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轻松阅读《家政女皇》Undomestic Goddess 1.2
发表于: 2008-7-17 22:35 作者: kira86 来源: 『原版英语』
先贴上第一章第一节的部分 http://bbs.en8848.com.cn/thread-12337-1-1.html
个人分类，看原版小说的人分为三种，大家看对不哈？第一种，为学习，当然就是为了学习英语看小说的啦第二种；为欣赏，当然就是。。。还用我说么？第三种，为休闲，而我就是这样的，闲来无事，翻翻小说，晒晒太阳，哇哈哈哈
，同理可证，小说分为三种，用来给人学习的，用来给人欣赏的，用来给人休闲的这本书就是用来给人学的书，个人意见，仅供参考
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kira86 (2008-7-17 22:39:27)
But then everyone probably feels like that. It’s normal.
“Your skin’s very dehydrated.” Maya is shaking her head. She runs an expert hand across my cheek and rests her fingers underneath my jaw, looking concerned. “Your heart rate’s very high. That’s not healthy. Are you feeling particularly tense?”
“Work’s pretty busy at the moment.” I shrug. “It’s just a blip. I’m fine.” Can we get on with it?
“Well.” Maya gets up. She presses a button set in the wall and gentle pan-pipe music fills the air. “All I can say is, you’ve come to the right place, Samantha. Our aim here is to de-stress, revitalize, and detoxify.”
“Lovely,” I say, only half listening. I’ve just remembered that I never got back to David Elldridge about the Ukrainian oil contract. I meant to call him yesterday. Shit.
“Our aim is to provide a haven of tranquility, away from all your day-to-day worries.” Maya presses another button in the wall, and the light dims to a muted glow. “Before we start,” she says softly, “do you have any questions?”
“Actually, I do.” I lean forward.
“Good!” She beams. “Are you curious about today’s treatments, or is it something more general?”
“Could I possibly send a quick e-mail?”
Maya’s smile freezes on her face.
“Just quickly,” I add. “It won’t take two secs—”
“Samantha, Samantha…” Maya shakes her head. “You’re here to relax. To take a moment for yourself. Not to send e-mails. E-mail’s an obsession! An addiction! As evil as alcohol. Or caffeine.”
For goodness sake, I’m not obsessed. I mean, that’s ridiculous. I check my e-mails about once every… thirty seconds, maybe.
The thing is, a lot can change in thirty seconds.
“And besides, Samantha,” Maya goes on. “Do you see a computer in this room?”
“No,” I reply, obediently looking around the dim little room, at posters of yoga positions and a wind chime and a row of crystals arranged on the windowsill.
“This is why we ask that you leave all electronic equipment in the safe. No mobile phones are permitted. No little computers.” Maya spreads her arms. “This is a retreat. An escape from the world.”
“Right.” I nod meekly.
Now is probably not the time to reveal that I have a Black-Berry hidden in my paper knickers.
“So, let’s begin.” Maya smiles. “Lie down, please, under a towel. And remove your watch.”
“I need my watch!”
“Another addiction.” She tsks reprovingly. “You don’t need to know the time while you’re here.”
She turns away, and with reluctance I take off my watch.
Then, a little awkwardly, I arrange myself on the massage table, trying to avoid squashing my precious BlackBerry.
I did see the rule about no electronic equipment. And I did surrender my Dictaphone. But three hours without a[url=] Black-Berry?[/url] I mean, what if something came up at the office? What if there was an emergency?
If they really wanted people to relax, they would let them keep their BlackBerrys and mobile phones, not confiscate them.
Anyway, she’ll never see it under my towel.
“I’m going to begin with a relaxing foot rub,” says Maya, and I feel her smoothing some kind of lotion over my feet. “Try to clear your mind.”
I stare dutifully up at the ceiling. Clear mind. My mind is as clear as a transparent… glass…
What am I going to do about Elldridge? He’ll be waiting for a response. What if he tells the other partners I was lax? What if it affects my chances of partnership?
I feel a clench of alarm. Now is not the time to leave anything to chance.
“Try to let go of all your thoughts…” Maya is chanting. “Feel the release of tension…”
Maybe I could send him a very quick e-mail.
