英语文摘：在工作中利用好你的五种资源 2007-9-24 0:02:13 　·Using the five sources of your power at work　　Every employee has five sources of power to draw from. Assess your potential power sources and use them to your advantage.　　1.Personal power is all about your charisma, your passion to achieve the strength of your convictions, your ability to communicate and inspire, and your leadership skills.　　2.Rela-tionship power derives from the network of contacts and friends that you make, develop, and maintain at work; from coworkers who keep you up to date w…… 英语科普文选：使用网络可能有损心理健康 2007-9-24 0:02:12 　·Internet use appears to cause a decline in psychological well-being, according to research at Carnegie Mellon University.Even people who spent just a few hours a week on the Internet experienced more depression and loneliness than those who logged on less frequently, the two-year study showed. And it wasnt that people who were already feeling bad spent more time on the Internet, but that using the Net actually appeared to cause the bad feelings.Researchers are puzzling over the results, which we…… 英语报刊文摘：21世纪合格人才必备7大技能 2007-9-24 0:02:12 　·SEVEN SKILLS FOR QUALIFIED EMPLOYEES IN 21ST CENTURY　　21世纪合格人才必备7大技能　　Technical and technological skills will take on greater importance. There will be a growing need for people who can understand and fix systems--from computer systems to product distribution systems to plumbing systems.　　Visionary skills will be in demand. The ability to gather and absorb a wide range of input ,then use that knowledge, understanding, and perspective to guide organization into future, will be vital.　　Numbers and…… 英语科普文选：多媒体到底意味着什么 2007-9-24 0:02:12 　·What Does the Multimedia Actually Mean?　　Literally, multimedia means TWO or more media. If the publisher of this book Wanted to join the Current hype about multimedia, he could advertise the book as using multimedia technology. After all, it contains two media：text and graphics(the figures). Nevertheless, when most pepole refer to multimedia, they generally mean the combination of two or more continuous media, that is, media have to be played during some well-defined timed times interval, usuall…… 英语科普文选：因特网能为我们做什么 2007-9-24 0:02:08 　·What can Internet do for us? Internet has four main applications as follows:　　l. E－mail. With Internet, people can compose, send, and receive electronic mails. Many people get dozens of messages a day and consider it as their primary way of interacting with the outside world, far outdistancing the telephone and snail mail.　　2. News. Newsgroups are specialzied forums in which users with a common interest can  exchagne messages. Thousands of newsgroups exist on Internet,on technical and nonte…… 英语散文：生日快乐歌的起源 2007-9-24 0:02:08 　·Happy Birthday to You Where did that song come from?　　The story of how the song Happy Birthday to You came to be, began as a sweet one, that later soured. Two sisters, Mildred Hill, a teacher at the Louisville, Kentucky Experimental Kindergarten, and Dr. Patty Hill, the principal of the same school, together wrote a song for the children, entitled Good Morning to All. When Mildred combined her musical talents, as the resident expert on spiritual songs, and as the organist for her church, with he…… 英语文摘：探金字塔秘墓再碰壁 2007-9-24 0:02:08 　·A small robot sent to solve one of historys mysteries only succeeded in presenting scientists and TV viewers with yet another mystery yesterday.　　