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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by President Barack Obama at Worcester Technical High SchoolI want to talk about three of those lessons, a couple of which have already been mentioned by the previous speakers. First of all, I want you to remember that each of us is only here because somebody somewhere invested in our success. Somebody invested in us. I know that's true for me. I was raised by a single mom with the help of my grandparents. We didn't have a lot of money growing up. At times, we struggled. When my mom was going to school at the same time as she was raising my sister and me, we had to scrape to get by.……A lot of people made an investment in you. I can't imagine a better investment. But as you experience your success and as you experience setbacks, you need to remember everything that's been put into making sure that you had opportunity. Which brings me to the second thing I hope you remember when you leave here: You're going to also have to give back. This community invested in you. You've got to make sure that you use those gifts. ……My final point is I hope you leave here today believing that if you can make it, then there shouldn't be any kid out here who can't make it. ……I tell you all this not just because you stand to benefit from changes in laws, but because you're going to have to be a part of helping to shape the law. You're going to have to shape public opinion. You're going to have remember everybody who invested in you. You're going to have to remember the experience of being part of this incredible community. And then, when you go out into the world, whether you are a businessperson, or you are in the military, or you are an academic, or a doctor, or whatever it is that you're doing, you're also going to be a citizen. You're also going to be somebody who has a voice in how this country operates. And you've got to push so that others get the same chance you did.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Three New Fish Species Found in Pacific OceanBy Hai DoScientists say they have discovered three new species of fish in one of the deepest places on Earth.All three species were found in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Chile and Peru. They were deep in the Atacama Trench -- 7,500 meters below the surface.Researchers from Britain's Newcastle University say the new species have been given temporary names based on their coloring. They are known as ‘the pink, the blue and the purple Atacama Snailfish.'The three snailfish species are different from most other fish. Their unusual bodies are built to deal with the cold water and extreme pressure deep in the ocean.All three are small and translucent, meaning light can pass through their skin. They also have no scales on the skin for protection.Thomas Linley is with Newscastle University. He said in a statement, "the hardest structures in their bodies are the bones in their inner ear which give them balance and their teeth. Without the extreme pressure and cold to support their bodies they are extremely fragile and melt rapidly when brought to the surface."A team of 40 scientists from 17 nations captured video of the fish in their natural environment.Other scientists say the "blue" Atacama Snailfish appeared to be a rare "winged" snailfish. But it has long fin and big head similar to the Ethereal Snailfish off the coast of Mariana Islands.The "pink" was closer in appearance to the Mariana Snailfish, a species found in the deepest part of Mariana Trench on the other side of the Pacific.The third species is a small purple snailfish. It is similar to fish living at the depth of 3,500 meters. One of the purple snailfish, about 9 centimeters long, was brought to the surface for further study.In addition to the discovery of the new species of snailfish, scientists also captured rare video of long-legged isopods, known as Munnopsids. The shellfish has a small body, about the size of a human hand. It can swim backwards and upside down using its extremely long legs.The scientists say what they have found in the deep sea is an environment rich with many species in large numbers.From the video shot by the Newcastle scientists, Linley said, "There is something about the snailfish that allows them to adapt to living very deep. Beyond the reach of other fish they are free of competitors and predators."He added, "they seem to be quite active and look very well-fed."I'm Anna Matteo.Hai Do adapted this story for Learning English based on The Conversation. George Grow was the editor.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Excerpt from commencement speech by David Brooks at Dartmouth CollegeMaking commitments sounds intimidating, but it's not. Making a commitment simply means falling in love with something, and then building a structure of behavior around it that will carry you through when your love falters. When you make a commitment to something you truly love, whether it's a spouse, a job, a company, or a school, it won't feel like you are putting on an uncomfortable lobster shell. It will feel like you are taking off the shell and becoming the shape you were meant to be.When you're making a commitment, you won't be paralyzed by self-focus because you'll have something besides yourself to think about.Specifically, as you go through your 30s, you will make four major commitments, and your life depends on how you do with these four things.First, a commitment to your spouse and to your family. Second, a commitment to a career and a vocation. Third, a commitment to your faith or philosophy. Fourth, a commitment to a community and a village.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
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点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How to get richBy Derek Sivers1. Live where luck strikes.Live where everything is happening,where the money is flowing,where careers are being made,where your role models live.Once there, be as in the game as anyone can be.Be right in the middle of everything.2. Say yes to everything.Meet everyone.Pursue every opportunity.Nothing is too small. Do it all.Like lottery tickets, you never know which one will win. So the more, the better.Follow-up and keep in touch with everyone.3. Learn the multiplying skills.Speaking, writing, psychology, design, conversation, 2nd language, persuasion, programming, meditation/focus.Not pursued on their own, they're skills that multiply the success of your main pursuit.(A pilot who's also a great writer and public speaker.)(A chef with a mastery of psychology, persuasion, and design.)These skills multiply the results of your efforts, and give you an edge over others in your field.4. Pursue market value not personal value.Do what pays well.Do not be the starving artist, working on things that have great personal value to you, but little market value.Follow the money. It tells you where you're most valuable.Don't try to make a career out of everything you love. For example, sex.5. Shamelessly imitate success.Imitate the best strategies of your competitors.The market doesn't care about your personal need to be unique.It's selfless and humble to use the best ideas regardless of source, to create the best service or product for your clients.Get great at executing other people's ideas as well as your own.6. Be the owner, not just inventor.It's tempting to try to be the ideas person, having someone else do the dirty work of making those ideas happen.Ideas don't make you rich. Great execution of ideas does.A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.The biggest rewards will always go to those that fund it and own it.To get rich, be the owner. Own as close to 100% as possible.7. Benefit