18、Thanksgiving Day 感恩节
A：Hi, Jim, long time no see.嘿，吉姆，好久没见了。
B：Ben! What’s new? 本，怎么样？
A：Nothing much.不怎么样。
B：How was your Thanksgiving?
感恩节过得如何？
A：Oh, it was great—I slept late.
噢，过得很好。我睡了个大懒觉。
B：So did I.We didn’t have lunch till three.
我也睡懒觉了。我们到3点才吃中午饭。
A：I took my little sister to see the Thanksgiving Day parade before dinner.She loved it.Then we had a big family dinner around six.
晚饭前我带我的小妹去看了感恩节游行。她很喜欢看游行。我们一大家子人6点左右吃了顿团圆饭。
B：Who came? Anyone I know?
都有谁来了？有我认识的人吗？
A：Well, my older sister and her husband came for the whole weekend.You met her a couple of years ago, remember? And, of course, my stepbrothers stopped by for dinner on Thursday, and so did my aunts and uncles, with all their kids.The oldest is only nine.I had to play games all day long.
我姐姐和她丈夫来度周末。你几年前见过她，记得吗？当然，我的继兄弟星期四来吃晚饭了。我的伯母伯父带着孩子也来了。他们最大的才9岁。我一整天都得陪着他们玩游戏。
B：What a drag! So, how’s your sister doing? I haven’t seen her in ages.
真没劲。那你姐姐怎么样？我好长时间没见过她了。
A：She’s fine.She loves her new job.
她很好。她很喜欢她的新工作。
B：I didn’t know she had a new job.
我还不知道她换了新工作。
A：Neither did I.Also, she and Mike just bought a new house.
我也不知道呢。而且她和迈克刚买了一幢新房子。
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★ Long time no see.好久不见。
★ What’s new? 过得怎么样？
★ Nothing much.不怎么样。
★ What a drag! 真没劲/真扫兴！
★ I really pigged out.我真是吃了个痛快。
★ Are you kidding? 你开玩笑吧？
.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.（我梦想有一天我的孩子将生活在一个以他们的品质而不是以他们的肤色来评判他们的国度里。）
2.The world won’t end even if we fail a hundred times.As long as we don’t lose heart, we’ll succeed in the end.（即使我们失败一百次，世界也依然存在。只我们不失去信心，我们最终会获得成功。）
无限潜能激发：尽量把你的英语目标视觉化，当你的梦想非常清晰的时候，你就会慢慢启动你的潜意识力量！当潜意识无穷力量之门洞开的时候，你的行动就会受到你的内在视觉的影响，慢慢地引导你走向成功！所以顶尖人士每天要做的就是在每天早晨起床和晚上入睡的时候就是使梦想视觉化，让他们的梦想成为自己永恒不变的动力之源！
3.You must take a blow or give one.You must lose and you must risk.Be a man and face the battle.It’s the only way to win.It takes a little courage and a little self-control.And some grim determination, if you want to reach the goal.（你给予打击或施加打击。你必须付出，你也必须冒险。象一个男子汉那样去迎接战斗。这是成功唯一的方法。这需要一些勇气，一些自制，以及一些严峻的决心，如果你真的想达成目标。）
4.Trust no future, however pleasant.Let the dead past bury its dead.Act, act.Act in the living pleasant.Heart within and God overhead, if you fail, let it be.Just try again until you make it.（不要信*未来，无论未来的憧憬多么可爱。让死亡的过去永远埋藏。坚定的心灵，上帝的指引，如果你失败了，就让它去吧。爬起来再努力一次，直到成功。）
5.Improve your pronunciation by practicing in front of a mirror.Use the tapes as a guide.Listen to the tape, then listen to yourself.When you sound like the tape notice how your mouth looks in the mirror.This will help train your international muscle and work magic on your pronunciation.（在镜子前面来改进你的发音。把磁带来做一个指导。对比一下你和磁带的差距。这将有助你练成国际肌肉，对你的发音有奇迹般的作用。）
疯狂的激励：将你一定要攻克英语的目标输入潜意识，如果你的目标在梦中也能自动重复播放的时候，你想不成功都很难！所以一定要百分百地启动你的潜意识！每天大喊目标一千次，每天行动一千次，让你的潜意识和你的梦想爆发出三万倍的能量！潜意识就是你的生命之神，就是你心中的小宇宙！是你的所有命运之所系！潜意识最大的优点就是听话照做！它会完成你所深信一切合理目标！
6.Always have English learning material with you so you can use every spare minute to improve your English! It doesn’t matter if you’re waiting for the bus or your girlfriend to call, every minute can be used to practice crazily.(随时将学习资料带在身边，这样你就可以利用每一分钟来学习英语。不管你是在等汽车还等女朋友的电话，每一分钟都可以用来进行疯狂操练。)
7.Make English study a part of your daily routine, the same as eating or brushing your teeth.
