第一個是usually, 也就是平常習慣怎麼樣的意思。比如我平時都九點出門上學，就可以說：I usually leave for school at nine. 或是一家人習慣在吃完晚飯後散個步，也可以說：The family usually go for a walk after dinner.
第二個是generally speaking，同樣是指一般，不過這個詞比較偏向"廣義來說"的意思。比如某人的工作表現不錯，我們都很滿意，就可以說：Generally speaking, we are satisfied with her work. 又比如大部分的人都認為老人比較保守，這時就能說：Generally speaking, the young are less conservative than the old.
最後一個是more or less，雖然也是一般的意思，但比較偏向"大概、通常"。比如一趟旅程一般(通常)要花三，就可以說：It is a three-day trip, more or less.
The era of the department store may be
nearing its end, thanks to the rise of online commerce, but let’s focus on what
they can fly overhead one day a year, not their high overhead on the other 364. Macy’s, per Thanksgiving tradition, celebrates the
holiday with balloons of Hello Kitty, SpongeBob SquarePants and Spider-Man, as
well as parade floats that alternate between popular
culture (the Smurfs at home in their mushroom) and patriotism (the Statue of
Liberty). As ever, the parade ends with Santa Claus, heralding the beginning of
the Christmas season. And here we haven’t even started thinking about what we
want to receive—or, we suppose, give.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off at 77th Street
and Central Park West at 9am and concludes in Herald Square.早上九點，梅西百貨公司的感恩節遊行在紐約77街和中央公園舉行，於海諾德廣場結束。
說到worm大家會想到什麼呢？應該都是鑽來鑽去又有點噁心的小蟲吧！比如，小孩子總喜歡蹲在地上看蟲爬：The child watched the worm inching along. 當然，說人家懦弱沒用、很討厭，也可以用這個字喔：You are no worm, you are a man; so get up, lad, and fight.
1. We must be on guard not to let the enemy spies worm in. 我們必須非常小心，不讓敵方間諜鑽進來。
2. How did the thieves worm in? 那些竊賊是怎麼鑽進來的？
3. She wormed all the secrets out of him. 她死纏爛打、無所不用其極挖出他全部的秘密。
on one's toes 就是指保持警覺、機敏，也就是能夠隨時行動的意思。比如在樂團，演奏者反應要快，才能跟上指揮：In Orchestra players must be on their toes all the time, so as not to miss an entrance.
這個片語也可以用在運動上，比如拳擊手或賽跑的人都要很機靈，才能隨時出手(或出腳xD)，和對手過招。當然，用它來形容上課也是可以的；比如上某些老師的課，學生總得聚精會神，以防突然被點到回答問題：I have to be on my toes in her class. I have to listen and think.
Environmental activist Miranda Gibson
環保鬥士Miranda Gibson
Unfortunately the forestry industry had other ideas, digging in its heels when it came to final crunch.
不幸的是林木業另有盤算，在最終關鍵時仍拒絕妥協。
Neither the science nor the economics seem
to have won out. The Tasmanian forestry industry is in crisis and being propped
up by tax payer funds. There are some who may want to put their heads in the sand, but we cannot go on ignoring
today's market realities of a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly
products.
From my tree top platform, I have Skyped my
way around the globe, speaking to thousands of people. And the message is
clear, people don't want to buy furniture and flooring made from the
destruction of endangered species habitat, community water catchments or
globally significant carbon sinks.
The failure of the talks has created
uncertainty for the future of the forests here. And with it, uncertainty for
me. With no end in sight, who knows how long it will be before I set foot on
the ground again?
I have already become the Australian record
holder for the longest time spent in a tree, after I reached 209 days back in
July this year. I hope, for the sake of the forests, that I will not need to
break the world record held by Julia Butterfly Hill, who sat for two years in a
Californian Redwood.
Miranda
Gibson lives on a 60-meter high platform in a 400-year-old tree in Tasmania, Australia
Editor's
note: For 10 months, Australian environmental activist
Miranda Gibson has been living on a platform in a Eucalyptus tree 60 meters
above the ground in Tasmania's
southern forest. She's vowing to stay there until the forests receive greater
state protection from logging. Gibson writes a blog from her Observertree.
