Unit 17 Tips on Getting More Efficiency out of Women Employees This is an actual excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Mass Transportation. It was written for male supervisors of women in the work force during WW II. There's no longer any question whet

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Unit 27 Evaluation by Students It used to be that if what students had to say about their professors was unprintable, it remained that way. No longer. Formal evaluations of teachers by students, something that would have been viewed as the height of

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Unit 36 Wedding Ceremony in the West Ceremony of Rings: Traditionally, the passage to the status of husband and wife is marked by the exchange of rings. These rings are a symbol of the unbroken circle of love. Love freely given has no beginning and n

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Unit 60 What Do You Know about Google? Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character (Barney Google) and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who

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Unit 54 Slow Food Movement The International Slow Food Movement was founded in 1986 by leftist journalist Carlo Petrini in a determined effort to wage intellectual war on the homogenization of food around the world. Spurred by the opening of Italy's

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Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope Astrology is the study of how events on Earth are influenced by the Sun, Moon, stars and planets. Technically, horoscope is the term astrologers use for a chart showing the relative positions of stars and planets at a spec

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Unit 71 Escape Valve A man and woman I know moved in together recently. It was, as such occasions are, a moment of sentiment and celebration. It was also a limited engagement. Before moving in, they had already set a fixed date when they would break

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Liposuction's Limits Doctors have long suspected that excess fat around the belly -- as opposed to the thighs or hips -- increases the chances of developing heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Apparently, belly fat doesn't just lie there

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今天我们要学的词是hard-pressed。 Be hard-pressed to do something, 意思是面临很大的困难。 Without additional loans, the company will be hard-pressed not to go bankrupt, 如果没有额外的贷款,这家公司恐怕很难不破产

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今天我们要学的词是obsessed。 Obsessed, 一门心思的,沉迷于。 My girlfriend is obsessed with buying handbags, 我女朋友买包上瘾。 One of my co-workers is obsessed with social networks, 我有一个同事整天沉迷于社交网

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今天我们要学的词是final stretch。 Final stretch, 意思是最后阶段。 Our team came back on top in the final stretch of the game, 我们球队在比赛最后阶段后来居上。 Stock indexes fell on the latest employment data in the f

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今天我们要学的词是definitive。 Definitive, 意思是明确的,决定性的。 The quarterback is expected to give the team a definitive answer this week as to whether he will return next season, 这个四分位估计这星期会就他下个

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今天我们要学的词是categorically。 Categorically, 意思是绝对的,直接了当的。有传闻说,在英国达人节目中一举成名的歌星苏珊.波尔要在澳大利亚巡回演出。波尔的发言人公开辟谣说, We can ca

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今天我们要学的词是measured。 Measured, 意思是谨慎的,经过反复斟酌的。 He was quite measured in his response to the criticism, 面对批评,他做出了很有分寸的反应。 The city council has adopted a measured approac

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今天我们要学的词是civility, civility is spelled c-i-v-i-l-i-t-y; civility. Civility是名词,有客气,礼貌的意思。有研究显示,工作场所礼貌和谦让的氛围对企业发展和员工士气都有很大好处。 Workplace

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今天我们要学的词是recreational。 Recreational, 消遣的,娱乐的。 Due to budget cuts, some of the recreational programs were eliminated by the county, 由于预算削减,县政府取消了一些娱乐项目。 All commercial and rec

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今天我们要学的词是exclusive。 Exclusive, 独家的,独有的。An exclusive interview, 独家专访。The Golf Channel will have exclusive rights to the Tournament, 高尔夫球频道享有这次锦标赛的独家转播权。 The kidnappe

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今天我们要学的词是heavy-handed。 Heavy-handed, 手段强硬的。耶鲁大学法学教授蔡美儿发表新书。 The book sparked a fierce debate about heavy-handed parenting style, 这本书引起了围绕对孩子严厉管教的育儿方式

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今天我们要学的词是responsible。 Responsible, 有事发原因的意思。 Firefighters believe that vagrants were responsible for the downtown fire, 消防队员认为,市中心大火的肇事者是居无定所的游民。 最新研究发现

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今天我们要学的词是divided。 Divided, 存在分歧的。New Yorkers are evenly divided over whether the five alleged 9/11 plotters should be tried in Manhattan, 策划九一一恐怖袭击的五个嫌疑人是否应该在曼哈顿受审?对此

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