So high>///< fabulous!!
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Posted:Jan 17, 2008 7:41 am
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Dear all:
Today,
I got a letter from Santa
(I waiting for it about one month)
Feel REALLY so GREAT how excited>///<
The letter is so lovely!
Want to share this joyful moment with you!!
Regarding
Jenny
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Interpretation course-2007-11-30-Can money buy happiness?
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Posted:Jan 11, 2008 7:58 am
Last Updated:Jan 17, 2008 7:35 am 3037 Views
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Many of us dream of having thousands and thousands of dollars to spend on anything we desire. We buy lottery tickets, enter contests or spend hours building a business or playing the stock market. We¡¦re sure when we have plenty of money, we will be happy. But will we?
While having some money does have an impact our level of happiness, having a lot of money does not. People in the United States whose income goes from US$20, 000 a year to US$50, 000 a year are more likely to be happy.
But after US$50, 000, happiness does not increase as salaries go up Why is that? It¡¦s because we are never satisfied. ¡§We always think if we just had a little more money, we¡¦d be happier,¡¨ says Catherine Sanderson, a psychology professor at Amherst College. ¡§But when we get there, we¡¦re not.¡¨
¡§The more you make, the more you want. The more you have, the less it brings you joy, ¡§ says Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard. ¡§We incorrectly assume we¡¦ll get more pleasure from more, and we don¡¦t.¡¨
The things money can buy don¡¦t make you happy either. A lot of research suggests that you won¡¦t find the ¡§good life¡¨ buying expensive ¡§toys¡¨ You finally buy that BMW you¡¦ve always wanted and it soon loses it appeal. Then, instead of wondering if a new car is what really makes you happy, you decide you just need a different new car. It¡¦s an endless cycle.
To really be happy, you need to understand what makes you happy in the first place. One secret of happiness: people. Surveys have found that people need people. Those who have five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as ¡§very happy.¡¨
Good relationships have a far greater effect on happiness than large raises in salary. Andrew Oswald is an economist at University of Warwick. He says, ¡§If you¡¦re looking for happiness in life, find the right husband or wife rather than trying to double your salary.¡¨
So invest your time and energy in people. The payoff is much bigger in term of happiness!
( money is not the most important, but we all cannot live without money! This is life! Very cruel..)
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Interpretation course-2007-11-30-Can money buy happiness?
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Posted:Jan 11, 2008 7:43 am
Last Updated:May 9, 2024 12:52 am 2531 Views
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Many of us dream of having thousands and thousands of dollars to spend on anything we desire. We buy lottery tickets, enter contests or spend hours building a business or playing the stock market. We¡¦re sure when we have plenty of money, we will be happy. But will we?
While having some money does have an impact our level of happiness, having a lot of money does not. People in the United States whose income goes from US$20, 000 a year to US$50, 000 a year are more likely to be happy.
But after US$50, 000, happiness does not increase as salaries go up Why is that? It¡¦s because we are never satisfied. ¡§We always think if we just had a little more money, we¡¦d be happier,¡¨ says Catherine Sanderson, a psychology professor at Amherst College. ¡§But when we get there, we¡¦re not.¡¨
¡§The more you make, the more you want. The more you have, the less it brings you joy, ¡§ says Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard. ¡§We incorrectly assume we¡¦ll get more pleasure from more, and we don¡¦t.¡¨
The things money can buy don¡¦t make you happy either. A lot of research suggests that you won¡¦t find the ¡§good life¡¨ buying expensive ¡§toys¡¨ You finally buy that BMW you¡¦ve always wanted and it soon loses it appeal. Then, instead of wondering if a new car is what really makes you happy, you decide you just need a different new car. It¡¦s an endless cycle.
To really be happy, you need to understand what makes you happy in the first place. One secret of happiness: people. Surveys have found that people need people. Those who have five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as ¡§very happy.¡¨
Good relationships have a far greater effect on happiness than large raises in salary. Andrew Oswald is an economist at University of Warwick. He says, ¡§If you¡¦re looking for happiness in life, find the right husband or wife rather than trying to double your salary.¡¨
So invest your time and energy in people. The payoff is much bigger in term of happiness!
( money is not the most important, but we all cannot live without money! This is life! Very cruel..)
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Interpretation course-2007-11-30-Can money buy happiness?
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Posted:Jan 11, 2008 7:42 am
Last Updated:Jan 12, 2008 12:19 am 2736 Views
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Many of us dream of having thousands and thousands of dollars to spend on anything we desire. We buy lottery tickets, enter contests or spend hours building a business or playing the stock market. We¡¦re sure when we have plenty of money, we will be happy. But will we?
