Cousin pouted: "don't you know? Facebook and opera are the hallmarks of our country. No matter where we go to the world, foreigners know that we are Chinese... " Then, my cousin gave me a drama class, and I was so surprised that I didn't come back to my senses for half a da...
stuckoutafewinchesabovethegroundandwas 11inchesinwidth—slightlywiderthanabasketball—withahatch(盖子)thathadbeenmovedunnoticed.Thetwo-year-oldboyhadslippedinand wasdrowninginfourfeetofwastewaterinside theeight-feet-deeptank. Madisonsurveyedthesituation.Shewasthe onlyonewhocouldfitthroughthesmallhole. Withouthes...
AteacherwholaterbecameadearfriendintroducedmetoEdnaSt.VincentMilly(ESVM), thefamouspoetwholivedin Manhattanattheturnofthe20thcentury.Oneofmyfavorite possessions—avaluablefirst-editioncopyofESVM?sshortpoetrycollection.“AFewFigsfrom Thistles”—wasagiftfromthisfriendwhowasoldenoughtobemymotheratthetime.Shetol...
Ma Qinghai, general manager of SMC Investment Management China Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Japan's pneumatic component manufacturer SMC Corporation, said that this year's Spring Festival was full of anticipation and excitement. "We're preparing for the groundbreaking of the much-anticipated second...
I'd like to close with a quote from Mark Twain. More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life, and he wrote this:"There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies,heartburnings, callings to ...
-- In the new year, China will renew its commitments to its people and the world, and carry on with its development confidently and resolutely. BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A lot of things taking place in China these days would have been unimaginable a century ago. ...
一个世纪前,大公司的平均预期寿命是50年; A century ago the average life expectancy for a major corporation was 50 years; 到2015年,这个数字下降到了15年。 by 2015 it had declined to 15 years. 简而言之,今天的大公司很少在几十年前就已经存在,而且大多数都将在未来几十年内消失。 In short, ...
THE year 2024 marks the third time that Paris has hosted the Olympic Games. The first was in 1900 and the second was a century ago in 1924. Since then, the world has changed dramatically. Over the past century, some sports have ceased to be part of the Olympic program, while some othe...
for reforming the global governance system and the strong aspiration of the world's people for a better life, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the building of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in 2013, later known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)....
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