突破口语之情景对话(23):Do you like your job?你喜欢你的工作吗 John: How do you like your work? Sue: The work is rather hard, but it's interesting. John: What do you do? Sue: I work in a publishing house. How about you? John: Mine isn't hard, but it'...
Most kids are on summer vacation from school right now, but the adults still have to go to work. Commentator Yvette Doss wishes she could split the difference between the two. Frankly, a lot of days I'd rather be doing nothing. I string up the hammoc...
The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I dreamed of becoming a doctor. My mother was a domestic. Through her work, she observed that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 12 January 2007 Along with his new Iraq strategy and troop increase, President Bush has named a new commander for U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. He is Lieutenant General David Petraeus, the man who has spent the last year s...
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 12 October 2006 When people have problems understanding their computers, they often pick up a phone and call the computer maker's help desk. Increasingly, that help desk may be in the Philippines, a growing player in the o...
Unit 5 Employment One How is your job search going? 你的工作找得怎么样了? 1 Introduction The textbooks and classes in school and college can only teach some of the materials for work. Because each different job has slightly different policies and p...
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 29 March 2006 watch General Motors report American carmaker General Motors is laying off hundreds of salaried workers, after suffering losses in the billions of dollars...
Take these bands off. Yes, that’s right. Take the bands off now and then lift the molds straight up. OK. (That's it.)Oh, that's not bad, is it? So what do I do? Just ease it out. Gently ease it out...
But it found that the theater spell danger, Christmas joy for rich kids meant misery for other children. Toy makers were the poorest of the poor, and the hardest life of all was that of the doll maker...
Well, that's limelight. What exactly was it? Well it was the burning of calcium oxide in a very intense flame. And when did the job of a limelighter begin? Oh, famously, the first recorded instance in...