English Recordings

Sunday, June 10, 2012

I watched a DVD named 'The Time Traveler’s Wife’ this weekend. It is very difficult for me to watch or read anything from beginning to end because I’m with my kids all the time. This week, I felt sick and tired of my busy routine, so I watched the DVD to relax at night when I was finally alone.

The movie is about people who travel to the past and future against their will. When I started watching the movie, I felt it was an absurd story. Henry met his wife, Clair, through time travel when she was young. One day, they met when they were both grown-up, and they got married. They had a daughter, Alba, after two times miscarriage. When Alba was 5 years old, Henry died. Because his and his daughter’s time travel, everybody found out that Henry would die soon. In the end, Henry died and Clair and Alba were able to see Henry occasionally through time travel.

When they learned that Henry would die in the movie, tears ran down my cheeks because I felt sympathetic about their sadness from losing a father or husband. Honestly speaking, I was exhausted due to having to do too much every day. Recently I’ve hoping to be free from my kids as soon as possible. I want to have more private time. Working for money was easier than raising kids at home and I wasn’t grateful to my husband who earned a living for our family. After watching the movie, I sincerely repented for my mistake in regarding them as a bother. The movie reminded me of my family’s preciousness

Executives in the spring program also heard that some young people had started leaving college to set up their own synthetic biology labs on the cheap. Such people resemble computer tinkerers from a generation earlier, attendees note, except now they’re fiddling with the genetic code of organisms rather than software.
“Biology is moving outside of the traditional education sphere,” says Andrew Hessel, a former research operations manager at Amgen, during a lecture here. “The students are teaching their professors. This is happening faster than the computer evolved. These students don’t have newsletters. They have Web sites.”
Daniel T. Barry, a Singularity University professor, gives a lecture about the falling cost of robotics technology and how these types of systems are close to entering the home. Dr. Barry, a former astronaut and “Survivor” contestant with an M.D. and a Ph. D., has put his ideas into action. He has a robot at home that can take a pizza from the delivery person, pay for it and carry it into the kitchen.
“You have the robot say, ‘Take the 20 and leave the pizza on top of me,’ ” Dr. Barry says. “I get the pizza about a third of the time.”
Other lecturers talk about a coming onslaught of biomedical advances as thousands of people have their genomes decoded. Jason Bobe, who works on the Personal Genome Project, an effort backed by the Harvard Medical School to establish a huge database of genetic information, points to forecasts that a million people will have their genomes decoded by 2014.
“The machines for doing this will be in your kitchen next to the toaster,” Mr. Bobe says.
Mr. Hessel describes an even more dramatic future in which people create hybrid pets based on the body parts of different animals and tweak the genetic makeup of plants so they resemble things like chairs and tables, allowing us to grow fields of everyday objects for home and work. Mr. Hessel, like Mr. Kurzweil, thinks that people will use genetic engineering techniques to grow meat in factories rather than harvesting it from dead animals.
“I know in 10 years it will be a junior-high project to build a bacteria,” says Mr. Hessel. “This is what happens when we get control over the code of life. We are just on the cusp of that.”

