摘要:@@ Dear Friends, We have been sharing many thoughts and feelings through these columns in Overseas English since we began in July 2002. Some of these columns have been serious, others humorous.
摘要:@@ In 1994 I moved from Muswell Hill in the north of London to Wimbledon in the south-west. It was in Wimbledon that I finally came of age. It was there that I bought my first home, in a place called Southfields, beside Wimbledon Park on one side,and on the other, Wimbledon Common, a large area of woodlands and meadows and wild bog heather where you could walk or cycle to your hearts content.
摘要:@@ An Eagle sat perched (栖息) on a lofty(高高的)rock, keeping a sharp look-out for prey(猎物) . A huntsman, concealed in a cleft of the mountain and on the watch for game, spied him there and shot an Arrow at him.
摘要:@@ Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange.By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker(证券纪人) to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
摘要:@@ 1.The Rolling Stones 滚石乐队rn$84.1 millionrnIn 2002, when the Forty Licks tour began, the Stones were at Number Two on our list. What put them at Number One this year? The same thing that landed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the cover of Fortune: a tour that sold $212million in tickets, catalog sales in the millions, an exclusive deal with Best Buy for their Forty Licks DVDs and a live HBO special worth $5 million. Three million fans saw them, and each spent an average of eleven dollars on merchandise. "There are things we could do better, more efficiently,"says tour promoter Michael Cohl, who has worked with the band since 1989's SteelWheels tour. "Some of the guys on the road with us are in their fifties, and they hit the road with us every time - and that costs money.But we choose to be smart in other places."
摘要:@@ An Electric Meter of Erotic Emotionsrn测试爱情的电表rnHow do you know if someone really loves you?Believe it or not, technology developed to root out terrorists and other criminals may help answer questions of the heart. At least that's what New York-based company called V Entertainment claims. The software company has released its Love Detector software, a program for desktop PCs running Microsoft's Windows or on handheld computers that use.
摘要:@@ "What do you want to be?" his father asked Lei Yan. Lei Yah looked confused. It was a question he had never really understood or found answers to. He was only seven but already so many people had asked him the same question.He gazed into his father's eyes sensing the anger there. Lei Yan's parents often worried about him because he seemed to lack direction, as if he had no aims, unlike other boys, some of who wanted to be pilots, teachers, businessmen,movie stars, politicians and so on. But Lei Yan seemed to show no such inclination or interest.He seemed content playing with his toys and friends with no thought for the future.
摘要:@@ "Long time no see"is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend's email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.
摘要:@@ Dear Friends,rnOur past columns have been filled with a variety of topics. They have included es-says, proverbs, jokes, and even a few of my poems. Now it is time for an original shortstory written especially for you in this magazine. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as Ienjoyed writing it.
摘要:@@ Nickname Sting for the black and yellow striped1 sweater he would wear while performing,Gordon Sumner was raised in the bleak2 industrial town of Newcastle by a hairdresser mother and milkman father.
摘要:Pictures You Can Walk through 可以穿越的图片 A unique new projection platform-fog-will allow viewers to walk through images on display. The fog screen, developed by researchers at Tampere University of Technology in Finland, injects digital data into a laminar (薄片状的 ), nonturbulent (非扰动的) airflow, creating a thin and swiftly flowing wall that viewers can simply walk through. The fog screen could find wide applications in advertising, science museum displays, public presentations, training, and gaming.……
摘要:@@ Comparatively little is known of the Persians before the sixth century B.C. Up to that time they appear to have led an obscure and peaceful existence on the eastern shore of the Persian Gulf. Their homeland afforded only modest advantages. On the east it was hemmed in by high mountains, and its coast line was destitute of harbors. The fertile valleys of the interior, however, were capable of providing a generous subsistence for a limited population. Save for the development of an elaborate religion, the people had made little progress. They had no system of writing, but they did have a spoken language closely related to Sanskrit and to the languages of ancient and modern Europe. It is for this reason alone and not because of race that they are accurately referred to as an Indo-European people. At the dawn of their history they were not an independent nation but were vassals1 of Medes, a kindred2 people who ruled over a great empire north and east of the Tigris River.