Categories: "阅读" or "时事政治" or "谜语" or "儿歌" or "绕口令" or "财经"
习大大2015新年贺词（中英对照）
2015-01-01 中国日报网双语新闻
On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a New Year speech via China Radio International, China National Radio and China Central Television. The full text is as follows:
新年前夕，国家主席习近平通过中国国际广播电台、中央人民广播电台、中央电视台，发表了二〇一五年新年贺词。全文如下：
Time flies, Year 2014 is coming to an end and 2015 is approaching. At this turn of the year, I now extend my best wishes to people of all ethnic groups in China, to our compatriots from Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions, to compatriots in Taiwan and overseas Chinese, as well as to friends in other countries and regions in the world.
时间过得真快，2014年就要过去了，2015年正在向我们走来。在这辞旧迎新的时刻，我向全国各族人民，向香港特别行政区同胞和澳门特别行政区同胞，向台湾同胞和海外侨胞，向世界各国和各地区的朋友们，致以新年的祝福！
Nurse free to move about as restrictions eased
【11/01/2014新闻转载】
FORT KENT, , Maine — A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone can move about as she pleases after a Maine judge eased state-imposed restrictions on her, handing officials in Maine a defeat in the nation's biggest court case yet over how to balance personal liberty, public safety and fear of Ebola.
Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere ruled Friday that Kaci Hickox must continue daily monitoring of her health but said there is no need to isolate her or restrict her movements because she has no symptoms and is therefore not contagious.
The judge also decried the "misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information" circulating about the lethal disease in the U.S.
英语小谜语
Questions
问题
1.What gets larger，the more you take away？什么东西你拿走越多，反而越大？
2.What goes on four legs in the morning，on two at noon，and on three in the evening？什么走路开始用四条腿，后来用两条腿，最后用三条腿？
3.What do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon？把一只啄木鸟和一只识途的鸽子融合在一起，会得到什么？
70个英语谜语
1. What room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors?
A mushroom.(蘑菇)
2. What is smaller than an insect's mouth?
Anything it eats.
3. What large instrument do you carry in your ears?
Drums, that is eardrums.(鼓膜)
4. What's too much for one, just right for two, but nothing at all for three?
A secret.
5. What person tried to make you smile most of the time?
A photographer.
判断是否喝过酒的绕口令
1.在英美等许多西方国家常用绕口令来判定汽车驾驶员是否是酒后驾车。如：
Cat,cat,catch that fat rat.
Where are you going, my little cat?
I'm going to town to buy a new hat!
经典英语绕口令 Tongue twister
The tall Paul gave me a call. He wanted to buy a ball at the mall. When we walked past the city hall, there came a big squall. We saw a stall fall down, and we were both appalled. Then Paul was galled by a falling wall. Then I felt a pall of darkness covering all. From then on, I became a thrall to horror beyond recall. I wish no mishap had ever befallen us at all.
[中译〕 那高高的保罗给我一个电话。他要到购物街买个球。当我们走过市政府时，来了一阵大风，我们看到一个摊位倒掉了，而我们两位都吓坏了。接着保罗被落墙伤到了。然后我感到一片乌黑笼罩一切。从那时起，我变成难以追忆之恐怖的奴隶。我希望不幸根本没落在我们上头。
〔注解〕
英语绕口令让你的舌头做运动
1. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
你能够像罐头工人一样装罐头吗？
2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
我希望梦想着你梦想中的梦想，但是如果你梦想着女巫的梦想，我就不想梦想着你梦想中的梦想。
Little Boy Blue
哈哈，放羊的孩子睡着了...
Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn;
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy?
Who looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack
Fast asleep.
奥斑马国情咨文演讲 2014年1月28日
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
议长先生，副总统先生，国会议员们，尊敬的各位来宾，美国同胞们：
Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought -- and several thousand gave their lives.
