在此特别的节日到来之际，商外为庆祝感恩节，也为众商友提供且了解一个重要的国外节日文化氛围，特举行此感恩节征文活动．内容主要以英文为主，也可中文写作！开帖者以20~50不等的奖励。

此活动为三个阶段：

1、 征文截止时间为：11月25日；

2、 投票阶段为：11月26至29日；

3、 商外版主团队与特邀嘉宾外贸实务版主Helen于30日共同评选出结果。

活动要求：

    1、题目：[感恩月]+主题+笔名

2、字数不能少于500（诗歌除外），体裁不限，需为原创文章．

3、每篇进入参赛评选资格的文章必须浏量达100个以上,回贴量18个以上,回贴为非本人的回贴量；

备注：如果开帖者需加音乐，请在主帖的后面给出音乐的连接，好让版主给你们加上。

奖项设置：

第一名：888

第二名：528（各两位）

第三名：388（各两位）

在此特别的节日到来之际，商外为庆祝感恩节，也为众商友提供且了解一个重要的国外节日文化氛围，特举行此感恩节征文活动．内容主要以英文为主，也可中文写作！开帖者以20~50不等的奖励。

此活动为三个阶段：

1、 征文截止时间为：11月25日；

2、 投票阶段为：11月26至29日；

3、 商外版主团队与特邀嘉宾外贸实务版主Helen于30日共同评选出结果。

活动要求：

    1、题目：[感恩月]+主题+笔名

2、字数不能少于500（诗歌除外），体裁不限，需为原创文章．

3、每篇进入参赛评选资格的文章必须浏量达100个以上,回贴量18个以上,回贴为非本人的回贴量；

备注：如果开帖者需加音乐，请在主帖的后面给出音乐的连接，好让版主给你们加上。

奖项设置：

第一名：888

第二名：528（各两位）

第三名：388（各两位）

　　今年早些时候，布鲁塞尔收到12000份申请，竞争欧洲大陆最令人垂涎的工作：官员。只有125个职位，但竞争非常激烈，并且吸引了欧洲最聪明的人士。候选人除母语以外必须能流利地说两种欧洲国家的语言，并且必须熟知欧盟错综复杂的政府机构。但即使是少数幸运的被录取的人也不能保证能上岗，只是被列入“备用名单”以备分配未来的工作。即便如此，又有谁会抱怨呢？每年48000欧元的工资相对来说是高的，还有16%在国外工作的津贴，而工作基本上是终身制的。另外，布鲁塞尔在生活质量的很多方面号称是欧洲最好的。房租低廉，且人均餐馆数量比欧洲其它国家都多。到了夜晚，新修复的卢森堡广场的街边酒吧中都是年轻的“欧盟官员”。

　　但是光荣的岁月正在接近尾声。50年来，一直由官员们制定政策，欧盟也饱受了脱离欧盟公民的指责，现在不负责任的官员们正在逐渐失去决策权。10月份，由欧盟领导人一致同意的新的改革条约赋予直接选举产生的欧洲议会更大的权力。对于欧洲人来说，这是迈向民主新的一步，也是脱离官僚统治的一步。的确，这不是一个普通的官僚机构。

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23374635_.html

[10.31万圣节专题]如何制作万圣节南瓜灯(英语教学)

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23374615_.html

[10.31万圣节专题]万圣节的迷信和占卜

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23374598_.html

[10.31万圣节专题]07万圣节顶级服饰(组图)

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23374622_.html

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The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.zRe中国英语学习网
这世界并不会在意你的自尊。这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。

You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won"t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.zRe中国英语学习网
高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，并拥有一部装有电话的汽车，直到你将此职位和汽车电话都挣到手。

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure.

如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任期限制的。

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.zRe中国英语学习网
烙牛肉饼并不有损你的尊严。你的祖父母对烙牛肉饼可有不同的定义；他们称它为机遇。

If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要尖声抱怨我们的错误，要从中吸取教训。

Before you were born, your parents weren"t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents" generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.
在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他们现在这样乏味。他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来他们一直在为你付账单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈你是如何的酷。所以，如果你想消灭你父母那一辈中的"寄生虫"来拯救雨林的话，还是先去清除你房间衣柜里的虫子吧。

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they"ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn"t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却仍在作出类似区分。在某些学校已经废除不及格分；只要你想找到正确答案，学校就会给你无数的机会。这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。

Life is not divided into semesters. You don"t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
生活不分学期。你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮你发现自我。自己找时间做吧。

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
电视并不是真实的生活。在现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作。

There once was a beggar, and in his home town there lived a millionaire. But that person was very, very stingy! So everything he had, he stuck somewhere in a cupboard or dug a hole in the earth and hid. No one, not even he , knew where it was. In this way, he didn't have to spend!
从前有个乞丐，在他的镇上住着一位很有钱的富翁，但是这个富翁非常、非常吝啬，他把所有的财物都锁在柜子里，或挖地洞藏起来，没有人知道藏在哪里，甚至连他自己也搞不清楚 ，这样他就不会把它花掉！

So he was very, very stingy! He never gave anyone a penny, not to mention refugees or the Red Cross; he didn't even want to hear about such things. He wanted to keep his money intact. As for spending in the home, he was also very, very expert in stinginess. So his wife, his children, his mother, his brother, his sister - everyone - was miserable.