The meat of the executive program is lectures, company tours and group thought exercises.
Day 4 includes test drives of Tesla Motors electric sports cars and a group genetic test, thanks to a company called deCODEme. By Day 6, people are annoyed by the BrinBot, which is interrupting lectures with its whirs and sputters. Someone tapes a pair of paper ears on it to try to humanize it. One executive sullenly declines to participate in another robot design exercise because no one in his group will consider making a sexbot.
However much the Singularity informs the environment here, a majority of the executives attending the spring course expressed less interest in living forever and more in figuring out their next business venture or where they wanted to invest.
Robin Tedder, a Scottish baron who lives in Australia and divides his time among managing a personal fortune, racing a yacht and running a vineyard, says he read about Singularity University in an investor newsletter and checked out the Web site.
“What really convinced me to pay the 15 grand was that I didn’t think it was some kind of hoax,” Mr. Tedder said in an interview after he completed the executive program. “I looked at the people involved and thought it was the real deal. In retrospect, I think it’s a very good value.”
Like a number of other participants, Mr. Tedder is contemplating business ventures with his classmates and points to high-octane networking as the school’s major benefit.
Attendees at the spring session came from all over the globe and included John Mauldin, a best-selling author who writes an investment newsletter; Stephen Long, a research director at the Defense Department; Fernando A. de la Viesca, C.E.O. of the Argentinean investment firm TPCG Financial; Eitan Eliram, the new-media director for the prime minister’s office in Israel; and Guy Fraker, the director of trends and foresight at State Farm Insurance.
“We end up cleaning up the mess of unintended consequences,” says Mr. Fraker of his company’s work. He says it makes sense for him to gauge technological trends in case humans can one day gain new tools for averting catastrophes. For example, he’s confident that in the future people will have the ability to steer hurricanes away from populated areas.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of if,” he says. “I think it’s a matter of how. You and I have a decent shot, and for kids being born today, I think it will be a matter of choice.”
For the most part, Mr. Kurzweil serves as a figurehead of Singularity University, while Mr. Diamandis steers the institution. He pitches the graduate student program as a way to train young, inspired people to think exponentially and solve the world’s biggest problems — to develop projects that will “change the lives of one billion people,” as the in-house mantra goes.
Mr. Diamandis hopes that the university can create an unrivaled network of graduates and bold thinkers — a Harvard Business School for the future — who can put its ideas into action. Along with that goal, he’s considering creating a venture capital fund to help turn the university’s big ideas into big businesses. As some of their favored student creations, school leaders point to a rapid disaster alert-and-response system and a venture that lets individuals rent their cars to other people via cellphone.
Devin Fidler, a former student, is in the midst of securing funding for a company that will build a portable machine that squirts out a cement-like goop that allows builders to erect an entire house, layer by layer. Such technology could almost eliminate labor costs and bring better housing to low-income areas.
Mr. Diamandis has certainly built a selective institution. More than 1,600 people applied for just 40 spots in the inaugural graduate program held last year. A second, 10-week graduate program will kick off this month with 80 students, culled from 1,200 applicants.
One incoming student, David Dalrymple, is an 18-year-old working on his doctorate from M.I.T.. He says he plans to start a research institute someday to explore artificial intelligence, medicine, space systems and energy. (He met Mr. Kurzweil at a White House dinner, and at the age of 8 accepted the offer to have Mr. Kurzweil serve as his mentor.)
During the spring executive program, about 30 people — almost all of them men — showed up for the course, which is something of a mental endurance test. Days begin at dawn with group exercise sessions. Coursework runs until about 9 p.m.; then philosophizing over wine and popcorn goes until midnight or later. A former Google chef prepares special meals — all of which are billed as “life extending” — for the executives.

1. The thought struck me that he might not come.
2. He was struck with panic.
3. He was struck by two bullets.
4. The house was struck by lightning.
5. He struck it rich overnight.
6. The clock struck five.
7. It's a favour with strings attached.
8. I'll have to pull some strings to get the contract.
9. He is the person who pulls all the strings.
10. Your friend doesn't do a stroke of work.
11. We still have to put the finishing strokes to it.
12. They arrived on the stroke of ten.
13. What a stroke of luck!
14. That boy is as strong as an ox.
15. They are strong in numbers.
16. That girl is a nice bit of stuff.
17. I know my stuff.
18. He seems to know his stuff.
19. They stuffed us with food.
20. You are hot stuff.
21. This suits me.
22. She was summoned to appear before a judge.
23. He took out a summons against his neighbour.
24. I woke up in a sweat.
25. We were dripping with sweat.
26. I'm going to make him sweat his guts out.
27. The Bulgarian team made a clean sweep of the awards.
28. He swept the room with a glance.
29. Your son has a sweet tooth.
30. What a sweet little girl!
31. Membership has swollen to 500.
32. Her eyes were swollen with tears.
33. I swim like a brick.
34. The party is in full swing.
35. Exams are in full swing.
36. It's a question of swings and roundabouts.
37. Public opinion swung in his favour.
38. He swung at me but missed.
39. Now he is back at college he must get back into the swing of it.
40. If you want that job, I think I can swing it.

