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1、Your heart beats will never increase in anticipation of meeting your friend. You will not lie awake at night thinking about your friend. You will not feel totally lost, if you dont meet your friend for a few days. You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend. But in love, you wil

2、l do all this and much more. Indeed, there is no comparison between love and friendship.Learning of ValueI saw something a bit disturbing last week. I had to stop at a drugstore to pick something up, and while there I saw a kid about thirteen years up buy a Monster drink, about 24 ounces of caffeine

3、 fix. That in itself saddened me, to think that this kid has been seduced by marketers and peers to think that a caffeine fix is a positive thing in life. I was shocked, though, to see the price affixed to the can: $3.49. This kid was spending more on one drink than anyone making minimum wage earns

4、in half an hour of work-and I feel taken when I have to pay $1.19 for a large soda at a gas station when Im traveling. I couldnt help but think that this kid never had been taught of the value of money, and of the concept of exchanging the money for something of comparable value.I see this principal

5、 all over as I go through my day. I see rims on car wheels that cost upwards of $500, just for a little bit of decoration on a vehicle. I see people spend four or five dollars for a cup of coffee, hundreds of dollars for cell phones that they almost never use, thousands of dollars on huge television

6、 sets that they almost never watch. All around us are ads and commercials that keep us wanting to buy things that keep us dissatisfied with the way things are, and those ads and commercials are trying to convince us that if we just buy some more stuff-no matter what the cost-well be happier and more

7、 content.But somewhere along the line we have to learn to make our own decisions about value. Theres a common law of economics that states that many poor people will stay poor because of the decisions that they make about how to spend their money. How many people have you known or known of, for exam

8、ple, who have little money yet who buy a very expensive car with high monthly payments? And how many people are in trouble right now because they bought houses that were more expensive than they could afford?While I wouldnt say that the answer to our money issues would be to skimp and save every pen

9、ny and never have any fun in life, it is important that we learn about value and about when to spend how much. A few years ago, for example, my wife and I had cell phones. At the time I worked half an hour from home, I was on the road with sports teams a lot, and my wife also was on the road quite a

10、 bit. The cell phones made sense, even though we didnt use them much-at least we knew that if anything happened, we could contact one another.Then we moved someplace where we didnt need the phones any more, for we both worked close to one another and we werent on the road much. Suddenly, the $75 eve

11、ry month to keep the phones made no sense, so we got rid of them. They were now just a luxury item, no longer as necessary as they were before. They simply didnt have the same value that they had had before. And even though it had been quite convenient to make an occasional phone call from wherever

12、I happened to be, that convenience was no longer worth the amount of money we would have had to pay to maintain it.Its unfortunate that money is such a huge part of our lives, and that it affects our lives so very strongly. But thats the way things are, so the best that we can do is learn to define

13、the value of our money for ourselves and to exchange our money for goods and services that have equal or even greater value. While a woman I know who is broke can go out and spend almost a hundred dollars on a new hairdo, I know that she really cant afford it, and that its value is not nearly as muc

14、h as she thinks it is. When my wife and I go on vacation in a few weeks and spend $400 on a hotel room in Yosemite National Park, though-which is much more than weve ever spent on a hotel room before-we both have considered the cost, the location, and the reasons for our vacation, and we both agree

15、that there is great value in the price that well pay.Money is here, and its a part of our lives. We can live with it and have it work for us, or we can squander it and lose it and become angry and frustrated with our loss. The choice is ours, but one thing is for sure-the path to happiness doesnt li

16、e in exchanging our money for goods or services of little value; rather, we need to make sure that the money we spend is money well spent. Only then can we avoid the resentment and frustration that will come over having wasted money when we didnt need to.写好英文作文的20个秘诀Agreement: 主语和谓语在人称、数上的一致，关系代词与先行

17、词的一致。 Ambiguity: 尽量不去使用可能引起歧义的词语或句子。Brief: 文章简为贵，要抓住要点，简明扼要。Coherence: 文理通顺，前后连贯。Development: 主题的发挥应当充分、合理、正确。Division: 词汇、句子、段落要分配使用得当，划分要清楚，避免使用重复字句和种子片段。Figures: 正确合理使用各类修辞格式。Inflated diction: 不使用做作的语言。Key: 用适当的关键词突出主题，每段都应有主题句。Logical: 内容要符合逻辑。Message: 信息要新鲜、确实、可信。Omit: 合理删除多余的不必要部分。Proposition:

18、 主张、观点、论述要清楚肯切、合情入理。Punctuation: 正确适时使用标点符号。Relevant: 文章一定要要题。Sentence pattern: 句型要尽量多样化。Strait: 开门见山，直来直去。Style: 文体恰切，适合内容要求。Tense: 动词时态要正确、一致、变化合理。Theme: 选题得当，主题突出。英文写作的黄金三定律 作者: . | 发布日期: 2010-10-7 21:06:19 | 分享到：人们进行写作的一般目的是向读者传递信息、介绍情况,或阐述作者对某一主题所持的观点,用英文写作也不例外。为让读者更好地理解所传递的信息,使用英文进行写作时,行文一定要注意

19、做到清晰、准确、简洁这三点,这就是公认的英文写作“黄金三定律”。定律之一:清晰文章的清晰体现在读者能够很容易理解作者讲述的内容。为保证所写文章清晰明了,写作时有两点一定要加以注意:一是越确切具体越好。在这一方面,作者首先应明确了解自己所要传达的信息、读者的范围及特点,然后再选择相关信息,采用某种文体格式传递给读者。也就是说,写作必须要以特定读者为对象,以让读者能够明确接受作者所传递的信息为宗旨。尽量以客观陈述为主,少主观臆测推断;尽量明确无误表达,少模棱两可评论,这是使文章清晰确切的写作准则。二是组织结构富有逻辑性。文章结构富逻辑性会让读者很轻松地读懂作者要表达的思想内容。文章的这种逻辑性可以

20、通过采用从一般到具体、从“全景”到细节、从问题的定义到分析再到提出解决方案等多种方式来体现。定律之二:准确要使文章语义表达准确,首先要尽量不要在学术文章中出现“大概、也许”之类模棱两可的词语,避免出现容易让人困惑和误解的词语和表达法;其次,要尽量避免使用那些有多种含义的词语和表达法。例如:Singapore is a fine country这句话中的fine一词有多种含义,如“好的、细小的、罚款”等。日常生活中这样使用没有问题,但在写作时一定要避免使用这种容易产生歧义的多义词。定律之三:简洁直截了当、切中要点是保证文章简洁的最好写作形式。与中文写作相比,英文写作非常强调直奔主题、简单明快的写

21、作风格。例如,在写作一个段落时,常常将概括段落主要内容的主题句（topic sentence）作为段落的首句,以便让读者迅速明确本段要讲述的内容。另外,写作时尽量将每个句子写得简短一些,少用或不用冗长的复合句。切记:短小精练的句子表达的意思才强而有力。A Story of HopeTwo men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from

22、his lungs. His bed was next to the rooms only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afte

23、rnoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and co

24、lor of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyli

25、ne could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldnt hear

26、 the band - he could see it in his minds eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She

27、 was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped h

28、imself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responde