They are coming for Christmas

A man in Scotland called his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and said, I hate to ruin your day,but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough. Dad,what are you talking about? the son screamed. We can't stand the sight of each other any longer, the father said. We're sick of each other,and I'm sick of talking about this,so you call your sister in Leeds and tell her about it. Frantic,the son called his sister,who exploded on the phone. L...     

“无价的”项链

After the death of a jeweler,his family got into financial trouble. One day,the jeweler's wife took one of her 1)necklaces and said to her son,"Son,take this necklace to your uncle's shop and ask him to give you money."     

Breaking the News

A very old lady won a million dollars in a lottery(彩票). Her son and his wife heard the news on the radio.“How are we going to tell your mother？”the wife asked.“The shock(震惊)might kill her.”“That's true，”the son said.“Perhaps we'd better speak to her doctor about it. He'll know how to break the news（实情相告）to her gently.”They explained the situation to the old lady's doctor.“I'm glad you tell me，”the doctor said.“A shock，even a happy one，could give her a heart attack(…     

阅读理解五则

A mother and her young son get into a bus in a small city and sit down. The bus conductor comes to them for their money. The mother says, ＂I want one ticket（票） to the zoo,＂ and gives him one yuan. The conductor looks at the small boy for a few seconds and then says to him, ＂How old are you, young man？＂ The mother begins to speak, but the conductor stops her. The boy says： ＂I＇m four at home, and two in the buses.＂ At last the mother has to take fifty fen out of her pocket and gives it to the conductor.     

小男孩与蝎子

<正>[英语原文]There is a child in front of city wall to catch the grasshopper, and in a short while caught the lots of.Suddenly see a scorpion son, he think it is also grasshopper.Then he go to catch it.The scorpion son raises his poison stab, say:"come, if you really dare to do like this, connect your grasshopper that catch to also would entirely lose."     

Mr Dodds and His Nephew

Some people do not like anything to be out of place. They are never late for work; they return their books to the library on time; they remember people's birthdays;and they pay their bills(帐单) as soon as they arrive, and Mr Dodds is such a person.Mr Dodds works in a bank, and lives on his own. The only family he has is in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Mark. Mr Dodds doesn't see his sister or her family,from one year to the next,but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten any one of Mark's seven-     

A Surprise

Mr Dodds works in a bank(银行), and lives aloile. He has a family in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Mark. Mr Dodds does not see his sister or her family from one year to the next, but     

浪漫与现实(一)(英文)

OF COURSE YOU' RE TOO smart to believe in glass slippers. You know well that someday your prince might come, but no matter what, you' re going to have to meet him halfway. Still, a modern woman like you would do well to take a second look at classic fairy tales, because beneath the rodent1 chauffeurs2 and talking toads3 lies a lot of surprisingly fresh insight. And fairy-tale heroines aren' t the passive damsels4 in distress you may have thought. Cinderella would never mope5 around and curse the fates for having thrust her into the hands of the stepmother from hell, or waste hours and days obsessing over whether she was too friendly to Prince Charming at the ball. Like Beauty and the rest of her ilk, Cinderella focuses on what she can control: her character. And ultimately, it's her strong moral center that saves her, not some guy on a horse. Not convinced? Keep reading.     

Victorian Social Values Reflected in Mrs, Gaskell＇ s Characterization

This paper is intended to explore the social values reflected in Mrs. Gaskell‘ s novels in terms of her way of portraying her characters, and at the same time, to study the reason and mentality behind it so as to have a better understanding of her works and her progressive ideas, and form a fresh judgement about the artistic value of her novels.     

On the Symbolic Meaning of Imaginary Son in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concludes that killing the imaginary son is the only way to escape the bondage of rigid social morality and come back to the reality.     

爱无边界

Have you ever given your heart to someone you believe you love,only to have your overtures rejected-time and again? What about the predicament of a child wrestling with a competitive sibling who has no sense of fair play, a frustrated parent struggling to love a moody adolescent,or an adult son or daughter caring for parents who need more help than in the past?     

A Surprise

Mr Dodds works in a bank (银行), and lives alone.He has a family in the next town: his sister lives there with her husband,and her son,Mark.Mr Dodds does not see his sister or her family from one year to the next,but he sends them Christmas cards,and he has not     

Jane Austen & Pride and Prejudice

About the Authoress:Jane Austen was born at Steventon,Hampshire,in 1775,the daughter of a clergyman. At the age of nine she was sent to school with her elder sister Cassandra,who was her lifelong friend and confida-nte,but largely taught by her fath-er.She began to write for recreation while still in her teens.In 1801 the family moved to Bath,the scene of so many episode in her books and,after the death of her father in 1805,to Southampton and then to the village of Chawton,near Alton in Hampshire.Here she lived uneventfully until May 1817,when the family moved to Winchester seeking skilled medical attention for her ill health,but she died two months later.She is buried in Winchester Cathedral.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

My Composition

Write a letter to your friend, telling her the measures taken to improve the standard of English in your school. Dear Susan,How are you getting on? It has been a long time since I last wrote to you. Please send my regards to your family. I hope you are in good health.     

Emily Dickinson:An Interrogator of Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of American’s premier poets of the nineteenth century.In both style and content,her verse was,"revolutionary" in her day.Owing to the deep exploration of death and immortality,Emily Dickinson has become a puzzle in literary.As show in her poems,Dickinson’s spiritual journey led her from na?ve nature-mysticism through disappointment,to a sacramental approach to immortality afterlife and further discouragement,culminating in a mature attitude of faithful unknowing and even more interrogating the immortality.This paper will base on the theory of the death and immortality through common people’s fear to death,the essence of death,the significance of death to show the poetess’s whole life-childhood,love,life condition,spiritual contradiction,and mainly her skeptical concept of death and immortality.     

英译(对照经文分段)

<正> 一、 NEW THREE-CHARACTER VERSES(Translated by Liang Zhuoyao)A new-born baby is like a piece of uncut jade, whose nature and disposition are capable of improvement. A child may behave badly without instruction.Moral education is the most important. Historically, many virtuous mothers were good at teaching their children: A good case in point is Mencius'mother, who picked up her scissors and ripped across the cloth.(See Note 1.)Yue Fei's mother tattooed four characters "jing zhong bao guo"(to serve the motherland in ardent loyalty) on Yue Fei's back in order to make her son keep his duty in mind at all times. When the child does't behave itself well,     

Top Jokes in Different Countries

Top Joke in UKA woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me! "The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off - go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."     

The Essence of Language in Toni Morrison’s View through an Analysis of Her Nobel Lecture and Novels

In 1993,the Nobel Prize of Literature was granted to an American black woman writer,Toni Morrison.She disclosed the features of language in her Nobel Lecture with a story of"the bird-in-hand".Language is both a tool of the ruling class to govern people and a tool fort he common people to understand society and express themselves.Morrison has a deep understanding of it and makes good use of the features to express women’s liberation and racial liberation in her works,which make her language peculiar and her ...     

A Conflict of Life Styles Embodied in Family Relations: A Psychological Study of Mother

Mother in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio is a typical story reveals Anderson’s dissatisfaction with the change of life style in his time.In this story he has created a father who dares not to face reality directly but only cherishes some illusion of wealth and political power.The mother is totally against the life style in vogue,but her resistance meets constant failure be cause of the great power of it.In the following,the psychological state of the couple will be studied with an eye on there relation and their respective relation with the son,hoping this will give more insight to the understanding of Anderson’s artistic product.