You parked in the handicapped spot.svE中国英语学习网
Elaine: But, but...it was really an emergency! And, my stub...svE中国英语学习网
Mark: Don't tell me you lost it.svE中国英语学习网
Elaine: Ah, umm, kind of.svE中国英语学习网
Mark: That was quick.svE中国英语学习网
Elaine: Well, I, umm, I flushed it...

伊莲：喔，惨了！我的停车卡！我真不敢相信――我居然把它冲进马桶里了！（伊莲离开厕所，看到马克）svE中国英语学习网
马克：抱歉，女士！您把车停在残障停车位上了。svE中国英语学习网
伊莲：但是，但……这真的是非常紧急的事！而且，我的停车卡……svE中国英语学习网
马克：别告诉我，您弄丢了。svE中国英语学习网
伊莲：啊，嗯，可以这么说。svE中国英语学习网
马克：真是迅速啊。svE中国英语学习网
伊莲：这个，我，嗯，我把它冲掉了……

重点解说：

1、 flush (v.) 冲水；形容词是flushing；flush toilet则是指「抽水马桶」svE中国英语学习网
2、 Kind of 可以这么说。

The duck and condom

Two ducks go on their honeymoon and stay in a hotel. As they are about to make love, the male duck says, ''Oh, we haven't got any condoms. I'll ring down to room service.'' He calls and asks for some condoms.

The woman says, ''OK sir, would you like to put them on your bill?''

''No,'' he says, ''I'll suffocate!''

JOKE:1,000 Valentine's Day cards

A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them. His curiosity gets the better of him and he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he's doing.

"I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine's Day cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

"But why?" asks the man.

"I'm a divorce lawyer."

A true letter in company: Becoming a Goal Driven Organization

Message to all ****(company name) Colleagues

When you listen to the music of a symphony orchestra playing a beautiful masterpiece, you might wonder why everything works so perfectly to produce such spectacular sounds. The reason for this is that everyone is playing for a common set of musical instructions and they all have the same set of overall goals and each of their individual goals supports each others goals.  The woodwinds support the strings, which in turn support the horns which in turn support the percussions. All individual goals work together to support the overall goal.

There are many similarities between a symphony orchestra and a successful enterprise. There is a direct correlation to a company's ability to set goals and objectives and to manage performance against these.

 We have begun a goal setting process for ****(company name) and will roll this effort out over the next few weeks. I have personally established five key goals, which I will use to measure my individual success. These goals are in addition to our collective team goals related to our finances.  Each member of the executive leadership team has also established goals, which support my personal goals and goals for ****(company name). My goals focus on the following key areas:

 

§  Client Acquisition, Retention and Satisfaction

§  Leadership

§  External Relations

§  Strategy

§  Internal Communication and productivity

 Over the next few weeks, we will be cascading this goal setting process across the entire organization. You will be asked to develop 2008 individual goals. As you go through this process, think about goals that you can commit to which will support the goals of your individual leader and ****(company name) as a whole.  This process will help everyone at ****(company name) align with each other and enable us to accomplish great things.

 We will set goals at all levels with all colleagues and we will measure these against our performance regularly.

 This goal setting process will become an ongoing process at ****(company name) and will be an integral part of our culture and the way we do business.

 
Becoming a Goal driven organization will help ****(company name) as we continue to grow and become famous in the market place.

 
Best wishes for a successful 2008!

JOKE:Sex Therapy - Florida Style

A Florida couple, both well into their 80s, go to a sex therapist's office.

The doctor asks, "What can I do for you?"

The man says, "Will you watch us have sexual intercourse?"

The doctor raises both eyebrows, but he is so amazed that such an elderly couple is asking for sexual advice that he agrees.

When the couple finishes, the doctor says, "There's absolutely nothing wrong with the way you have intercourse." He thanks them for coming, he wishes them good luck, he charges them $50 and he says goodbye.

The next week, however, the couple returns and asks the sex therapist to watch again. The sex therapist is a bit puzzled, but agrees.

This happens several weeks in a row. The couple makes an appointment, has intercourse with no problems, pays the doctor, then leave.

Finally, after 5 or 6 weeks of this routine, the doctor says, "I'm sorry, but I have to ask. Just what are you trying to find out?"

The old man says, "We're not trying to find out anything. She's married and we can't go to her house. I'm married and we can't go to my house. The Holiday Inn charges $98. The Hilton charges $139. We do it here for $50, and I get $43 back from Medicare...!