Surreptitiously I reach down and feel the hard corner of my BlackBerry. Gradually I inch it out of my paper knickers. Maya is still massaging my feet, totally oblivious.
“Your body is growing heavy… your mind should be emptying…”
I edge the BlackBerry up onto my chest until I can just see the screen underneath the towel. Thank goodness this room is so dim. Trying to keep my movements to a minimum, I furtively start typing an e-mail with one hand.
“Relaax…” Maya is saying in soothing tones. “Imagine you’re walking along a beach…”
“Uh-huh…” I murmur.
David, I’m typing. Re ZFN Oil contract. I read through amendments. Feel our response should be
“What are you doing?” says Maya, suddenly alert.
“Nothing!” I say, hastily shoving the BlackBerry back under the towel. “Just… er… relaxing.”
Maya comes round the couch and looks at the bump in the towel where I’m clutching the BlackBerry.
“Are you hiding something?” she says in disbelief.
“No!”
From under the towel the BlackBerry emits a little bleep. Damn
“I think that was a car,” I say, trying to sound casual. “Outside in the street.” Maya’s eyes narrow “Samantha,” she says ominously. “Do you have a piece of electronic equipment under there?”
I have the feeling that if I don’t confess she’ll rip my towel off anyway. “I was just sending an e-mail,” I say at last, and sheepishly produce the BlackBerry.
“You workaholics!” She grabs it out of my hand in exasperation. “E-mails can wait. It can all wait. You just don’t know how to relax!”
“I’m not a workaholic!” I retort indignantly.
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wwlcj1982 (2008-7-18 07:46:32)
wdm1028 (2008-7-18 08:40:45)
kira86 (2008-7-18 08:43:57)
water9000 (2008-7-18 09:12:24)
boresome (2008-7-18 09:27:17)
我在word想学学老挂历做批注，怎样才能把那个“批注”后的名字改变呢？
未命名.bmp
象我的电脑，我在word的文件下拉的“属性”看到“作者”为“微软用户”，我试一下改变那个名字，但批注后的名字还是“微软用户*”，晕S了，请问该如何设置？
先谢过了。
joyce7200 (2008-7-18 09:31:30)
boresome (2008-7-18 09:45:49)
kira86 (2008-7-18 09:48:54)
wwlcj1982 (2008-7-18 09:55:49)
QUOTE:
在 工具--选项---用户信息（office2003）最好系统信息都改了：
开始菜单---运行，然后输入regedit，然后在最上方菜单“编辑”里选择“查找”，寻找所有的“RegCompany”，把里面信息改成你自己想要的；寻找所有的“RegOwner”，改成你自己的名字。
boresome (2008-7-18 10:28:12)
boresome (2008-7-18 10:50:40)
例如：
原文：Are you feeling particularly tense?
朗读：Are you feeling particularly tense at the moment?
原文：Work’s pretty busy at the moment.
朗读：Work’s pretty busy right now.
由于是偷偷地听，所以仅听了前面几句而已。上面那句接下来的Maya回复那句也发现有些出入。
boresome (2008-7-18 11:02:57)
朗读：The aim for the Green Tree Centre is to provide a haven of tranquility
原文：“Could I possibly send a quick e-mail?”
朗读：“Could I possibly send a quick e-mail?”I said politely.
原文：Not to send e-mails. E-mail’s an obsession!
朗读：Not to send e-mails. It's an obsession!
还有，““No,” I reply, obediently looking around the dim little room, at posters of yoga positions and a wind chime and a row of crystals arranged on the windowsill.
”里的红色部分，我没从mp3那里听到。
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kira86 (2008-7-18 12:18:58)
kevinmn (2008-7-18 12:27:30)
boresome (2008-7-18 12:39:27)
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lemontree053 (2008-7-18 16:22:51)
kira86 (2008-7-18 16:25:39)
四猫muioya (2008-7-18 19:34:36)
阅读完毕，来看看回复之后有什么藏起来的好东东，(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……
2005新年好 (2008-7-18 21:04:58)
QUOTE:
可能之一，和购物狂系列一样，本书也有英国版和美国版之分。