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这期节目记得戴耳机收听，那才有感觉。 It's not what happened to your parents. I killed them. I killed them. It was my job. It was my first time. Your father was supposed to be alone. But then your mother came out of in nowhere,and I had to change my plan. It changes things,that knowledge. Doesn't it? When what you love gets taken from you,you wanna know the truth. I'm sorry. 你的父母并不是那么死的...

各位客官记得打赏扔荔枝啊！ When we go about our day, we tell ourselves a story about what’s happening … and at the center of that narrative is a single person. Ourselves. When I talk to myself about how so-and-so is inconsiderate or treated me badly, when I tell myself that it’s OK to procrastinate because I’m tired and not in the mood … I’m at the center of this movie. It’s an ongoing story about...

To Create a Habit, Tell a Good Story If you want to create a new exercise habit (for example), you might tell yourself something like this: “This is going to be amazing, I’m going to get fit and look incredible and be super healthy!” This is a story you’re telling yourself. It’s not real, but it has tremendous power to affect your feelings about your habit, and to change your action. You have a po...

There is a famous stone water basin (or “tsukubai”) outside of the even more famous Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, with four characters that read: “ware tada shiru taru.” This is a Zen saying that can be translated in a number of ways, all to do with contentment. But my favorite translation is: “All you need, you already have.” I think it’s such a lovely way of looking at life. As you sit here reading...

　为了强调英语句子中的某一成份，强调方式是多种多样的，现将它们归纳如下，以供参考。 　　1.用形容词“very”，“single”等表示强调 　　e.g. Red Army fought a battle on this very spot. 　　红军就在此地打过一仗。 　　Not a single person has been in the office this afternoon. 　　今天下午竟然没有一个人来过办公室。 　　2.用反身代词表示强调 　　e.g. I myself will see her off at the station. 　　我将亲自到车站...

随着毕业季的到来，很多大四学生都开始忙着面试啦，今天我们要跟大家分享的是一些面试的小贴士。 These interview tips cover all the basics you need to know to ace a job interview. 下面给大家介绍的10个面试小贴士，如果你掌握了其中的诀窍，面试成功的几率将会大大提高。 Avoid Interview Mistakes 避免犯常见的面试错误 What shouldn&`&t you do when interviewing? Check out the most common job interview mistakes, bl...

Don&`&t Look Back 告别过去 As you travel through life there are always those times when decisions just have to be made when the choices are hard, and solutions seem scarce and the rain seems to soak your parade! 人生的旅途中，你常常会面临必须做出一个艰难抉择的时刻，这时的解决方法看似少之又少，而你则像在行进中被雨水浇透那样无助！ There are some situations where all you can do is to simply let go an...

《Ex Machina》效力于某知名搜索引擎公司的程序员Galeb幸运地抽中老板Nathan所开出的大奖，他将受邀前往位于深山的别墅中和老板共度假期。在与世隔绝的别墅中，Nathan亲切地接待了这位员工。 事实上他邀请Galeb到来还有另一个目的，那就是协助他完成其所开发的智能机器人的测试。天才一般的Nathan研制了具有独立思考能力的智能机器人Ava，为了确认她是否具有独立思考的能力，他希望加利能为Ava进行著名的“图灵测试”。似乎从第一眼...

各国间的文化差异巨大，我们自个儿行得通的礼仪到了西方就是另一回事啦！今天我们就来通过三个场景，了解一下中外文化间的一些不同吧~~ 第一幕：一位学校领导向教师们介绍新来的美国老师 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm delighted to introduce to you a very pretty girl, Miss Brown. She is a very good teacher from the USA. 对这番话，美国女教师一脸难堪的样子。 文化差异：中国人介绍来宾，喜欢用褒扬的话语言辞。但美国人认为...

Gratitude to Cure the Impulse to Buy More Stuff It’s funny that two days with such opposing spirits come back-to-back in our calendars here in the U.S.: Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. One is about being thankful for what you have, and the other is about getting more of what you don’t have. They aren’t aligned at all. The good news is that we can use our thankfulness to overcome the urges to bu...

The Guanghzhou Auto Show, one of China's biggest auto shows, is getting underway. Domestic and foreign players in the auto market are taking part in the event, putting the spotlight on SUVs. 中国最大的车展之一的广州车展正在进行中。国内外汽车爱好者将参加此次车展，关注运动型多功能车。 Yale Zhang, Automotive Foresight's Managing Director, says many auto brands, such as Ford's Everest and Great Wall M...

Most complaints made by Chinese consumers last year were about online shopping, a report from China's top legislative body said on Monday. 中国最高立法机关于周一在一份报告中称，去年中国消费者的投诉大都是关于网上购物。 The number of complaints and disputes related to shopping on the Internet rose sharply and the network has become a breeding ground for counterfeits, the report by a law enforcement...

A Guide for All of Us: Getting Good at Storytelling & Other Superhuman Social Skills By Leo Babauta Let’s face it: most of us aren’t amazing social ninjas, good at working any social situation, let alone comfortable telling a captivating story in front of a crowd. It would be great if there were a manual that taught us the key social skills for being good at parties, talking to strangers, making a...