While having some money does have an impact our level of happiness, having a lot of money does not. People in the United States whose income goes from US$20, 000 a year to US$50, 000 a year are more likely to be happy.
But after US$50, 000, happiness does not increase as salaries go up Why is that? It¡¦s because we are never satisfied. ¡§We always think if we just had a little more money, we¡¦d be happier,¡¨ says Catherine Sanderson, a psychology professor at Amherst College. ¡§But when we get there, we¡¦re not.¡¨
¡§The more you make, the more you want. The more you have, the less it brings you joy, ¡§ says Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard. ¡§We incorrectly assume we¡¦ll get more pleasure from more, and we don¡¦t.¡¨
The things money can buy don¡¦t make you happy either. A lot of research suggests that you won¡¦t find the ¡§good life¡¨ buying expensive ¡§toys¡¨ You finally buy that BMW you¡¦ve always wanted and it soon loses it appeal. Then, instead of wondering if a new car is what really makes you happy, you decide you just need a different new car. It¡¦s an endless cycle.
To really be happy, you need to understand what makes you happy in the first place. One secret of happiness: people. Surveys have found that people need people. Those who have five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as ¡§very happy.¡¨
Good relationships have a far greater effect on happiness than large raises in salary. Andrew Oswald is an economist at University of Warwick. He says, ¡§If you¡¦re looking for happiness in life, find the right husband or wife rather than trying to double your salary.¡¨
So invest your time and energy in people. The payoff is much bigger in term of happiness!
( money is not the most important, but we all cannot live without money! This is life! Very cruel..)
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Interpretation course-2007-12-XX
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Posted:Jan 9, 2008 9:03 pm
Last Updated:Jan 10, 2008 6:25 pm 2968 Views
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ECONOMICS REPORT -
The Worldwide Spread of Oil
When we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to mind first may be the Middle East. But petroleum development takes place worldwide.
Nigeria, for example, is the largest oil producer in Africa and the eleventh largest producer in the world. Russia is the world's second largest exporter of oil and the top exporter of natural gas.
But the country that produces and exports more oil than any other is Saudi Arabia. The Saudis hold one-fourth of the world's proven oil reserves.
Last year, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries produced about twenty-eight percent of the world's oil supply. The United States Energy Department says they also held fifty-five percent of known reserves.
The other Gulf producers are Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Iran has ten percent of the world's proven oil reserves. Iraq is also estimated to have a large supply of oil, and unexplored areas may hold much more.
In nineteen sixty Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela formed the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Today OPEC has twelve members. The newest is Angola which joined this year.
High oil prices have brought new attention to OPEC. Its members produce about forty percent of the world's oil. But two of the world's top three oil exporters, Russia and Norway, are not OPEC members.
Its influence may have reached a high point during the oil crisis connected to the nineteen seventy-three Arab-Israeli war. Arab oil producers boycotted the United States, western Europe and Japan because of their support for Israel.
Since then, new discoveries and increased production in areas including countries of the former Soviet Union have provided more oil.
National oil companies are estimated to control about eighty percent of the world's oil supply.
In recent years, rising oil prices have led more governments to act, either directly or indirectly, to take control of their oil industries.
President Hugo Chavez has moved to nationalize oil operations in Venezuela. And in Russia, a series of actions resulted in state-owned Rosneft gaining control of reserves held by Yukos.
Yukos was Russia's largest private company, until the government said it owed billions of dollars in taxes and jailed its founder, Russia's richest man.
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The pulchritude of woman,
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Posted:Jan 6, 2008 9:59 pm
Last Updated:Jan 13, 2008 4:54 am 2870 Views
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May all happy.......
女人的美麗the pulchritude of woman
A little boy asked his mother "Why are you crying? "
一個男孩問他的媽媽: "你為甚麼要哭呢? "
"Because I'm a woman, " she told him.
媽媽說: "因為我是女人啊"
"I don't understand," he said.
男孩說: "我不懂."
His mum just hugged him and said,"And you never will"
他媽媽抱起他說: "你永遠不會懂的."
Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does
mother seem to cry for no reason? "
後來小男孩就問他爸爸: "媽媽為甚麼毫無理由的哭呢?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad
could say.
"所有女人都這樣."他爸爸回答.
The little boy grew up and became a man, still
wondering why women cry.
小男孩長成了一個男人,但仍就不懂女人為甚麼哭泣.
Finally he put in a call to God; and when God got on
the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"
最後,他打電話給上帝; 當上帝拿起電話時,他問道: "上帝,女人為甚麼那麼容易哭泣呢? "
God said: "When I made the woman she had to be
special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world; yet, gentle enough to give comfort"
上帝回答說: "當我創造女人時,讓她很特別.我使她的肩膀能挑起整個世界的重擔,並且又柔情似水."
