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🌈心情如春天般美麗：10個“快樂”的英文表達🌈

春天到了，心情也會隨著萬物的復蘇而明亮起來——正所謂“充滿了春天般的喜悅之情”（be full of the joys of spring）。更多關於“開心快樂”的英文表達，還不趕快學起來~

1. be full of the joys of spring 非常高興；歡快
He bounced into the office, full of the joys of spring. 
他興高采烈地蹦跳著進了辦公室。
2. like a dog with two tails 非常開心
When Paul won the first prize he was like a dog with two tails.
保羅獲得了一等獎，他高興壞了。
3. have a whale of a time 玩得非常痛快；過得非常愉快
We had a whale of a time on holiday. 
假期裡我們玩得非常痛快。
4. be on cloud nine 異常興奮；樂不可支
"Was Helen pleased about getting that job?" "Pleased? She was on cloud nine!" 
“海倫得到那份工作高興嗎？”“豈止是高興？她簡直飄飄然了！”

🐱  關於狗狗的19大事實，你知道幾個？ 🐶
　　
Today we present you nineteen interesting and curious facts about dogs. If you own a dog its a must read. If not still a must read! So fact number one:
今天為您獻上19條關於狗狗的趣聞怪談。有狗無狗者必讀！讓我們看看第一條吧：
　　
❖ 1. Dogs were the first to jump off a parachute, not humans.
➙人類史上首個跳降落傘的是狗狗而不是人。
❖ 2. Pointing: Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.
➙手勢：狗狗和大象是僅有的兩種可以本能理解手勢的動物。
❖ 3. Dogs can learn language: Most dogs can learn 150 words, while the smartest dog can understand up to 250 words.
➙狗狗能夠學習語言：大多數狗狗可以學會150個詞，而最聰明的狗狗可以學會250個。
❖ 4. Obama was eating dogs: When Obama was living in Indonesia, he ate snake meat, dog meat and roasted grasshoppers quite often.
➙奧巴馬吃狗肉：當奧巴馬在印尼居住時，他吃蛇肉、狗肉，還經常烤蝗蟲吃。
❖ 5. Pit Bulls were once known as "nanny dogs" because of how kind and protective they were of children.
➙比特犬曾被稱作為“保姆狗”，因為它們對小孩非常友善且具有保護力。
❖ 6. In German, 'dogging' means jogging with your dog.
➙德語中‘dogging’（追蹤）意思是和狗狗一起慢跑。
❖ 7. Dogs can fake: Dogs will sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
➙狗狗會假裝：狗狗有時會假裝生病以獲得關注。
❖ 8. Dogs' brains have gotten larger and they've have gotten smarter relative to cats largely because dogs are more social.
➙狗狗的大腦比喵咪的更大相對也更聰明，主要是因為狗狗更善於交際。
❖ 9. There is a company that sells beer specifically created for dogs.
➙有一家公司售賣專門為狗狗製造的啤酒。
❖ 10. Dogs will yawn in order to express that there is a conflict of interest between their own ideas or desires and those of their owners.
➙狗狗會通過打哈欠來表達，其自身的想法或意願與主人的相衝突。
❖ 11. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
➙亞伯拉罕·林肯的狗狗菲多也是被暗殺而亡的。
❖ 12. Human yawns are contagious not only to other people, but to dogs, as well.
➙人打哈欠不僅會傳染給人，也會傳染給狗狗。
❖ 13. Raisins' grapes are toxic to dogs.
➙葡萄乾對狗狗來說有毒。
❖ 14. The Kong dog toy is based on part of a Volkswagen bus suspension that the creator's German Shepherds loved to play with.
➙Kong牌狗狗玩具設計靈感一部分是源於設計師的德國牧羊犬愛玩的大眾客車懸架裝置。
❖ 15. A German Shepherd guard dog in a Belgrade Zoo once fought and defeated an escaped jaguar and in doing so saved the life of a zoo employee.
➙貝爾格勒動物園的一隻德國牧羊犬看門狗曾與一隻出逃的美洲豹竭力奮戰並獲勝，挽救了一位動物園員工的性命。
❖ 16. In 1991 a girl was found in Ukraine who had lived with and been raised by dogs for most of her life.
➙1991年在烏克蘭發現了一個小女孩，她大部分時間與狗一起生活還是由狗撫養長大的。
❖ 17. A dog had over 1 million delta airline miles in his life & had his own frequent flier card.
➙有一隻狗一生的飛行里程達到了1百萬英里，它還有自己的飛行常客卡。
❖ 18. The most aggressive breed of dogs = Dachshunds.
➙侵略性最強的犬類=臘腸犬。
❖ 19.If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called "intelligent disobedience".
➙如果一個導盲犬認為一項命令是不安全的，那它會拒絕執行此項命令。這叫作“智能反抗力”。
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🎁 中英文稿：
Carl Sagan once referred to our home planet as [CLIP: "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."] And that poetic description holds true for a lot of exoplanets, too. In fact one of the simplest ways we detect exoplanets is by looking at their sunbeam… and measuring how it dims, ever so slightly, as the exoplanet passes across it, called a transit.
卡爾•薩根曾經這樣描述我們居住的地球：陽光普照下的一顆微小塵埃。而這種詩情畫意的描述對很多外星球來說也是適用的。實際上，我們探測外星球的一個簡單方法就是通過觀察它們的反射光，並且測量光線的衰減情況。隨著外星球運動，外星球的反射光路過太陽的時候會衰減，即使有時候衰減很弱，這種現像被稱為凌。
Which raises an interesting question: "Thinking about extraterrestrial observers—which of them would observe the Earth, moving across our own sun?" Ralph Pudritz, a theoretical astrophysicist at McMaster University in Canada. He and his colleague René Heller quantified the narrow band of space from which any observers on other worlds would be able to see the Earth transiting the sun.
這就引發了一個有趣的問題: 考慮一下地外觀測器——可以用來觀測地球，那麼當我們穿過太陽的時候呢？這是Ralph Pudritz，加拿大McMaster 大學的天體物理學家。他和他的同事René Heller測量了一下在其它宇宙上可以看到地球凌日侍的任何一個觀測器到地球之間的狹長帶的距離。
And they determined that this line of sight would be a plane just half a degree thick, but that cuts through a slice of our galaxy that's estimated to contain 100,000 sunlike stars… along with their companion planets. The analysis is in the journal Astrobiology.
他們確認了這條狹長帶為一個只有半度厚的平面結構，但是卻可以使得像是含有100000個太陽般大小的恆星所在的我們這種銀河系的一部分光線通過， 連同發出光線的星球。該研究分析已經發表在《天體生物學》雜誌上。
Pudritz and Heller suggest that hunters of extraterrestrial life may want to listen particularly closely for signals originating at star systems within that narrow band of galactic sky. Advanced civilizations there may have already detected us using the transit method, they say, and may now be sending us a message. You might think of this paper, then, like a treasure map, for intelligent life. "We don't know if there's treasure out there of course, right? You never know that about a treasure map. But it's a good place to look.”
Pudritz 和Heller 建議，搜尋地外生命體也許需要特別密切注意在一個狹長的星級空間帶中的一個恆星系統發出的原始信號。高等文明也許已經用這種凌日的方法發現了我們的存在，他們說，也許現在這些高等文明正在給我們發信息呢。你也許想看看這片文章，想看一個藏寶圖一樣，尋找智能生命體。我們當然不知道是否有寶藏，對吧?你從來沒見過那個藏寶圖，但是去參觀一下也不錯。
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👯 中英文稿：
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Rob.
大家好，歡迎來到BBC學習英語的6分鐘英語節目。我是羅伯。
And I’m Rosie.
我是羅西。
Today we’re talking about the humble sausage, or to use the English slang, bangers. So are you a fan of sausages Rosie?
今天我們談論的是不起眼的香腸，或者用英語俚語就是bangers。羅西，你喜歡香腸嗎？
Yes I am, I love sausages Rob.
是的，我喜歡香腸，羅伯。
Me too, I love them and so do locals and visitors to the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague.

