【New words and expressions】生词和短语
★Olympic adj. 奥林匹克的
Olympic games 奥林匹克运动会,简称 : The Games (一般大型运动会用 “games” )
★hold (held held) v 召开
have a meeting召开会议 / hold a meeting召开会议 / hold a party 召开宴会
hold习惯用被动, 被动 : the meeting will be held
the Olympic games will be held in China in 2008.(two tho

【New words and expressions】 生词和短语
★hostess n. 女主人
actor 男演员 / actress 女演员
host 男主人
host(v.)作为主人, 主办
★unsmiling adj. 不笑的, 严肃的
unsmiling: un+smiling 不笑的, 但并不一定表示 “严肃”
serious adj.严肃的, 认真的, 严重的 : my father is serious.
★tight adj. 紧身的
the shoes are small/tight(夹脚, 很紧)
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【New words and expressions】生词和短语
★rude adj. 无礼的
polite
以p开头的形容词的否定前缀im
impolite不礼貌的, 表示没有注意到礼节性的问题, 所以显得有些不礼貌
rude : 强调故意的 / cheeky无礼, 没礼貌的, 表示小孩对长辈 : Don’t be cheeky! 不得无礼!
nae adj.天真的
★mirror n 镜子
look up sth in the dictionary查字典 / look at oneself in the mirror照镜子
his n

【New words and expressions】生词和短语
★musical adj. 精通音乐的
★market n. 市场, 集市
★snake charmer 玩蛇者（通常借音乐控制）
★pipe n. （吹奏的）管乐器
pipe:两头通的东西, 如: 下水管道, 老爸的烟斗,或一节两头通的竹子都可以叫pipe
★tune n. 曲调
★glimpse n. 一瞥
have a glimpse of:瞥了一眼
glance at:扫了一眼
have a glimpse of:映入眼帘(犹如汉语中的 “惊鸿一瞥” )

【New words and expressions】 生词和短语
★pole n. （地球的）极
South Pole 南极
North Pole 北极
Pole Star 北极星
★flight n. 飞行
fly v: 飞
★explorer  n. 探险家, 探测者, 探测器 [计]Windows资源管理器
explore v.探险, 探测, 探究
exploration  n.(科研相关)探险,探求,开发
adventure n.冒险(追求刺激)
venture

【New words and expressions】生词和短语
★forest n. 森林
★risk n. 危险, 冒险
★picnic n. 野餐
★edge n. 边缘
★strap n. 带, 皮带
★possession n. 所有
★breath n. 呼吸
out of breath:上气不接下气
waste one's breath;白费口舌
in one breath:片刻, 转眼间: He finished water in one breath. 他一口气把水喝完了.
hold one's

【New words and expressions】生词和短语
★clear adj. 无罪的, 不亏心的
★conscience n. 良心, 道德心
clear conscience 问心无愧
guilty conscience 问心有愧 (guilty  adj.犯罪的, 有罪的, 心虚的)
I have a clear conscience.我问心无愧
I have a guilty conscience.我问心有愧
bad conscience 问心有愧
★wallet n. 皮夹, 钱夹 (一般指的是男用的那种皮夹)

The goods are available in different qualities.
此货有多种不同的质量可供。
Nothing wrong will happen, so long as the quality of your article is good.
只要商品质量可靠，就不会发生差错。
If the quality of your products is satisfactory, we may place regular orders.
如果你们产品的质量使我们满意，我们将不断订货。
If the

Going to the Zoo
去动物园
Key Sentences（重点句子）
790. Look，a pair of eagles from North America.
瞧，一对北美洲的鹰。
791. What are those repulsive-looking birds of prey in the cage beside them？
在鹰旁边的笼子里关着的那些面目可憎的猛禽是什么？

Going to a Botanical Garden
植物园一游
Key Sentences（重点句子）
781.They look just like the ones we saw at the tulip fair last spring.
它们看上去就像去年春天我们在郁金香花展上见过的郁金香花。
782. And what a riot of color there is with all kinds of flowers i

They say you are what you eat, and growing numbers of vegans are shunning sex with meat-eaters because they see them as "a graveyard for animals", a New Zealand researcher says.
These vegans not only refuse to eat meat or animal products but refuse to have sexual contact with meat-eaters because their bodies are ma

Life doesn't always give us the joys we want.
生活并非总是如你所愿。
We don't always get our hopes and dreams, and we don't always ge

My father still looks remarkably like I remember him when I was growing up: hair full, body trim, face tanned, eyes sharp. What’s different is his gentleness and patience. I had remembered neither as a boy, and I wondered which of us had changed.

The flame of love
拥有了一份好的工作、一个好的身体、一笔大大的财富，但你仍然感受不到幸福快乐？这是为什么？答案只有一个字，爱。没有爱的人生好比没有灵魂的躯体。
爱给予了生活的意义。幸运的人得到爱并能让那爱的火花永远燃烧，这不是一天或几个月的事。爱是生活，生活也是爱。
Suppose you have everything; a good job, good health, good reputation, good relationships and lot of money to spend. But still there i

I don't know the specifics; no one else went with him. All he did was print out what we were supposed to say, it was mostly just weird word combinations and a few summoning phrases I can't remember. This was almost a year ago, I do remember feeling pretty silly going through with it. This I remember clearly though, the same friend who got the pa