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Is true friendship dying away?
Mark Vernon
1 —whether Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the countless other modern-day water coolers—are changing the way we live.
2 Indeed, we might feel as if we are suddenly awashelectronic exchanges to, for instance, simply talking on a phone. Smaller circles of friends are being partially eclipsed by Facebook acquaintances routinely numbered in the hundreds. Amid these smaller trends, growing
research suggests we could be entering a period of crisis for the entire concept of friendship. Where is all this leading modern-day society? Perhaps to a dark place, one where electronic stimuli slowly replace the joys of human contact. 3 Bowling Alone, a survey of the depleting levels of "social capital" in communities, from churches to bowling alleys. The pattern has been replicated elsewhere in the Western world. In the United Kingdom, the Mental Health Foundation just published The Lonely Society, which notes that about half of Brits believe they're living in, well, a lonelier society. One in three would like to live closer to their families, though social trends are forcing them to live farther apart.
4 their closest friends. Witness crowded bars and restaurants after work: We have plenty of acquaintances, though perhaps few individuals we can turn to and share deep intimacies. American sociologists have tracked related trends
on a broader scale, well beyond the urban jungle. According to work published in the American Sociological Review, the average American has only two close friends and a quarter don't have any.
Shallow friendships
5Wang and Barry Wellman, of the universities of Southern California and Toronto respectively, refer to "some panic in the United States about a possible decline in social connectivity." But notice their language: "social connectivity." That is not the same as intimate friendship. While social
networking sites and the like have grown exponentially, the element that is crucial, and harder to investigate, is the quality of the connections they nurture. 6 Yet we know that less is more when it comes to deeper relationships. It is "friending" online nurtures shallow relationships—as the neologism "friending" itself implies.
7that seems right. At least since the ancient Greeks, it has been recognized in our political philosophies that we are social animals. Aristotle was just one thinker to remark that an individual could have everything that life can
offer—career, family and money—but if a person didn't have a good friend, his or her life would be fundamentally lacking. A society that thwarts opportunities for deeper sociality, therefore, stymies well-being.
8 No single person is at fault, of course. The pressures on friendship today are broad. They arise from the demands of work, say, or a general busyness that
It starts with childhood
9 Of course, we learn how to make friends—or not—in our most formative years, as children. Recent studies on childhood, and how the contemporary life of the child affects friendships, are illuminating. Again, the general mood is one of concern, and a central conclusion often reached relates to a lack of what is called "unstructured time."
10 parceled up for our kids—time for school, time for homework, time for music practice, even time days lets his child just wander off down the street? But that is precisely the kind of fallow time so vital for deeper friendships. It's then that we simply "hang out," with no tasks, no deadlines and no pressures. It is in those moments that children and adults alike can get to know others for who they are in
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12 Aristotle had an attractive expression to capture the thought: Close friends, he observed, "share salt together." It's not just that they sit together, passing the salt across the meal table. It's that they sit with one another across the desire for friendship comes quickly; friendship does not," Aristotle also
remarked. It's a key insight for an age of instant social connectivity, though one in which we paradoxically have an apparently growing need to be more deeply connected.
真正的友谊正在消亡吗？
马克•弗农