JOKE:A wise old gentleman

A wise old gentleman retired and purchased a modest home near a junior high school. He spent the first few weeks of his retirement in peace and contentment. Then a new school year began. The very next afternoon three young boys, full of youthful, after-school enthusiasm, came down his street, beating merrily on every trash can they encountered. The crashing percussion continued day after day, until finally the wise old man decided it was time to take some action.

The next afternoon, he walked out to meet the young percussionists as they banged their way down the street. Stopping them, he said, "You kids are a lot of fun. I like to see you express your exuberance like that. In fact, I used to do the same thing when I was your age. Will you do me a favor? I'll give you each a dollar if you'll promise to come around every day and do your thing."

The kids were elated and continued to do a bang-up job on the trashcans.

After a few days, the old-timer greeted the kids again, but this time he had a sad smile on his face. "This recession's really putting a big dent in my income," he told them. "From now on, I'll only be able to pay you 50 cents to beat on the cans."

The noisemakers were obviously displeased, but they accepted his offer and continued their afternoon ruckus. A few days later, the wily retiree approached them again as they drummed their way down the street.

"Look," he said, "I haven't received my Social Security check yet, so I'm not going to be able to give you more than 25 cents. Will that be okay?"

"A freakin' quarter?" the drum leader exclaimed. "If you think we're going to waste our time, beating these cans around for a quarter, you're nuts! No way, dude. We quit!" And the old man enjoyed peace and serenity for the rest of his days.

Survival of Cantonese People & Language ---- a debate in ChinaHistroyForum

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Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 12:50 AM Post #1
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	Is the survival of Cantonese people and the language possible? Personally, I really don't know..lol Well the only countries or cities that teach Cantonese is Hong Kong, Macao and some overseas chinese communities(ie US, Canada, UK, Australia, Malaysia, etc). Guangdong province, the birth of the Cantonese(plus the non-cantonese: Guangdong Hakka and Teo Chiu) language, culture and people ...doesn't even teach it anymore(i don't know since when?! does anyone know?). In addition, many of the Chinese who live overseas will eventually loose their language and Chinese(Cantonese) will die out. Hong Kong and Macao seems to be the only places that teach & practice cantonese language & culture..and there are even many westerners who live there who can speak Standard Cantonese : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaNpyX29fo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs5CWBXm-JA...ted&search= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rst3xh3h_1Y...ted&search= Solutions: for some people, it's Hong Kong independance. This post has been edited by Andy Lau: Feb 11 2007, 12:57 AM

somechineseperso... somechineseperson View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 04:18 PM Post #2
Grand Marshal (Da Sima/Taiwei 大司马/太尉) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 1,450 Joined: 18-January 05 Member No.: 398 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Philosophy Specialisation/Expertise: Chinese Philosophy, Christianity	No one is going to change the policy to officially teach Cantonese in Hong Kong. Personally, I'd say there are greater things to worry about at this point (not to say Cantonese is not important). Cantonese is still a sub-variant of Han language and culture in general. We need to have a way to preserve the essence of Han language and culture even among overseas Hanren no matter how many generations they have lived outside China. I mean Han language and culture in a more general sense, transcending local variations. I actually think Religion is a good vehicle for the preservation of language and culture. The Muslims, because of their religion, never lose their language and culture no matter where they go for example. I think sometimes people exaggerate the difference between Cantonese and Mandarin. The truth is, linguistically speaking northern and southern Han dialects are still far closer to each other than each of them is to non-Han languages in the north and the south respectively.

somechineseperso... somechineseperson View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 04:20 PM Post #3
Grand Marshal (Da Sima/Taiwei 大司马/太尉) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 1,450 Joined: 18-January 05 Member No.: 398 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Philosophy Specialisation/Expertise: Chinese Philosophy, Christianity	Hong Kong independence is certainly not the way to go in my opinion. The biggest threat to Cantonese language and culture does not come from mainland China, but from the waves of Western globalisation. Chinese people now more than ever need to unite more in the cultural sense.

Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 05:52 PM Post #4
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	QUOTE(somechineseperson @ Feb 11 2007, 05:20 PM) [snapback]4875492[/snapback] Hong Kong independence is certainly not the way to go in my opinion. The biggest threat to Cantonese language and culture does not come from mainland China, but from the waves of Western globalisation. Chinese people now more than ever need to unite more in the cultural sense. I agree w/ unity..but preservation of local variants is also essential too. Ok..Cantonese won't die out in Guangdong...cuz of Hk. But how about Shanghainese..the gov't is prohibiting the usage of it on television and radio?