⌚ 托福寫作審題和佈局方法 ⌚

一、審題的“精確性”
根據專家對於過去2年獨立寫作考題的分析，發現有90%以上的題目屬於“支持/反對”型：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Because the change of the society is so rapidly, people are less happy or less satisfied with their life than people did in the past time.

而剩下的則是由“對比論述型”構成的：
Some people think children should spend most of their time in studying and playing while others think they should help their parents with the household chores. What’s your opinion?

在審題時，考生必須首先把題目通讀1-3遍，徹底把握題目主旨後，方可進行段落佈局。

首先，判斷題目是否包含“絕對”含義的詞，若有，則按照上篇講過的建議佈局，若沒有，則對於同意或者反對的理由進行快速的brain storming, 然後根據分論點的數量及論點的可延展性來敲定立場：

Some people think that human needs for farmland, housing, and industry are more important than saving land for endangered animals. Do you agree or disagree with this point of view? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Disagree:
1) Endangered animals are valuable because of their limited quantities
2) Environment balance
3) Endangered animals sometimes stand for the country, so they are more valuable than farmlands

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👯 中英文稿：
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Chris.
歡迎收聽BBC六分鐘英語欄目。我是克里斯。
And I’m Rosie.
我是羅西。
And today we are going to talk about a new invention that promises to influence our dreams.
今天我們將談論一個新的發明，它將影響我們的夢。
Oh, that sounds exciting! I love new inventions!
哇，這聽起來很令人興奮！我喜歡這些新發明！
That’s good, Rosie! But calm down - hold your horses - because we have to start with the usual challenge for our listeners. Now, I want to put a question to you and the answer is linked to sleep and dreams. What do the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the former French leader Napoleon Bonaparte and the famous English nurse Florence Nightingale have in common?
這真棒，羅西！但先冷靜一下，別著急，因為我們要從給聽眾們的通常問題開始。現在，我想向你提出一個問題，答案與睡眠和夢相關聯。英國前首相瑪格麗特•柴契爾、法國前領導人拿破崙•波拿巴和英國著名護士弗羅倫斯•南丁格爾有什麼共同之處？