英文欣赏之人生感悟 (70)大学生活 College Life

Students who live away from their families are generally housed in dormitories at least for their first year. 离家远的学生通常至少在他们大学的第一年里都会住在学校宿舍。 Men and women often live in the same building,though they may live on separate floors. 男生和女生经常住同一栋宿舍楼,虽然他们住在不同的楼层。 Some dorms have a theme, like an international house,where student...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (59)生活的勇气 Courage of Life

Courage of Life 生活的勇气 The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; 人生中的勇气,通常不像紧要时刻的勇气那么富于戏剧性; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. 但是这种勇气却不失为是一个关于胜利和悲剧的壮观混合体。 A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences,in spite of obstacles and dan...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (1)生活中我们最幸福时

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. 一个男人和他的女朋友结婚,举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。 All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. 所有的朋友和家人都来到结婚典礼上参加欢宴和庆祝活动。大家都过得很开心。 The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (110)国家的生活标准 A Country's Standard of Living

A Country's Standard of Living 国家的生活标准 The standard of living of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. 任何国家的生活标准意味着人均占有这个国家生产的商品和服务的价值。 A country's standard of living,therefore,depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. 因此一个国家的生活标准,首...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (14)生活就像一盒巧克力

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. 好几次了,我女儿打电话来说:“妈妈,你务必得在那些水 仙花凋谢之前来看看它们。”我是想去,可从拉古娜到箭头湖要开两个小时的车。 “I will come next Tuesday,” I promised, a little reluctantly, on h...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (50)热爱生活 Love Your Life

Love Your Life 热爱生活 However mean your life is, meet it and live it; 无论你的生活如何卑微,都要正视它,并活下去; do not shun it and call it hard names. 不要躲避它,也不要恶语相加。 It is not so bad as you are. 你的生活不像你本人那么糟糕。 It looks poorest when you are richest. 你最富有的时候,你的生活看上去倒似最贫穷。 The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. ...

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经典英语美文 (81)热爱生活

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the al...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(4)

I was on a three-month road trip this summer. 今年夏天我度了三个月的假。 It was something that I've been dreaming about doing my whole life, 这是我一生梦寐以求的东西, just driving around the U.S. and Canada and just figuring out where to go the next day, and it was kind of outstanding. 开车环游美国和加拿大,每天只需想明天去哪里,这样的生活太棒了。 I actually ran out, I ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(3)

You know, this project for me is a way for me to bridge that gap and remember everything that I've done. 这个项目对我而言,就是一座让我能够回忆起我过去生活的桥梁。 Even just this one second allows me to remember everything else I did that one day. 即使只是短短的一秒钟的视频,也能让我回忆起一整天的事情。 It's difficult, sometimes, to pick that one second. 有时候要在一...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(3)

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教,但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的,我希望第二次会有所不同。 Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. 欧洲和美国对我吸引力不大,我太...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(2)

The purpose of this project is, one: I hate not remembering things that I've done in the past. 项目的目的是,第一:我不喜欢忘记自己过去做过的事情。 There's all these things that I've done with my life that I have no recollection of unless someone brings it up, 有很多我之前做过的事情,我都想不起来了,直到有人提起来的时候, and sometimes I think, "Oh yeah, tha...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(5)

Now one of the things that I do is I don't use any filters, I don't use anything to 我录制的所有视频都没有做过特效处理,什么处理都没有 I try to capture the moment as much as possible as the way that I saw it with my own eyes. 我希望自己录制的视频能够最大程度的还原我眼睛看到的样子。 I started a rule of first person perspective. 我一开始就用第一人称视角拍摄。 Early on,...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(1)

So, I'm an artist. I live in New York, and I've been working in advertising for — ever since I left school, 我是一名艺术家。我住在纽约,从事广告设计,从毕业开始我就一直做这行, so about seven, eight years now, and it was draining. I worked a lot of late nights. 至今已经七、八年了,慢慢的感觉有点厌倦了。我熬了很多夜, I worked a lot of weekends, and I found myse...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(2)

Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about in the first 25 years of our lives learning, 我还有另一个原因,目前我们大概用生命的前二十五年学习, then there is another 40 years that's really reserved for working. 之后的四十年用于工作。 And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement. 放到最后的是约十五年的退休生活。 And I thought it might be h...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(1)

I run a design studio in New York. 我在纽约开一家设计工作室。 Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, 每七年我都关闭一年,让我进行一些小实验, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. 一些通常不容易在正常的工作年度里达成的事。 In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally...

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美文阅读 (44)假如生活欺骗了你

If by life you were deceived 假如生活欺骗了你 don't be dismal, don't be wild! 不要忧郁,不要愤慨 in the day of grief, be mild 悲伤的日子需要宁静 Merry days will come, believe 相信:愉快的日子终将来临! Heart is living in tomorrow 心中的憧憬著美好的明天 Present is dejected here; 眼前不过是暂时的悲哀 In a moment, passes sorrow; 一切将会在瞬息消逝而去 That which passes ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(4)

So I finished. And I kind of went overboard on the week after the project was over. 我于是停止了这些健康计划。健康计划中止后的一周,我让自己稍微放纵了一下, I went to the dark side, and I just indulged myself. It was like something out of Caligula. 开始了不健康的生活方式,尽情放任自己,有点像《罗马帝国艳情史》里那样。 Without the sex part. Because I have three young kids, so...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(9)

Second insight. So far, until that point I had been mostly involved or used the language of design for promotional purposes, which was fine with me. 第二种体会:在那次长假之前,多数时候,我都使用设计语言帮助促销,那并没有什么不好。 On one hand I have nothing against selling. My parents are both salespeople. 一方面我不反对销售,我父母都是销售员。 But I did feel that I spent s...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(11)

We are also working on the start of a bigger project in Bali. It's a movie about happiness. 我们还在巴厘岛开始了一个更大的项目,是一个讲关于快乐的电影。 And here we asked some nearby pigs to do the titles for us. They weren't quite slick enough. 在这里,我们请了附近的一些猪为我们做标题。却嫌它们不够仔细。 So we asked the goose to do it again, and hoped she would do s...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 为什么健康的生活方式几乎把我害死(2)

Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanted to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest person alive. 最后一步是,我希望注重自己的身体,尽可能达到最健康的状态,成为世上最健康的人。 So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. 所以过去几年内我做了刚才提到的那些事情。 And I just finished a couple of months ago. And...

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