作者：李清如
页数：624
出版社：武汉出版社
出版日期：2013
ISBN：9787543067080
电子书格式：pdf/epub/txt
内容简介
本书为英语休闲类读物，能让读者在阅读过程中既了解国内外的时事生活，又能对英语水平的提高起到一定的促进作用，具有积极的社会效益。双色典藏本，带给读者最棒的阅读体验。
作者简介
李清如。畅销书作者。擅长英语类读物的策划、编写工作。编译作品有《国富论》、《资本论》缩译精编本。
本书特色
不流行的话不说,不地道的英语不讲!
遇到老外开口就”哑火”?不知道从什么话题开始交流?没有关系,本书帮你告别难堪!阅读本书,让你了解当下最流行的欧美时事主题,使你能够轻松开始与老外的交流.本书帮你迅速提高英语实力的同时,让你极大地开阔视野,原来,英语世界的人都在谈论这些时事!无论是席卷全球的次贷危机,还是夺人眼球的南非世界杯,五花八门的热议话题尽收于本书之中.学说英语,本来是为了让我们与世界同步,让我们获得更多的资讯和信息,就从今天开始,让你的英语话题上个档次吧!
本书以对话为主,注重口语,不必死记硬背、死啃书本,最后导致”哑巴英语”,在遇到外国人时仍旧张不开嘴.这本书每节都有大量地道的、原汁原味的句子,读者可以在与”老外”的日常交流中直接运用.
目录
Aging Society 老龄化社会
Housing 住房问题
Traffic Pressure 交通压力
Overcrowded City 人满为患的城市
Drug Quality Control 药品质量监督
Conditions of Medical Care医疗保健
Food Safety 食品安全
Education 教育问题
Charity Drive 慈善活动
Ethics道德伦理
Internetsucht上网成瘾
Creative Industries 创意产业
Ethical Shopping 道德购物
Happiness Index 幸福感指数
World Conflicts 世界冲突
Part 2 Financial Topics 财经话题
Price Inflation 物价上涨
Student Money 学生如何理财
Income Distribution收入分配
Tax Payment 纳税
Unemployment Crisis 失业问题
Financial Crisis 金融危机
Poverty 贫困问题
Appreciation of the RMB 人民币升值
Weak Japanese Economy 疲软的日本经济
New Trade Protectionism 新贸易保护主义
Part 3 Something about Work 工作那点事
Gender Discrimination 性别歧视
Slack Birds 倦鸟族
Part-time Job 兼职
Career Planning 职业规划
Career Success and Happiness 事业成功与快乐生活Lifelong Learning 终生学习
IQ & EQ智商和情商
SOHO 在家上班族
Be your own boss 创业
Online shop 网上开店
Business Trip 出差
Part 4 Fashion Life 时尚生活
The Life in Big City 大城市的生活
Pressure of Contemporary Mother 当代妈妈的压力Tomboys 中性美女
Metrosexual 都市美男
Blogging Fever 博客热潮
Audio Blog 播客
Credit Card 信用卡消费
Online Game网络游戏
Cartoon动漫卡通
Shopping Online 网上购物
Super Online Banking System 超级网银
Cosplayer 角色扮演
Brain Gym健脑俱乐部
Part 5 Fashioning My Image 我型我塑
Face-Lifting 整容风
Show Yourself穿出个性
New Slimming Fashion减肥新时尚
Hairstyle发型
Beauty Culture 美容
Perfume香水
Enjoy Massage 享受按摩
Charm of SPA水疗的魅力
Western-style Wedding Dress Photos 西式婚纱照Part 6 Customs about Human Relationships 人际交往Personal Privacy vs Hospitality 隐私与亲密
Exchange of Gifts 礼尚往来
Chinese Hospitality中国人的待客之道
Table Manners 餐桌礼仪
Family Relations 家庭关系
Neighborhood Relationship 邻里关系
Fashion of Tea-Drinking 喝茶的时尚
Receipt Friends by Wine以酒会友
Meanings of Addressing 称呼的含意
The Secret of Numbers 数字的秘密
Part 7 Environment and Resources 环境资源
Low-carbon Lifestyle 低碳生活
Green Fashion绿色时尚
Climate Abnormality气候异常
Garbage Disposal垃圾处理
Endangered Species濒危物种
White Pollution白色污染
Chemical Pollution in Agricultural农业中的化学污染Noise Pollution 噪音污染
Light Pollution光污染
Water Pollution 水污染
Water Scarcity 水荒
Future Energy 未来能源
Cultivation过度耕作
Disappeared Land 消失的土地
Balance of Nature 自然平衡
Save Resources节约资源
Land Use 土地利用
Forestry林学
Oceans海洋
Part 8 Talk about Anything 天南海北
We Love Cars 爱车一族
Football 足球
Basketball 篮球
Motor Sports 赛车
Cuban Cigars 古巴的雪茄
Subculture 非主流文化
Space Exploration 太空探索
Benefits and the Future利益与未来
English Premier League 超级足球联赛
Ness Monster尼斯湖水怪
Bermuda Triangle 百慕大三角
Crop Circles麦田怪圈
Earthquake 地震
Nuclear Safety核安全
节选
Housing
住房问题
住房就是可以供人居住、生活或是工作的房子.住房根据用途一般分为个人住房、商业住房、商住两用住房等.
中国是一个发展不平衡的大国 ,从具体国情出发,住房保障还需要有针对特殊情况的特殊政策.例如,在大量农村剩余劳动力向城镇转移的过程中,如何解决他们的住房问题;在旧城改造和房地产开发中,大量房屋拆迁造成一部分低收入被拆迁户无力回购新建商品房的问题;老工业基地等社会失业率较高、住房改善速度明显滞后地区的住房问题等.这些问题都是迫切需要我们深入研究并尽快完善的.
What is housing
什么是住房问题
A house is a home, building or structure that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term house includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures. In some contexts, “house” may mean the same as dwelling, residence, home, abode, lodging, accommodation, or housing, among other meanings. The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy “home”. Many people leave their houses during the day for work and recreation, and return to them to sleep and for other activities.
Key words & Sentences
关键词句全知道
There’s a growing need for cheap housing in the larger cities.
大城市对低价住房的要求越来越迫切了.
When you rent a house, you pay its owner a fix monthly amount to live there.
当你租房时,你需要每个月付给房东固定的租金.
There is a wide variety of rental housing in China. In the cities, this mostly means apartments.
在中国,出租的住宅种类繁多.城市中出租的主要是单元公寓住宅.
The rising demand and the concurrent raising of prices by investors are to blame.
房地产需求的持续增长和房地产商不断提价是房价上涨的主要原因.
It is unrealistic to help each person purchase an apartment of his/her own.
为每个人提供购房补贴是不现实的.
The real estate industry should focus on developing reasonably priced commercial housing for ordinary people.
房地产业应重点发展面向广大群众的普通商品住房.
A whopping 80 percent believe that real estate prices would continue to rise this year, and 30 percent fear it would do so at a greater pace.
高达80%的受访者认为今年的房价还会继续攀升,30%的人担心今年的涨幅将会更大.