近来，不管是推特网、脸谱网、领英网还是现代办公室里的无数闲聊，社交媒体正在改变着我们的生活方式，对于有心人而言，这一点显而易见。
确实如此，我们似乎感到突然之间好友数量井喷。 不过，我们眼下也正在改变为人处世的方式。 面对面的聊天正在被短信取代；相比打个电话，人们甚至更愿意使用这些电子交流方式。 脸谱网上的熟人圈儿动辄数百人，相比之下，现实生活中规模较小的朋友圈则显得黯淡少光。 在这些较细微的趋势中，越来越多的研究表明友谊的整个概念正在遭受危机，而我们也许正在迈向这个危机时代。 所有这一切要把现代社会引向何方？ 也许现代社会就此陷入黑暗深渊，在这个深渊里，人与人之间交往的乐趣慢慢地被电子诱惑所取代。
在网络世界出现之初，有人就意识到了可能出现的问题。 社会学家罗伯特•普特南曾经出版名为《独自打保龄球》一书。该书调查了从教堂到保龄球馆诸多社群中的社会资本正在逐步耗竭的现象。 在美国以外的西方世界，一模一样的模式也已出现。 在英国，精神健康基金会刚刚发表一篇名为《孤独的社会》的报告。报告指出将近一半的英国人认为他们活得比以前更孤独。 三分之一的人愿意靠近家人居住，但是社会发展趋势正在迫使他们不断远离家人。
都市生活的压力一向难辞其咎。在伦敦，根据另外一次民调，五分之二的受访者表明他们被
社会潮流裹挟而日益远离自己最亲密的朋友。 看看下班后的酒吧和饭店，到处人头攒动：我们有很多熟人，不过能够推心置腹的人可能少之又少。 几位美国社会学家追踪调查了远离都市的更广范围内的相关现象。 根据《美国社会学评论》期刊上发表的文章，普通的美国人只有两个私交甚笃的朋友，而四分之一的美国人竟然连一个朋友都没有。
浅薄的友谊
值得一提的是，这些结论遭到其他社会学家的质疑。 来自南加州大学的王华和来自多伦多大学的巴里•韦尔曼两位社会学家就提到“一些美国民众对社会关联性可能降低而感到恐慌”。 请读者注意这两位社会学家的用词——“社会关联性”，这与“私交甚笃”不同。 尽管社交媒体网站或类似的社交媒体增长迅猛，这些媒体所滋生的人际关系的质量如何则是关键性的因素，同时也是更难展开调查的因素。
不过我们知道，对于深厚友谊而言，少既是多。 身处人群中却会感到寂寞。 虽说鼠标一点就能建立联系，但是彼此要成为好朋友则需更多。 网络交友，情薄如纸，与新词“加为好友”寓意契合，这一结论看似常识。
令人吃惊的是，孤独竟然被认为是一种精神疾病，而这好像颇为正确。 至少从古希腊以来，政治哲学中一向认为我们是社会性动物。 包括亚里士多德在内的一些思想家认为一个人可以拥有人生所能赋予的一切东西，包括事业、家庭和金钱，但是，一个人如果没有一位好朋友，那么他/她的生命从根本上说将是不完整的。 一个阻碍人们深入交往的社会，则势必阻碍人们的健康成长。
大学生就业问题之我见 My View on Employment Problems of
College Students
In recent years, college students find it increasingly difficult to get a job. It sounds strange since young college students are usually intelligent, well-educated phenomenon, aspirant and eager to bring their talent into full play. Then what underlies the strange phenomenon?
近几年，大学生发觉找工作越来越难了。这听起来很奇怪，因为年轻的大学生通常是聪明的，受过良好教育，上进和渴望他们的才华得到充分发挥的。那么，是什么引起这一奇怪现象呢？
There are several reasons for this. To begin with, nowadays college students aim too high. All they want are “good” jobs which could offer good salary, comfortable working conditions, high social status among others. Consequently, most college students are unwilling to accept vacant jobs they consider not “good” enough. Another reason is that there is a big gap between the majors some students study in school and the demands of vacant jobs. So companies think some students are not fit for the jobs.
有很多原因可以解释。首先，现在大学生的要求太高了。他们想要的是能提供较好的薪酬，舒适的工作环境，较高的社会地位的好工作。结果，大部分的大学生都不愿意接受他们认为不够好的空缺职位。另一个原因是一些学生在校学习的专业和空缺职位的需求有很大的差距。所以企业认为有些学生不适合那些工作。
Solution to the problem requires efforts on both the society and the students. The companies should value the students, talent and knowledge while the latter should not merely aim at material gains. They should be down-to–earth in building up their career. Furthermore, they should face their weak points so as to improve themselves and be more competent.
解决这一问题需要社会和学生的共同努力。企业应该看重学生，才能以及知识，而学生不应该只着眼于物质利益。他们应该脚踏实地的建立自己的职业生涯。另外，他们应该面对他们的弱点从而提高自己，使自己更有能力
。城市生活与乡村生活 City Life and Country Life
Life in the city is very different from life in the villages and on the farms. People in large cities are much more careful to respect the privacy of the individual. Sometimes this feeling seems to be one of indifference, but it is a convention of city life to curb one„s curiosity about the personal affairs of strangers. Villagers and farmers are likely to show a great deal of interest in all their neighbors. Opportunities for bright young people are
greater in the cities and there has been a steady stream of hopeful jobseekers from the villages and farms to the large metropolitan areas.
城市生活和乡村和农场生活大不相同。大城市的人更注意尊重个人隐私。有时候这种感觉似乎是一种冷漠，但是它是城市生活的一个约俗，以遏制一个人对陌生人的个人事务的好奇。村民和农民有可能所有的邻居对表现出极大的兴趣。城市给聪明的年轻人提供了更多
机会，来自村庄和农场的求职者有往大都市发展的稳定趋势。
朋友的重要性The Importance of Friend
When we have something annoy us, we will naturally to find someone to talk about it, the first choice is friend. We will not talk about it in front of our parents, because we don‟t want them to worry about us. Friend is so important in our life, we have many friends, we will share our happiness and sorrow with them, we hang out together, in a word, friends are part of our life. What will happened if someone have no friend? We hear from the news that the crime people are isolated by others, most of them have no friends, their view point about the world is distorted. Without friends, people have no where to relieve their
emotion, the long time‟s depression of the emotion distract people from the normal life. So friends are very important, we can‟t live without friends.
