a woman made of pain. How superior we are now: see the modern woman thin as a blade of scissors. She runs on a treadmill every morning, fits herself into machines of weights and pulleys to heave and grunt, an image in her mind she can never approximate, a body of rosy glass that n...
Along with Cynthia Reyes, I do not understand the works that are called poetry nowadays. Not that many aren’t poetical. They are, but there is a difference between poetical and poetry. It seems to me that much of the modern poetry written today is prose broken down into lines. If writt...
Meanwhile, most young people in the West are expected to leave what could be life's most momentous decision—marriage—almost entirely up to luck. 同时,人们认为西方的大多数年轻人把婚姻这一可能是人生最重要的决定几乎完全交由命运来安排。 柯林斯高阶英语词典 He drinks what is left in his glass ...
4 . My friend, Robert, has a twin sister named Amanda. Though they get along well, there are some things about Amanda and her friends that puzzle Robert. He can’t understand how girls can talk for so long. For example, sometimes when he leaves home to play football, Amanda and her ...
New Horizon College English BOOK 2 (3rd Edition) Unit 1 Text A Ex .l Understanding the text 1、Be au se he is tired o f listening to his father and he is not interested in gramm ar rules. 2 、Th e ivilization o f Gree e and the glory o f Roman ar hite ture are so m arvel...
want to write nowadays, particularly for social media, is going to have to be immediately understood, so there is a sense of immediacy," she says."The language has to be crisp and direct and exact, and really those are exactly the same kind of ways you would describe a successful poem....
What decorate the vast land of Xinjiang are not only the “Zuo Zongtang Willows” planted some 150 years ago in late Qing Dynasty, but also poplar trees which manifest the miracle of life. The locals call the trees “heroes in the desert” because they can live up to 1,000 years. In...
and different values. But till in the summer of 2019, my internship in China Daily made me realize the true meaning of translation, when my station leader and I came to Jiang Lijuan’s home, a woman who has helped girls from families living in poverty to return to class rooms. It surpr...
Greg Pape's poem ''The Children of Sacaton'' was published inThe Missouri Review, Volume 9, Number 2, in 1986. The poetic voice is a teacher who moved to Sacaton, Arizona, to teach the children there. Sacaton is the capital of th...
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah to be emboldened to speak up not only for themselves but for other women as well. I want us to make as happy an ending as possible for the story of women. I echo what Marie Shear once said: Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. May it ...