Try to blurt out sentences before you do each of these daily activities.You can even blurt out sentences while you take a shower.（把英语变成你的生活的一部分，就像吃饭和刷牙一样。当你在做这些事之前，最好都能脱口而出一些句子。你甚至可以在洗澡的时候操练句子。） 疯狂的激励：永远记住：当你把心灵深处的英语梦想播放到１００遍的时候！奇迹就会出现！这是自然界永恒不变的定律！而成功的法则就象太阳的东升西落一样，是永恒不变！只要你能够做到，成功就是可以被预期的，你就一定会成功！
8.Try to speak English to somebody each day.It doesn’t have to be a foreigner, it doesn’t have to be someone who understands you! It’s important to get in the habit of saying sentences aloud daily.Who knows you may just find a new partner who wants to practice English!（尽量每天都和别人说英语。你不一定要找外国人，也不一定要找听得懂的人！养成每天大声说句子的习惯是非常重要的。也许碰巧你可以找到一个愿意和你一起操练英语的新伙伴。）
9.Use colored pens to mark your own personal favorite sentences in each book.See how many different situations you can imagine use them, then say these sentences aloud for every situation you imagine.（用彩色笔在把每本书上你最喜欢的句子画出来。看一下每个句子你能想出多少场景，然后在你想象的每一个场景中来说这个句子。）
疯狂潜能开发：成功就是把梦想视觉化，让你的潜意识来引导你走向成功！只要永不间断地在内心深处描绘你的多姿多彩的梦想，在你的心灵深处永恒不变播放着你的梦想板，你才能真正地实现你的梦想！！
10.If a particular sentence gives you trouble, you can write it and hang it on a wall or a door.Keep a book under your pillow to remind yourself to practice first thing in the morning and before you go to sleep at night.Every time you see the sentences, yell it out.There is no sentence too difficult to master using this crazy method.（如果某个句子有点难度，你可以把它写下来，贴在墙上或门上。把英语书放在枕头下面提醒自己早晨起床的时候或晚上入睡前操练英语。每当你看到一个句子的时候就把它脱口而出。用这个疯狂方法，没有攻克不了的难句子。）
11.Learning English is a matter of skill mastery.If you want to drive, you have to get in the car and drive; if you want to dance, you have to turn on the music and dance; if you want to swim, you have to jump into the water and swim.（学英语就是学习一门技艺。你如果想学开车，你就必须坐到车里开起来; 如果你想跳舞的话，你就必须打开音乐跳起来，如果你想学游泳，你必须跳进水里游。）
疯狂的激励：告诉自己一定要脱口而出七篇以上的短文！并下定决心攻克英语！请将你的目标透过想象力烙在你的每一个细胞中；想象你的每一次心跳都是为了你的使命；想象你的每一次呼吸都将你的梦想在你脑海中倍增一亿倍！超级想象力就是自我催眠，当你百分之万相信你的梦想，百分之万认同你的使命的时候，你的潜能，在你身上的沉睡了亿万年的潜能，将在你的生命中以震撼整个世界的力量爆发
