《英语沙龙》杂志创刊于1994年1月,是一本充满时代气息、内容极为丰富的英语学习刊物。她集知识性、实用性、趣味性于一体,用英汉两种语言对照表达,巧妙地将英语语言知识与当今青年渴望了解的外部世界的种种信息融合在一起,具有增强英语学习兴趣、掌握学习技巧、提高英语水平和扩大知识视野的多重效应。
《英语沙龙》充分考虑到中国人学英语的特殊需要,着意将英语的语言知识与文化内涵有机地结合在一起,在传授语言知识的同时,从多角度向中国读者介绍当今文化、艺术、科技、教育、军事、公关、人物等多方面的知识与信息。
The Chest1) of Broken Glass John had lived all alone ever since his wife died.He had worked hard as a tailor2) all his life,but misfortune had left him penniless,and now he was so old he could no longer work for himself.His hands trembled too...
A simple truth about happiness After I gave a talk on the subject of happiness,a woman in the audience stood up and said,I wish my husband had come.Much as I loved him,she explained,it wasnt easy being married to someone so unhappy.This w...
Does money buy happiness? Does money buy happiness?Not.Ah,but would a little more money make us a little happier?Many of us smirk1) and nod.There is,we believe,some connection between fiscal2) fitness and feeling fantastic.Most of us...
Learn to Live in the Present Moment To a large degree,the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment.Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year,and what may or may not happen tomor...
Always Remember Those Who Serve In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less,a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table.A waitress put a glass o f water in front of him.How much is an ice cream sundae1)?Fifty cents,...
Life Is To Be Whole Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole,so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly,it admired the flowers along the way.It cha...
Thanks, Before After I never intended to tell you anything about this,but since I became an adult I discovered that the meaning of Thanksgiving sure isn't what it used to be. When I was younger,I remember receiving the inevitable homework assig...
A Special Occasion My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sister's bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package.This,he said,is not a slip.This is lingerie1).He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. It was exquisi...
Think of What You Have Instead of What You Want In over a dozen years as a stress consultant1),one of the most pervasive2) and destructive3) mental tendencies4) I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have.It doesn't seem...
Room For The Future At the age of forty-five,my usually well-ordered life became fraught with changes. After twenty-two years of working for a major financial institution,a downsizing initiative and a major bank merger resulted in the eli...
Lucky to Be Alive Maria,a gentle,soft-spoken woman o f seventy,had always managed to view the world with a child's sense of wonderment.She greeted the dawn of each new day with the brightness of the sun itself and found joy in the smallest...
Santa Claus: The True Story I remember my first Christmas party with Grandma.I was just a kid.I remember tearing1) across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb:There is no Santa Claus,she jeered. Even dummie...
Prayer for My Mother Dear God, Now that I am no longer young,I have friends whose mothers have passed away.I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers until it was too late to tell them. I am blessed w...
A Child' s Angel Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born.So one day he asked God,They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there,being so small and helpless? Among the many angels,I chose one f...
Important Things Life Teaches Us:Pickup1) in the Rain One night,at 11:30PM,an older African America2) woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing3) rainstorm.Her car had broken down and she desperately4) needed a r...