"I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her "
我讓她的內心很堅強,能夠承受分娩的痛苦和忍受自己孩子多次的拒絕."
"I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue
without complaining "
我賦予她耐心使她在別人放棄的時候繼續堅持,並且無怨無悔的照顧自己的家人渡過疾病和疲勞.
"I gave her the sensitivity to love her under any and all circumstances, even when her has hurt her very badly"
我賦予她在任何情況下都會愛孩子的感情,即使她的孩子傷害了她.
"I gave her strength to carry her> husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart"
我賦予她包容她丈夫過錯的堅強和用他的勒骨塑成她來保護他的心.
"I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband
never hurts his wife,but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly"
我賦予她智慧讓她知道一個好丈夫是絕不會傷害他的妻子的,但有時我也會考驗她支持自己丈夫的決心和堅強.
"And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."
最後,我讓她可以流淚.只要她願意.這是她所獨有的.
"You see: The beauty of a woman is not in the
clothes she wears,the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair."
你看,女人的漂亮不是因為她穿的衣服,她保持的體型或者她梳頭的方式.
"The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart * the place where love resides."
女人的漂亮必須從她的眼睛中去看,因為那是她心靈的窗戶和愛居住的地方
Please send this to all the beautiful women you
know today in celebration of Women's History Month.
請把這篇文章傳給你認識的漂亮的女人.
Every Woman is Beautiful.
每一個女人都漂亮
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Interpretation course 2008-01-04
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Posted:Jan 6, 2008 5:31 am
Last Updated:Jan 13, 2008 10:33 am 2840 Views
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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES -
Wild Cat: Is It a Fast Car or False Money?
Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories. Today, we tell about the word wildcat.
(MUSIC)Humans have always depended on animals. From the beginning of human history, wild animals provided food, clothing and sometimes medicine.
We may not depend as much on wild animals now. But we hear about them every day. Americans use the names of animals in many ways.
Many companies use animals to make us want to buy their goods. Automobile companies, for example, love to show fast horses when they are trying to sell their cars. They also name their cars for other fast powerful animals.
Automobile manufacturers and gasoline companies especially like to use big cats to sell their products. They like lions, tigers and wildcats.
When Americans say wildcat, they usually mean a lynx, an ocelot or a bobcat.
All these cats attack quickly and fiercely. So wildcats represent something fast and fierce.
What better way is there to sell a car than to say it is as fast as a wildcat. Or, what better way is there to sell gasoline than to say that using it is like putting a tiger in your tank.
An early American use of the word wildcat was quite different. It was used to describe members of Congress who declared war on Britain in eighteen twelve. A magazine of that year said the wildcat congressmen went home. It said they were unable to face the responsibility of having involved their country in an unnecessary war.
Wildcat also has been used as a name for Money. It was used this way in the eighteen hundreds. At that time, some states permitted banks to make their own Money. One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper Money with a picture of a wildcat on it.
Some banks, however, did not have enough gold to support all the paper Money they offered. So the Money had little or no value. It was called a wildcat bill or a wildcat bank note. The banks who offered this Money were called wildcat banks.
A newspaper of the time said those were the days of wildcat Money. It said a man might be rich in the morning and poor by night.
Wildcat was used in another way in the eighteen hundreds. It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it.
Dishonest developers would buy such property. Then they would sell it and leave town with the Money. The buyers were left with worthless holes in the ground. Today, wildcat oil wells are in areas that are not known to have oil.
Yet another kind of wildcat is the wildcat strike. That is a strike called without official approval by a union. During World War Two, an American publication accused wildcat strikers of slowing government production.
To dear Victory:
First, thank you for your comment!
well, about your comment, yes! I have to translate that! It's because that's my study of the course...
Actaully..I posted that article..the main purpose..is to remind me & practice..
Forgive me, hope my poor English won't scare you away..
I'm so sorry...I don't know how to reply you back..( I can't sent you a e-mail..)
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Today is a big day
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Posted:Jan 4, 2008 8:55 am
Last Updated:Jan 4, 2008 10:48 pm 2908 Views
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This is my first time join this big grup. Everything are new to me. well...hope you guys don't mind that..my English is very poor...
I'm not the VIP..so if you take a look my profile, and left message to me, and I don't reply..please forgive me about that..I can't help it! There is nothing I can do. Poor student!
But anyways, I'm really so glad that can meet friends in different area!
^0^
Have a nice day~
God bless all of you 
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