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- Shares First Impression of Going Home
- On June, 18, after saying goodbye to several bosom friends, I took the flight from Guangzhou to Jinan, flying straight back to my hometown instead of going back to Beijing. The flight was delayed due to bad weather, which I knew beforehand that thunder and gale were expected that day; fortunate ...
- Shares The Longest Day in Macau
- Today is my last work day in Macau. Early in the morning after a sleepless night I got out of my bed on the wrong side, when a friend asked me to fetch him at the customs office which was really unwelcome. I told him that I was busy today and perhaps hadn’t time to dine with him ...
- Shares Tipping in Macau
- Tipping varies among different cultures. Generally a tip is a voluntary extra payment offered to the service worker, the amount being at the discretion of thecustomer being served. Tipping is not a part of Chinese culture or custom, and many establishments actually ...
- Shares Vocabulary Building--Part 6
- Sit In his temperament, judgments and prejudices, many of which do not sit well with present day fashions, Santayana was very much the Castillian Platonist, cold, aristocratic and elitist, a curious blend of Mediterranean conservative and cultivated Anglo Saxon, aloof and ironically deta ...
- Shares The Growing of Friendship
- The cultivation of friendship can be likened to the growing of trees. The seed must be carefully chosen, it must fall on good ground, the nutrient and water must be on regular supply, shelter from unpredictable elements is sometimes obligatory, and industrious pruning is indispen ...
- Shares Vocabulary Building- Part 5
- Journal Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of thos ...
- Shares Vocabulary Building--Part 4
- Fawn He was constantly offending Stroeve so bitterly that he flung away, vowing he would never speak to him again; but there was a solid force in Strickland that attracted the fat Dutchman against his will, so that he came back, fawning like a clumsy dog, though he knew that his only gre ...
- Shares Who Is at Fault?
- When man becomes old, he often finds contentment in the contemplation of the old memories. He shall find little regrets after having lived out his dream and left behind him his most valuable legacy, his descendants. He might also take comfortfrom sav ...
- Shares Vocabulary Building- Part 3
- Disarray Nixon was also eager to have verbatim accounts that would later be useful in countering assertions that others, especially Kissinger, were the driving force in initiating successful policies. Nixon also thought that clashes between Rogers and Kissinger undermined public confiden ...
- Shares To Datoudefans and Other Friends about My Learning Experiences
- Several friends asked me to share my English learning experiences with them, which I didn’t feel like to do at first, as my English proficiency has not reached a level entitling me to write home about. What’s more, my way of learning is especially unfit for young stude ...