1. My stings.
2. He felt a sting of remorse.
3. Her bitter words stung me.
4. He raised quite a stir with his novel.
5. Stir before using.
6. The poor boy had not a dry stitch on.
7. He came to the door with not a stitch on.
8. He is of very ancient stock.
9. This book is out of stock.
10. He stocked his shop with tinned foods.
11. We must take stock of recent events.
12. He left no stone unturned.
13. It's not far. It's within a stone's throw.
14. We can't stop him from spending his money.
15. He stopped a bullet.
16. What's stopping you?
17. There was a surprise in store for him.
18. Fruit doesn't store well.
19. We don't know what the future holds in store for us.
20. It's just a storm in a teacup.
21. They have taken the barracks by storm.
22. He raised a storm of laughter in the audience.
23. We'll have to weather the storm.
24. That's another story.
25. To cut a long story short.
26. Let's get the facts straight.
27. It's straight across the road.
28. Don't stray from the straight and narrow.
29. This is the last straw.
30. It's the straw that broke the camel's back.
31. The flags were streaming in the wind.
32. Her eyes were streaming with tears.
33. He is on easy street.
34. He lost all his money and ended up on the streets.
35. The job would be right up her street.
36. This stretch of road is dangerous.
37. I can't work for eight hours at a stretch.
38. The road stretched into the distance.
39. "Where's Bronson?." "He's doing a stretch."
40. We'll stretch a point this time.

(2012.6.21) It`s a hot day as well.
Hi, evryone, how are you all?
Today, it`s a hot day as well.
Right now, I`m here in an empty calssroom.
All of the children went to an English class.
Through opened windows, I can see the children are playing ball on the hot ground.
Even though it`s under the hot sunshine, the children are playing with pleasure.
Haha, I know that kids prefer playing to having a rest even under the hot sun.
Oh, it seems that children are returning soon.
Oh, today`s pictures : The view from the opened window.
The first picture: The view from the open window.Children are playing ball in a PE class.
The second picture: paper work( A goblin and a ghost which children made by colored paper, today. )

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Please direct any questions to Mr. Bae Yong Joon at extension 2525.

Mac Inc. is hiring temporary workers to address the present demand for greater personnel resources.

He must partner with another physician.

The research and development division has improved the scope of its products under Ms. Chang's direction.

dictionary/ sample sentences (~보다 더 )
일찌감치 오면 더 좋다 If you come a bit earlier, all the better.
더 좋은 좌석을 원하시면 따로 돈을 내야 합니다You have to pay extra for a better seat.
더 좋은 것은 없는가 Isn't there anything better?
이것이 더 좋다This is still[even]better.
이것보다 저것이 더 좋다 That one is better than this.
네가 갈 수 있다면 그것보다 더 좋은 일은 없다If you can go, that would be the best possible thing.
더 좋은 조건을 다른 바이어가 제의했다 Better terms were offered by other buyers.
And I prefer getting a handwritten letter than an email.그리고 나는 이메일보다 손으로 쓴 편지를 받는 게 더 좋아.
But I prefer to learn facts the old fashioned way.하지만 나는 옛날 방식으로 정보를 배우는 게 더 좋아.
Well, I prefer reading books to spending time outside.글쎄, 나는 바깥에서 시간을 보내는 것보다 책을 읽는 게 더 좋아

However, stiff clothes can be made comfortable by treating them with fabric softener, which makes them lose all their tautness.

Hold your nose (like this) and tilt your head back.
Pinch your nose (like this) and tilt your head back

can you guess the outcome of the game?
If you always complete your assignments and study hard, the logical outcome is that you will have great results in the final exam.

What is your Achilles heel?

Emma's sister gave her a hand me down skirt.

When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Many birds stand on one leg when resting on the ground. This behavior can best be observed in long-legged birds like storks, flamingos and herons.

A stork bringing a baby.

Watch a tadpole become a frog.

Who lives in the pond?
What is the term for when a tadpole turns into a frog? This is called metamorphosis.

A beaver with stick, wet fur steers through the pond water toward its dam.
What shares the pond with the beaver?

Teach children swimming kicks with tips from a swimming instructor in this free video swim lesson.
The child tripped over the toys on the floor and fell down.

Don't leave everything lying around