当我们有烦恼的时候，自然地，我们会找人来谈谈，朋友是第一选择。我们不会在父母面前谈论烦恼，因为我们不想让他们担心。朋友在我们的生命中很重要，我们有很多朋友，和他们分享我们的喜怒哀乐，一起出去晃荡，总的来说，朋友是我们生活中的一部分。如果没有朋友会变得怎样呢？我们从新闻上看到犯罪的人被人隔离，他们大部分人没有朋友，他们的世界观是扭曲的。没有朋友，人们就无处释放情绪，长期压抑的情绪让人们脱离正常生活。因此朋友很重要，我们不能没有朋友。
Failure exists in every stage for everybody. As students, I think the most common failure would be failing in the exam. Yes, I have failed in the exam for many times. It is very common, because on one can keep the name of ever-victorious generals forever. But some students do not figure out this. When they fail in the exam, they need a long time to
recover, even have directly negative effect on their inner heart. This is not the right way to deal with this problem. We need to figure out the reason why we don‟t do well in the exam. And then correct it. Try our best to get better next time.
每个人在每个阶段都会遇到失败。我觉得作为学生最常见的应该是考试失败。是的，在考试中我失败了很多次。这是很普遍的现象，因为没有人可以永远保持常胜将军的称号。但是有些学生并不明白这一点。当他们在考试中失败了，他们需要很长时间才能恢复，甚至还会对他们的内心造成直接的负面影响。这并不是解决这个问题的正确方法。我们需要找出考试失败的原因。然后改正。尽我们最大的努力争取下次考好。
Smoking And Health
吸烟与健康
Today smoking is a widespread habit all over the world. Not only the old, the youth, but also middle school students have been engaged in smoking. Many of them think that smoking is a smart symbol.
现在，吸烟在全世界中都是一个普遍的习惯，不仅老年人、青年人吸烟，就连中学生也加入到这个行列中来，他们中的许多人认为吸烟是一种潇洒的象征。
However, smoking is harmful to one's health. It contributes a lot of lung cancer, from which many people have died in the past years. It can also cause many other diseases. In a word, if you smoke, you do have a much greater chance of losing your health. Furthermore, scientific research shows that smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, but also a threat to public health, especially to women and children. Therefore, many countries have made laws forbidding smokers to smoke m public places such as cinemas, stations, hospitals, and so on Giveup smoking! If you don't smoke, don't start. Give upsmoking for the sake of your health, for the sake of your family, and for the sake of the whole world.
然而，吸烟对人的健康是有害的，它会引起肺癌，在刚刚过去的几年中;许多人因此而丧命，还可能引发其他的疾病。总之，如果你吸烟的话，你就很可能失去拥有健康的机会，更进一步说，科学研究显示，吸烟不仅危害吸烟者本人，而且对公共健康来说，也是一个凶兆，尤其是对妇女和孩子。因此，许多国家都制定了不准在公共场合吸烟的法规，例如：电影院，车站，医院等地。戒烟吧，如果你还未染上，请不要开始;戒烟吧，为了你的健康，为了你的家庭的健康，为了整个世界的健康。
Do something to protect the environment
保护环境，从我做起
We want to hold a green Olympic Games ,so everyone should do something useful to protect the environment ,whether it is big or small.
我们要举办一个绿色奥运，每个人都应该做些无论是大或小的有用的事来保护环境。 We should do something to stop people from doing bad things to the
environment .We should put rubbish into dustbins instead of throwing it about. Everyone must care for flowers ,grass and tress in public .We shound collect things like paper ,plastic bags our neighborhood as well ,it’s necessary to plant more trees every year .
我们应该做些什么来阻止人们对环境做一些不好的事情。我们应该把垃圾放进垃圾箱而不是直接扔了，每个人都必须爱护公共场所的花，草，树木。我们应该收集社区的一些像纸，塑料袋的东西，每年种植更多的树是必要的。
It is everyone’s duty to make our neighborhood much better with our hands minds .Let’s make a contribution to protecting the environment and the Plympic Games successfully.
用我们的双手和头脑使我们的社区变得更好是我们每一个人的职责。让我们为保护环境做贡献，祝奥运会成功。
My Ideal Job
Directions: You are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My Ideal Job. You should write at least 120 words and you must base your composition on the outline below.
