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每日外刊精读：疫情改变了公司对着装的要求
文章来源：《经济学人》Sep 11th 2021 期 Business 栏目The pandemic has refashioned corporate dress codes疫情改变了公司的着装要求Bartleby巴托比Suits v sweatpants西装vs运动裤IN AN INTERNAL memo to staff in 2016 JPMorgan Chase relaxed its dress code. The American bank’s 240,000 employees could hang...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 15-16
15.APRIL 1978On April 17, 1978, the year Mariam turned nineteen, a man named Mir Akbar Khyber was found murdered. Two days later, there was a large demonstration in Kabul. Everyone in the neighborhood was in the streets talking about it. Through the window, Ma...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 13-14
13.On the bus ride home from the doctor, the strangest thing was happening to Mariam. Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin-roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. It was...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 11-12
11.Mariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world through a mesh screen. She practiced walking around her room in it and kept stepping on the...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 9-10
9.It was early evening the following day by the time they arrived at Rasheed’s house.I“We’re in Deh-Mazang,” he said. They were outside, on the sidewalk. He had her suitcase in one hand and was unlocking the wooden front gate with the other. “In the south and...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 7-8
7.They sat across from her, Jalil and his wives, at a long, dark brown table. Between them, in the center of the table, was a crystal vase of fresh marigolds and a sweating pitcher of water. The red-haired woman who had introduced herself as Niloufar’s mother,...