成功地失败

<正>My day in the sun had arrived—my magnum~1 opus~2 would be revealed. I had just delivered a memorized speech that I had prepared for weeks, and I was about to learn how the panel~3judged my performance. A hush fell across the room. The drum rolled in my mind, anyway.我在阳光下的日子已经到来——我的杰作即将揭晓。我刚刚做了一场准备了好几个星期的演讲,马上就想知道评审小组是如何评价我的表现的。房间里一片寂静。无论如何,鼓声已经在我头脑中敲响了。     

卷发

<正>For years I fought with the bird’s nest that sat on top of my head—my curly hair.多年来我一直与头上的"鸟巢"——那一头卷发作斗争。Growing up in a Russian-Jewish home with parents who thought North American styling products were similar to illegal things,I was never allowed to put them in my hair.我在一个俄罗斯的犹太家庭中长大,父母都认为北美洲的造型产品与非法物品极为类     

静听花开的声音

<正>【案例背景】那天早晨,我与往常一样早早来到教室,等待孩子们一个个来到讲台旁上交家庭作业,一切都是那么平常。过了一会儿,侯馨雨(化名)迅速把作业本交了上来,上交的却是一篇英语日记。【案例过程】正当我想拿起红笔进行批改时,映入我眼帘的却是满纸的英文。这篇日记的题目是:My mother is awful.正文内容是这样写的:My mother is awful,because she lost my rabbit,the rabbit was very lovely.I love it.The rabbit had two long end two eyes,It’s so beavitful Rabbit ate apples...But I can’t belive it!My rabbit lost,I asked my mother,Can’t you lost my rabbit?She ashed,yes,I can,what?I fell awful I wanted to cry,who can tall me,where’s my rabbit.Oh,my god.     

善有善报

<正>I had a quick thirty-minute layover~1 in Detroit before heading home to Toronto.I rushed up the jetway~2,knowing that my gate was on the opposite end of the airport,I got there with five to spare and stood waiting for Group 3"to be called.在回多伦多的家之前,我在底特律短暂停留了30分钟。因为知道我的登机口在机场的另一端,我快步冲上登机道。我提前五分钟赶到了那里,站在那里等待(广播)呼叫到"第三组"。     

In Memory of Mr. Chen Zhanxiang

正In the 1980s,when China was experiencing the unprecedented tide of reform and opening-up which attracted worldwide attention,I had the honor of working along with Chen Zhanxiang,also known as Charles Chen,for many years after my studying in the UK.I was     

Believe in Yourself and You'll Succeed

<正>本期点评名师杨淑玲女,山东省汶上县汶上镇第二中学英语教师。在教学中认真钻研,大胆创新。有多年从教经历,经验丰富。!!!When I was very young,I was so shy that I never go out to play with other children.One day,my uncle’s son wanted to play football with me,but I was afraid that the ball maybe hit my head.So I refused him.My mother was a little angry.She told me that I must     

漂亮的粉红色自行车

<正>One hot summer day I was sitting on my porch~1 with a yellow shirt and flip-flops~2 to match.My hair was in two pigtails. I was dripping popsicle all over the ground.一个炎热的夏日,我坐在门廊上,穿着一件黄色衬衫和人字拖鞋。我扎着两条辫子,融化的冰棒滴了一地。My daddy pulled up in my uncle's big black truck. He came out with a pretty purple outfit short set and the matching flip-flops.     

The Omnidirectional Arata Isozaki

I should like to express my sincere admiration for Arata lsozaki. One of the world's leading architects, he has unveiled a constant succession of ambitious works. Being also from Kyushu, I have always felt a sense of kinship with Isozaki. It might be mentioned that the educational philosophy of modern Japan originated in Kyushu. Likewise, Japan's most famous private universities are Waseda and Keio. Shigenobu Okuma, who came from what is now Saga Prefecture, founded the former, and the latter was established by Yukichi Fukuzawa, who hailed from what is today Oita Prefecture. As for architects     

十投三中

<正>Mrs. Lane knew I needed help, and she found a way to help me.莱恩太太知道我需要帮助,她找到了一种方法来帮我。I’ve done almost every sport I can think of for almost as long as I can recall. So I’ve had a lot of coaches. And my best coach was my eighth grade math teacher, Mrs. Lane.从我记事起,我几乎做过每一项我能想到的运动,所以我有很多教练。我最好的教     

A Decodable Metaphysics

Arata Isozaki and I are contemporaries, and both of us studied in Tange's studio. That is why the "Arata Isozaki: Architecture, 1960-1990" exhibition gives me the feeling that I am looking back on my own times through a different pair of eyes. Inasmuch as architecture is something that expresses, whether consciously or unconsciously, the spirit of the age, one expects in the thirty-year record of an architect a broad range of themes and diverse ways of addressing those themes,