(17)And John is in Brighton on business. M: Do you know what’s wrong with the car? W: I’m not exactly sure. I think there’s a problem with the engine. (14)Uh, I wonder if you could give me a ride to the hotel tomorrow morning. M: Sure. When shall I be at your place...
After this Katy used to go every day. Sometimes Mrs. Spenser would be up and moving feebly about; but more often she was in bed, and Katy would sit beside her. The house never looked a bit better than it did that first day, but after a while Katy used to brush Mrs. Spenser’s ...
In the Middle East, bread is the main part of every meal. Eating like so many things we do, becomes a habit which is difficult to change. Americans like to drink a lot of orange juice and coffee. The English drink tea four or five times every day. Australians drink a great deal of...
“ With a partner, we wonder if they're going to be the one. But with friends, we assume they' re the one from the minute we establish that we like each other.”And because we don't view the loss of a friendship as a normal occurrence, it feels like a personal failing when it ...
A few steps further down the road we were invited by an owners 4 yr old Grandson, Valentino Rolle, to wonder thru a sculptured garden filled with articulately displayed driftwood. He proudly told us (mimicking phrases he’d apparently heard from his Grandfather, the artist), what each twisted...
The guard even cracked open a wide smile, saying in English “have a nice journey,” and bowed upon exiting the train, an amicable parting memory (I wonder how long he had been waiting for an appropriate time to use that nugget of English!). The other border . . . we could not ...
For those of you who wonder whether you'd eat a lab-grown hamburger or drink lab-made milk, ponder this thought, which my friend Florian Radke shared: Imagine a clean lab production facility with pure sugar water and vitamins feeding the meat cell stock, with windows every- where and ...
I just don't see why, when nobody here is arguing that Apple is a good company worthy of us browsing rumors forums and buying their products, you have to go Mac-Head on us and bow down to kiss the feet of His Steveness. NO. Apple did not invent sliced bread. Get over ...
You might wonder how an organization can provide such resources and still survive. But University Health Network is one of a number of progressive employers in Canada that have discovered that investing in staff is good business. If such initiatives help companies cut down on turnover (人员更替)...
“true” ending until long after he had finished rummaging through the suitcase. The truth was still there, in the air about his nostrils. He had been infected with the disease, and when he did finally, accidentally, discover the CD, he told me that he began to wonder what else he ...