英语美文15.docx

1、英语美文15生活是奇迹,不要让它溜走Life is a miracle, dont let it slip away,Open your heart to others; give of yourself each day.生活就是一个奇迹，不要让它溜走，向别人打开你的心扉，奉献自己每一天。See the beauty in everyone regardless of where theyve been,Some have a difficult journey and really need a friend.要看到每个人的美丽所在，无论他们去过哪里，有些人曾经艰难旅程，确实需要朋友。Sh

2、are your gifts and talents; listen with your heart.Do the things you dream about but dont have time to start.分享你的天赋和才能，用心倾听。做你一直梦想，但没有时间开始的事情。Pick a bouquet of flowers; show someone that you care,Be gracious and forgiving; life is never fair.挑一束鲜花；向他人表达你的关心，要仁慈宽容，生活从来没有公平。Hold on to your courage, yo

3、u may need it down the road,We all have a cross to bear; it could be a heavy load.永远不要失去勇气，前行路上需要勇气，我们都背负一个十字架，它或许是一个沉重的负担。If you practice all these things no matter where you roam,You may find both sun and rain, but youll never feel alone.无论身在何处，如果你能践行所有这些理念，你就会发现不管日晒雨淋，你永远不会感到孤单。范玮琪和陈建州婚期将至Ten yea

4、rs can wear down a romantic relationship, or it can let love blossom.十年的时间究竟是可以消耗掉一段浪漫的感情，还是可以让爱开花结果呢？For Taiwan singer Christine Fan , its the latter. Her 10-year love affair is about to culminate in a wedding.对于台湾女歌手范玮琪来说，答案无疑是后者。她长达十年的爱情长跑终于要在婚礼中走向高潮了。As for the ceremony, the star has the simples

5、t taste. She wants to wear flat shoes, have some snacks and chat with close friends.对于婚礼仪式，这位明星有着最为简单的偏好。她希望穿着平底鞋，吃着零食，然后和密友们聊聊天。“I ll let my boyfriend Blackie take care of every thing,” said Fan with typical humor. “I only have to make sure I show up on time.”“我会把所有的事情交给我男朋友黑人来筹办，”她用典型的范范式幽默说道。“我只需

6、要按时出席就好。”Like her burgeoning romance, this superstars singing career is also on the rise. Her new best-selling album Love & Fanfan is both a witness to their 10-year love affair and her own philosophy.就如同她生机勃勃的情感世界一样，这位明星的歌唱事业也蒸蒸日上。她的最新畅销专辑Love & Fanfan在见证她与黑人十年爱情长跑的同时，也见证了她自己独有的人生哲学。The lyrics of t

7、he albums title song The Most Important Decision speaks her mind.这张专辑的主打歌最重要的决定的歌词正好道出了范范的心声。“You have a bunch of shortcomings. You become so *stubborn that even the fairy *stomps her feet in anger.范范唱道：“你还是有一堆毛病改不掉。拗起来气得仙女都跳脚。”“But life is far from being perfect, and you are my most important decis

8、ion in life,” Fan sings.“可是人生完美的事太少，你是我最重要的决定。”Instead of seeking perfection and glory, the singer seems to always enjoy a peaceful way of life.比起寻求完美和荣誉，这位歌手似乎一直都很享受一种平静的生活方式。Her music reflects her simple style of dressing. And she has one simple reason for selecting her Mr Right.她的音乐反映出她简约的穿衣风格。对于

9、真命天子的选择，她的理由十分简单。Fan admitted: “Hes just a *quick-witted and smart-talking guy who never bores me.”范范补充说：“他就是那个机智聪明会说话，永远不会让我觉得无聊的人。”故事开始在10年前，由篮球运动员转行作主持人的陈建州遇到了那时还是默默无闻的歌手范玮琪。她刚刚从美国留学回来。他惊讶于她竟然那么瘦，而她成为了他理想的女孩。Their relationship went official when Chen carried Fan on his back out of her home during

10、 a flood.他们的恋情曝光于一场洪灾期间，陈建州背着范范走出她的家。They had a seven years *itch, but survived it when Chen proposed to Fan during an NBA game last year.他们也有过七年之痒，不过当陈建州在去年的一场NBA比赛中向范范求婚时，他们的感情也安然度过了危险期。As Chen said: “Regardless of ups and downs, we are still together. Were just like a *compass and she is the cent

