Don’t mention to anyone that Joe is quitting his job.
别向任何人提到乔要辞职的事。

He is over six feet tall. That is taller than average.
他身高超过六呎。比一般身高要高。

Silvery waters wend around a tumble of boulders as dhobis (low-caste washermen) wash and beat village laundry on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in Vijayanagar, India. The city, in southern India? Karnataka state, was once the seat of the Vijayanagar Empire, which dominated the south of India from A.D. 1300 to 1500.

厄运来时你是萝卜、鸡蛋还是咖啡？

一个女孩向她的父亲诉说生活是多么艰难，她不知道该怎么做，不知道该舍弃什么。问题一个一个接踵而来，让她应接不暇。父亲是个厨师，做了一个实验后，只是问她：你是做萝卜，还是鸡蛋，还是咖啡？

A girl grumbled to her father about her hard life. She didn't know what she could do and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and fighting. One problem had been settled, but another appeared.

Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He poured water into three pots and boiled it. After the water came to a boil, he put some carrots in the first pot, eggs in the second and coffee in the last. He waited for them for a few minutes without any words.

The girl closed her mouth and waited, impatient and confused by what her father was doing. After about 20 minutes, her father turned off the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them in another bowl. After that he poured the coffee into a cup.

Turning back to his daughter, he asked, "Sweetheart, what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs and coffee," she replied.

Her father asked her to touch the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were soft.

After that he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After peeling them, she felt the eggs were hard.

Last, her father asked her to smell the coffee.

She asked, "What does this mean Father?"

He explained that each of the things had felt the same unfortunate fate. They were all boiled in water, but with a different result. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after being boiled. The fragile eggs became hard after cooking. Coffee grounds were very unique. They could change the water.

"Which one are you?" asked her father. "When calamity knocks on your door, what will your reaction be? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?"

Loneliness 寂寞难耐 Babyface

　　有时候老歌更具有感动人心的力量，正像这首歌的名字一样，long long way to go，1977年就成立的Def Leppard乐队一路走得漫长而坚定，直到04年还有精选集问世，这是值得我们敬仰的乐团。 中国英语学习网每日英语频道 精彩推荐 这首震撼人心的《长路漫漫》。

　　Def Leppard成立于1977年的冬天，前身是ATOMIC MASS（核能圣餐）乐队，是一支典型的流行重金属乐队，流畅的旋律和优美的和声是乐队的特征之一。Def Leppard音乐中的优美旋律令乐迷们对重金属音乐有了新的认识，无数热血青年受他们音乐的引领步入重金属的殿堂。时至今日，他们的歌曲依然倍受欢迎。

Def Leppard - Long Long Way To Go

You held my hand and then you slipped away
And I may never see your face again
So tell me how do to fill the emptiness inside
Without love, what is life?

And anyone who knew us both can see
We always were the better part of me
I never wanted to be this free
All this pain, does it go away?

Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew
To you, to you

From memory, there is no hiding place
Turn on the TV and I see you there
In every crowd there's always someone with your face
Everywhere, trying not to care

Then every time I turn around
And you're nowhere to be found
I know I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew

To you, I wish you everythin'
And all the best that life can bring
I only hope you think of me sometimes, oh
And even though I feel the pain
I know that I will love again
The time will come, oh, and I'll move on
I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to you
Oh, I got a long, long way to go, got a long way to go
Before I can say goodbye, before I say goodbye
To all I ever knew, to all I ever knew
I got a long, I got a long, long way to go, long way to go
Before I can say, before I say, goodbye to you
Say goodbye, say goodbye
Oh, I got a long, long way to go
Before I can say goodbye to all I ever knew