요즘 Anglais:

Beef is expensive nowadays.

Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.

The term 'greenhouse effect' is often used when people talk about global changes of climate nowadays.

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.

Nowadays, however, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to be heard during a math exam is the sound of children tapping on their calculators.

I'm never free from worry about my son. Nowadays, he does nothing but play video games, and never studies at all.

The difference between man and animal nowadays has more or less to do with clothing.

It was him as told me what to do. "Dye your hair, Jack," he says; "it's what I've had to myself," he says. "They won't have old men nowadays, at no price."

There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.

Nowadays UNESCO recommends that everybody should use three languages: the mother tongue, the language of local communication and the international language.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Small specialist shops are thriving nowadays - they're doing really well.

Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.

Girls who are concerned with guys but can't be honest are a real boom among young men nowadays.

Karaoke, TV games, videos and a fridge ... love hotels nowadays really have everything.

Prices dropped recently.

Until quite recently, people in developed countries didn't care much about the environment.

I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.

More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.

More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.

And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

Recently, what with this and that, I haven't been able to sing so today I sang like there's no tomorrow!

George was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught recently after fighting it for three hours.

I went to the dentist recently and he did a cast of my teeth and took an X-ray, 'just in case.' It sounds like a good business to be in.

That you should be stalking Hanako! You'd been quiet recently so I'd let my guard down.

Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".

Many people suffer from heart disease in Japan, but in Libya those having heart attacks have also increased a lot recently.

Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.

Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.

Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.

Nothing I do lately seems to turn out right. I'm losing confidence in myself.

A lot of companies are going under lately because banks are so tight with their money.

He died lately.

Lately it's not so fashionable to measure success by how far you climb up the corporate ladder.

Lately it seems that no matter how much I sleep, I stay tired. I wonder if I've come down with something strange.

Lately high school girls are using their cell phones to exchange e-mail.

Lately, I've been letting my English go. It seems I'll never improve at it, no matter how many years I study.

Lately the discount airline ticket system has gotten so complicated that there's a lot about it I can't figure out.

The new camera our company has been marketing lately has a design different from any we've marketed before.

I've developed a bit of a gut lately, so I've decided that, starting tomorrow, I'm going to go to the gym.

Lately I see a lot of parents getting divorced. I wonder if the idea of kids being a bond between their parents is just a thing of the past.

Lately you see more young couples making out at the train station ticket gates acting as though nobody in the world existed.

These bank employees seem so politely insolent lately. I wonder what's behind it.

Lately I try for health reasons to go to bed early and to wake up early.

Mary is in Thailand these days.

I've been very busy these days.

What are you doing these days?

Hospitals aren't cheap these days.