1.人们对职业各有不同的理想。
2.我理想的职业是什么。
3.我怎样为我理想的职业做准备。
My Ideal Job
我的理想工作
There are various kinds of jobs in the world, but different people are attracted by different jobs because everyone has his own interest and destination. Many people consider an ideal job as a means of making more money and living more comfortably. It may sound reasonable because money is the foundation of life.
世界上有各种各样的工作，但不同的人被不同的工作所吸引，因为每个人都有他自己的兴趣和目标。许多人认为理想的工作是作为赚更多钱和生活得更舒适的手段。听起来似乎很合理因为金钱是生活的基础。
As far as my ideal job is concerned, I think I want to be a psychologist, I have made up my mind to do what I really want to so that I can realize my ideal, I believe interest is of the utmost importance in choosing a job, I have been interested in psychology for a long time, so I want to be a psychologist in the future, I think being a psychologist can help lots of people lead a happier life.
至于我的理想工作，我想成为一个心理学家，我已下定决心去做我真的想要去做的事，这样我就能实现我的理想，我相信在选择工作的时候兴趣是最重要的，我一直对心理学很感兴趣，所以我想将来成为一名心理学家，我觉得心理学家可以帮助很多人过上快乐的生活。
However, it isn't easy for me to become a qualified psychologist and many people around me think that it's unrealistic to me. NevertheLess, I'll make every effort to gain much more knowLedge, patience, methods, etc. to live up to the name of a qualified psychologist. I believe my dream will come true someday.
然而，成为一个合格的心理学家对我来说并不容易，许多我周围的人都认为这对我是不现实的。然而，我会尽一切努力来获得更多的知识，耐心，方法等来达到一个合格的心理医生这个名字。我相信我的梦想总有一天会实现。
My Hometown
我的家乡
My hometown lies on the Plain of North China. The famous Grand Canal of China is to the east of our village. This is the place where my forefathers have lived for generations. When I was a boy I often played with other children near the bank of the canal. I watched the passing boats, and I wished to travel all over the world.
我的家乡位于华北平原。中国著名的京杭大运河是我们村庄的东边。这是我的祖先们世世代代居住的地方。当我还是个小孩时,我经常和别的孩子在运河的岸边上玩耍。我看着过往的船只,我想环游世界。【英语学习范文】
There are about 800 people in our village. A pond, teeming with fish, lies in front of the village. I used to swim there in summer and skate in winter. It was in this pond that I spent the happiest days of my childhood.
我们村子大约有800人。村子前面的一个池塘里充满着鱼。夏天的时候，我过去常常在那里游泳在，冬天的时候就滑冰。我童年最快乐的日子就是在这个池塘里。
To the north of our village are great fields. When spring comes, the crops begin to grow, turning the fields green. When crops turn yellow in autumn, the peasants start to harvest them.
我们村以北是伟大的田野。当春天来时，庄稼开始生长，把整个田野变成绿色。当庄稼在秋天变黄时，农民就开始收获了。
这个学期即将结束，大一生活就告一段落了。这一学年，受益匪浅，特别是在英语方面取得较大的成绩。20XX年4月17日代表学院参加广东省高职英语口语大赛，荣获优胜奖；4月29日代表学院广东省高职院校第四届英语写作大赛，荣获三等奖。这离不开学院领导的支持和学院老师的辛苦的培训。我个人也积累了学习英语的经验，分享经验如下：
1、要想学好英语，首先我认为最重要的是要做到这几点基本工作，即多听，多读，多背，多写。看起来简单，实际操作还是需要恒心和耐心的。必须要写个时间表，越具体越好。那时候准备比赛我是这样安排的，晚上9点半晚修后听英语录音，听是个很重要的过程，先搞清楚美式英语和英式英语的发音，会听了不仅有利于以后四级考试的听力突破还有助于口语翻译及口语交流。然后早读就大声朗诵英语，早上记忆力比较好，大声读出来，边读边记。遇到不会读的单词马上写下来，晚上听录音巩固。这几个步骤是比较繁琐无聊的。不过，想要做到讲一口流利的英语和写一手好文章，这就要我们下功夫强制执行了。
2、做好了前面的基础工作，就要发挥我们个人品格魅力了。要具备“三心”。即恒心’，耐心，信心。俗话说：“罗马不是一日建成的”。要学好英语也不是一朝一夕的事，恒心是首要的，不能持之以恒，做事半途而废的人，是不可能学好英语的。所以，若有心要攻破英语这个难关，就要坚持了。另外第二个是耐心，我是深有体会，看见一大堆密密麻麻的英语，又有很懂生词，心里就会烦躁，这时候，我们就要耐心了，一字一句，一笔一划慢慢来，真的觉得学得很累的，听听音乐，
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