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They say nothing lasts forever

They say nothing lasts forever.
Everyone is an island.
People comes and goes, but never stays.
Cherish the friendship,
As we are only here today.

They say nothing lasts forever.
Life is nice but short.
Live your life to the fullest,
And never look back,
As we are only here today.

They say nothing lasts forever.
Time flies and never stands still.
Savor the moment,
And make it last for better
As we are only here today.

They say nothing lasts forever.
Never give up having a dream.
Seed one deep in the heart
And stick at it,
As we are only here today.

They say nothing lasts forever.
No matter we are rich or poor,
Depressed or happy,
Ordinary or talented,
Make efforts to have a change
As we are only here today.

They say nothing lasts forever.
Things happen for reasons.
Challenge is also the opportunity.
And can only be seized
By those who prepare themselves.
Start to do something now,
As we are only here today.

Jiao Liu : 02 Jul 2007 23:05 |  Tags: Englishstudy Original Poems |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

梦到梦想 DREAM A DREAM

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1.把每一天都当作生命中的第一天来准备，又把每一天当作生命中的最后一天来完成，难以想象一个人成就的极限在哪里。Prepare each and every day as it is the first day in our life and complete it as it is the last. It will be hard to imagine the utmost achievement a person can make.

2.别让任何事情妨碍你的成长， 把全部的时间和精力留给要爱的人和要做的事。Don’t allow anything to handicap your growth. Your time and vigor should be entirely devoted to the person you love and the career you like.

3.不管我们愿不愿意，总是要开始独立面对生活的；不管生活美不美好，都是要继续努力坚持自我的。No matter we are willing or not, we always have to face the life independently. No matter life is beautiful or not, we still have to insist on ourselves consistently.

4.纯粹为梦想而生的人，纯粹得让人肃然起敬。The people who were born purely for their dreams deserve the purest respect.

5.从来没有无偿的付出，只是收获的内容不同而已。世事是公平的，要相信天理。There is never a work without a payment. It is just that the payments vary in forms. Things are actually fair play. Have faith in God.

6.从现实到理想的长途跋涉中，困惑比困难更加危险，不确定就是对梦想的亵渎。On the long road from reality to ideality, confusion is more dangerous than difficulties. Uncertainty is a kind of insult to your dream.

7.多少次我们曾经对人生漠然？多少次我们曾经对理想默然?而它们本应该都轰轰烈烈。How many times we have been careless about our life? How many times we have been quiet about our dreams? Both of them were supposed to be full of enthusiasm.

8.你有想过伟大和自己的联系吗？在你思考之时和之前，已经有很多人在赶往伟大的路上了。Have you ever thought about that greatness has anything to do with yourself? Before you know it, there are already a sea of people on the way there.

9.年少的梦想，心中的圣殿，告诉我哪条是朝圣的路，我将义无反顾。Dream in youth, palace in heart, tell me which way is the pilgrimage. I’ll go all out for it.

10.期待，还是期待，期待自己和这个世界。为什么不去期待呢？失望再大也不比心中没有希望的悲哀。Hope, still hope, hope myself and this world for the best. Why not to do so? The biggest disappointment is not sadder than hopelessness.

11.其实伟人也曾经平凡，甚至潦倒过，也曾经苦闷，甚至绝望过；不同的是他们还一直努力，从来没有懈怠过，还一直坚持，从来没有放弃过。In fact, great people have also been ordinary, even wretched; have been depressed, even desperate，too. What made them different was that they still made effort, never slowed down; still carried on, never gave up.

12.请你笃定心中那个梦，它没有我们想象得那么远，也没有我们以为的那么近。Please stick at the dream in your heart. It is neither so far as we imagine nor so close as we think.

13.人生其实不存在没有什么特殊时刻，所有的成果和后果都是之前全部努力的结果。In fact, there is no special moment in life. All the achievement and aftermath are the outcome of the whole effort we devoted before.

14.人生短暂，我是不是考虑得太多，准备得太久，又行动得太慢？Life is short. Do I consider too much，prepare too long, and action too slow?

15.人总是要全部经历过才能醒悟，而真正的人生总是还对前途一无所知就上路了。People always get to know the truth after they made it all through, but real life begins while they still know nothing about the future.

16.生命中那个最重要的人是谁？那件最重要的事是什么？Who is the most important person in your life? And what is the most important thing to you?

17.世事难料，造化弄人，未来因为无法确定而变得诱人。Things are challenges. Situations are dilemmas. The future becomes alluring just because of its uncertainty.

18.所有人以相同的速度老去，却以不同的速度收获着人生。All the people are getting old in the same velocity, while we are harvesting our lives in different ones.

19.在心中埋一个信念，种一个梦想，从此其他都无足轻重了。Cherish a faith and seed a dream deep in the heart. Then anything else won’t matter any more.

20.我感觉梦想就在前方不远处等着我，而我尽迷失在琐碎中东张西望。I feel that my dream is waiting for me not far away, but I am totally lost in trivialities looking around.

