The debate on gay marriage is making me uncomfortable. Columnists tell me breezily that I should welcome it because of equality. Catholic and Anglican Bishops say I should shun it because it undermines one of the fundamental building blocks of societ

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

And of course that's just where the problems lie. Though people on both sides appeal to what is natural, nature unhelpfully supports both sides liking both consistency and variety in gender and sexuality. So most people are male or female, but there

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

As things are, I see two dangers and they are linked. The first is that if the Church is quick to assert and slow to listen, it can give the impression to its own members that moral insight is never to be had outside Christianity and that can be hear

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

Must all good things really come to an end? 天下真的没有不散的宴席? This weekend we must steel ourselves to say farewell to London 2012, 本周末,我们必须坚定地对伦敦2012告别。 and I think it'd be fair to say that for a l

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

With Mitt Romney's presidential nomination confirmed in a barnstorming acceptance speech two days ago, 米特罗姆尼两天前的提名巡回演讲进一步巩固了他总统候选人提名的身份。 the race to the White House is now well under w

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If a butterfly flutters its wings, so chaos theory goes, it can cause the path of a tornado to change, and so the reverberations can be felt across the world. 混沌学理论提到,如果一只蝴蝶煽动翅膀,卷风的路线会因其改变,全

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Perhaps it's only when we fully accept that we will die that we can fully accept how alive we are right now.Death brings perspective, then. It brings us back to life and it asks of me, how, now, will I live? A friend works at a hospice, and recently

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

I'm spiritual but I'm not religious is now a commonplace among people in Britain, the majority of whose population live their lives without reference to organised religion. In my role as an Anglican priest, I meet significant numbers of people who ar

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More recent and disturbing history will be reviewed this week by a court in Oslo. While Anders Behring Breivik will present his own warped view of reality, victims and bereaved families will confront again the terror of what actually happened. To res

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Two US companies announced earlier this week that they have shelved the testing of a particular drug. 本周早些时候,两家美国公司宣布他们已放弃对一种药的测试。 It had been the best hope for a treatment for Alzheimer's. 人们

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天,将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员, who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit

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It's not easy to knuckle down to the responsibilities of a working week and a wounded world after the excitements of the Olympic experience which has taken us all by surprise. 在令人惊叹的奥运会之后,人们一时间很难从激动的状态中

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(246) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

These well-informed young people had a very modest interest in the print media. Unlike me, they didn't feel their day was incomplete without reading a newspaper.Total newspaper circulation has been declining by roughly a million copies each year. And

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 智慧人生篇章

Pearl Oyster 珍珠贝 Do you know where pearls come from? 你知道珍珠产自哪里吗? Expensive jewels usually come from big mines. 昂贵的珠宝通常产自大矿山。 However, believe it or not, pearls come from pearl oysters in the sea. 然

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第4册

Well, me and my lady had our first big fight So i drove around 'till i saw the neon lights of a corner bar And it just seemed right so i pulled up. Not a soul around but the old barkeep down at the end looking half asleep But he woke up and said wha

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The pond is so muddy that I cannot see the bottom, said the young man; 池塘水太浑了,我看不见底,年轻人说。 and so I must feel for the sandals. 我得去摸。 Then he ducked his head under again 然后他又低下头 and the childr

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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. 通常看一个读些什么书

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(129) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

Lesson 53 The Oyster 第53课 牡蛎 The oyster is called a shell-fish; but it is not a real fish, like the sole or the herring. All true fishes have a backbone, and they swim about in the sea by the help of their tail and their fins. 牡蛎是一种贝

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英国学生科学读本

聪明,聪颖,聪慧,和汉语一样,英语的聪明也不止smart,今天Jenny和Connor要来讨论不同角度的聪明英语怎么说。 关键词: #1.Clever amp; Smart: 聪明 这两个词都是表示聪明的常见词。 Clever: 美式英

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 美国文化脱口秀

战胜失败Understand that failure is there to bring you wisdom失败可以带来智慧 Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan优秀的人之所以优秀是因为他们能从失败中获得智慧。 威廉

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