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英语美文欣赏:哥哥的心愿
A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it."Is this your ca... -
英语晨读:自负的瓦格纳
The Conceited WagnerRichard Wagner was an undersized little man,with a head too big for his body—a sickly little man.His nerves were bad.And he had delusions of grandeur.He was a monster of conceit.Never for one minute did h... -
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英文短篇小说欣赏-The Yellow Paint
The Yellow PaintRobert Louis StevensonIn a certain city there lived a physician who sold yellow paint. This was of so singular a virtue that whoso was bedaubed with it from head to heel was set free from the dangers of life, and t... -
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命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。 ——Richard Nixon美国总统尼克松用英语怎么说?
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。 ——Richard Nixon美国总统尼克松... -
英语美文: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... -
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读希腊神话学英语--阿玛尔忒亚之角
今天给大家介绍的短语叫做horn of plenty,丰饶之角。从字面意思就可以知道是丰饶的象征,但是它是怎么来的呢?在希腊神话里,主神宙斯(Zeus)的父亲是克洛诺斯(Cronos),母亲是瑞亚(Rhea)。预言说:克洛诺斯的统治将被一子推翻。克洛诺斯非常害怕,就把自己的子女都吞进肚里。宙斯生下来后,他的母亲瑞亚用一块石头代替宙斯裹在襁褓中,以假乱真,被克洛诺斯一口吞下去。瑞亚把宙斯托付给仙女阿玛尔忒亚(Amalthea)扶养,阿玛尔忒亚是一只母山羊,她... -
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精选英语美文阅读:英国民谣《绿袖子》
绿柚子是一首英国民谣,在伊丽莎白女王时代就已经已广为流传,相传是英皇亨利八世所作。这首民谣的旋律非常古典而优雅,是一首描写对爱情感到忧伤的歌曲,但它受到世人喜爱的层面却不仅仅局限在爱情的领域,因此后来出现了众多版本。袖底风· 绿袖译者:莲波我思断肠,伊人不臧。 Alas my love, you do me wrong弃我远去,抑郁难当。 To cast me off discourteously我心相属,日久月长。 I have loved... -
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寓言故事:你为什么必须原谅自己?
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.原谅就是释放囚徒,然后发现那囚徒不是别人,正是自己。Once upon a time there lived a woman who had a bad temper. She screamed at and scolded everyone around her. For most of her life she ... -
一个人,正如一个时钟,是以他的行动来定其价值的。用英语怎么说?
A man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going. 一个人,正如一个时钟,是以他的行动来定其价值的。... -
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英语美文:美丽的春天
Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one prodigious leap - and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The tree... -
英文短篇小说欣赏- 一整天的等待
A Day’s WaitErnest Hemingway“人生的意义就在于一种精神,即敢于承受痛苦,蔑视死亡”。这篇《一整天的等待》讲的是一个九岁的男孩,由于不了解“华氏”(Fahrenheit)和“摄氏”(Celsius)换算方法,误以为自己快要发烧烧“死”了。小说形象、具体、细致地刻画了在“一天的等待死亡”过程中,小男孩所表现出来的不畏死神的勇气。海明威力求生动而精确地表达印象深刻的重大尖锐时刻,表达那种“对事物真谛的顿悟”的经历。有读者认为,在这篇小... -
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 ——Mark Twain美国作家马克?吐温用英语怎么说?
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 ——Mark Twain美国作家马克?吐温... -
双语诗歌欣赏:一见钟情
Love at First Sight一见钟情They both thoughtthat a sudden feeling had united themThis certainty is beautiful,Even more beautiful than uncertainty.They thought they didn’t know each other,nothing had ever happened between them,Th...
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