Tyenna
Valley, Tasmania (CNN) -- Like many I have been anxiously waiting the outcome of the
Tasmanian "forest peace talks."
CNN記者Tyenna Valley, 塔斯馬尼亞報導---我也和許多人一樣，焦急等待塔斯馬尼亞「森林和平會談」的結果。
But unlike most, I have done so 200 feet
(60 meters) above the ground, perched at the top of an old growth tree whose
fate depends upon them. A tree I climbed 10 months ago and vowed not to leave
until the forests were protected.
And then on Saturday the news hit -- the
talks had collapsed.
然後星期六消息傳來---會談散了。
The two years of talks between environment
groups, unions and industry representatives failed to find the resolution to
bring the industry out of crisis and protect Tasmania's high conservation value forests.
No deal means clear-felling of old growth forests is set to continue.
The tree that has been my home since
December 14 last year is a part of 572,000 hectares at the center of the
debate. Verified by scientific experts to be of world heritage value, it should
have have been on its way to formal protection. And I should have been on my
way out of this tree and into a long hot bath!
導讀：紫心勳章是美國軍人的榮譽象徵，由總統頒給在大戰中受傷截肢的士兵；而為國捐軀的軍人則由家屬代領。紫心勳章的構想最早由美國第一任總統(1789-1797)華盛頓提出，當時名為軍功勳章(Badge of Military Merit)，頒給3名參與美國獨立戰爭(1775-1783)的士兵，但之後就鮮少被人提起。直到第一次世界大戰，這個勳章才又得到重視；後來，美國在紐約建造了一座紫心勳章榮譽廳，來紀念及表揚為戰犧牲的軍人。
以下為影片字幕，由CNN官方提供：
BARBARA MACNEVIN, DAUGHTER OF PURPLE HEART RECEPIENT: My dad, Ralph W. Bingham (ph). He was the veteran of the first world war, the big war. He lost his right leg fighting in France, and he received a Purple Heart for that. We had it for many years in my home, where I grew up.
紫心勳章受獎人女兒，芭芭拉‧麥紐文：我父親，拉爾夫‧W‧賓漢打過第一次世界大戰。在法國作戰時他失去了右腿，但也因此受頒了紫心勳章。我還小的時候，那個勳章就在家裡，也好幾年了。
ROBERT MACNEVIN, GRANDSON OF PURPLE HEART RECEPIENT: Unbeknownst to us, it was lost in some manner in one his moves later in his life.
紫心勳章受獎人孫子，羅伯特‧麥紐文：但不知道什麼原因，在祖父的某次搬家後不見了。
CAPT. ZACHARIAH FIKE, U.S. ARMY: I found Private Ralph W. Bingham`s medal on Craigslist. This has been the calling of mine for about the last three years. I locate lost or stolen medals. These are all the Purple Hearts that I`m currently working. Some I`ve located to families, some I haven`t.
美國陸軍上尉，札切利亞‧伐克：我在大型網路分類廣告Craigslist上發現賓漢的獎章。過去三年來，我熱衷於找回獎章、歸還原主。這些紫心勳章是我目前要回頒的，有些已經找到家屬了，有些還沒。
I do these on my own time. I don`t consider it a hobby. It`s more of a calling and an honor. I myself have a Purple Heart. It hangs on the wall in my mother`s home, and I would hope that one day, if my medal was lost, someone would do the same thing for me and my family.
我利用自己的時間做這些事，也不認為這是種嗜好，反倒是種榮耀。我自己就有個紫心勳章，就掛在我母親家的牆上。而我希望，如果有天我的勳章不見了，也會有人幫我和家人找回。
It is truly an honor to bring Private Bingham`s Purple Heart home to his family, and I am again truly humbled by his sacrifice.
能把勳章回頒給賓漢的家人真的是種榮耀，相較於他的犧牲，我也體認到自己的卑微。
It is a great honor to bring home his Purple Heart. Thank you very much.
帶回他的紫心勳章是莫大的榮耀，非常謝謝你。
B. MACNEVIN: The medal means a lot to me, especially, and to our family.
羅勃特‧麥紐文：這個獎章對我來說，意義特別大，當然對我們家人也是。
FIKE: I`m glad it is home to where it belongs, and I`ll move on to the next medal.
