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...
This bloke (人,家伙)is lying on his deathbed, surrounded by his weeping wife and his four children. Three of the children are tall, good looking andathletic, but the fourth and youngest is an ugly runt(矮子). Darling, the husband whisper...
Fathers Day, Mothers Day I went to a department store for mothers gift. There was a price war among department stores. In order to please mom, I bought a suit of clothes for her in the clothes department. As I gave the gift to mom, I found out that m...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Charles Darwin And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This month is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers in science history. Charles Darwin...
埃里克帕特里克克莱普顿,CBE(Eric Patrick Clapton,1945年3月30日-),英国吉他手、歌手和作曲家。他曾经获得过葛莱美奖,是20世纪最成功的音乐家之一,在摇滚名人堂里有三项成就。他是有史以来最伟大的吉他手之一,2003年在滚石杂志评选的一百大吉他手位列第四,...
A Father's Gift The visitor, on that morning before Easter, was a middle-aged, shabby-looking fellow, in white clothes with a queer waistcoat of light gray color. His small, neglected beard gave the impression that he had, perhaps, merely abandoned...
Tony Gargagliano's father came to New York from Italy and held on to many of his Old World ways Time again for StoryCorps, the project that is travelling the country recording your stories. Today it's hailed from New York City, that is where Cathie...
Maggie: Good morning everybody. It's the second Saturday of the month and you know what that means. Ben: You're gonna be cranky? Maggie: No. It's chore day. Freeze! Ben: Oh, come on. Carol: But I always have to clean the bathrooms, it's not fair. Ma...
Part1 The History of Father's Day 父亲节的来历 The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are...
Happy Father's Day! Father's Day is a fairly new celebration in the British calendar compared with Mother's Day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the UK for a very long time. The origins of the celebration are American a...