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A good office space design
A: Richard? It’s Marie Sinclair over at the design studio. How are you?
B: Just fine, Ms. Sinclair. Is there anything I can do for you?
A: You’ve done it already! I’m so pleased with the plans you created for my new office space. Everybody in the office is excited.
B: I’m glad you’re pleased! I thought they suited your office layout.

办公环境设计
A：理查德吗？我是设计室的玛丽·辛克莱尔。你好吗？
B：很好，辛克莱尔女士。我能为您效劳吗？
A：你已经做了！我对你为我们办公环境作的设计非常满意。办公室所有人都很兴奋。
B：您满意我很高兴。我想这些设计符合您办公室的格调。

(Source: wwenglish.com)

Broadway musical comedy 42nd Street will kick off its eight shows in Beijing on November 13, the fifth stop of its China tour.

Its performance in four Chinese cities, especially China’s economic hub Shanghai, has been very successful, said the organizer Beijing Oriental Broadway International Theater Management Co. Ltd, in a press release Thursday.

It first gave 23 shows in Shanghai and has toured other cities since September, the organizer said.

The musical will be taken to another four Chinese cities after six days in Beijing.

The musical, telling the story of Peggy Sawyer, a young chorus girl who works her way up to become a Broadway star, won the Tony Award in 1981 and 2001.

(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)

A large exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e masterpieces will be held at the Beijing World Art Museum from November 15 to December 12.

The exhibition will be hosted by the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU). The exhibits are provided by the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum.

Zhao Lei, vice secretary-general of the CAFIU said, the exhibition was part of the activities marking the 35th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations and the 2007 China-Japan Year of Culture and Sports Exchange, and would showcase a total of 100 ukiyo-e paintings, more than 40 of which are first to be shown beyond Japan.

Zhao said he hoped the exhibition could further promote understanding and friendship between the Chinese and Japanese peoples.

Ukiyo-e, literally meaning the pictures of the floating world, is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan. It mainly reflected the lives and pleasures of common Japanese people in Edo period from 1603 to 1867.

(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)