21.我们可能错失了一些机会，但也因此遇到另一些机会。We might lose some opportunities, but we also got some new ones because of the loss.

22.我热爱生活，向往梦想，我不能容忍有任何其它隔在生活与梦想中间。I love my life，fancy my dream. I can’t put up with anything else in the way between my life and dream.

23.我想我想到了我想做的。也许若干年后我会嘲笑现在的幼稚，但也许——若干年后我会感慨今天的明智。I think that I have finally thought of what I want to do with my life. After years, I might laugh at my naivety of today, but maybe, admire my witness of today.

24.我一直在努力酝酿一种最为绚烂的色彩，我相信它就要渗透出来，蔓延开来。I’m trying to brew the most gorgeous color all the time. I truly believe that it is about to penetrate outwards and spread around.

25.要从现在几十亿人中脱颖而出显然是不能随便的，要在历史千百亿人中留下印象必然是无法轻松的。It obviously can’t be random for us to stand out of several billion people in nowadays. And it absolutely can’t be easy for us to be impressive among trillions of people in history, too.

26.因为总是心有旁骛，其实我们也还没有为梦想全力以赴。Because of all the distraction, it is not actually the best we can do to make our dreams come true.

27.永远不要放弃做梦的权利，它所带给我们的信仰和激情诠释了一种叫做人生的东西。Never give up the right to dream. The belief and passion it brings to us illustrates a thing named life.

28.遇到困难就是机遇，而很多人一面逃避困难，一面等待机遇。Challenge is also the opportunity. While many people escape from challenge and wait for the opportunity at the same time.

29.真的开始做点什么去接近人生目标，别把它一辈子留在梦里。Seriously, start to do something to get close to your life-goal。Don’t leave it in the dream for a life time.

30.做一件事最充足的理由就是这件事本身。The most reasonable reason for doing something is the thing itself.

Jiao Liu : 02 Jul 2007 22:30 |  Tags: Englishstudy Wisdom |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

精辟词句

No person deserves your tears, and who deserves them won’t make you cry.
没有人值得你流泪，值得你流泪的人是不会让你哭的。

Never stop smiling, not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
永远都不要停止微笑，即使是在你难过的时候，说不定有人会因为你的笑容而爱上你。

Don’t spend time with someone who doesn’t care spending it with you.
不要把时间花在一个不在乎与你一起分享的人身上。

Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you.
无论你身在何处，无论你为何忙碌，我都会在此守候。

Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of.
爱很难投入，但一旦投入，便更难走出。

Love me little and love me long.
不求情意绵绵，但求天长地久。

Dream what you want to dream；go where you want to go；be what you want to be，because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
做你想做的梦吧，去你想去的地方吧，成为你想成为的人吧，因为你只有一次生命，一个机会去做所有那些你想做的事。

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone，an hour to like someone，and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
迷上某人只需一分钟，喜欢上某人需要一小时，爱上某人则要一天，然而，忘记某人却是一辈子的事情。

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with，never say a word，and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had.
最好的朋友就是那种能和你促膝而坐，彼此不说只字片语，分别时却感到这是你有过的最好的一次交流！

Jiao Liu : 20 May 2007 22:42 |  Tags: Englishstudy Goodsentences Wisdom |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Introduction of Chinese New Year

第一篇
Prepare for the Chinese New Year
It’s about one and a half month away from the Chinese New Year, It is a festival celebrated by the Chinese people at the beginning of the lunar calendar year.

As of the Chinese traditional customs, our parents and grandparents will sweep every corner of the house and clean the windows until they gleam, and washing clothes, buying foods and goods for the new year’s future use and presents.

Children will be the most benefited group during this feast period. One month before that, they are expecting the new clothes, delicious foods. The firecrackers and the year’s allowance for their increased ages.

In recent years, with the rising of the standard of life, Chinese tend to make various holiday plans to spend a different and meaningful new year. Such as traveling abroad, or be absorbed in their hobbies, and even work.

Why today we try to spend our Chinese new year in such a different way? I think that’s because this is a era of free life and personality high-ranking. Though there are still something traditional, our young generation is attempting to make something new and suitable for ourselves. And we would like to take something really worth to be cherished in our memorable treasures. That’s amazing and wonderful!

I’ll always keep in mind that the Chinese new year is a great feast inherited from our ancestors, but if necessary, I would like to enjoy it by some ways personal.

第二篇
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is a Chinese traditional festival. We also call it the Spring Festival. It is on lunar January 1st.

On New Year’s Eve, all the people sit around the desk and have a big family dinner. There are some vegetables, some fish, some meat, some fruits and some drink like juice, Coke, Pepsi and some nice wine. Overall, this is a good and delicious dinner. After dinner, we always watch TV New Year progammes. We have a wonderful evening on New Year’s Eve.

On the first day of the Spring Festival, most of people get up early and say “happy new year” to each other. For breakfast, people often eat dumplings and baozi. After breakfast, people often make many delicious foods, and children often play cards, computer games and fireworks. On the second and third day, we visit friends and relatives.

