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　　Travel for Work

　　You can see them in every airport in the world. They are businessmen and

　　women who have to travel for their work.

　　When they first applied for the job, they may have thought of good food and

　　hotels, huge expense accounts and fashionable cities. Now they hnave to sit in

　　airport lounges, tired and uncomfortable in their smart clothes, listening to the

　　loudspeaker announce "The flight to Tokyo, or Berlin, or New York is delayed for

　　another two hours". Some people say to me, "How lucky you are to be able to

　　travel abroad in your work! You can go sightseeing without paying any money by

　　yourself!" They think that my job is like a continual holiday. It is not.

　　There are advantages, of course, and I do think I am lucky, but only because

　　I can go to places I would never visit if I was a tourist. (149 words)

　　Useful Words and Expressions:

　　apply for请求，申请

　　apply to the consul for a visa向领事申请签证

　　apply a theory to practice把理论应用于实践

　　apply a plaster to a wound 给伤口贴上膏药

　　apply paint to a house油漆房屋

　　apply one\'s mind专心于……

　　We must apply our energies to finding a solution.我们必须全力想出一个解决的办

　　法。

　　expense n.费用，开支

　　accounts账目，账号

　　fashionable adj.时.流行的，时髦的

　　a fashionable hairdo时髦的女发型

　　become fashionable for a time风靡一时

　　lounge n.休闲室

　　go sightseeing观光

　　a sightseeing car游览汽车

　　a sightseeing party参观团

　　a sightseeing tour旅游观光

　　A Popular Pastime of the English People

　　One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching

　　what they do with their non-working time.

　　Most English men, women and children love growing things, especially flowers.

　　Visitors to England in spring, summer, or autumn are likely to see gardens all

　　the way along the railway lines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in

　　factory grounds, as well as in gardens along the roads. Each English town has at

　　least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind

　　have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them.

　　But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves, If it is

　　impossible to have a garden, then a window box or something growing in a pot will

　　do.

　　Looking at each other\'s gardens is a popular pastime with the English. (144

　　words)

　　Useful Words and Expressions:

　　means n.(用作sing.)方法;方式;手段

　　a means to an end达到目的的方法

　　by all means务必;无论如何;千方百计地

　　by any means [口]用一切可能的方法或手段

　　by fair means or foul不择手段地

　　by means of 通过;用;借助于

　　by no means决不，一点也不

　　by some means or (other)想个办法;以某种方法

　　leave no means untried想尽一切办法

　　not by any means一点也不，绝对不

　　The end justifies the means.[谚]只要目的正当，可以不择手段。

　　pot n.罐，壶

　　windbox n.窗台上的花盆箱，窗槛花箱

　　pastime n.消遣，娱乐

　　Swimming Is my favorite pastime.游泳是我最喜欢的一种娱乐。

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