这位富翁非常非常吝啬，不曾布施过一毛钱，更不用说捐钱给难民或红十字会，他不想听这种事，他只想把他的钱原封不动地保存下来。对于家里的开销，他也非常、非常地精打细算，所以他的太太、小孩、母亲、兄弟姊妹，每个人都很不开心。

Then one day a beggar came to the millionaire's door and wanted a piece of gold from him. The millionaire had a lot of gold, but of course, he kicked the beggar out and also told his workers and family to throw him out.

有一天，那位乞丐来到富翁家门口，向他乞讨一块金子。富翁有一大堆金子，但是，当然他把乞丐赶走，并吩咐工人和家人把他丢出去。

The next day, however, the beggar came back again and wanted the same thing, a piece of gold. So the millionaire once again kicked him out. But the beggar came back again yet another day - and again and again, day after day, month after month, year after year. He really practiced patience!
第二天，乞丐又来了，还是一样向富翁乞讨一块金子，富翁又把他轰出去。没想到隔天他又来了，他一而再、再而三地每天都来，月复一月，年复一年，他真的在修忍辱喔！

Year after year it went on like this until one day the millionaire was so fed up with the beggar that he finally cut a piece of gold, a very small one, and gave it to him. (Comments that we should learn from this story: Whatever we want to do, we should persist in, and maybe we'll succeed!)

就这样年复一年地过去了，有一天富翁实在受够了那个乞丐，终于施舍了一小块金子给他。（评论：从这里我们学到一件事，那就是无论做什么事，都要持之以恒，很可能就会成功！）

Then the beggar became very, very happy. He jumped around and sang "Hallelujah!" And then he took the piece of gold to his bosom and went back to his place and went to sleep. He put his piece of gold next to him, on top of his meditation cushion, and went to sleep.

乞丐高兴极了，手舞足蹈，高唱哈利路亚，然後把金子揣在怀里，回到他的地方睡觉。乞丐将金子放在身边的坐垫上，然后倒身入睡去了。

But when he woke up, it wasn't there anymore.  Of course! Maybe another person had thought it was a play toy and brought it home with him or he left it alone and someone else took it, but he didn't know who. Because the beggar just slept anywhere: in front of the supermarket, under a bridge, in front of the theater, in an empty field, anywhere! So if he put his piece of gold there, people could just take it away. Then the next day he went back and requested another piece of gold from the millionaire.

当乞丐醒来以后，发现金子竟然不见了！当然啦，也许别的人以为那是玩具，就把它带回家，或是他随便放，不晓得谁把它拿走了。因为乞丐四处流浪，有时睡在超级市场门口，有时睡在桥下，有时睡在戏院前面，有时睡在空旷的野外，如果他把金子随便放，就会被人拿走。

And the millionaire asked, "But why? I just gave you one yesterday. What did you do with it?" So the man said, "Yes, yesterday I had it. I put it beside me, and I just closed my eyes, and when I opened my eyes, it was gone. So today I have to come back again for another piece."

第二天，他又去向富翁要一块金子。富翁说：「怎么啦？我昨天才给你一块，你把它拿去哪里了？」乞丐说：「是啊！昨天你给我一块，睡觉时我把它放在身边，但是当我醒来时，发现它不见了，所以今天只好再来向您要一块。」

When the millionaire heard this, he immediately became enlightened!  He realized the truth about the things of this world: Today you have them; tomorrow you don't. Or you might have them now, but later you don't. He suddenly somehow became enlightened about the detachment that we should have concerning all possessions in this world.

富翁听了之后，突然马上开悟了，他了悟到这个世界的东西很无常：今天有，明天就没有了，或现在有，等会儿可能就没有了。他茅塞顿开，不再执着世上的财产。

And after that, he changed his behavior. He began to give in charity to people and to live a very normal, relaxed life. He didn't cling to gold or money anymore.

从此以后，他的行事为人改变了，开始行善布施，过一个轻松、正常的生活，不再执着金银财宝。

Song of Wisdom

I have reached illusion's end
In this grove of falling leaves ,
Each leaf a signal of past joy ,
Drifting sere within my heart.

Some were loves of youthful days????
Blazing meteors in a distant sky ,
Extinguished , vanished without trace ,
Or dropped before me , stiff and cold as ice .

Some were boisterous friendships ,
Fullblown blossoms , innocend of coming fall .
Society dammed the pulsing blood ,
Life cast molten passion in reality's shell .

Another joy , the spell of high ideals ,
Drew me through many a twisting mile of thorn .
To suffer for ideals is no pain ;
But oh ,to see them mocked and scorned !

