California Cities Crack Down on Unlicensed Maternity Hotels Unlicensed maternity clinics that cater to women from Asia have sprung up around the United States, especially in California. Local officials are cracking down on the maternity hotels, which

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(四月)

Judy: Kim! I'm here! I brought all my old maternity clothes plus Dave and Alice's baby clothes! Kim: It's a little early for those, isn't it? I still have eight months to go... Judy: Believe me, the time will fly by! Before you know it, you'll be cha

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 Eztalk美语会话

Rob: Ah, what a familiar sound - a baby crying! Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Rob Neil: .and Im Neil, hello. So Rob, is that the sound of the new royal baby? Rob: No - its not the Duke and Duchess of Cambridges new-born baby - although I

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 六分钟英语

We're most popular at 21 (but after that, our 99 friends fall away). 我们在21岁的时候最受欢迎朋友最多(在那之后,我们人生中的99个朋友都会消失不见)。 We have a staggering 99 friends at the age of 21 - more than a

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

To honor the many sacrifices moms make, most men would opt for flowers or chocolates. But three male coworkers who really want to understand the mom experience are taking their celebration of motherhood a (giant) step further by wearing 33-pound preg

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The government is giving more money for maternity services. One reason for this is that more women are having babies at the moment and hospitals need more beds and more staff. Statistics New Zealand said the number of babies born in March this year i

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语

地道美语听力播客English as a Second Language Podcast (ESLPod),是一家位于美国加州洛杉矶的英语教育研究机构推出的英文听力会话,于2005年7月23日首播, 主播Dr. Jeff McQuillan为南加州大学的语言学博士

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Talk about making the most of your maternity leave. Most people wouldn't even consider packing up their home and travelling the world, let alone do so with an 10-week-old baby - which is exactly what Karen Edwards, 31, and partner Shaun Bayes, from L

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

While many of her colleagues have impatiently taken off theirthick winter clothes and put on flimsy coats to show their lovelycurves for spring, 28-year-old Lina Yang is reluctant to join thetrend. 很多同事都已经不耐烦的脱下了厚厚的冬

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(26) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The so-called one-child policy was brought into law in the late 1970's as a way to limit population growth, given that the economy at the time was just starting to open up to the outside world, and the domestic resources, particularly in urban areas,

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

毕业在即,很多同学都会考虑进外企,那么写一份夺人眼球的英文简历就必不可缺了。那么写简历时有什么基本要求,怎么样才能抓住重点,突出自己的优势呢?小编希望下面这篇文章能给大

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

In Beijing, gaokao nannies are paid by the day, 300 yuan on average, according to a Beijing domestic service company named Coleclub. 一家叫嘉乐会的北京家政服务公司说,在北京, 高考保姆 是按日计酬的,平均一天300元。

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

There are few worse countries to be a woman than Saudi Arabia. Yet the kingdoms recent adoption of four weeks paid leave means Saudi women now have better maternity benefits than their US counterparts. 对于女性而言,几乎没有比沙特阿拉伯

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The morning following the birth of our first child, my husband was mistakenly directed to the room of another new mother on the maternity floor. As he walked into the room, he bent over the nap- ping mother, whose back was turned to him, and gave her

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

1. The British are judged on which supermarket they shop at and the hierarchy often goes like this: Waitrose/MS, Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda, Lidl, Aldi. 英国人根据一个人去什么超市买东西来评判一个人的社会地位。通常由高到低

发表于:2019-02-19 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Germany's public pensions 德国社会抚恤金 In the wrong direction 方向错误 The government is reversing some of its predecessor's sensible pension reforms 政府正在颠覆之前明智的抚恤金改革政策 AS THE country with the European

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Asia: Women and work in Japan We're busy. Get an abortion 亚洲:日本的妇女和工作,我们很忙,你堕胎去吧 Pregnant women are furious about how they are treated at the office. 孕妇在职场上受到的待遇让她们感到愤怒。

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合

Get是大家最为熟悉的几大动词之一了,不过你确定完全get了这个词的用法了吗?好词要充分利用啊,我们来仔细整理一下它的用法。 一、Get的不同意思 receive / have 得到 Are you getting a refund? 你能

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(241) / 评论(0) 分类 英语口语

allow for英[??lau f?:] 美[??la? f?r] 考虑到;体谅;允许有;留出 考虑到;虑及;体谅;估计到 双语例句 1 . The Agency's budget simply did not allow for such a massive increase. 该机构的预算根本没有将如此大额的超支计算

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(133) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

The United Stats and Russia have announced a cessation of hostilities in Syria to take effect at midnight on Friday. Between main jihadist groups, Islamic State or ISIL and al-Nusar Front are not part of the arrangement. The UN Deputy Secretary Gener

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(205) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