11、er point. My life has no direction without her.”就像陈建州说的一样：“不管起起落落，我们始终在一起。我们就像是圆规而她就是圆心。没有了她，我的生活就失去了方向。”这样的面试题你会几道？ With about five candidates for every job opening these days, some responsible for hiring decisions have resorted to desperate measures in their efforts to narrow the field. Researcher

12、s at career site G culled through tens of thousands of queries reported by job seekers who had done their best to come up with answers on the spot, and selected the oddest interview questions of the past 15 months. 由于目前美国每个空缺职位平均有约5名候选人，一些负责做出招聘决定的人员开始采用极端招数来缩小候选人范围。招聘网站G的研究人员梳理了上万个由求职者提供的、曾在面试过程中绞尽

13、脑汁试图回答的问题，从中选出过去15个月最古怪的面试问题。 Luckily for beleaguered candidates, the interviewers seemed in most cases to be more interested in how people responded - that is, in hearing their thought process, and seeing how well they kept their cool - than in receiving a correct response. A sampling of Glassdoors

14、 list, and where the question was asked: 对于倍感困扰的求职者，幸运的一点是多数情况下面试官更感兴趣的是求职者如何应对即听到他们的思考过程，以及他们是否能保持冷静而不是求职者能否给出“正确的”答案。下面是Glassdoor整理的一些古怪的面试问题以及提问的公司： Given the numbers 1 to 1,000, what is the minimum number of guesses needed to find a specific number, if you are given the hint higher or lower for

15、each guess you make? - Facebook “在数字1-1,000中，如果每猜一次，都告诉你是高了、还是低了。要猜中一个数字，至少要猜多少次？”Facebook Using a scale of 1 to 10, rate yourself on how weird you are. - Capital One (COF) “用1-10分制来打分，你认为你的古怪程度是几分？”Capital One Explain quantum electrodynamics in two minutes, starting now. - Intel (INTC) “用两分钟时间解释一下量

16、子电动力学，现在开始。”英特尔公司（Intel） How many balloons would fit in this room? - PricewaterhouseCoopers “这个房间能装下几个气球？”普华永道（PricewaterhouseCoopers） If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out? - Goldman Sachs (GS) “假如你被缩小到一支铅笔大小，并被放入一个搅拌机里，你怎么跑出来？” 高盛公司（Goldman Sachs） Y

17、ou have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have? - Epic Systems “有一束花。除两朵外都是玫瑰，除两朵外都是菊花，除两朵外都是郁金香。一共有几朵花？”Epic Systems一切美好的根源One day I decided to plant a garden in our backyard, and my husband began to paint our w

18、eathered fence. Were renters, not owners, and were growing tired of waiting for the day when we would be able to buy something, so we began turning our house into a place we could call home.一天，我决定在我们的后院里栽种花木，建一个花园，而我的丈夫开始给我们那因日晒雨淋而褪色的栅栏刷上油漆。我们是这套房子的租客，不是房主，但我们越来越厌倦等待有钱买房的那天到来，于是我们开始把这套房子变成我们可以称之为“家”

19、的地方。But its not just our house that weve become committed toits our neighborhood and our neighbors, not to mention our city. The more people we get to know here and the more friends we make, the more we grow interested in local politics and come to care about what happens to our community. For examp

20、le, a newspaper article about the future of dog parks in our city means something more to us now that we use those parks and have friends that value and enjoy them as well.但我们不仅仅对租来的房子投入了感情，还融入到周围的街区和邻居们当中，对于我们所在的这座城市，我们更是以心相许。我们在这里认识的人以及结交的朋友越多，我们就越是对本地的政治感兴趣，越是关心我们社区里发生的事情。比如，我们格外关心一篇关于我们这座城市未来的遛狗

21、公园的新闻报道，因为我们会去那些公园，而且我们有朋友同样重视这些公园，享受它们带来的乐趣。Weve also taken on new responsibilities: I started volunteering at the citys animal shelter, and my husband has been volunteering for a nonprofit art gallery. Being involved in this way has given each of us an increased sense of purpose and strengthened o

