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　　隨著我國經濟發展和開放程度的加深,我國參與國際經濟活動越來越頻繁,英語作為國際上的通用語言與我們的生活越來越密切。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　What is off limits to criticize women about?

　　Some work friends and I were recently discussing things that men can not criticize their girlfriends about. It was astounding令人震驚的 how incorrect us guys were when trying to lay out展示，安排 our "rights" in terms of constructive criticism. The women in the office were appalled at被……嚇壞 what we thought we were allowed to talk about. If I could figure out what I am allowed to criticize and what I should stay away from躲避 , I'd avoid arguments and do a better job of hitting on偶然發現，突然想到 girls.

　　I'm guilty of saying things to women that only their best girlfriends, gay male friends, and moms/sisters are allowed to say. I put together a list below:

　　Weight

　　There is no friendly way for a guy to tell a girl that she's put on weight. Even if there was a friendly way, most of the women I've talked to about it said they would not want to hear it from a guy. It seems obvious, but not all guys know this. We polled some of the guys in our office, and the prevailing一般的，普遍的 male opinion was as long as she's your girlfriend, or you've known each other for a while, then you can make weight loss suggestions. I think the best policy is silence. If I'm desperate to make a suggestion, maybe I tell one of her girlfriends to do it on my behalf.

　　Outfit

　　I think I'm only allowed to say someone generally looks nice, or I like her shirt or whatever. Getting too detailed or negative gets me in trouble. In fact, I attempted to "add on" to a compliment恭維 I gave a girl once. I told her she looked great, because she had a new outfit裝備，用具 on. Now, remembering those times I saw my sisters or friends bark back "thanks, and just $30 from Target," I tried to double up on my compliment: "and it looks like you didn't pay much money either." She ended up crying. I've been told by women that they dress more to impress other women anyway, and not guys. Basically, I need to stick to "you look great" and leave it there. And I should probably avoid saying I don't like something a girl is wearing. That can only lead to no good.

　　Friends/Family

　　We've all dated people with annoying friends. But, people consider their friends as extensions of themselves so if you criticize friends, you're criticizing your significant other indirectly. My older sister has a good system of putting the word "that" in front of any of her husband's friends that annoy her. "Oh you're going with that Mike to the concert?" It's not an aggressive attack, just a little poke戳，刺 . Family is the same rule, but you probably get in even more trouble if you criticize the family of a significant other.

　　Driving

　　Every guy thinks he's a better driver than his girlfriend. I can learn a lot from my little sister's boyfriend. One day, my sister was driving the two of us to Baltimore for a weekend. My sister is a really bad driver. She doesn't brake when she sees brake lights ahead until she absolutely has to. This leads to passenger whiplash鞭繩 and nausea噁心，暈船 . During this trip I said: "you know, you can brake earlier- that way you're notslamming砰得關上 on the brakes at the last minute and making us all sick." She said: "do I do that?" I turned around to her boyfriend for confirmation and he simply said: "no comment". My sister's boyfriend loves me because I am allowed to verbalize累贅，嘮叨 all the criticisms that he's thinking.

　　I like the "no comment" policy. But I can't stand not to give my opinion to women, even when it's bad. I want to learn the things I should hold off from criticizing about women. Do you agree with the items above? What do you hate being criticized about by guys?

　　篇二

　　Follow your heart and your dream

　　I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch***大農場，大牧場***in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.

　　The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, “I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to***追溯到*** a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant***巡迴的，流動的*** horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.”

　　That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew adiagram***圖表，圖解*** of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.”

　　“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, ‘See me after class.’”

　　“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, ‘Why did I receive an F?’”

　　“The teacher said, ‘This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud***種馬，大頭釘*** fees. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, ‘If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’”

　　“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, ‘Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you.’”

　　“Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all. He stated, ‘You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.’”

　　Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids tocamp out***野營*** on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, ‘Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption***進取心，氣概*** not to give up on yours.’

　　Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

　　篇三

　　Wake up your life

　　Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, beenthusiastic熱心的，熱情的 ! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were.

　　Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste糊狀物，漿糊 that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

　　It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist遺傳學者 who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

　　We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder -- as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle叮噹聲 of keys or the scurrying急跑，短距離賽跑 of a beetle甲蟲 . It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.

　　At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir萬能藥，不老長生藥 that made life a never-ending adventure.

　　As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. Enthusiasm comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

　　Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime一角硬幣 until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation嗜好，業餘愛好 : like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons.

　　Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan., was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued折磨，困擾 her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.

　　We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each momentwholeheartedly全心全意地 , with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance香味，芬芳 of a back-yard garden, the crayoned以蠟筆作畫 picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.