2012-03-19
A: Hello boys and girls!
B: It is Friday. Welcome to our English program “E-corridor”. I am ---,
A: I am ---.Well let’s pay close attention to today’s weather. Today is a ______day, the highest temperature is ________and the lowest temperature is ______.Give you a warm suggestion: winter has been coming and it is colder and colder. Please put on your coat and take care of your health.
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OK, first, let’s access to the Speak Smart.
首先让我们来看今天的第一条俚语‘worried well’ 我们通常会把那些总有很多无谓担忧的人形容为“杞人忧天”。其实，人生苦短，与其整日担忧，倒不如行动起来把今天好好装扮。但就是有那么多人想不开，不是担心天会塌下来，就是担心自己得了不治之症。忧虑绵绵无绝期，此生何处是尽头？The \"worried well\" are everywhere: an estimated one in four GP appointments is now taken up by someone who has absolutely nothing wrong with them. The term “worried well” generally refers to people who are healthy, but fear becoming ill and take medication they don't actually need to try to prevent it. In other words, they do not actually have the disease.“疑病症”统指那些身体本身很健康，但是总担心得病，所以时常服用一些药物防病的人。也就是说，他们其实根本就没病。let's take a example to explain it: The worried well are using up all the flu vaccines. 那些“疑病症”患者都把流感疫苗给用完了。
让我们来看今天的第二条俚语‘special interest’ 特殊利益集团，特别是指通过影响政策或立法来谋取私利的团体。 美国财政部长盖特纳公布了新规定，限制特殊利益集团对美国金融援助计划的影响。美国新总统奥巴马在宣誓就职前曾表示，\"He does not want to use special interest money to pay for inaugural events,\"他不愿意让特殊利益集团出钱主办就职活动。这是一个在政治场合中常用的名词短语。
接下来是今天最后一条俚语‘parting shot’ parting在这里的意思是离别，parting shot这个习惯用语带有负面意义。其实它刚开始被应用的时候由另一个词组成:Parthian shot。 Parthian指两千多年前居住在伊朗的帕提亚人，他们精于作战，帕提亚骑兵惯用的战术是佯作退却，然而却突然返身向麻痹大意的追兵射出雨点般的回马箭。这伤人的厉害招数被人们转用来指临走时说的尖刻话或者表示的敌意姿态。
其实中文里也有类似的说法：杀回马枪。约莫从十九世纪晚期开始，人们把Parthian shot说成了parting shot, 随后以讹传讹，parting shot被普遍应用。我们来看个例子。这个人要告诉我们他被解雇后跟老板大吵一场，出出胸中的怨气，请特别注意他话里的习惯用语parting shot：
If I was losing my job anyhow, at least I had the pleasure of telling my boss what I really thought of him. My parting shot was 'Never again will I work for a guy as stupid and lazy as you are - I'm glad to be getting out of this place!'
他说：既然我怎么着都丢饭碗了，那么我至少还要把自己对老板的真实看法痛痛快快地当面直说了。我临走杀的回马枪是：“绝不再为像你这种既笨又懒的人工作了。我真高兴自己脱离这地方！”显然这里的习惯用语parting shot意思是临走说的伤人的尖刻话。
So much for today’s speak smart. Have you put them in your mind?
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OK , Next, let’s focus on the Current affairs
Xi to talk with Putin to set future direction
President Xi Jinping will establish the direction of future China-Russia ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first foreign visit to the country on Friday.
The two leaders will push the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination to a higher level, Chinese and Russian experts said on Monday during a video conference held by Russian
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Information Agency Novosti.
Xi and Putin will draw up strategies for the future development of bilateral ties and identify fields of possible cooperation between China and Russia, said Wan Chengcai, a researcher of Russian studies at the Xinhua Center for World Affairs Studies
Let’s move our attention from the politic world to the sports world
Miami Heat claims 22nd win
Back where their winning streak started on Super Bowl Sunday, the Miami Heat kept rolling right into March Madness.
Now it's on to Boston to face the rival Celtics - the team whch ended the last streak this long. The Heat equaled the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, pulling away in the fourth quarter on Sunday to beat the Toronto Raptors 108-91 for their 22nd consecutive victory.
\"It's a special ride right now that we're on,\" LeBron James said. \"The best thing about it is we're doing it together.\"
Finally let’s take a look at entertainment world
'Love in the Buff' wins Audience Award
A Hong Kong movie entitled \"Love in the Buff\" has won the Audience Award in the competition section of the Osaka Asian Film Festival this year, according to the local government press release on Monday.
The award is presented to the movie which gains the highest number of supporting votes from the audience of the film festival.
\"Love in the Buff\directed by local filmmaker Pang Ho-cheung, was one of the four Hong Kong movies selected for screening in the film festival, which was held in Osaka, Japan, from March 8 to 17, under a special program -- \"Special Focus on Hong Kong\".
The program was organized by the festival with the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office of the Hong Kong government and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Part3
Well, after a long journey, do you want to have a break? Now it is time to listen a beautiful song.
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With the end of this beautiful song, follow me to enter our next part treasure land. Visiting the place that can show you the beauty of the English
Man Is Like a Fruit Tree
While taking my boat down the inland waterway to Florida a few weeks ago, I decided to tie up at Georgetown, South Carolina, for the night and visit with an old friend. As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my binoculars standing there awaiting us. Tall and straight as an arrow he stood, facing a cold, penetrating wind—truly a picture of a sturdy man, even though his next birthday will make him eighty-two. Yes, the man was our elder statesman, Bernard Baruch.
He loaded us into his station wagon and we were off to his famous Hobcaw Barony for dinner. We sat and talked in the great living room where many notables and statesmen, including Roosevelt and
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Churchill, have sat and taken their cues. In his eighty-second year, still a human dynamo, Mr. Baruch talks not of the past but of present problems and the future, deploring our ignorance of history, economics, and psychology. His only reference to the past was to tell me, with a wonderful sparkle in his eye, that he was only able to get eight quail out of the ten shots the day before. What is the secret of this great man’s value to the world at eighty-one? The answer is his insatiable desire to keep being productive.
Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest effort and, having gained it, to learn how to use it properly. Recently I walked into the locker room of a rather well-known golf club after finishing a round. It was in the late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes. But a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly and drinking more than was good for them. These same men can be found there day after day and, strangely enough, each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth, successful in business and respected in the community. If material
prosperity were the chief requisite for happiness, then each one should have been happy. Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing, else there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through Scotch and soda. They knew, each one of them, that their productivity had ceased. When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man.
What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible. The words were few, but they became indelibly impressed on my mind: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”
To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections. In fact, the battle of life, of existence, is a challenge to everyone. The immortal words of St. Paul, too, have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
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Pleasant hours always fly quickly, the end of the last, let’s go into our chatting room to talk about things we are interested in.
Dear friends today’s program are approaching to the end. Editor: Lynn. we are happy with you through the wonderful time. Hope to see you next Friday. I am ___, I am ___. Goodbye
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