很多人都喜欢好莱坞电影，对许多经典电影中的台词也耳熟能详。下面就让我们一起去体验一下这些经典台词的魅力所在吧……
    Tomorrow is another day.                                  ——Gone With the W

报考研究生申请信及随后有关信函
    到国外学习，一般要先向有关学校或科研单位写信询问，并索取报名表格及有关资料。收到对方的回信和资料后，先应仔细阅读，弄清表格的内容和应注意的事项，填好后再寄回去。有时还可以附上有关学习经费来源的证明书，供对方了解这方面的情况,以便做出接受与否的决定。
    此外,申请人还应请保证人或单位寄去与其有关的学历证件(如学历证书、毕业证书、学业成绩单)、个人简历、著作等，还可以请三位教授或学者分别写推荐信寄去。下面这份申请书后附有几封相关的信件。它们组成一套办理留学手续的来往函件，

“To talk turkey” is a well-known English idiom, and it means to talk frankly and bluntly. But where does this idiom come from? Here is a story about the origin of the idiom—“to talk turkey”.
    One day, a white man and an Indian went hunting together after agreeing to share what they would bring back.

Passage 1
    Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily, his really great compositions did not come easily at all. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know now often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He

It was the final examination for an introductory English course at the local university. Like many such freshman courses, it was designed to weed out (清除)new students, having over 100 students in the class! The examination was two hours long, and exam booklets were provided.
    The professor was very strict and tol

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
By Gottfried Wilhelm Van Lubreitz
    As the movie came to an end the room filled with chatter. The warm fire, twinkling Christmas lights and laughter from family brought a conte

The study of handwriting to reveal a person's character is gaining support
    Young male offenders frequently have very high ascenders, indicating that they live in a world of fantasy and dream of making it big. Graphologists can tell whether violence is about to erupt, whether the w

爱是人类最美丽、最动人的语言，那么什么才是真正的爱呢？愿下文能给你一些启示……
    Love... has it become a four letter word? In many cases, love has become equated with other things such as sex, attention, rewards, or approval. As children, we often learn that if we behave or do as we are told, we will be ‘loved’. Thus our behavior becomes tint

By John Roach
    When cattle, sheep, pigs, and wheat arrived on the shores of Great Britain about 5,000 years ago, fish quickly fell off the Neolithic menu, according to an analysis of human bones scattered throughout the island.
    The research helps resolv

也许只是不经意的一个微笑，有时却能改变一个人的一生……
    Mark was walking home from school one day where he noticed the boy ahead of him had tripped1 and dropped all of the books he was carrying,  along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattere

9. 两个动词不定式由and, or, except, but或than 连接在一起时，第二个动词不定式常常不带to。如：
    Do you want to have lunch now or wait till later?
    I intend to call on him and discuss this question    again.
    但几个动词不定式连用，并表示对比或强调时，to不能省略。如：
    The s

英汉两种语言的表达习惯不同，因此在表达否定概念时就会有很大差异。下面是笔者总结的一些关于英汉翻译中肯定、否定的译法。希望能够对同学们的学习有所帮助。
    1． 肯定与否定相互转译
    描述或说明同一事物，英汉两种语言有正面说法和反面说法，翻译时必须符合各自的语言习惯和特点。如：
    The economic reform in China is a matter of no small consequence. (反面说法)
    中国的经济改革是一件有重大影响的事

在飞机上使用一些简短实用的语言有助于快速解决一些实际问题。
    1. (出示登机证给服务人员) 我的座位在哪里? Where is my seat?
    2. 我能将行李放在这儿吗? Can I put my baggage here?
    3. 是否可以帮我更换座位? Could you change my seat, please?
    4. （对后座的乘客说）　我是否可将座位向后倾斜?　May I recline my seat?

二、语法手段
    （一） 照应
    照应指用代词等语法手段来表示语义关系。照应关系可分为两类：一类可以在语篇中找到所指对象，叫内照应（即语言项目之间的照应关系）；一类是在语篇中找不到所指对象，需要凭借我们的知识和经验加以体会、辨别，叫外照应（即语言项目的意义解释直接依赖于语篇外客观环境中的某个事物）。英语中的照应分为人称照应、指示照应和比较照应。例如：
    1. A Hollywood producer was determined to give his mother a birthday present t

当两个以上的形容词修饰一个名词，形容词该如何排列?为什么不能说a black new pen，而要说成a new black pen?　这里面有无规则可循?
    如果你记住opshacom这个为帮助记忆而杜撰的词，就能掌握英语中形容词排列的顺序。
    opshacom中的op代表opinion，指表示人们对事物观点的形容词，如beautiful，horrible，lovely，nice等；  
    sh代表shape，指表示事物形状的形容词，如long，short，round, narrow等；