Easter is a time of springtime festivals. The Easter we celebrate today is a combination of different traditions. Partly, it comes from old festivals to celebrate Spring. And partly it comes from the Christian celebration of the rebirth of Jesus Chri

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力小短文走遍全世界

Michele Norris: With Passover and Easter upon us, it's that time of year when you think of matzos and chocolate bunnies. But in Central America, they are thinking about bananas. At banana plantations, it's a tough time of the year. It's Semana Santa

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Who doesn't love to have the nice white lily as part of the Easter gift? In fact, the lovely white trumpet lily has been enjoying a great favor in being included as a principal item for church decoration for quite some time. A perfect gift of nature

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

A story about Bertie the Frog Bertie looked longingly at the lovely Princess Beatrice, remembering how he used to stroll with her down to the edge of the pond, and how she would always bring some bread for the Sadie the beautiful black swan and for a

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The Wicked Uncle takes Jeremy and Jemima to an Easter Fair. What could possibly go wrong? Well almost anything. Of course Uncle Jeff is not really that wicked but he is both fun and irresponsible. Mum and Dad never feel comfortable when hes around, b

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New Zealand workers have a holiday on Good Friday (yesterday) and Easter Monday. Easter is a Christian holiday to remember when Jesus Christ was killed on the cross and came back to life again. This is called the resurrection. Easter is a holy time a

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 新西兰英语