It's Great to Be a Guy/Woman Because... 做男人/女人真棒，因为 It's Great to Be a Guy Because... 我想成为一个男子汗因为 Our last name stays put. 称谓还等着我们去填写。 We can be President. 我们可能称谓总统。 Th...
Dry cleaners and hair cutters don't rob us blind. 干洗店和卷发器不会让我们没眼光。 We can leave the motel bed unmade. 我们可以不整理床铺直接离开旅馆。 We get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. 一点点...
Colors and People 人和颜色 There are three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. Certain psychologists have put people who love these colors into different groups. 有三种原色：红色，黄色和蓝色。某些心理学家把喜欢这三种颜...
The Outside Chance 千载难逢的机会 It's a funny thing about money. If you haven't got it, you think it's the most important thing in the world. That's how I used to think. I don't any more, and I learned it in the hard way. 这是一个关于金钱...
Just A Little Smile 只因一个微笑 Mike was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a tape recorder. Mike k...
Lighten Up 放松心情 These days, it seems that almost all of us have something to worry about. 这些日子，似乎我们每个人都有担心的事情。 People are frustrated and uptight about almost everythingbeing five minutes late, 人们对很...
The next step is to understand the link between your expectations and your frustration level. 第二步是要了解你的期望和挫折感水平之间的联系。 Whenever you expect something to be a certain way and it isn't, 当你期待某件事以...
A Beautiful Dress 一条美丽的裙子 My neighbor's eight-year-old daughter used to stay in the countryside, her native place. 我邻居八岁的女儿之前住在乡下，她的老家。 Recently her parents brought her to town to live with them. 最...
The World's Biggest Family 世界上最大的家庭 Mr. and Mrs. Albina don't know where all their grown-up children are living now. 阿宾娜夫妇不知道他们已成年的孩子们现在在哪里生活。 They aren't sure how old all their childr...
Mrs. Albina now has 16 more girls, including the twins who are 15 months old. 阿宾娜太太现在有16多个女儿，包括5个月大的双胞胎。 The oldest Albina children are in their 30s and 40s. They're on their own now, 阿宾娜年纪最大的...
Bill Gates vs. GM 比尔盖茨与通用汽车公司 At a computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $...
and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 并且不能重启，在这种情况下，你将不得不重新安装引擎。 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast an...
I'm Stupid! 我真笨！ Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, I'm Stupid. That way you wouldn't have to rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, Excuse me...oops... never mind, didn't see your sign....
We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. 一年前，我们曾打算卖了我们的车。 A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. 一个哥们来看车，然后在附近开了45分钟。 We get back to the...
Levels of Communication 1 交际面面观 Phatic communication: Using conventional messages to establish rapport, 交际沟通：使用传统的信息建立密切关系， to break the ice, and/or to end a conversation. 打破僵局，以及/或结束一...
