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They blame China as it quickly develops to provide its citizens with a better quality of life. But developed countries are "developed" because their factories have been polluting the sky for more than 200 years.
One of the biggest challenges facing students and their families is what prospective career they should enter and what is the best path for them to take.
Home truths are the bitter and unpleasant truths, or facts that you don’t always tell other people if you can help it.
在中国,社交称谓中人们习惯于以官职相称。由于受悠久的官场文化和官本位观念的影响,也由于中国特有的行政体制,各种官位可谓多如牛毛,英语中绝对不可能为每一个“长”都找到一个排他性的称谓词。
It was apparently a case of "absence from duty" - 23 teachers from a high school in Chongqing suspended classes for three days early this month to take a trip to Hainan, a subtropical tourist attraction.
A spin doctor on the other hand is someone who “treats” a story. He “spins” a story, you see, as in the phrase “spin a yarn”, meaning to tell a long and winding story.
It seems to many that men have a right to be naughty while women must be chaste and as pure as a white lily. They may not have said it, but they certainly implied it.
Call me a bookworm, a geek or a nerd whatever - I think if you asked me I could probably describe every library I have ever been to.
“Day of reckoning” was originally a religious term coming straight from the Christian Bible (Book of Isaiah): What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
The Yunnan Provincial Procuratorate announced last Friday that Li Qiaoming, the inmate who died in a prison in the province on Feb 8, was actually beaten to death by "prison bullies".
“David doesn’t do failure.”It means that David, David Frost that is, doesn’t accept failure. Or he doesn’t allow failure to happen. He won’t stop trying until he succeeds.
If you mess with a person, on the other hand, you confront them, get in their way,contradict them or even fistfight them. People are therefore warned not to mess with certain folks who are tough, strong, and generally known to be hard to defeat.
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