22、ur ties to the place we live.我们也承担了新的职责：我开始在市里的动物庇护所里当志愿者，我丈夫也一直在一个非营利性的艺廊当义工。用这种方式参与到这座城市里增强了我们每个人的使命感，巩固了我们和我们所居住的地方的联系。But its not just the things that you can add to your resume that matter. Im happy to be able to help out an elderly woman I see struggling with her bag. I know Ive done something

23、 good when I knock on a neighbors door and let her know her car lights are still on. I feel Ive done my part when I find a lost dog wandering in the neighborhood and return him to his relieved owner.然而并不是唯有像做义工这种可以作为工作经验写进简历的事情才是重要的。当我看见一个老妇人艰难地拎着包，我很开心自己能够去帮助她；当我敲开邻居的门告诉她，她的车灯忘了熄，我知道我做了一件好事；当我在家附近发

24、现一只迷路的狗在外游荡，并把它归还给如释重负的狗主人时，我感觉自己尽到了作为这社区一份子的职责。No doubt it works the other way, too. As we come to care about the place we live, the people here grow to know and care about us. It feels good to know that when were out of town, our neighbors are picking up our mail and keeping an eye on our house fo

25、r us. It makes me smile when my husband and I go to our favorite Indian restaurant just across the bridge, and the owner already knows what Ill be ordering. Im excited when I see that new trees have been planted on our street by people in our neighborhood. We 1)beam with delight when a neighbor cong

26、ratulates us on my pregnancy.当然，这些行为也给我们带来了回报。随着我们开始关心我们所居住的社区，这里的人们也开始了解和关心我们。我们在外地时，邻居会帮我们接收信件、照看门户，那种感觉真的很好。当我和丈夫在桥对岸那间我们最喜欢的印度餐馆落座，而店主就已经知道我将点什么东西吃时，我总会欣然微笑；当看见街坊们在我们房子坐落的街道上栽种新树木，我会很兴奋；当一位邻居为我怀孕的事祝贺我们夫妇时，我们会眉开眼笑。This 2)symbiotic relationship were building with our community is exciting and insp

27、iring. As I watch new life sprouting up in my garden, I think about all the possibilities for laying down more roots to this place and growing along with itother projects Ill undertake, other neighbors I will get to know, the friendships we will cultivate. And as I think about the baby growing in my

28、 3)womb, I am 4)elated knowing we will be bringing a new persona new participantinto this community, a community hell call his hometown.我们和我们的社区建立起来的这种共生的关系，让我们备感兴奋和鼓舞。当我看着我的花园里萌发出来的新生命，我想到如果我们在这个地方扎下更多的根并和这个地方一起成长的所有可能性我会开展其他计划，我将认识其他邻居，我们将结下友谊。当我想着正在我子宫里成长着的宝宝时，我心怀喜悦地意识到我们正在把一个新人一个新的参与者带到这个他将称之为“家

29、园”的社区里。英语面试时必须了解的甜言蜜语1. What isimportant to you in a job?这个工作对你最重要的是什么?Challenge, the feeling of accomplishment, and knowing that you have made a contribution.它带来的挑战感,成就感以及为之做出贡献的满足.2. Why do you want to work for this organization?你为什么想到这来？Its reputation, the opportunities it offers, and the working

30、 conditions.它的名气,所提供的机会以及工作环境(都吸引我).3. Why should we employ you?我们为什么要雇佣你？My academic preparation, job skills, and enthusiasm about working for the firm.我的专业背景,工作能力以及为贵公司工作的热情.4. If we hire you, how long will you stay with us?你打算在我们这工作多久？As long as my position here allows me to learn and to advance

31、at a pace consistent with my abilities.只要职务随能力增长而相应提高(就不会走).5. What are your greatest strengths?你最大优点是什么?I can see what needs to be done and do it.我做事当机立断。I work well with others.我和他人容易共事。I can organize my time efficiently.我能有效地利用时间.6. What are your greatest weaknesses？最大缺点呢?I tend to drive myself too hard.我有时对自己要求过于严格。I expect others to perform beyond their capacities.我对别人的能力期望过高。I like to see a job done quickly.我喜欢速战速决全球十大热门畅销书经典名言精粹1、“There is no certainty, only opportunity.” V for Vendetta (2005) V (Hugo Weaving)没有一定会怎样，只有可能会怎样。V字仇杀队，V(雨果.威明)2、“A good plan today is better than a