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t******r
发帖数: 8600 | 2 On July 20, 1993, Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found dead in
Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside
Washington, D.C.. His death was ruled a suicide by multiple official
investigations.
......
In September 1993, just two months after the death of Vince Foster, Clinton
campaign security operative Jerry Parks was shot and killed in Little Rock
in a gang style slaying. The story received virtually no attention save for
a few journals including the Progr... 阅读全帖 |
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w**m
发帖数: 4061 | 3 刚开始看的一本小说，We need to talk about Kevin
版上的同学请自觉对号入座
文艺青年：
... I was destined to settle down with a stringy cerebral type whose
skittering metabolism burns chickpea concoctions at a ferocious rate. Sharp
elbows, prominent Adam's apple, narrow wrists. A strict vegetarian. An
anguished sort who reads Nietzsche and wears spectacles, alienated from his
time and contemptuous of the automobile. An avid cyclist and hill walker.
Professional marginalia -- perhaps a potter, with a love of hardwoods and
her... 阅读全帖 |
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M******8
发帖数: 10589 | 4 沪江网 http://blog.sina.com.cn/hjenglish 2012-08-31 16:07:49
26. As an expat living in New Orleans, it is a very long list but "
burglarize" is currently the word that I most dislike.
26. 作为一名生活在新奥尔良的侨民，我有很长一串清单，但是“burglarize（破门盗
窃）”是我目前最不喜欢的词。（英国用burgle）
27. "Oftentimes" just makes me shiver with annoyance. Fortunately I've not
noticed it over here yet.
27. “Oftentimes（经常）”会让我恼怒得直哆嗦。幸运地是，我在这里还没看到过。
28. Eaterie. To use a prevalent phrase, oh my gaad!
28. Eaterie（餐馆）。经常听到，天呐！！
29. I'm a Brit living... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 5 LETTERS FROM ZEDELGHEM
CHATEAU ZEDELGHEM,
NEERBEKE,
WEST VLAANDEREN
29TH-VI-1993
Sixsmith,
Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with
shelves of
porcelain antiquities etc. that moving a muscle would cause several to fall
and smash to bits.
Exactly what happened, but instead of a crashing noise, an august chord rang
out, half-cello,
half-celeste, D major (?), held for four beats. My wrist knocked a Ming vase
affair off its
pedestal—E-flat, whole string section, g... 阅读全帖 |
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c****t
发帖数: 19049 | 6 HALF-LIVES
the first luisa rey
mystery
I
Rufus Sixsmith leans over the balcony and estimates his body’s velocity
when it hits the
sidewalk and lays his dilemmas to rest. A telephone rings in the unlit room.
Sixsmith dares not
answer. Disco music booms from the next apartment, where a party is in full
swing, and
Sixsmith feels older than his sixty-six years. Smog obscures the stars, but
north and south
along the coastal strip, Buenas Yerbas’s billion lights simmer. West, the
Pacific eternity East... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******y
发帖数: 46535 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 Joke 讨论区 】
发信人: Math1978 (数学), 信区: Joke
标 题: BBC读者大调查：英国人讨厌的美式英语（下）
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Sep 4 14:50:30 2012, 美东)
沪江网 http://blog.sina.com.cn/hjenglish 2012-08-31 16:07:49
26. As an expat living in New Orleans, it is a very long list but "
burglarize" is currently the word that I most dislike.
26. 作为一名生活在新奥尔良的侨民，我有很长一串清单，但是“burglarize（破门盗
窃）”是我目前最不喜欢的词。（英国用burgle）
27. "Oftentimes" just makes me shiver with annoyance. Fortunately I've not
noticed it over here yet.
27. “Oftentimes（经常）”... 阅读全帖 |
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