伐克上尉：能夠物歸原主很高興，我也該繼續找尋下一個獎章的家屬了。
That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature.
"咬子彈"乍聽之下十分駭人，但實際上它的意思也和這個差不多啦...就是"咬緊牙關、忍辱負重、硬著頭皮"等等。比如對天天騎50分鐘車上學的我來說，油價漲幅可是人命攸關的啊！但即使再怎麼貴，總不能待在家裡發楞吧！這時，就可以說：Scooter riders are biting the bullet after another rise in petrol prices.
又比如有些時候，即便自己很不願意，還是得為某些錯事低頭道歉。這時，就可以說：We've all experienced unpleasant moments when we had to bite the bullet and apologize for something we did.
或者期中考快到了，相信很多人即使不情願，還是得硬著頭皮讀讀書吧！這時就能說： Though some students don't enjoy studying, they have to bite the bullet when it comes to midterms or finals.
Pablo Picasso in a room displaying his pottery work, Vallauris, France, 1949.
There’s a reason — or rather, there are innumerable reasons, taking the form of paintings, sculptures, drawings, pottery and more — why Pablo Picasso is the most famous artist of the past 100 years. For well over seven decades, right up until his death in 1973 at the age of 91, he created thousands of works, many of them instantly recognizable masterpieces, in a dizzying array of media and in seemingly countless styles that he himself either pioneered or perfected.
Photograph by Chien-Chi Chang, National Geographic
A monk walks a dusty road in Bagan, the ancient capital of Myanmar (Burma)—and a sight to rival Cambodia's Angkor Wat. The area once held 13,000 pagodas dating back to the second century A.D., many built of brick that was plastered and painted. Earthquakes and the Ayeyarwady River destroyed more than 10,000 of them.
一位僧侶在這條滿是塵土的路上行走---這裡是緬甸(Myanmar; Burma)的舊都，蒲甘(Bagan)，足以和柬埔寨吳哥窟媲美。西元二世紀時這裡有1萬3千座佛塔，以磚砌成。但後來，1萬多座的佛塔卻毀於地震和伊洛瓦底江(Ayeyarwady River)的沖擊。
February 18, 2012
Child and Water Buffalo, Vietnam 越南，孩子與水牛
Photograph by Denis Rozan, Your Shot
A young Hmong girl rides a water buffalo in Sa Pa, Vietnam.
越南沙壩，一位洪族(Homg)小女孩騎在水牛上。
January 1, 2009
Sailboats, Turag River, Bangladesh 孟加拉，格河，帆船
Photograph by Dick Durrance II
Graceful as butterflies, boats glide past rice fields on the meandering Turag River near Dacca, Bangladesh. Hundreds of watery highways interlace the heartland of this low-lying South Asian country.
在孟加拉近達卡處，這些帆船如蝶般優雅，穿過稻田、順著蜿蜒的格河航行。這個地處低窪的南亞國家中心，是由上百條水上要道交織而成。
Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita, National Geographic
Brilliant autumn sunshine and an inviting carpet of colorful leaves entice walkers ever-upward along a path on Japan’s Natagiri Pass. Those taking this trail follow in the footsteps of the great poet Matsuo Basho, who traveled it in 1689. Readers of his backcountry journal, Narrow Road to a Far Province, have sought the path ever since.
The era of the department store may be
nearing its end, thanks to the rise of online commerce, but let’s focus on what
they can fly overhead one day a year, not their high overhead on the other 364. Macy’s, per Thanksgiving tradition, celebrates the
holiday with balloons of Hello Kitty, SpongeBob SquarePants and Spider-Man, as
well as parade floats that alternate between popular
culture (the Smurfs at home in their mushroom) and patriotism (the Statue of
Liberty). As ever, the parade ends with Santa Claus, heralding the beginning of
the Christmas season. And here we haven’t even started thinking about what we
want to receive—or, we suppose, give.
Françoise Gilot, Picasso's lover for 10 years, with their young son, Claude. She holds drawings of the boy by Picasso. Vallauris, France, 1949.
