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短文欣赏：丢掉无谓的固执
有两个贫苦的樵夫靠上山捡柴糊口，有一天，他们在山里发现两大包棉花，两人喜出望外。棉花轻且贵，当下俩人各背了一包棉花赶路回家。There once were two poor woodsmen who made a living by collecting woods in the mountain. One day, they happened to discover two large bag of cotton in the mountain and ... -
英语短篇小说欣赏-Too Dear
Too Dear!Tolstoy’s Adaptation of a Story by Guy de Maupassant Near the borders of France and Italy, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, lies a tiny little kingdom called Monaco. Many a small country town can boast moreinhabitan... -
美文欣赏：我还没有倒下（双语）
As a recent Stroke Survivor and Author of You Will See God’s Miracles If Only You Believe (available for purchase on Amazon.com), I am here to share some crucial life-lessons I learned in recent years concerning well-balanced life... -
美文欣赏：沙子和石头
学会宽容，宽容是一种美德;学会感恩，才会更懂得珍惜生命中的一切。“当有人伤害了我们，我们应该把它写进沙里，宽恕的风会把仇恨抹去。而当有人为我们做了好事，我们应当把它刻在石头上，没有风可以将它抹去。”沙子和石头The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and on... -
美文赏析：谁在为你默默地打包降落伞？（双语）
Charlie Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. He flew 74 consecutive successful combat missions. However on his 75th mission, his F4Phantom fighter was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile and he was forced to eject. The only... -
英语阅读：Five Balls Of Life
This was written by the CEO of Coca-Cola Brian G. Dyson.It was used as Georgia Tech's Commencement Address:Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friend... -
☆诗歌欣赏☆ 我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时
I Heard a Fly Buzz when I DiedEmily DickinsonI heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sure... -
短文欣赏：快乐人生之二十个法则
快乐人生之二十个法则Twenty Rules for Happy Life1. Compliment three people every day.每天赞美三个人。2. Watch a sunrise.看日出。3. Be the first to say "Hello."先向别人打招呼。4. Live beneath your means.靠自己的力量生活。5. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.像自己希望得... -
拜伦诗歌精选：The Chain I Gave
The chain I gave was fair to view,我给你的项链玲珑精致，The lute I added sweet in sound;我赠你的诗琴悦耳动听;The heart that offer’d both was true,向你献礼的心儿也忠实，And ill deserved the fate it found.谁知碰上了倒霉的命星。These gifts were charm’d by secret s... -
史上浪漫的英文情书 看看名人如何谈恋爱
Napoleon Bonaparte拿破仑I loved you some time ago; since then I feel that I love you a thousand times better. Ah, let me see some of your faults; be less beautiful, less graceful, less tender, less good. But never be jealous and neve... -
英语美文: 谈一场恋爱 如同读一本新书
Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it maybe, from the back or from a blurb on the front. But who knows, right? Those bits and pieces ar... -
英语散文:论婚姻（培根）
HE THAT hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the un... -
英语晨读：沉默
Indeed, for a living being there is no such thing as true silence, for silence itself is a revelation of the mind and the heart, an echo of the soul of a different form.Some people use silence as a disguise of the emptiness of the... -
励志英语小故事：快乐就是这么简单(2)
JOINING A CHOIR唱诗班里的快乐By Ginny Dougary金妮·道格利I’ve always loved singing, but singing hasn’t always loved me. I would open my mouth with an Aretha Franklin song in my head, fully expecting my voice to follow suit - only t... -
英语晨读：思考生活
How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time "thinking"...