With its camera peering through a hole in a small sealed door in Egypts Great Pyramid to see what was beyond, it discovered yet another door.　　Its another sealed door. This is very important, said an excited Zahi Hawass, director of Egypts Supreme Council of Antiquities.　　The robot, the Pyramid Rover, took two hours to crawl along a narrow shaft, drill…… 英语文摘：父亲是个捐精者 2007-9-24 0:02:07 　·Even as a child, Christine Whipp, now a 46-year-old grandmother, says she was aware that somehow life was not as it pretended to be.　　 Her carpenter father had been an insulin-dependent diabetic who died when she was six. Christine and her mother never got on.　　 Ten years ago, Christines mother referred to the secret directly for the first time.　　 She told me that I had been conceived through donor insemination (DI) at the Margaret Jackson clinic in Exeter, says Christine. I was 40 when I found …… 英语文摘：预防非典型性肺炎的有效方法 2007-9-24 0:02:07 　·My friends,　　我的朋友们　　The fact of the mysterious pneumonia has been widely spread in HK drives me to do a literature review on the suspected cause (i.e.coronavirus) of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). As a biomedical researcher, let me show you my concern and make the following suggestions.　　神秘的非典型性肺炎正在香港广泛传播，于是我对引起SARS(严重呼吸综合征）的 病因（例如冠状病毒）作了一下研究。现在让我从生物医学研究者的角度给您一些建议。　　The basic mechanism of viral attack is that the viruses replicate themselves using the hosts (in this case is our) D…… 英语诗歌：Loves Witness(爱情的见证) 2007-9-24 0:02:04 　·Slight unpremeditated Words are borne　　By every common Wind into the Air;　　Carelessly utterd, die as soon as born，　　And in one instant give both Hope and Fear：　　Breathing all Contraries with the same Wind　　According to the Caprice of the Mind.　　But Billetdoux are constant Witnesses，　　Substantial Records to Eternity;　　Just Evidences，who the Truth confess,　　On which the Lover safely may rely；　　Theyre serious Thoughts，digested and resolvd；　　And last，when Words are into Clouds devolvd.　　[参考译文]不加思索的轻…… 英语文摘：普京－优秀男人的生活故事 2007-9-24 0:02:03 　·Russian journalist Oleg Blotsky holds his book entitled Vladimir Putin: Life Story during a news conference in Moscow, January 21, 2002.　　 He is fearless, altruistic, steel-willed, hospitable, unbelievably hardy, unpretentious and warm -- and he has lost none of these qualities since becoming Russias president.　　 It is a scrupulously unbiased snapshot of Vladimir Putin if you believe the author of the first volume of a Kremlin-backed trilogy on Putins life, written in the unmistakable style the …… 英语文摘：母亲的心情记录 2007-9-24 0:02:03 　·I had just returned from an income tax audit with the Internal Revenue Service, which everyone agrees is as pleasant as a bad session in the dentists chair. The audit had gone well, but I was relieved it was over. To celebrate I bought an ice cream cone and sat in my car to read a letter from my eldest daughter Linda, a college freshman. Dear Mom, the letter began, I know you will be shocked to learn that you are going to be a grandmother. She was 20 years old and unmarried. My initial response …… 英语短文：美丽的微笑与爱心 2007-9-24 0:02:03 　·美丽的微笑与爱心(Beautiful Smile and Love)作者介绍: 特蕾莎修女(Mother Teresa,1910-1997)，印度著名的慈善家，印度天主教仁爱传教会创始人，在世界范围内建立了一个庞大的慈善机构网，赢得了国际社会的广泛尊敬。1979年被授予诺贝尔和平奖。本文所选即好在领取该奖项时的演讲辞，语言简洁质朴而感人至深。诺贝尔奖领奖台上响起的声音往往都是文采飞扬、热烈、激昂。而特雷莎修女的演说朴实无华，其所举事例听来似平凡之至，然而其中所蕴含的伟大而神圣的爱感人至深。平凡中孕育伟大，真情才能动人。我们作文时，要善于从自己所熟知的平凡中发掘伟大，以真情来打动读者。　　The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition，and I told the sisters: You take care of the oth…… 英语诗歌：爱之物语 2007-9-24 0:02:03 　·My love is like the grasses　　Hidden in the deep mountains.　　