Everyone is busy on Chinese New Year, and everyone is happy, too.

第三篇
Traditions of Chinese New Year
Before New Year’s Eve

The celebration actually starts on New Year’s Eve with the family reunion dinner. By New Year’s Eve, you should have done the following:

Clean the entire home to get rid of all the things that are associated with the old year.
Put away all brooms and brushes.
Pay all your debts.
Resolve differences with family members, friends, neighbors and business associates.
Buy the following:
Red money envelopes,
Oranges and/or tangerines,
Fill a “Cheun hup(a circular red tray separated in eight compartments) with melon seedslotuschocolate coinsnuts etc.
Flowers (especially plum blossoms, peach blossoms, water lilies),
A new set of clothes and shoes for children, preferably something red or orange.
Get new dollar bills from the bank. Insert the new dollar bills into the red envelopes. Now the red envelope is called a lai see or lucky money envelope.

On New Year’s Eve

Get together with close family members (not including married daughters and their families) for the “reunion” dinner.

Pay respect to ancestors and household gods. Acknowledge the presence of ancestors because they are responsible for the fortunes of future generations.
Open every door and window in your home at midnight to let go of the old year.

On New Year’s Day
Decorate your home with symbols of good fortune. Here are some suggestions:

Colors: Bright red (happiness); gold/orange (wealth & happiness).
Fruits: Oranges and tangerines (good health & long life); tangerines with leaves intact (long lasting relationships; being fruitful and multiply); persimmons (happiness and wealth).
“Chuen Hup” circular candy tray (candy for sweet and circular for togetherness and continuity).
Flowers: If flowers bloom on New Year’s Day, it will be a prosperous year.
Red banners or couplets with New Year wishes and symbols of good fortune in gold.

第四篇
Spring FestivalThe Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.

The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people’s sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.

Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened.

On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job’s tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko.

The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themselves.

After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called “Seeing the New Year in”.

Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What’s more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.

Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.

Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners’ wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

The Chinese character “fu” (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the “reversed fu” is homophonic with “fu comes”, both being pronounced as “fudaole.” What’s more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.

People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively “ji”, “yu” and “doufu,” mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in.

Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think “jiaozi” in sound means “bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new”. Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.

Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means “higher and higher, one year after another.” The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.

Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the Spring Festival. People thought the spluttering sound could help drive away evil spirits. However, such an activity was completely or partially forbidden in big cities once the government took security, noise and pollution factors into consideration. As a replacement, some buy tapes with firecracker sounds to listen to, some break little balloons to get the sound too, while others buy firecracker handicrafts to hang in the living room.

The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.

China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.

Jiao Liu : 05 Jan 2007 20:28 |  Tags: Englishstudy |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

情人节英语

Valentine’s Day 情人节

Date 约会

Bunch 花束

Rose 玫瑰

Candy 糖果

Chocolate 巧克力

Forget-Me-Not 勿忘我

Puppy Love/First Love 初恋

Cute Meet 浪漫的邂逅

Fall In Love 坠入爱河

Love At The First Sight 一见钟情

Propose 求婚

Valentine Cards 情人节卡片

Candlelight Dinner 烛光晚餐

Heart-Shaped/Cordate 心形的

Truelove 真爱

Enamored 倾心的

Saint Valentine’s Day 情人节

The Chemical Feeling 奇妙的感觉，触电

Sweet Bitterness 甜蜜的痛苦

A Doomed Couple 天生一对

A Happy Ending 大团圆结局

Sweetheart 甜心

Lover 爱人

Cupid 爱神丘比特

Admirer 仰慕者

Romance 浪漫

Heartthrob 激情

Courtship 求爱

Infatuation 醉心

Promise/Pledge/Vow 誓言

Fidelity 忠心

Eternal/Immortal/Everlasting 永恒

Jiao Liu : 05 Jan 2007 19:17 |  Tags: Englishstudy Goodarticles |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

英文短语

1.I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

2.No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won′t make you cry.
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

3.The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can′t have them.
失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。
错过一个人最可怕的方式就是：坐在他的身旁，你却永远不会拥有他。

4.Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。
永远都不要停止微笑，即使在你最难过的时候，说不定有人会因为你的笑容而爱上你。

5.To the world you may be one person, but to one person you maybe the world.
对于世界而言，你是一个人;但是对于某个人，你是他的整个世界。
你可能只是这个世界上的一个人，但是对于某人来说，你就是全世界。

6.Don′t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn’t willing to waste their time on you.
不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
不要把时间花在一个不在乎和你一起分享的人身上。

7.Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to,doesn′t mean they don′t love you with all they have.
爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你，那并不代表他没有全心全意地爱你。

8.Don′t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。

9.Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人;在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。
也许上帝让你在遇见很多合适的人之前遇见很多错误的人，所以，当一切发生的时候，请你心存感激

10.Don′t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。
不要因为他的结束而哭，要为他的发生而笑。

Jiao Liu : 02 Dec 2006 17:05 |  Tags: Englishstudy Wisdom |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem