每年农历七月初七的七夕节，简称七夕，俗称乞巧节，又称少女节或女儿节，是中国传统节日中最具烂漫色彩的一个节日。 传说每年的七月初七是牛郎、织女相会的日子。在这一天，人间的喜鹊要飞到天上去，为牛郎和织女搭一座鹊桥，好让二人渡过天河相见。在这一天的晚上，如果静静地躲在葡萄架下，就能听到牛郎、织女说的悄悄话。因为织女是一个美丽聪明、心灵手巧的仙女，所以凡间的女子便在这一天的晚上与女伴相约，在庭院或花园里朝天河(即银河)中的牛、女二星焚香祭拜，默默祈祷自己的心愿，向织女乞求智慧，好让自己也变得心灵手巧。少女们希望自己长得美丽可人，嫁个如意郎君；少妇们希望早生贵子，得到丈夫、公婆的宠爱。于是，便出现了七夕乞巧等各种风俗。在汉语中，“七”与“期”同音，含有期待的意思。牵牛、织女二星在每年的七月同时出现于天空，古代称为“星期”。在“星期”的背后，隐藏着人们对一切美好意愿的祝福与祈求。因此，七夕的“星期”便成为相爱之人会面的美好日子。(413 words)

世界文化遗产

情人节

Kyoto Protocol

Fiscal Cliff

Since the 1950s there has been an increasing trend for extended housing and commercial expansion to take the form of rapid suburban rather than urban growth. There are several factors influencing the location and spread of such development, but an increase in economic activity is the trigger. The area to the west of Southampton Water, now known as Waterside, exemplifies several factors impacting on the shape and nature of recent development. Up until the early 1950s this area, occupying a narrow strip of predominantly rural land approximately twenty kilometers long by five kilometers wide between Southampton Water and the New Forest, was relatively sparsely populated. There were a number of small villages, including Hythe, Fawley, Holbury, Dibden and Marchwood; communications were poor, and farming and associated industries were the main sources of employment. The main town in the region, Southampton, was and still is one of the major UK ports. In the early part of the twentieth century, Southampton boomed as the growth in passenger numbers on transatlantic liners reached its peak. The main waterway leading to Southampton, Southampton Water, enjoys a long stretch of deep water channel suitable for large ocean-going vessels, and also benefits from an extended period of high tide because of its position in relation to the Isle of Wight. Existing settlement on the east side of the waterway made further expansion problematic, so a site was chosen on the west side to build a large oil refinery capable of handling the crude oil imported in the cargo holds of the enormous oil tankers than being built. The new oil refinery was built in the mid 1950s between Fawley and the coastal hamlet of Calshot. The effects on the Waterside area were dramatic. Firstly, a major road was built linking the new Fawley refinery to the road network around Southampton. Also, a number of ancillary chemicals and plastics industries developed, dependent on by-products of the refining process. Work opportunities expanded and the population began to grow rapidly as workers and their families moved into the area. House-building took off. The first areas to expand were around Fawley village, close to the refinery, and Hythe, the largest of the existing villages, with a ferry link to Southampton. However, although expansion in house-building was rapid, the development of a new commercial centre with a range of services and the provision of an expanded range of educational and health services or entertainment and sporting facilities did not initially take place. Partly, this was due to the proximity of Southampton, with its large range of facilities, now easily accessible through improved road links. But there was another constraint on growth: the limited availability of land. Bordered on the east by Southampton Water, on the south by the sea, and limited to the north by the large village of Totton, almost a suburb of Southampton, there was only one direction expansion could go— westwards. There were, however, limits here too. West of Southampton Water lies the New Forest, an area of ancient woodland and open heath, soon to be designated a National Park. Although it occupies a relatively small area, about 160 square kilometers, the New Forest is a complex and diverse ecosystem supporting a wide variety of plants and animals, many of which are found only in this area or are under threat in other parts of the country. There are stringent planning restrictions on all new building or construction of any kind. Moreover, these restrictions are supported by the local population living within the Forest, who are determined to preserve the unspoilt character of their villages and whose income is increasingly dependent on providing services for the growing tourist industry exploiting the Forest as a leisure resource. In short, development was channeled along a relatively narrow corridor parallel to Southampton Water. The space between existing villages was progressively filled with housing until they coalesced. Little farming land now exists between Dibden and Fawley; housing estates have taken almost all the land. The area around Marchwood, further from Fawley, remains more rural, but some development has taken place here, too. Nor has any nucleated commercial centre emerged, though the existing village centres now have more shops, offices and a greater range of public facilities. There is little room for further residential expansion in Waterside except in the area around Dibden Bay. Pressure for new housing development is now less, economic expansion has slowed considerably, and residents in the area are keen to preserve the bay area as a green open space with pleasant waterside views. But there is now a threat from another quarter. While passenger numbers using Southampton have declined, freight container traffic has continued to expand. The port area of Southampton has reached capacity. So the port authorities are looking with speculative eyes at the one as yet undeveloped shoreline of Southampton Water with relatively easy access to deep water for large container ships—Dibden Bay. Now briefly answer the following questions;

