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Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave . 从前有一个岛，所有的情感都住在那里：幸福、悲伤、知识和所有其它的，爱也不例外。一...
Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you’ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, they are always there for you—whether it’s in person or via late night phone calls—through good times and bad. But as the years pass, it becomes increasingly difficult to see each oth...
It's Great to Be a Guy/Woman Because… 做男人/女人真棒，因为…… It's Great to Be a Guy Because… 我想成为一个男子汗因为…… Our last name stays put. 称谓还等着我们去填写。 We can be President. 我们可能称谓总统。 The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. 几年保持同一个发型，也许是十年。 Car mechanics tell us the truth. 汽车修理师告诉我们一个真理。 We d...
Red 红色 When learning English, a good memory will help you, but a good imagination may help you even more. 在学英语的过程中,一个好的记忆将有助你的学习,但一个好的想象力可以帮助你更多。 For example, in English we don't have many words for colors, but we have many ways to describe a color. 举例来说,在英语里,对于颜色我们没有很多的词汇,但是我们有很多方式来描述一种颜色。 We s...
After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was weak and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of fresh orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with a note saying, "Drink your juice." Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned my Mom:...
Graduation and moving on 毕业并继续前进 At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. 至少每年一次,会有很多的毕业典礼。 It’s a time when a lot of people move on, 这是一个很多人继续前进的时刻, from where they were, to another school or another class, 从那里的人们会到另一个学校或另一个班级, or out into a real world. 或者到了一个真实的世界。 To graduate means to take a ...
Welcome what comes or Run? 坦然面对到来的…还是逃落荒而逃? Some people say that we should welcome whatever comes our way. 有些人说我们应该欢迎无论什么降临到我们头上的事情。 If unpleasant are directed at us, that's all the better. 如果是针对我们的不愉快,那一切就更美好了。 The best way to deal with it is by absorbing it. 最好的应对方法是通过汲取其中。 If we can digest whate...
I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our seminars is the retention of quality employees—a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants, "What has caused you to stay long ...
Being Young: A State of Mind 保持年轻:一种精神状态 I recently went on a family outing. 我最近参加了一次家庭郊游。 The kids were running around, 孩子们到处乱跑, being crazy like kids do, 就像孩子们那样疯狂, and my wife and I taking care of them. 而我的妻子和我负责照顾他们。 My mother-in-law also came to have fun and help, 我的婆婆也来参加并且帮助我们, and believe it or not, ...
Levels of Communication 1 交际面面观 Phatic communication: Using conventional messages to establish rapport, 交际沟通：使用传统的信息建立密切关系， to break the ice, and/or to end a conversation. 打破僵局，以及/或结束一段对话。 You might hug, kiss, shake hands, bow, smile, make eye contact, and face one another. 你可能会拥抱、接吻、握手、鞠躬、微笑、眼神接触，并面对彼此。 We...
Being Clean 保持清洁 I don't spent a lot of time grooming myself before I start the day. 在开始一天之前我不会花大量的时间来修饰自己。 But I do make sure that I'm Clean. 但我要确保自己是干净的。 I shave. I brush my teeth. 我刮胡子。我刷牙。 I put on clean clothes. 我穿上干净的衣服。 I make sure that my bag is ready for the day, 我确保我的包已经为这一天准备就绪, and af...
Hearing 听觉 Are you good at lip reading? 你擅长读唇吗? It's not that easy, you should try it sometime. 这并不是那么容易,你应该找个机会试试。 Turn off the volume of your television, and try to understand what is being said. 关掉你电视的声音,并且努力理解其中所说的是什么。 If you are watching a slow drama, you can catch more of the dialogue. 如果你在观看一部缓慢的戏剧,你可...
If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 The significant inscription found on an old key—“If I rest, I rust”—would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the un...
What will matter? 什么才重要？ Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。 那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟。 你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手中。...
Your place–somewhere to be alone 你的地方-孤独之所 "I'm singing in the shower, just singing in the shower", I do sing when I am in the shower, does anyone out there do the same? "我在淋浴时唱歌,只是在淋浴时唱歌",我只有在淋浴的时候才唱歌,有人做同样的事情吗? There're something about the sound, the acoustics, the steam perhaps…. the mixed...
Staying in touch with old friends 与老朋友们保持联系 I recently met an old friend I hadn’t seen in ages. 我最近见了一位许久没见面的老朋友。 He said that he had been busy and also didn’t really know to contact me. 他说自己过去一直很忙,也真的不知道与我联系。 I told him the same. 我告诉我也是一样。 The truth is, we have a few mutual friends, if we had really wanted to contact e...
Relax. He is the same little boy you loved yesterday. I smiled trying to hold back the tears. “No he isn’t. Yesterday I dreamed he would be an astronaut. Today I am hoping he will learn to talk.” 放松。他仍是你昨天爱着的那个小男孩。我笑着,试图抑制住眼里的泪水。“不,他不是。昨天我还梦想着他长大后会成为一名宇航员,今天我只希望他能学会说话。” It was ...
My room at home was too small for me. I barely had room for all the little knickknacks I'd collected over the years. There were so many things I had to pack away in boxes and store in closets all over the house. Oftentimes I didn't quite remember exactly where everything was. 我在家里的房间很小，偏偏我平时又喜欢搜集一些可爱的小玩意，几年下来，各种各样小玩意就渐渐摆满...
When the people of Hamelin, Germany had a problem with rats, they called the Pied Piper. With his bewitching pipe and enchanting music, he lured the rats away from the city and into a watery grave. But when the people of Hamelin refused to pay the Pied Piper what they had promised, he turned his entrancing music on their children, leading them away to never be seen again. Th...
Mom, the Toughest Job in the World 母亲，世界上最艰苦的工作 If you know me, you know that I always describe moms as our domestic engineers as having the toughest jobs in the world. 如果你认识我,你知道我一向都描述妈妈像国内工程师一样是世界上最艰苦的工作。 They have so many hats to wear, so many balls to juggle, the cleaning, the cooking, the kids education, and on and on. 她...