上个月，我去了安德鲁空军基地，欢迎我们最后一批在伊拉克服役的士兵回家。我们一起，最后一次向军旗行礼，在这面旗帜下，曾有超过一百万的美国公民共同战斗，其中数千人为此献出了生命。
Mary Had a Little Lamb
小姑娘和她可爱的小羊羔，形影不离，于是在学校的教室里就出现了这极具喜剧色彩的一幕。
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went,
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day,
It followed her to school one day, which was against the rules.
It made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.
Three Little Kittens
很喜欢这首，场面非常生动！三只丢了手套的小猫和猫妈妈的对话趣味盎然，让我们忍俊不禁。作为妈妈，这样的场景真是太熟悉了，我们不也曾和自己的孩子说过相似的话么？作为女儿，这样的场景也是熟悉的，孩提时代，我们和自己的妈妈不也有过这样的对话么？对了，pie是一种烘制出来的甜馅饼，常见的风味有：苹果的、樱桃的、坚果的、红薯的、南瓜的等等，在西餐中通常作为餐后甜点。
Three little kittens,
They lost their mittens,
And they began to cry,
"Oh, mother dear,
We sadly fear
That we have lost our mittens!"
"What! Lost your mittens,
You naughty kittens!
Then you shall have no pie,
Mee-ow, mee-ow,
You shall have no pie."
Rain, rain, go away
这首是我最喜欢的英文儿歌之一，也是孩子们最常唱的。就是在成人的世界里，每逢雨天人们逗乐时还会顺口唱起。活泼有趣，朗朗上口，希望你和你的宝宝也会喜欢。
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Arthur wants to play.
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Arthur wants to play.
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Arthur wants to play.
Target's huge data breach likely to be followed by more, experts warn
当今，人们已经习惯于用卡购物，很少人会怀揣大数额的现金出入商场。这种新的购物付款方式，一方面给我们的生活带来了方便，另一方面也给我们的生活带来了新的烦恼。最麻烦的是安全问题。比如，我自己就有信用卡三个半月连续被盗用多次的经历。又比如，近日爆出美国一家大零售店Target有4000万顾客卡的信息被盗，且在黑市被卖。无可置疑，偷盗变卖卡的信息，已经成了困扰百姓日常生活的一个新的犯罪行为；而不幸的是，有关部门尚且没有有效的防御措施来保护顾客的利益。更不幸的是，这一批利用网络和高科技的技术来作案的歹徒频频得手后，依然能美滋滋地挥霍他人的钱，逍遥法外地享受着。读读下面这篇文章，我们大家都应该加强防范意识，把自己的卡看护更紧些。
（Steve Johnson San Jose Mercury News - Friday, December 20, 2013）
Amid reports Friday that credit and de**-card information stolen from up to 40 million Target customers already is being sold on the black market, security experts warned that such attacks not only will continue but could worsen.
While businesses are experimenting with new ways to deter cyber-thefts, the experts noted, the crooks are getting smarter about exploiting vulnerabilities in the growing ranks of companies whose operations are linked across the world's vast computerized networks. "The reality is that these incidents are only going to increase," said Paul Lipman, CEO of Redwood City security firm Total Defense. "It's a result of the increasing connectivity of everything we touch."
South Africa holds state funeral for Mandela
今天，在曼德拉的家乡，在那个因为他而成为聚焦点的小村庄，一个伟人的葬礼无疑将永载史册。“一棵大树倒下了。如今，他回家了，和他的祖辈一起长眠。”我会记住这一时刻，与无数爱戴他的人一起献上敬意。
Associated Press - Sunday, December 15, CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
QUNU, South Africa (AP) — Songs, speeches and the boom of artillery rang across Nelson Mandela's home village during his funeral Sunday as a tribal chief draped in animal skin declared: "A great tree has fallen."
South Africa was saying goodbye for the last time to the man who reconciled the country in its most vulnerable period.