Though its abundance increase, 　　There is none that knows.　　我的爱情　　犹如青草，藏在深山。　　它郁郁葱葱，却无人知晓。　　I have been sleeping all alone,　　You have been staring in my dreams.　　I want to kiss you，my baby,　　I want to kiss you tonight.　　我一直孤独入眠，　　睡梦中你出现在我的眼前，　　我要亲吻你，　　我的爱人，　　今夜我就要亲吻你。　　My love,　　You are like a flower,　　So sweet and pure and fair.　　我的爱人，　　你就像一朵鲜花，　　那么甜蜜、纯洁而秀雅。　　I just cant believe　　the loveliness of loving you.　　I just cant believe　…… 英语科普文选：什么是纳斯达克 2007-9-24 0:01:59 　·NASDAQ, acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system, is one of the largest markets in the world for the trading of stocks. The number of companies listed on NASDAQ is more than that on any of the other stock exchanges in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). The majority of companies listed on NASDAQ are smaller than most of those on the NYSE and AMEX. NASDAQ has become known as the home o…… 英语散文：雨雪时候的心情 2007-9-24 0:01:59 　·寒暑表降到冰点下十八度的时候，我们也是在廊下睡觉。每夜最熟识的就是天上的星辰了。也不过是点点闪烁的光明，而相看惯了，偶然不见，也有些想望与无聊。　　连夜雨雪，一点星光都看不见。荷和我拥衾对坐，在廊子的两角，遥遥谈话。 　　荷指着说：“你看维纳斯（Venus）升起来了！”我抬头望时，却是山路转折处的路灯。我怡然一笑，也指着对山的一星灯火说：“那边是丘比特（Jupiter）呢！”　　愈指愈多。松林中射来零乱的风灯，都成了满天星宿。真的，雪花隙里，看不出来天空和森林的界限，将繁灯当作繁星，简直是抵得过。　　一念至诚的将假作真，灯光似乎都从地上飘起。这幻成的星光，都不移动，不必半夜梦醒时，再去追寻他们的位置。　　于是雨雪寂寞之夜，也有了慰安了!　　Stars on a Snowy Night　　The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me…… 英语科普文选：糖－－它会催人衰老 2007-9-24 0:01:58 　·Sugar-It Could Age You　　吃糖一向被视为肥胖者的大忌，除此以外，一般读者可能还知道吃糖与蛀牙、与某些心血管疾病的关系。可你是否想到过吃糖与人的衰老也有关系呢？本文则报道了这方面的最新研究成果，读后令人大长见识。 　　Rats that eat high levels of a natural sugar known as fructose seem to age faster than other rats--and the same could be true for people who eat too much sweet junk food, Israeli researchers said Monday.　　以色列的研究人员星期一说，大量摄取一种叫做果糖的天然糖的老鼠，似乎比其他老鼠衰老的更快。对甜食吃得太多的人来说，情况也可能会是如此。　　Fructose, found naturally in honey and fruit, is used widely in foods ranging from soft drinks to yogur…… 英语科普文选：如何建立安全的电子邮件 2007-9-24 0:01:58 　·Unencrypted messages can be hijacked in transit and read or altered．If the mail is not digitally signed，you cant be sure where it came from．　　未加密的信息可能在传输中被截获、偷看或窜改。如果邮件不是数字签名的，你就不能肯定邮件是从哪里来的。 　　There are many options for securing e-mail，all with a few strengths and probably more weaknesses．　　确保电子邮件的安全有多种选择，它们都有些长处，但有可能存在更多弱点。　　Lets take care of the easy decisions．Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions(S/MIME)should be the message encryption and digital signature format because its the…… 英语诗歌：Living Life Over(如果有来生) 2007-9-24 0:01:58 　·Living Life Over　　If I had my life to live over...I would have talked less and listened more.　　I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was strained and the sofa faded. 　　I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.　　I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.　　I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.　　I would ha…… 英语诗歌：心灵深处的音乐 2007-9-24 0:01:54 　·The Music Within　　Life...What is it?　　See it in the colors of autumn,　　A gentle snowfall in winter, 　　A sudden shower in spring,　　The radiance of a summer day.　　Behold it in the laughter Of the young and the old.　　Know of it in a surge of hope,　　The blessings that are bountiful.　　What is life?　　It is joy,awareness,　　And the music within.　　Frow New Voice in American Poetry　　心灵深处的音乐　　生命是什么？　　它浸染在五彩缤纷的秋色里，　　飘融在轻柔无语的冬雪中，　　在阵阵春雨里，　　在绚丽夏日中。　　它包含在老人爽朗的笑声里，　　也隐匿在孩子们天真的嬉戏中。　　它汹涌在人们的希望里，　　它荡漾在美好的祝福中，……