Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and February 19.
On the Chinese calendar every year has an animal's name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chinese legend says that these twelve animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first!
The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular year has some of the characteristics of that animal.
lunar 月(亮)的 exact 确切的 calendar 日历 rat 鼠 ox 公 牛 rabbit 兔子
ram 公羊 rooster 公鸡 legend 传说 name after 按....命名
particular 特殊的 characteristic 特征
2 A Teenager's Joke: Guidelines for Doing Schoolwork
My school had a policy about homework. Students should not spend more than ninety minutes per night doing homework. This is how I use the time for my work.
Fifteen minutes looking for assignment; Eleven minutes calling a friend for the assignment; Twenty three minutes explaining why the teacher is mean and does not like teenagers; Eight minutes in the bathroom; Ten minutes getting a snack; Seven minutes checking the TV Guide;
Six minutes telling my parents that the teacher never explained the assignment;
Ten minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for Mom or Dad to do the assignment.
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uideline 指导方针 policy 政策 per 每
assignment 作业 mean 低劣的 snack 小吃 TV guide 电视指南
The teenager's joke tells us that adults always think they smarter than their children, this kind of thoughts should be changed. I had found one book named 'adults are fooler than children', the book just wants adults to learn from children. In my way of thinking, adults should follow it sometimes!
How about yours, friends?作者: DZ 时间: 2007-12-27 09:22 标题: 回复 9# 的帖子
I didn't see that but I agree with what you said,some adults do should learn from their children.作者: pader2 时间: 2007-12-27 16:37 标题: 回复 9# 的帖子
in this place ,i agree with you ,sometimes adults do want to learn form children.i think this is because of the children is full of originative.作者: nancyxu 时间: 2007-12-29 12:44
'adults are fooler than children' I don't agree it . I Think it s relative a business.作者: hehuhu 时间: 2007-12-29 17:32
几天没见大家整的如火如荼啊!!!加油啊!!!!!
but I agree with what you said,some adults do should learn from their children.