Mandela daughter recalls final hours
曼德拉逝世了。在这篇文章里，我们看到一个伟人临终时的场景原来也可以这么安静而温馨，没有悲痛的喧嚣，只弥漫着亲情的温暖。
Nelson Mandela's daughter Makaziwe has told the BBC about the "wonderful" final hours of the former president, who died aged 95 last Thursday.
Ms Mandela said his wife Graca, the children and grandchildren were all there to say goodbye.
South Africa is observing a series of commemorations over the next week, leading up to the funeral on Sunday.
More than 100 current or former heads of state or government will attend the funeral or Tuesday's national memorial.
Lower Your 2013 Tax Bill
美国是一个多税的国家，税法繁杂且多有变化，常常弄得纳税者头昏眼花。2013报税年将至，研习报税法又成了百姓的热门话题。读一读这篇文章，应该对了解今年如何报税会有帮助。
You might think that tax planning would be easier this year. You could be wrong.
On New Year's Day, Congress finally agreed to settle many unresolved issues, raising taxes for most Americans. But only one change was simple: the end of a two-percentage-point cut in Social Security taxes, which is costing wage earners up to $2,274.
Most of 2013's other tax increases are less broad-based and more complicated.
This year's code includes two new taxes, a new top income-tax rate, a new top rate on long-term capital gains and dividends, a new inflation adjustment to the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, and two revived tax-benefit "phaseouts." (See table on page B10.)
If You Must Talk Politics at Thanksgiving, Here's How
今天读到这篇文章觉得很有趣。北美最重要的节日感恩节将至，这是给所有喜欢谈政治人士的忠告；其实，其中不少规则也适用于过分喜欢侃侃而谈的人士；故收在这里分享。
On Thanksgiving, it's usually best if you don't talk politics. The subject tends to aggravate people, and it's very unlikely that anyone's mind will be changed. So don't do it.
But if you must talk politics, how should it be done? A lefty writer I follow is giving the subject some thought. "Every year there's a spate of blog/magazine pieces about how to discuss the political hot potato du jour with your crazy right-wing relatives at Thanksgiving," he writes at Mother Jones. "And every year they're fake. Mostly they provide stock liberal responses to imaginary conservative talking points." (For conservatives, the worry is how to talk with left-wing relatives.)
Isn't there a better way?
50首经典英文儿歌
女儿四岁时来美国，陪女儿玩，我和她一起读了很多英文儿歌，这50首应该是很经典的。今天贴在这里的只是目录，具体的内容随后陆续会贴上来。
1. Hush, Little baby
2. Little bo-peep
3. Brahms' lullaby
4. Baby bunting
5. a-tisket, a-tisket
6. Cradle hymn
7. Oh, how lovely is the the evening
8. French cradle song
9. All the pretty little horses
10. Sing a song of sixpence
11. Jack and jill
12. Winkum, Winkum
13. Lavender's blue
14. Twinkle, twinkle, little star
15. Hey diddle diddle
16. One, two, buckle my shoe
17. Over the river and through the woods
18. All through the night
19. Now the day is over
20. Row, row, row your boat
21. White coral bells
22. Five little speckled frogs
23. Lightly row
24. Hickory, dickory, dock
25. Here we go round the mulberry bush
26. Sweet and low
27. The bear went over the mountain
28. Amazing grace
29. Good night, ladies
30. Oh dear
31. Butterfield's lullaby
32. Emmet's lullaby
33. Irish lullaby
34. German cradle song
35. Are you sleeping?
36. Oh where, Oh where has my little dog gone?
37. Wee willie winkie
38. Early one morning
39. Scottish lullaby
40. Diddle diddle dumpling
41. Rocked in the cradle of the deep
42. Baa, baa, black sheep
43. Raisins and almonds
44. Rain, rain, go away
45. Three little kittens
46. Mary had a little lamb
47. Little boy blue
48. My bonnie lies over the ocean
49. Sleep, baby, sleep
50. Rock-a-bye baby
