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昨个偶然看到的..感觉还挺好玩的..哈哈...

A dialect found mostly in East London, where people obviously have more time to say what they want to say, and are more paranoid about being overheard. The principle is to decide what it is you want to say, and then find words which bear no real relation to what you're going to say, but which rhyme loosely with your phrase.

Sometimes the connection is totally obscure. For example, 'Bottle and Glass' (Arse) was obviously a bit racy, so it is put at one remove with 'Aristotle' = Bottle. This is then contracted again so that you say 'Aris', which is almost exactly what you started out trying not to say. Some secret language...

Cockney rhyming slang used to be a form of Pidgin English designed so that the working Eastenders could have a right good chin wag without the toffs knowing that they were talking about them. These days people just make it up for a laugh, so young streetwise Londoners say things like 'Ah mate, 'ad a right mare I did, got chucked out me pad, blew me lump, and now fings wiv the trouble and strife have gone all pete tong!'

Here's our horribly incomplete list of popular Cockney rhyming slang. If you know any others, why not post them to the forum below?

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在dailywritingtips上看到的..来你也来小测一下..好好背单词去~~~

Whether you are a businessman, a student or a professional writer, having a vast vocabulary is essential. Test your skills with the 20 questions below!

1. Befuddle means:

A.to harass     B.to threaten    C.to confuse    D.to insult

2. Teraflop is a unit to measure the:

A.speed of a computer system
B.speed of a broadband connection
C.memory size of a super computer
D.the cache of a motherboard

3. The Gothic architectural style was present in ___________________ until the 15th century.

A.Latin America
B.Southeast Asia
C.Eastern Europe
D.Western Europe

4. When you trudge, you walk:

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Along with Latin, Greek is probably the language that most influenced other languages around the world. Many English words derive directly from Greek ones, and knowing their origin and meaning is important.

Below you will find 12 Greek words that are commonly used in our society. The next time you hear someone saying “Kudos to you,” you will know where it comes from.

1. Acme

The highest point of a structure. The peak or zenith of something. One could say that Rome reached the acme of its power on 117 AD, under the rule of Trajan.

The acme of modular, factory-built, passively safe reactor design, however, is found in South Africa. People there have been experimenting with so-called pebble-bed reactors for decades. (The Economist)

2. Acropolis

Acro means edge or extremity, while polis means city. Acropolis, therefore, refers to cities that were built with security purposes in mind. The word Acropolis is commonly associated with Greece’s capital Athens, although it can refer to any citadel, including Rome and Jerusalem.

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最近生物钟又开始调头了。。从10点半到11点睡觉又耗到了11点半到12点了。还不是马上能睡的着。且早上还是一样的时间起来。7点半。虽然比6点半到7点晚点。。但是现在明显觉的有点头晕。继续调整好，不让网络在浪费我时间哦。。下面是在reader's digest 上看到的。。帖出来还是有点帮助的，最后2点我觉的就没什么必要了，也没到那程度也没那条件吧。其实怎么说，说来说去还是靠自己自觉啦！特别像我这种,忌人忧天型且有事没事瞎忏悔有的没的..到头来还是一团糟..所以要好好规划每天即使是宅着..

Head Off Chronic Insomnia

When worry drives your life, studies show you're more likely to develop chronic insomnia. Here's how to prevent that -- and get a good night's sleep.

Reign in your work life. Give your heart to your work, but be a little more stingy with your time. Decide how many hours a week is reasonable to get your work done, add 10 percent in case you're wrong, then walk away.

Swim. Or run. Or bike. Or skate. Or skip rope with some  kids on the neighborhood playground. You get the idea. Twenty minutes of aerobic exercise reroutes all the adrenaline that worry generates.

Work on stress. Since a study at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health revealed that stressful events are twice as likely to trigger sleeping problems in those who experience anxiety, keeping a lid on daily stressors is important. Skim over the stress-reducing tips on the previous pages, pick out your favorites, and use them to do just that.

Put worry on a schedule. "In today's busy world, we don't have time to do normal worrying until the lights go out.........

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前2天,在睡觉前打开电视看新闻,看到了加拿大的捕杀海豹的事件.虽然这是加拿大每年一度的捕杀行动,但是我还是第一次看到,确实血腥残忍,在有那刚出生不久的baby seal的眼神,看的真是不知道说什么..

就如日本人宣言他们捕鲸是为了科研一样,加拿大的捕杀海豹的行为一样遭受到很多机构人事的谴责.而且政府公布的捕杀海豹数量逐年的上升,对于这个已经伤痕累累的地球来说,对于现在面对的这些日趋恶劣的生态环境问题来说.或许我们坐在家里说着这些起不到任何的作用,但是大家还是从自己做起.还是那句话"和谐"社会..和谐世界..

当然作为捕杀行动总有起因结果,维持那些渔民的生计经济也好,政府声称让海豹死的不那么痛苦的人道也罢,看那洁白的冰面上的一条条血迹.. .. 看看那小海豹的无辜的眼神.. .. 什么都不用说了..

                              

Youth is not a time of life，it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of

rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees， it is a matter of the will, a

quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.it is the freshness of

the deep springs of life.

 

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the

appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of

60 more than a boy of 20.　Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.　

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

 

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

 

whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,

the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of

living.　In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless

station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and

power from men and from the Infinite, you and I will remain young.

 

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism

and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as

your aerials are upto catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may have

young heart at 80.