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成员：18个发帖：10 个创建于：2007-08-03	圈子描述：	用英语精确表达家庭、工作、社会各方面话题和个人思想。进行商务性陈述、应对复杂的商务会议、有较强的辩论技巧等。 Use English to express precisely;able to do presentations,handle business meetings and debates

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arthur

优惠转让商务英语课...

4 months ago

本人由于经常出差外地,无法在深圳上课, 特优惠转让商务英语课程!
Tel:13925276960.

2008-04-15 10:06:18 | 0评论

songbo810822

课程转让（急急急）

4 months ago

由于特殊原因本人现有多级别课程快速转让（深圳南山上课）
QQ：33253320 
电话：13941403252

2008-04-07 10:58:18 | 0评论

jingmengogo

'beautifu...

5 months ago

As to the flash showed in our class earlier time last Monday, I think it’s totally stereotype about men and women. Why should we smile in an acquiescence manner while watching a woman’s handbag full of makeup stuff? Why they carry alone these things? ----Because they care about what they look like, as most people would like to say. But why do they so concern about their appearance and for what or who? And what about men?

Just think of one situation: we say in English a BEATUFUL woman, but a HANDSOME man. Why we don’t use ‘beautiful’ to describe a wan? And when does ‘beautiful’ become ‘privilege’ only to women? Is that a really compliment for women, or just disparagement in a tactful way?

For a long time, (maybe only god knows when it began to happen), people have associated ‘beauty’ with women, and worse still, they have limited beauty to such a narrow realm that ‘beauty’ is largely concerns its superficial enchantment: for centuries, it has become a convention to contribute ‘beauty’ to one of the two sexes--- the sex, which however FAIR, is always SECOND.
‘HANDSOME’ is the masculine way to express how a man looks like, the same way to say that ‘men come from Mars’, Mars, a god of war in the Roman mythology. However, women are thought to come from Venus, also a goddess of Roman mythology well known for her physical beauty. That is enough to verify how deep the misconception about women has been rooted in people’s mind.

To be called beautiful is thought to name something essential to women’s character and concerns, while men’s essence is to be strong, effective and competent, and only secondly, if at all, to care about how one looks. But is there anyone realizing the truth that it is exactly the way women are taught to be involved with beauty encourages women’s narcissism, independence and immaturity?

To be sure, beauty is a form of power. And deservedly so. However, what lamentable is that it is the only form of power that most women are encouraged to seek, a power always in relation to men---not the power to do but the power to attract. 

So what exactly make a women’s handbag get full stuffed with lipstick, mirror, comb, sunglasses, and so forth? It’s men! It’s the stereotype that connects BEAUTY with women! And just think of that if the conventional thought about men and women goes reverse: men are described as a ‘beautiful’ gender, and they stuff their briefcase with moisture cream, day cream and night cream, whitening cream; and they care about if their lashes are curl enough, their eye shadows are conspicuous enough, their brows are cute enough; and they go to toilet together to discuss some secrets which are not proper to be public in front of women; and they have to do the house chores after work and serve our women beers or fried-potato chips when we fling ourselves against sofa to watch an enthusiastic live concert show; and they are tightened to home whenever and wherever they go; and they are asked by women to go out for a date and women open the car’s door for men… I don’t think that if such things happen, the earth will just stop spinning around or spin in a reverse way. So what’s the big deal if we begin to say ‘this man is really beautiful’!

Anyway, I’m not a cynic, nor a feminist. I just think it is more equal to share ‘beautiful’ with men. And personally speaking, I promise I will never get angry if someone describes me as ‘handsome’.

2008-03-08 07:21:13 | 1评论

pst713

hello,eve...

7 months ago

Hi,i'm new here.Nice to meet you all.Let's make progress together!

2008-01-22 19:57:03 | 0评论

wycrichard

nice talk...

9 months ago

i am new to this community.

2007-11-26 18:07:23 | 0评论

zoe_leo

各位哥哥姐姐好！

9 months ago

  我是COM—COM的一名学生。我是高三学生。因为要出国读书，所以报了两个级别的课。因为TU课都是晚上。所以没有时间过来上。可是下个月就要出国了。再怎么算也上不完TU课，还剩下很多TU卡。又不想浪费。如果哪个哥哥或姐姐想要的话。请与我联系。价格面议！我的电话是13510412417 王婉
 学号是S707082

2007-11-10 16:11:53 | 0评论

cutecat

Mid-Autum...

11 months ago

The 15th day of the 8th lunar month 
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". 

This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates（石榴）, melons, oranges and pomelos（柚子） might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro（芋头）and water caltrope（菱角）, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival. 

The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子）, lotus seeds（莲籽）, almonds（杏仁）, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard（猪油）. A golden yolk（蛋黄） from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary（闰月的） moon. 

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties (2000 B.C.-1066 B.C.). In the Zhou Dynasty(1066 B.C.-221 B.C.), people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It becomes very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty(618-907 A.D.) that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 A.D.), however, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it becomes dark, they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming (1368-1644 A.D. ) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911A.D.), the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense（熏香）, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them. 

Moon Cakes 

There is this story about the moon-cake. during the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake. 

For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates（枣子）, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons. 

Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.

2007-09-06 17:25:59 | 0评论

cutecat

When did ...

about 1 year

I remember my first time to speak to a foreigner.When I was in university,I attended an oral English training.The teacher's name was Joseph.My first sentence was 'Welcome to China'...I had to organise every sentence b4 I spoke to him.It took a long time ...

2007-08-08 11:20:46 | 1评论

最后一块化石

Just say ...

about 1 year

Hello everyone，very glad to meet u guys here.
To Cutecat:
Well，about my English,I don't think u can see me here if my English is good enough.
Then my image ,have u ever heard a song "Bressanon"by Mthew Lien，if not,then try it,maybe u can get something.

2007-08-06 13:10:56 | 0评论

cutecat

最后一块化石，你的...

about 1 year

最后一块化石，why did u choose a wolf as your image?R u as cool as it?
:)

2007-08-04 11:30:21 | 1评论

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