from human nature.Instead of complaining about the downside of human nature, find ways to benefit from it.Instead of complaining about the rules, just learn the game, then play it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what's behind this resurgence?By Paula CocozzaHere are some things that you can't do with a Kindle. You can't turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can't remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can't remember much at all. You can't tell whether the end is really the end, or whether the end equals 93% followed by 7% of index and/or questions for book clubs. You can't pass it on to a friend or post it through your neighbour's door.A few years ago, I was given a Kindle. I had become a student again. I was reading lots of books and I needed them cheap and light. But now the Kindle has slipped to the back of the desk drawer behind the Blu-Tack that comes out only at Christmas. Meanwhile, the stack of hardbacks and paperbacks on the bedside table has grown so tall it has spawned sub-stacks on the floor; when I get into bed at night, it is like looking down on a miniature book city. I don't want to speculate about what goes on in other people's bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17%, while sales of physical books are up 8%. Consumer spending on books was up £89m across the board last year, compared with 2015. So why is the physical book winning through?968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Time Zone of LifeAuthor unknownNew York is 3 hours ahead of CaliforniaBut it does not make California slowSomeone graduated at the age of 22But waited 5 years before securing a good jobSome became a CEO at 25 and died at 50While another became a CEO at 50 and lived to 90 yearsSomeone is still singleSomeone got married and 'waited' 10 years before having a childThere is another who had a baby within a year of marriageObama retired at 55 but Trump starts at 70People around you might seem to go ahead of youSome might seem to be behind youBut everyone is running their own RACE, in their own TIMEDon't envy them or mock themThey are in their time zone, and you are in yoursLife is about waiting for the right moment to actSo relaxYou are not lateYou are not earlyYou are very much on timeYou are in your time zone968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us AllWill you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.By Jerry UseemAs christmas approached in 2015, the price of pumpkin-pie spice went wild. It didn't soar, as an economics textbook might suggest. Nor did it crash. It just started vibrating between two quantum states. Amazon's price for a one-ounce jar was either $4.49 or $8.99, depending on when you looked. Nearly a year later, as Thanksgiving 2016 approached, the price again began whipsawing between two different points, this time $3.36 and $4.69.We live in the age of the variable airfare, the surge-priced ride, the pay-what-you-want Radiohead album, and other novel price developments. But what was this? Some weird computer glitch? More like a deliberate glitch, it seems. “It's most likely a strategy to get more data and test the right price,” Guru Hariharan explained, after I had sketched the pattern on a whiteboard.The right price—the one that will extract the most profit from consumers' wallets—has become the fixation of a large and growing number of quantitative types, many of them economists who have left academia for Silicon Valley. It's also the preoccupation of Boomerang Commerce, a five-year-old start-up founded by Hariharan, an Amazon alum. He says these sorts of price experiments have become a routine part of finding that right price—and refinding it, because the right price can change by the day or even by the hour. (Amazon says its price changes are not attempts to gather data on customers' spending habits, but rather to give shoppers the lowest price out there.)968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容PurgingBy Steve PavlinaMy wife and I spent this past three-day weekend cleaning out our garage and purging many unwanted items. This was a project that was long overdue, and we finally set aside the time for it. It seemed a daunting project at first, but it felt really good to sort through and purge those old items. We donated several carloads of stuff to charity.As aggressive as I am about staying organized and purging what I don't need, I noticed that time plays a big role in determining whether or not an item is worth keeping. Some items seem like they were worth keeping at the time we stored/archived them, and perhaps they were, but years later those same items may be seen as worthless junk. In many cases our needs had changed, and so did the items that we thought might be helpful in filling those needs.There are a few rules that have served me well whenever I go through a purge cycle:When in doubt, throw it out.Ask, “What would be the worst-case outcome if I threw this item out by mistake?” If the answer is little or nothing, throw it out.Could someone else benefit from this item more than I would?This is in contrast to the rules that many other people seem to use when deciding what they'll keep vs. what they'll toss out. I think the rules most people follow are these:When in doubt, keep it. I might need this someday.Ask, “What would be the best-case outcome if I kept this item?” If the answer seems moderately good, keep it.Could I possibly benefit from keeping this item?I think this second rule set is one reason certain people have a serious problem with clutter. By setting your default to “keep” instead of “purge,” you're obviously going to keep a lot more items. And over time it would be very easy to outstrip your capacity to effectively utilize and enjoy every item you keep. Eventually your home becomes filled with items you rarely ever look at, and you have to devote more space to storing them and more time to managing them.I'm not suggesting you need to be so severe that you junk everything you might want, but perhaps if you haven't touched an item in two or more years, you may be able to live without it.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
点击每期节目可以看到具体文稿内容Introduction to Montessori MethodThe Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children from birth to adulthood. Dr. Montessori's Method has been time tested, with over 100 years of success in diverse cultures throughout the world.It is a view of the child as one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It is an approach that values the human spirit and the development of the whole child—physical, social, emotional, cognitive.Hallmarks of MontessoriComponents necessary for a program to be considered authentically Montessori include multiage groupings that foster peer learning, uninterrupted blocks of work time, and guided choice of work activity. In addition, a full complement of specially designed Montessori learning materials are meticulously arranged and available for use in an aesthetically pleasing environment.The teacher, child, and environment create a learning triangle. The classroom is prepared by the teacher to encourage independence, freedom within limits, and a sense of order. The child, through individual choice, makes use of what the environment offers to develop himself, interacting with the teacher when support and/or guidance is needed.Multiage groupings are a hallmark of the Montessori Method: younger children learn from older children; older children reinforce their learning by teaching concepts they have already mastered. This arrangement also mirrors the real world, where individuals work and socialize with people of all ages and dispositions.968重庆之声每周一至周五8点56分每天三分钟养成良好英语听说习惯
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