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美文欣赏:新年愿望 享受当前的快乐
2012年,你的新年愿望是什么呢?新年是下决心的时候,至少在大多数人的心里会编排出一份“应做什么”和“不应做什么”的单子。相同的决心以单调的规律年复一年地出现。It's New Year's Eve and my guess is that you're reading a bunch of posts on how to make resolutions that will '... -
双语诗歌欣赏:序曲
托马斯·艾略特是英国20世纪影响最大的诗人。他出生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯。祖父是牧师,曾任大学校长。父亲经商,母亲是诗人,写过宗教诗歌。艾略特曾在哈佛大学学习哲学和比较文学,接触过梵文和东方文化,对黑格尔派的哲学家颇感兴趣,也曾受法国象征主义文学的影响。1914年,艾略特结识了美国诗人庞德。第一次世界大战爆发后,他来到英国,并定居伦敦,先后做过教师和银行职员等。1922年创办文学评论季刊《标准》,任主编至1939年。1927年加入英国籍。艾略特认为自己在政... -
英语美文故事欣赏:人生最艰难的一课就是学会相信自己
美文故事:滚球I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what red color is. It ... -
优秀散文赏析:布什的伊拉克战争檄文
My fellow citizens, at this hour American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."On my orders, coalition forces have begun ... -
英语美文欣赏:Spring Rain 春雨
Spring RainBy CocoTears from the sky,Softly falling.In the morning,It breaks my dreams.Wake the grass up,Let the sun hide.Thou are singingOr thou are weeping?Xi-li... xi-li...Raining to my heart.One drop after another.Again and ag... -
英语美文: 巨人 Giant
GiantTo be a giant.This has forever been our passion, this desire to be a giant.Not to stand on one’s shoulders or have one for a friend.For these may be fortunate things.But to be one.Giants step over barriers that seem never end... -
心情忧郁时 别在悲伤的海里沉浮
心情忧郁时 别在悲伤的海里沉浮每个人都有忧郁的日子。Everybody has blue days.那些日子真是惨透了,你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底的精疲力竭。These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道,Days when you feel small and insigni... -
拜伦著名诗歌合集:Lachin y Gair 勒钦伊盖
去吧,浓艳的景色,玫瑰的园圃!Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!让富贵宠儿在你们那里遨游;In you let the minions of luxury rove;还给我巉岩峻岭——白雪的住处,Restore me the rocks, where the snow-flake reposes,尽管它 们已许身于爱和自由;Though still they are sacred to freedom... -
英语美文:放爱一条生路
The other day as I talked with a friend I recalled a story that I heard this summer. "A compassionate person, seeing a butterfly struggling to free itself from its cocoon, and wanting to help, very gently loosened the filamen... -
追逐梦想:有爱金毛犬的幸福生活
Candice Sedighan has a passion for two things: her golden retriever, Champ, and photography. Over the last few years she’s been able to successfully bring the two together.坎迪斯热爱两件事物:一是她的黄金猎犬,二是摄影。过去的几年来,她成功地将这两件事物融合到了一起。“I wanted ... -
诗歌:郁郁葱葱的爱情
My love is like the grassesHidden in the deep mountains.Though its abundance increase,There is none that knows.我的爱情犹如青草,藏在深山。它郁郁葱葱,却无人知晓。... -
触动心灵的英语幸福散文:我们为什么活着
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life, the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions like great winds, have blown me hither and t... -
情人节英文诗背诵:知道你很在乎我
I know you care.I can see itin your eyes.I know you love me;you so often tell me.You must know thatit's hard to expressall the tender emotionI feel in my heart for you.It's there.Every day,every night,every second of the h... -
英语美文:我那时髦时尚的老妈
母亲常会和女儿说:“你不能那样穿!”但在我和女儿这里情况却反过来了。在女儿想把褐色头发染黑时,我对她说:“你看我把头发染成紫色怎么样?那可是你爸爸最喜欢的颜色……”The true meaning of the bumper sticker, which says, “Live long enough to embarrass your kids” has new meaning once you have a teenager. My daughter ... -
美文欣赏:爱与喜欢的区别
The difference between love and like若你不再喜欢一个人,只需捂上耳朵;若你紧闭双眼,只会将爱化作一滴泪,永存心间。In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster, but in front of the person you like, you get happy.In front of the person you love, winter seems ...