农家乐

Guinness Book of Records

Woman Friday

The 1992 Rio conference was a high watermark for environmental law. Despite all the many accomplishments since then, we must now acknowledge that Rio has not fulfilled the promises with which the world invested it. After 50 years of diligent and sophisticated work by environmental lawyers on legislation, regulation, principles, treaties, and judicial decisions, how is it that the " actual landscape" of the world"s resources is still "slipping two steps backward for each forward stride"? Part of the explanation for that disappointing result can be found in the statements issued by a distinguished international collection of prosecutors, judges, and legal scholars at the Rio + 20-re-lated World Congress on Justice, Governance, and Law for Environmental Sustainability. They focused almost exclusively on matters of substantive doctrine and legal procedure. Recommitment to enhancing "law" in this narrow sense—a body of formal rules and principles and the judicial and prosecutorial mechanisms for their application and enforcement—certainly has great value, and that work should go forward vigorously. But the ongoing ecological deterioration is traceable in large part to pervasive social and political attitudes favoring a growth-based model of economic "development" that steadily intensifies human appropriation of planetary resources. To address the root of the problem, it will be argued here, environmental law needs a more expansive society-based conception of "law", one that activates law as a social institution engaged broadly with the habits and customs, the expectations and aspirations, of people and organizations in their daily lives. Environmental lawyers, then, need a fresh and bold reimagination of their mission, to hone and use their persuasive and analytical skills in creative ways to alter the social dynamic underlying environmental change and to foment a deep commitment to effective stewardship of resources.

B汉译英/B

你驾驶考试既已合格，就可以独自开车了。

staff turnover

小微企业

foreign capital flow

人民币升值

The biographer should sternly confine himself to his functions as introducer; and should give no more discussion than is clearly necessary for making the book an independent whole. A little analysis of motive may be necessary here and there; when, for example, your hero has put his hand in somebody"s pocket and you have to demonstrate that his conduct was due to sheer absence of mind. But you must always remember that a single concrete fact, or a saying into which a man has put his whole soul, is worth pages of psychological analysis. We may argue till Doomsday about Swift"s character, his single phrase about "dying like a poisoned rat in a hole" tells us more than all the commentators. The book should be the man himself speaking or acting, and nothing but the man. It should be such a portrait as reveals the essence of character; and the writer who gives anything that does not tell upon the general effect is like the portrait-painter who allows the chairs and tables, or even the coat and cravat, to distract attention from the face. The really significant anecdote is often all that survives of a life; and such anecdotes must be made to tell properly, instead of being hidden away in a wilderness of the commonplace; they should be a focus of interest, instead of a fallible extract for a book of miscellanies. How much would be lost of Johnson if we suppress the incident of the penance at Uttoxter! It is such incidents that in books, as often in life, suddenly reveal to us whole regions of sentiment but never rise to the surface in the ordinary routine of our day.

fingerprint identification

伦敦金融城

She was an______student who labored at her dissertation on a little known poet.(energy)