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【总第30期】
 ::每日一词:: 
 
Father's Day 父亲节
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A: What are you getting your dad for Father's Day?
你在父亲节要送你爸什么?
B: I don't know. Any ideas?
不知道。你有主意吗?
 
 ::每日一句:: 


May I pay by credit card?

我可以用信用卡付款吗?

 
 ::每日一笑:: 

The Climate of New Zealand

  Teacher: Matthew, what is the climate of New Zealand?
   Matthew: Very Cold, sir.
   Teacher: Wrong.
   Matthew: But, sir! When they send us meat it always arrives frozen!


中文:
新西兰的气候
  老师:马修,新西兰的气候怎么样?
   马修:老师,那里的天气很冷。
   老师:错了。
   马修:可是,老师!从那儿运来的猪肉都冻得硬邦邦的。


NOTE
frozen adj. freeze 的过去分词
冰冻的, 冻僵的, 冻伤的
[美](事实真理等)不可推翻的
frozen food
冷冻食品
a frozen sucker
棒冰, 冰棍
frozen fruit salad
冰镇水果色拉

 
 ::每日一图:: 

Commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in the mid-16th century, St. Basil's Cathedral was erected to commemorate a Russian victory over the Tartar Mongols in 1552. The cathedral has nine chapels, each topped with an iconic onion dome.

为了庆祝1552年俄罗斯在对蒙古鞑靼人的战争中取胜,“恐怖伊凡”命人建造了圣巴索大教堂。圣巴索大教堂有9个礼拜室,每个都有洋葱头般的屋顶。 译者注:Ivan the Terrible 恐怖伊凡,即伊凡四世(1530-1584),俄罗斯第一位沙皇。他在位期间,他极力扩张,统合俄罗斯,是个残暴的君主。曾亲手杀死自己有异教思想长子。为彼得大帝和斯大林的偶像。

 
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艾蜜丽的迷人世界

"Amelie" has become something of a cultural phenomenon in its native France, where it went on to break box-office records before picking up a Cesar for best picture. It also goes up for five Oscars this month. Awards usually don't mean much except as a pat on the back; in this case, however, "Amelie" deserves all the recognition it gets.

A charming Audrey Tautou plays the title character. Amelie leads a sheltered life. The young woman works at a cafe and seems content to let life pass her by. Then one day she finds a box hidden in her bathroom. Inside are useless mementos of a childhood, meaningless to all but their owner. Amelie decides to find the owner, return the box to him and hopefully make his life a bit more pleasant. When she eventually finds the man and returns his possessions to him, he and she experience an epiphany.

Thus encouraged, our heroine sets out to change the lives of those around her. Her schemes vary from the trivial to the profound. She sets up a coworker with a date. She inspires the artist next door. She helps her father learn to live again. But through it all, Amelie herself doesn't have the courage to fall in love with Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz), the man who could be her soul mate. Like Jane Austen's Emma, Amelie can fix everyone's life but her own.

"Amelie" is a heartfelt plea for people to be nice to each other. What makes its characters genuine is their yearning to become something better than what they are.

 
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Sitting Down Here(Lene Marlin)

一个干净的嗓音唤醒北欧冰冷气流下之冻结情感,一位爱唱歌的小女生带来温柔的午后暖阳融化厚实冰层,一把空心吉他,一个单纯喜欢唱歌的欲望,一位仍在求学 17 岁的少女,却始料未及的造成空前轰动,以她诚实简单的旋律唱进全球乐迷的心中。 1998年,Lene的第一张单曲唱片“Unforgivable Sinner” 在挪威发行。随之,连续8周这张单曲名列排行榜首位。它也是挪威音乐历史上销售速度最快的单曲唱片。Lene的第二支单曲“Sitting Down Here”也创下很好的成绩, 并被收入她的第一张专辑“Playing My Game”中, 这张99年三月22日发行的专辑,仅仅三天就销售50,000张, 这在仅有四百四十万人口的国家里确实是一个相当不错的成绩。99年,这张专辑的销售一直居高不下。
Sitting Down Here 也是林忆莲《我坐在这里》的英文原曲

歌词:

I'm sitting down here,But hey you can't see me
 
Your words cut rather deeply,
They're just some other lies
I'm hiding from a distance,
I've got to pay the price
Defending all against it,
I really don't know why
You're obsessed with all my secrets,
You always make me cry
You seem to wanna hurt me
No matter what I do
I'm telling just a couple,
But somehow it gets to you
But I've learned how to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that some day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day
I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me I'm trying not to avoid you,
Just don't wanna hear your voice
When you call me up so often,
I really don't have a choice
You're talking lie you know me
And wanna be my friend
But that's really too late now,
I won't try it once again
You may think that I'm loser,
That I don't really care
You may think that it's all forgotten,
But you should be aware
Cause I've learned to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that some day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me
Kinda invisible
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day You seem to wanna hurt me
No matter what I do
I'm telling just a couple,
But somehow it gets to you
But I've learned how to get revenge
And I swear you'll experience that some day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

I'm sitting down here,
But hey you can't see me, kinda invisible…
You don't sense my stay
Not really hiding, not like a shadow
Just thought I would join you for one day

 

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