一、西方节日及相关知识
1月1日
新年（new year's day )
2月14日
情人节(valentine's day)
复活节前的星期五
耶稣受难日(good friday)
3月12日
复活节(easter)
复活节的下一个星期一
复活节星期一(easter monday)
4月1日。
愚人节(all fool's day)
5月的第二个星期日
母亲节(mother's day)
6月的第三个星期日
父亲节(father's day)
9月的第一个星期一
劳动节(labor day)
10月31日
万圣节前夕(halloween)
11月的第四个星期四
感恩节(tanksgiviing day)
12月25日
圣诞节(chistmas day)
二、谚语五条
谚语：1、All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事总是由难而易。
2、All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
3、As good almost kill a man ,As kill a good book.
封禁一本好书，犹如杀死一个人一般，不可饶恕。
4、A foreign language can't be ta*ght , it must be cearnt.
外语不能通过教而掌握，只能通过学去掌握。
5、In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
书是千百年人类灵魂的精华。
笑话1 A little boy asked his father: Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?The father replied: I don 't know son. I 'm still paying!!一个小男孩问他的爸爸，结婚要花多少钱？爸爸说：我不知道，因为我仍然在付帐。4 Stan: I won 92 goldfish.
2Fred: Where are you going to keep them?
Stan: In the bathroom 。
Fred: But what will you do when you want to take a bath?
Stan: Blindfold them!
斯丹：我赢了 92 条金鱼。
弗雷德：你想在哪儿养它们？
斯丹：浴室。
弗雷德：但是你想洗澡时怎么办？
斯丹：蒙住它们的眼睛！
3Q: What's the difference between a monkey and a flea?
A: A monkey can have fleas, but a flea can't have monkeys.
问：猴子和跳蚤有什么不同？
答：猴子身上可以长跳蚤，而跳蚤身上却不能有猴子。
4Q: Which is the strongest creature in the world?
A: The snail. It carries its house on its back.
问：什么是世界上最强壮的生物？
答：因为蜗牛的后背上总是背着一所房子，所以说蜗牛是世界上最强壮的生物。
5He is really somebody
-- My uncle has 1000 men under him.
-- He is really somebody. What does he do?
-- A maintenance man in a cemetery.
-- 我叔叔下面有1000个人。
-- 他真是一个大人物。干什么的？
-- 墓地守墓人。
名言1、A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
一心不能二用。
2、A wise head makes a close mouth.
真人不露相，露相非真人 。
3、Complacency is the enemy of study.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
4、Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.
自信是走向成功的第一步。
5、Don't cry because it is over,smile because it happened.
不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。
6、Don't try to hard,the best things come when you least expect them to.
不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。
7、Don't waste your time on a man/woman,who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
8、The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。
9、No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is won't make you cry.
没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
10、To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world.
对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某人，你是他的整个世界。
四、名诗
1、SLOWLY
Heavy is my heart,
Dark are thine eyes.
Thou and I must part,
Ere the sun rise.
Ere is sun rise,
Thou and I must part.
Dark are thine eyes,
Heavy is my heart.
我心悲愁结 东方破晓前
君目忧郁现 终须两相别
终须两相别 君目忧郁现
东方破晓前 我心悲愁结
趣闻趣事1、The poor husband
"You can't imagine how difficult it is for me to deal with my wife," the man complained to his friend. "She asks me a question, then answers it herself, and after that she explained to me for half an hour why my answer is wrong.
可怜的丈夫
“你根本无法想象和我妻子打交道是多么的难，”一个男人对他的朋友诉苦说，“她问我一个问题，然后自己回答了，过后又花半个小时跟我解释为什么我的答案是错的。”
Where is the father?
Two brothers were looking at some beautiful paintings.
"Look," said the elder brother. "How nice these paintings are!"
"Yes," said the younger, "but in all these paintings there is only the mother and the children. Where is the father?"
The elder brother thought for a moment and then explained, "Obviously he was painting the pictures."
父亲在哪儿？
兄弟俩在看一些漂亮的油画。
“看，”哥哥说，“这些画多漂亮呀！”
“是啊，”弟弟说道，“可是在所有这些画中，只有妈妈和孩子。那爸爸去哪儿了呢？”
哥哥想了会儿，然后解释道：“很明显，他当时正在画这些画呗。
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