Now nothing remains but remorse????
Daily punishment for past pride .
When the glory of the sky stands condemned,
In this wasteland, what colour survive ?

There is one tree that stands alone intact ,
It thrives , I know , on my suffering's lifeblood .
Its greenshade mocks me ruthlessly !
O wisdom tree ! I curse your every growing bud .

智慧之歌

穆旦 Mu Dan

我已走到了幻想底尽头，

这是一片落叶飘零的树林，

每一片叶子标记着一种欢喜，

现在都枯黄地堆积在内心。


有一种欢喜是青春的爱情，

那是遥远天边的灿烂的流星，

有的不知去向，永远消逝了，

有的落在脚前，冰冷而僵硬。


另一种欢喜是喧腾的友谊，

茂盛的花不知道还有秋季，

社会的格局代替了血的沸腾，

生活的冷风把热情铸为实际。


另一种欢喜是迷人的理想，

它使我在荆棘之途走得够远，

为理想而痛苦并不可怕，

可怕的是看它终于成笑谈。


只有痛苦还在，它是日常生活

每天在惩罚自己过去的傲慢，

那绚烂的天空都受到谴责，

还有什么彩色留在这片荒原？


但惟有一棵智慧之树不凋，

我知道它以我的苦汁为营养，

它的碧绿是对我无情的嘲弄，

我诅咒它每一片叶的滋长。

   穆旦（1918—1977），诗人、翻译家。原名查良铮，曾用笔名梁真。浙江海宁人。1918年出生于天津，少年在南开中学读书时便对文学有浓厚兴趣，开始写诗。1935年考入北平清华大学外文系，抗日战争爆发后，随学校辗转于长沙、昆明等地，并在香港《大公报》副刊和昆明《文聚》上发表大量诗作，成为有名的青年诗人。1940年在西南联大毕业后留校任教。1949年赴美国留学，入芝加哥大学英国文学系学习。1952年获文学硕士学位。1953年回国后，任南开大学外文系副教授。1958年受到不公正对待，调图书馆工作。1977年因心脏病突发去世。
   

    穆旦于  40年代出版了《探险者》、《穆旦诗集（ 1939～1945）》、《旗》三部诗集，将西欧现代主义和中国诗歌传统结合起来，诗风富于象征寓意和心灵思辨，是“九叶诗派”的代表性诗人。
   

    50年代起，穆旦开始从事外国诗歌的翻译，主要译作有俄国普希金的作品《波尔塔瓦》、《青铜骑士》、《普希金抒情诗集》、《普希金抒情诗二集》、《欧根·奥涅金》、《高加索的俘虏》、《加甫利颂》，英国雪莱的《云雀》、《雪莱抒情诗选》，英国拜伦的《唐璜》、《拜伦抒情诗选》、《拜伦诗选》，英国《布莱克诗选》、《济慈诗选》。所译的文艺理论著作有苏联季摩菲耶夫的《文学概论》（《文学原理》第一部）、《文学原理（文学的科学基础）》、《文学发展过程》、《怎样分析文学作品》和《别林斯基论文学》，这些译本均有较大的影响。

Nien nu chiao

The Ynagtze flows east

Washing away

A thousand ages of great men

West of the ramparts --

People say --

Are the fables Red Cliffs of young Chou of the Three Kingdoms

Rebellious rocks pierce the sky

Frightening waves rip the bank

The backwash churns vast snowy swells --

River and mountains like a painting

how many heroes passed them, once ...

Think back to those years, Chou Yu --

Just married to the younger Chiao --

Brave, brilliant

With plumed fan, silk kerchief

Laughed and talked

While masts and oars vanished to flying ash and smoke!

I roam through ancient realms

Absurdly moved

Turn gray too soon --

A man's life passes like a dream --

Pour out a cup then, to the river, and the moon

念奴娇  苏轼  

往往并不是一件简单的事情，口语在日常的接洽中，也是必不可少的，但往往人们最忽略的东西，

也是最基本的东西-音标，象我们的母语中文一样，也是从汉字拼音一步一步的学，英语也一样，

要认识它们的发音规则，才能进一步的去听，说，读，写，现在我们就来认识一下，音标的具体发

音，现推出这个音标学习，让商友们能更好的掌握单词的发音规律，在难的单词也能正确的去读，

去猜，当然，掌握规律也是一个很长的过程，希望大家能坚持下去，商外论坛是一个以英语交流的

地方，大家都动起来，让英语充实我们的生活。

PS：与以往一样，下面都有连接！

 上次的口语练习自学讲坛【有声读刊】http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23051179_.html

◎动画学英语音标◎-发音规则

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－元音(母音)unit1

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23235775_.html

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－元音(母音)unit4

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－元音(母音)unit5

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－元音(母音)unit6

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit1

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◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit2

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23280324_.html

◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit3

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23292844_.html

◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit4

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23308623_.html

 ◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit5

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23308643_.html

 ◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit6

http://club.china.alibaba.com/forum/thread/view/73_23308655_.html

◎动画学英语音标◎-音标认识－辅音(子音)unit7

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