be known as; make up; as well, link (...) to; break away from; look around; to one's credit; under construction |
The room some simple furniture: a bed, a chair and a table.
Yesterday I popped into a supermarket on my way home to buy a few items.So there I was, in the 15 items or less line, waiting to be 1 when I noticed a young lady with a baby in front of me.She was really 2 her items, which was probably what 3 my attention to her.So there I was staring, and I watched 4 the checkout girl told her the total.She began to search the 5and then looked up, her face almost white.
Intuitively (凭直觉) I knew what was wrong.She was 6 of money.As her total came to $8.80, I assumed she was low on the 7.So I opened my purse, reached in, and 8 a few of my own coins, saying “How much do you need, honey？” She looked at me 9 and said “Like all of it.”Without even 10 and putting my own coins back into my purse, I told the checkout girl to add it to my 11.The lady could barely speak.She told me she had $10 in her purse but had no 12 what happened to it.I told her it was no accident today that of all the checkouts I could have lined up at I 13 at this one, right behind her.I wished her a 14 day, and paid for the total.
The lady never did 15 me or even so much as look back.She walked away 16 digging through her bag looking for what I supposed was her 17 $10 note.Yet it doesn't matter at all.What I love most about all this is that the checkout girl saw, 18 the five or so other people behind me.What I hope is that they will 19 what they saw.Someday, somewhere, perhaps they or the people they tell, may too be 20 to do the same.
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books-especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of everincreasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound (装订) between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in bookselling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in secondhand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap secondhand books, the collector must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. The booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small handcarts. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs, have been waiting for them. In places like this they can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old one that may be worth many pounds.
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Many years ago my grandfather had a small farm and chickens. One morning he sent me out to collect fresh eggs. He became concerned when I didn't return after a short time. When he came looking for me I jumped with joy, but he saw tears in my eyes and noticed that I was in an empty chicken house.
Noticing I was not in a good mood, he asked, "What was wrong?" I told him tearfully, "That dirty rooster, who is now gentle, in your presence, came pecking(啄食) after me and all the hens started cackling(咯咯叫),which scared me, and I ran into the next hen house for safety." He took me by the hand and we walked right by the now quiet dirty rooster and comfortable hens. We sat under the apple tree, and he related the following story. "Did you notice how that rooster and hens behaved when I came in? Totally different than when you first came in." I shouted, "The rooster and hens seemed to come at me."
My grandfather then said, "That's a new rooster the neighbour gave me. All your life you are going to come across people who will act like that rooster and hens. Only in different ways! It's natural for that rooster to protect this house and his hens. The rooster is the leader and the hens are followers. The same with people! It doesn't matter whether they are men or women. There will always be people who will try to lead your life and if you let them, you will become like the hens."
"But to be the leader, you have to first be able to lead your own life and be the rooster of your actions. You can be like the rooster leading the hens. Most of us in life are followers, like the hens and some stay hidden in their own chicken house, like you did."
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That doesn't mean that the rooster in us is bad or dirty, like the one you just experienced.
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Then he did the smartest move.
About six years ago I was going through a tough time, trying to work two jobs to afford my rent. On a cold Sunday morning, I went to GameStop—a video game retailer (零售商), to1the game I'd reserved. A woman in a car parked outside called me when I2the store. Though it was in broad daylight, I was3about it and kept some distance when I walked over. She said she couldn't walk and4me to purchase a Kinect, a popular game, for her as her5Christmas gift. Due to her leg disease it was6for her to move around. She called ahead but the employee wasn't willing to7. She gave me about $100 in cash and her credit card.
I walked back in and bought the Kinect. Then it occurred to me that this woman, a complete stranger,8me. What was it that stopped me from lying about the payment method and just9her cash? She couldn't know I wasn't a10; and how could she possibly have so much11someone?
I handed her the cash back,12I had to pay with her card—it was above $ 100 at the time, and handed over the13and her credit card. "This is what my son's been longing for. Thank you! By the way, just from14at you, I know you are the one who'll be a friend to someone15. You have a face of an angel!" she said. She gave me $ 10 and16to take it back. Then she17, saying "Merry Christmas!"
She had no idea how much of a18even $ 10 made. I was able to buy a few cheap groceries for the week and it really made a19time in my life a little better. She may think I helped her;20, I truly feel like the one who was being gifted something amazing.
These days, modern buildings are everywhere. But if you want to see life was in the old days, China still has many beautiful water (town) to visit. CNN has chosen four of the country's most beautiful ones.
The village of Zhouzhuang in Jiangsu calls (it) "the oldest water town in China". The village, which (build) in 1086, is crossed with canals. Hongcun, (fill) with lakes and beautiful Anhui-style buildings, is 900 years old.
Fenghuang in Hunan doesn't look like a bird, its name is "phoenix" (凤凰) in Chinese. The town is as (beauty) as the bird. The buildings on each side of Tuojiang River make the area look like a scene from postcard.
While most water towns are in the south, Shandong's Tai'erzhuang stands out in the north. The town (be) on the back of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In the town, there are ancient bridges, a canal and temples, (make) you think of its past glory.
