The letter came out of the blue! I wasn't expecting it. But there it was in black and white, signed by the bank manager. I had no money in my checking account. I was in the red.
I couldn't believe it. So I went to see the manager. We looked at the problem together. The bank had made a mistake. It had put ten dollars into my account instead of one thousand dollars!
He's had many an unkind comment about his looks when set against the radiant beauty of girlfriend Sienna Miller. But Rhys Ifans seems likely to have the last laugh because psychologists reckon that happier marriages result from attractive women who wed uglier men. 因为长相，瑞伊斯?伊凡斯与美女明星西耶娜?米勒的结合可是引来了不少风凉话。不过现在看来，瑞伊斯?伊凡斯可以笑到最后了，因为心理学家日前称，美女配丑男，婚姻会更幸福。 ……
1．听的时候很多词或是词组，本来是挺简单的，但有时候就是反应不过来，这可能也是需要不断地练习，形成本能反应，不知老师有没有别的建议？ I think there are mainly two possibilities. Some words of one or two syllables often skip your mind in a second, which are very hard to grasp if you haven't realized their importance in sentence meaning.
There is an unforgettable verb in my mind—VETO. I ignored it at its unfamiliar sound during my training for news items. But then my und ……
People who consume alcohol earn significantly more at their jobs than non-drinkers, according to a US study that highlighted "social capital" gained from drinking. 美国一项以“饮酒积聚社会资本”为主题的研究表明，饮酒人士挣的钱要比不喝酒的人多很多。
The study published in the Journal of Labor Research Thursday concluded that drinkers earn 10 to 14 percent more than teetotalers, and that men who drink socially bring home an additional seven percent in pay. 这篇研究论文于本周四在《劳动力研究》期刊上发表，研究结果表明，喝酒的人比不喝酒的人挣钱多10％到14％，而且在社交场合喝酒的人能多挣7％。 ……
能挣会花叫懂得享受生活；大手大脚，花钱如流水，则叫不会过日子。瞧，"My sister never has any money, even though she's got a good job. She usually blows about 100 quid every Saturday on going out." 说话者的妹妹即便有个好工作，但她每周都花100英镑出去玩，所以根本存不了钱! 如果你身边的人 blows money on going out，你是不是也会头痛？
To blow some money是什么意思？Blow 平时的意思是吹，比如吹风，吹气。但是在这里它又有另外一个意思就是花很多很多钱。If you blow money you spend a lot of it. There's also a sense of being wasteful. 如果一个人 blow money 吹钱，其实也就是说他花钱太浪费。 ……
Try wearing a T-shirt to help against dry skin. Or use special bed sheets to help you sleep better. Such ideas might sound strange to westerners, but in India, these products are a new development in a very old tradition. 试试能防止皮肤干燥的T恤，或者用用改善睡眠的特殊床单吧！这些想法在西方人听来可能有些怪异，不过在印度，这些产品只是一种把古老传统加以创新发展的结果。 ……
中国日报网站援引新华网的报道称，“堰塞湖”在英语中的对应表达是quake lake，而英语中用来表达“堰塞湖”的说法还有barrier lake和dammed lake等。不过，美国《洛杉矶时报》2008年5月23日刊登的一篇关于中国川西北大地震的新闻报道中则使用了barrier lake这一说法并且简明扼要地释义如下：barrier lakes are formed when a landslide plugs a river，其中的plug是“堵塞”，“填塞”的意思，也就是说，由山体滑坡或泥石流堵塞河道之后形成的湖泊。Barrier是“障碍物”的意思，barrier lake顾名思义就是“遭到了堵塞的湖泊”。根据美国英语在国际社会中占有绝对优势地位的情形，我们也许可以说，堰塞湖在英语中的说法就是barrier lake。 ……
Giant pandas show little interest in sex behind bars but China nevertheless is looking forward to a baby boom with 10 females already pregnant and 23 on heat.栅栏之中的大熊猫对性不感兴趣，但中国方面仍然期望一个熊猫的生育高峰：10只雌性熊猫已经怀孕，另有23
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