几十年前美国有一位教会辅导员，名叫维恩奥茨，他从早到晚忙个不停，成了典型的工作狂。他工作时连家人都不能见到他。后来维恩奥茨写了一本名为《一个工作狂的忏悔录》的书。书中第一次使用Workaholic这个词，意思是指那些只知道工作，不顾家庭，没有正常生活的人。例如：People call Mr.·Green workaholic He spends most of his time in the office, pays no attention to his wife and kids, and never goes on vacation with them. 人们管格林先生叫工作狂。他把大多数时间花在办公室里，不注意他的妻子和孩子，从不和他们去度假。　

　　“发票，发票，要发票吗？”
在北京或中国的任何城市，你总有机会在人多的火车站、地铁站、天桥下，听到这句兜售语。“要发票吗？”无处不在，以致有中国人称之为“有中国特色的问候语”。
我曾佯装买家，向兜售者问价。一名来自东北的卖者说，假发票分为3种类型：机打的，售价为票面数额的3%；手写的，可自由填写数额；定额的，售价为发票数额的10%。机打的需等30分钟才能取货，定额的马上能成交。
他向我推销第一种机打的，比较“划算”：“比如你要数额为1万元的发票，只收你300元。”用人民币300元，即可换取1万元的商业交易的凭证。
什么是发票？假发票买了干什么？这涉及中国的报销制度和中国税制的特点。

在一棵光秃秃的树上，有两片树叶挂在一根细枝上：它们的名字叫奥立和特鲁法。奥立和特鲁法也不知道为什么他们在雨、寒夜和风中幸存了下来。也没有人知道为什么有的树叶会飘落下来，而有的树叶依旧长在树上。而奥立和特鲁法认为答案在于：他们深深地爱着对方……
The forest was large and thickly overgrown with all kinds of leaf-bearing trees. Usually, it is cold this time of year and it even happens that it snow, but this November was relatively warm. You might have thought it wa

An abandoned dog rests at Beijing's Human and Animal Environmental Education Center, a shelter for homeless animals, June 26, 2006. At present, the center houses about 500 animals and many of them abandoned are either old, we

--La Fontaine/拉.封丹
A cobbler passed his time in singing from morning till night;it was wonderful to see,wonderful to hear him;he was more contented in shoes,than was any of the seven sages.his neighbor,on the contrary,who was rolling in wealth,sung but little and slept less.he was a banker;when by chance he fell into a doze at day-b

今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；
We spend more,but enjoy less;
我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；
We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies;
我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；
We have more compromises,but less time;
我们妥协更多，时间更少；
We have more knowledge,but less judgment;
我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；
We have more medicine

My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to the animal shelter to pick out a puppy to keep her company. Grandma decided on a little terrier that had a reddish-brown spot above each eye. Because of these spots, the dog was promptly named Penny.
Grandma and Penny quickly be

Folk-song-styled-verse
Wang Zhihuan
BEYOND THE BORDER
Where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds,
Near the one city-wall among ten-thousand-foot mountains,
A Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his flute
That spring never blows to him through the Jade Pass
乐府

Very quietly I take my leave
As quietly as I came here;
Quietly I wave good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
The golden willows by the riverside
Are young brides in the setting sun;
Their reflections on the shimmering waves
Always linger in the depth of my heart.
The

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible m

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
友谊是一根金线，把全世界的心连在一起。
——J.Evelyn
Without confidence there is no friendship.
没有信任，就没有友谊。——Epicurus
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
在顺境中，朋友结识了我们；在逆境中，我们了解了朋友。——C.Collins
Friendship is like money

　　　　　　　　　　　　　翻译：Bull
　　Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel.
　　All claimed that they were the best.
　　The most important.
　　The most useful.
　　The favorite. 　　从前，世界上的各种颜色进行过一次争吵。
　　每一种颜色都说自己是最好的，
　　最重要的，
　　最有用的，
　　和最讨人喜欢的。
　　Green said:
　　"Clearly I am the most important. I am th

In the city where four seasons are distinctively divided,autumn is short.
　　When it comes to our minds to see the lotuses, they are already bearing the hint of withering.
　　No one told them what time is,yet they follow the way time goes, flowing with the seasons.

始计第一
Laying Plans
孙子曰：兵者，国之大事，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。
Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.