YuenKamSiu View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 07:11 PM Post #5
General of the Guard (Hujun Zhongwei/Jinjun Tongshuai 护军中尉/禁军统帅) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 109 Joined: 22-November 06 Member No.: 5,101	Cantonese will most likely never die out but what about Taishanese or Teochew? Aren't these dialects faced with an even greater dilemna?

Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 11 2007, 08:07 PM Post #6
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	QUOTE(YuenKamSiu @ Feb 11 2007, 08:11 PM) [snapback]4875504[/snapback] Cantonese will most likely never die out but what about Taishanese or Teochew? Aren't these dialects faced with an even greater dilemna? Well as a Taishanese person/speaker, i know it is going to die(even other cantonese dialects, such as Zhongshan hua, Shunde hua, etc) in a couple of centuries from now, to be replaced by Standard Cantonese(Guangzhou or Hong Kong variant) or maybe Mandarin. Since many Taishanese can understand Standard Cantonese quite well, we don't see the Standard alien. Taishanese is a dialect of Cantonese...so it's not really a threat. I am not Teochew..so i can't say anything on their behalf. The protection of a Standard Local dialect (ie: Shanghainese would be the representaion of Standard Wu) is essential, as Mandarin is to the Northern people above the Yangtze River. If Sun Yat Sen made Standard Cantonese the official language of China(which was very possible..since more than half of the MP's were Cantonese), the people from the far North would be complaining like i am(including Hokkien and Hakka speakers in Taiwan) presently. This post has been edited by Andy Lau: Feb 11 2007, 08:16 PM

Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 12 2007, 12:43 AM Post #7
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	What i don't understand is why doesn't the PRC Gov't in Peking want to change the official language policy in Hong Kong; where Cantonese and English are the official language only(not mandarin)? and where in the rest of China...mandarin is a must. This post has been edited by Andy Lau: Feb 12 2007, 12:47 AM

Richard Lim View Member Profile	Feb 12 2007, 07:34 AM Post #8
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Moderator Posts: 592 Joined: 27-December 06 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 5,591 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese History	QUOTE(Andy Lau @ Feb 12 2007, 01:43 AM) [snapback]4875542[/snapback] What i don't understand is why doesn't the PRC Gov't in Peking want to change the official language policy in Hong Kong; where Cantonese and English are the official language only(not mandarin)? and where in the rest of China...mandarin is a must. H Andy, Contrary to of media hype, the PRC government in Peking does not administer HK; the HK SAR government does and is supposed to do so until 2047. The move to have more mandarin education in HK was largely a pragmatic (also admittedly ideological) move initiated by local HK people in recent years. It has been premised on the growing importance of mainland China in the region and in the world. I know of no evidence of overt imposition from Peking nor does anyone think that this would be forthcoming in the short to medium term. Best, Richard -------------------- 三人行，必有我� 正心、修身、�家、治�、平天下

Publius View Member Profile	Feb 12 2007, 09:30 AM Post #9
Grand Marshal (Da Sima/Taiwei 大司马/太尉) Group: Admin Posts: 1,273 Joined: 28-August 06 From: Rockford, MI Member No.: 3,869 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese History Specialisation/Expertise: General Chinese History and Culture	In a sense, lesser known languages will become less and less used because other languages are more practical for communication. It's not because one language is "better" than another language, but one is more understood by a wider audience and, hence, is more effective. Progressing science/technology and an ever-growing global community increase the value of English and Hanyu Chinese for economic, political, and not to mention plain practical purposes, eg a German visits France and speaks to a Frenchman in English. There is a reason why CHF is in English... Hopefully, those who speak lesser known languages will continue to use them and retain their cultural heritage, but language evolution is against them. -------------------- Avatar compliments of Lord Yoda Please nominate your favourite threads on the "Forum Favourites" thread.

Ryz05 View Member Profile	Feb 12 2007, 11:18 PM Post #10
General of the Guard (Hujun Zhongwei/Jinjun Tongshuai 护军中尉/禁军统帅) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 118 Joined: 9-April 05 Member No.: 753	Unless more and more cantonese speakers marry mandarin speakers and producing only mandarin speaking children, then cantonese will die out. However, as there are so many television programs and songs in cantonese, the dialect will last for a long time. The cultural prevalence of cantonese promotes the dialect in a sense.

Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 12:07 AM Post #11
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	actually..it depends on where the couple decides to live. If a cantonese speaker marries a mandarin speaker and lives in HK, Macao or Guangdong...most likely the child will speak cantonese at home and w/ frds. If they live in Taiwan or somewhere else in the mainland besides Guangdong province +hk + macao, mostly likely the child will speak Mandarin at home + outside. If overseas..most likely Cantonese or both. I have an uncle who went to Beijing for his studies(University) and married a beijinger and came to Montreal(in the 70's) and surprisingly she can speak Taishanese very well(with abit of an accent)..lol This post has been edited by Andy Lau: Feb 13 2007, 12:10 AM

Ryz05 View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 12:10 AM Post #12
General of the Guard (Hujun Zhongwei/Jinjun Tongshuai 护军中尉/禁军统帅) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 118 Joined: 9-April 05 Member No.: 753	QUOTE(Andy Lau @ Feb 13 2007, 01:07 AM) [snapback]4875728[/snapback] actually..it depends on where the couple decides to live. If a cantonese marries a mandarin person and lives in HK, Macao or Guangdong...most likely the child will speak cantonese at home and w/ frds. If they live in Taiwan or somewhere else in the mainland besides Guangdong province +hk + macao, mostly likely the child will speak Mandarin at home + outside. If overseas..most likely Cantonese or both. I have an uncle who went to Beijing for his studies(University) and married a beijinger and came to Montreal(in the 70's) and surprisingly she can speak Taishanese very well(with abit of an accent)..lol So as long as the child speaks cantonese, the dialect will survive. Nothing to worry about, especially with the advent of television and cantonese pop.

Andy Lau View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 12:12 AM Post #13
State Undersecretary (Shangshu Lang 尚书郎) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 688 Joined: 14-September 06 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 4,115 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Ethnicities,Peoples Specialisation/Expertise: Southern Chinese Dialects and People	but i don't know what's the case in Guangdong actually..there's like over 30 million migrant workers residing in Guangdong from outside Guangdong who speak mandarin. Look at Shenzhen..the majority r non-locals... What'S going to happen when they form the majority in GZ. This post has been edited by Andy Lau: Feb 13 2007, 12:13 AM

Ryz05 View Member Profile	Feb 13 2007, 12:17 AM Post #14
General of the Guard (Hujun Zhongwei/Jinjun Tongshuai 护军中尉/禁军统帅) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 118 Joined: 9-April 05 Member No.: 753	QUOTE(Andy Lau @ Feb 13 2007, 01:12 AM) [snapback]4875730[/snapback] but i don't know what's the case in Guangdong actually..there's like over 30 million migrant workers residing in Guangdong from outside Guangdong who speak mandarin. Look at Shenzhen..the majority r non-locals... What'S going to happen when they form the majority in GZ. I don't believe most migrant workers in Guangdong speak mandarin. It is more likely that they came from the surrounding regions, the rural areas outside Guangdong. Also, standard mandarin is mostly spoken in Beijing and surrounding areas, which are too far from Guangdong.

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Feb 13 2007, 04:44 PM Post #15

Grand Marshal (Da Sima/Taiwei 大司马/太尉) Group: Entry Scholar (Xiucai) Posts: 1,450 Joined: 18-January 05 Member No.: 398 Main Interest in CHF: Chinese Philosophy Specialisation/Expertise: Chinese Philosophy, Christianity

QUOTE(Publius @ Feb 12 2007, 03:30 PM) [snapback]4875595[/snapback] In a sense, lesser known languages will become less and less used because other languages are more practical for communication. It's not because one language is "better" than another language, but one is more understood by a wider audience and, hence, is more effective. Progressing science/technology and an ever-growing global community increase the value of English and Hanyu Chinese for economic, political, and not to mention plain practical purposes, eg a German visits France and speaks to a Frenchman in English. There is a reason why CHF is in English... Hopefully, those who speak lesser known languages will continue to use them and retain their cultural heritage, but language evolution is against them. It's not so simple. I know in Western philosophy you like to have a simplistic linear view of everything, as if evolution is always "just in one direction" (nevermind what that actually means), but the way of the universe tends to be quasi-cyclic, "long united, it will divide, long divided, it will unite". The "end of history" will never ever come. I'm sorry to say this, but I think this view is literally delusional. The Americans may in their arrogance think their political and cultural institutions will forever rule the world for an eternity, but one day they will fall too, just like every great empire fell before them.