Анекдоты

"Do you believe in life after death?" the boss asked one of his employees. "Yes, Sir," the new recruit replied. "Well, then, that makes everything just fine," the boss went on. "After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral, she stopped in to see you."

Слова для запоминания:

employee - служащий
funeral - похороны

A musical director was having a lot of trouble with one drummer. He talked and talked and talked with the drummer, but his performance simply didn't improve. Finally, before the whole orchestra, he said, "When a musician just can't handle his instrument and doesn't improve when given help, they take away the instrument, and give him two sticks, and make him a drummer." A stage whisper was heard from the percussion section: "And if he can't handle even that, they take away one of his sticks and make him a conductor."

Слова для запоминания:

whole - весь
stick - палка

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Цитаты

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Слова для запоминания:

change - перемена, изменение
demand - требование
resolution - решение

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Слова для запоминания:

faith - вера
virtue - качество
whereby - посредством чего, при помощи чего

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Интересные факты

Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Слова для запоминания:

call - называть
dimple - ямочка
knuckle - сустав пальца

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

Слова для запоминания:

shoelaces - шнурки
cornea - роговица
oxygen - кислород

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floor - пол

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