Virtuenever grows old. 美德常青。 Walls have ears. 隔墙有耳。 What is done cannot be undone. 覆水难收。 Wine in, truth out. 酒后吐真言。 You are only young once. 青春只有一...

1 be pulled down by: 意为“患......病而病倒”。 例句：Mozart was pulled down by anaphylactoid shock suddenly at 3 yesterday afternoon.莫扎特昨天下午三点多患过敏性休克而病倒。 2 be ...

In 1994 I wrote a letter. I stuck it in an envelope, put it away and completely forgot about it。 It wasn’t until we moved into our new home in 2006 that I found it again. It w...

By heart  熟记，背诵 I know all my friends‘ telephone numbers by heart. I never have to look in the telephone book. have a sweet tooth   爱吃甜食 I know you have a ...

  A vacationing American businessman, standing on the pier of a remote coastal fishing village in southern Mexico, watched as a small boat with just one young Mexican fisherma...

     The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied with tasks - no matter how meaningless - staves off negative emotion...

'I can‘t do that, it‘s more than my job‘s worth'. 早上去衙门口儿办事，需要复印材料，大厅里的复印机坏了，得到的答复是“机器中午才能修好，办公室内的打印机不能给外来人员使用。”；...

  We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into th...

Declining an Invitation 拒绝邀请 Some people find that saying 'no' to a friend is extremely hard sometimes. Are you this kind of person? If you are tied up and cannot go to your fr...

  My friend got married. His mother carried two bags of cotton from the countryside by bus and train to his city. After arriving at the city, there was still a long way to hi...