TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(11)

The other point: It's about taking responsibility. 另外的一个关键问题,是关于承担责任的问题。 For so much of my life, I wanted something else to make me happy. 我在生活的大部分时间里都努力使自己高兴。 I thought if I had the right house or the right car or the right man in my life, then I could be happy. 我曾认为如果我有称心房子、满意的轿车或对的人,我就会心满意足。 But w...

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美文阅读 (127)一个人应该活得是自己并且干净

One day, all of a sudden, I saw a black shadow of bird reflected in the mirror-like Moon. 有一天,我忽然看见黑色的鸟停在月亮里。 Trees were flowering, red fallen petals carpeted the ground. 树上的花早就开了,红花已经落了满地。 The scene triggered me, that I came out from books and civilization. 这时候我才感到我从文化中间、文字中间走了出来。 All things became clearer in my he...

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美文阅读 (128)门前

How I wish, to have a door in the morning 我多么希望,有一个门口 The sunlights shine on the grasses 早晨,阳光照在草上 We stand upon the door 我们站着,扶着自己的门扇 Low the door is, but the sun shines 门很低,但太阳是明亮的 The grass is seeding 草在结它的种子 The wind is waving its leaves 风在摇它的叶子 We just stand, without saying anything 我们站着,不说话 Everything is ...

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美文阅读 (279)我的生活被手机绑架了

My Life Was Kidnapped By A Cell Phone 我的生活被手机绑架了 I don't know when it first started. 我不知道这是从什么时候开始的。 I don't really talk to my friends anymore. 我已经不再和朋友们进行真正的交谈了。 We just send each other texts and emojis on social network. 我们仅仅是在社交网络上发发信息、发发表情。 And the ones who don't do this often gradually fade away...

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朗读英语美文(26)朱自清—匆匆

Rush (translated by Zhu Chunshen) Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they will bloom again. Now, you the wise, tell me, why should our days leave us, never to return? — If they had been stolen by someone, who could it be? Where could he hide then? If ...

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美文阅读 (228)我想和你一起生活

I'd like to live with you in a small town 我想和你一起生活在某个小镇 Where there are eternal twilights and eternal bells 共享无尽的黄昏和绵绵不绝的钟声 And in a small village inn 在这个小镇的旅店里 The faint chime of ancient clocks like droplets of time 古老时钟敲出的微弱响声像时间轻轻滴落 And sometimes, in the evenings, from some garret — A flute 有时候,在黄昏,...

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美文阅读 (249)闲暇

What is this life if, full of care 这还叫什么生活,光是忙忙碌碌 We have no time to stand and stare 没有停一停,看一看的时间 No time to stand beneath the boughs 没有时间站在树荫下 And stare as long as sheep and cows 像牛羊那样尽情瞻望 No time to see, when woods we pass 没有时间看到,在走过树林时 Where squirrels hides their nuts in grass 松鼠把壳果往草丛里收藏 No time to see, ...

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美文阅读 (303)寻找生活的意义

What Life Should Be 生活应该是什么样 To learn while still a child 我们应该从还是孩童时就要学习 What this life is meant to be 什么是生活真正的意义 To know it goes beyond myself 它超越自我 It's so much more than me 比自我更有意义 To overcome the tragedies 为了克服悲剧 To survive the hardest times 为了熬过最艰难的时刻 To face those moments filled with pain 当面对那些充满痛...

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朗读英语美文(1)生活中你错过了什么?

英文文本: In this life, what did you miss? The wife asked the husband when she was 25. Despondently, the husband replied: 'I missed a new job opportunity.' When she was 35, the husband angrily told her that he had just missed the bus. At 45, the husband sadly said: 'I missed the opportunity seeing my closed relative before his last breath.' At 55, the husban...

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朗读英语美文(25)鹦鹉和老鹰

Did you ever dream as a kid about flying like a bird? Which would you be more like: a parrot or an eagle? The two you know are very different kinds of birds. Even though it can fly, a parrot prefers to stay in the same comfortable cage, eat the same dry seeds,and listen to the same words over and over again until it can say them easily. A parrot's satisfied just to do th...

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朗读英语美文(23)态度决定生活

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer (contractor) of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. 一位老木匠打算退休了。他向自己所在的建筑公司雇主请辞,表示想要和自己的老伴以及大家庭去过一种更加闲适的生...

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美文阅读 (211)从此过上幸福的生活

It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale to my little girl. 很多年前我还是个年轻的爸爸,坐在沙发上给小女儿讲童话故事。 She sat next to me with her head on my arm as I told the tale. 她坐在我身边,头枕在我胳膊上听我讲故事。 When it came to the end I finished with those famous words: 'And they lived happily ever after.' 故事的...

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美文阅读 (182)生活并非总是如你所愿

Life doesn't always give us the joys we want. 生活并非总是如你所愿。 We don't always get our hopes and dreams, and we don't always get our own way. 希望有时会落空,梦想有时会破灭,我们不能一切随心所愿。 But don't give up hope, because you can make a difference one situation, one person at a time. 但别放弃希望,因为凡事并非一成不变;不同时间,不同场合,你会呈...

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美文阅读 (251)有趣的人 永远视生活如初恋

If you suddenly get old tomorrow, would you feel regret when you look back at your life? 如果明天你就会突然变老,当你回顾你这一生的时候,你会感到遗憾吗? Or would you feel that your life is worth it? 还是说,你觉得这一生很值得? Or you have never thought about this kind of things? 还是说,你其实从来没有想过这些事? If you ask somebody what the meaning of life is. 如果你问别...

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朗读英语美文(159)这些美好不会消逝

The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longing after something's lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes— These things can never die. 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的, 推动着我们做无言的祷告的, 让我们梦想着爱与真理的; 在失去后为之感到珍惜的, 使...

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朗读英语美文(114)深笑

Whose smile is it? It's so sweet, so deep And so round! 是谁笑得那样甜,那样深, 那样圆转? Strings of pearls, small ones,big ones, all sparkle with innocence! 一串一串明珠 大小闪着光亮,迸出天真! Emerging from spring, it floats to the surface And brightly Scatters around! 清泉底浮动,泛流到水面上, 灿烂 分散 Whose smile is it? It's like a flower blossom, Graceful, ...

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朗读英语美文(64)整个世界因你而不同

Every Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home. There's a lake located in one corner of the park. 每个星期日的早晨,我都会绕着我家附近的公园轻松地慢跑。公园的一角有一片湖。 Each time I jog by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water's edge with a small metal cage sitting beside her. 每当我慢跑经过这片湖,都会看到同一个老妇人,...

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朗读英语美文(110)闲暇

What is this life if, full of care, 如果我们忧思重重,生活将会怎样? We have no time to stand and stare? 我们甚至无暇驻足凝望。 No time to stand beneath the boughs 无暇在树枝下伫立, And stare as long as sheep or cows; 像牛羊般长久地注视; No time to see, when woods we pass, 无暇观看,穿越森林时, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. 松鼠在草丛的何处把坚果藏匿; No time...

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朗读英语美文(111)生如夏花

Life, thin and light-off time and time again Frivolous tireless 生如夏花 生命,一次又一次轻薄过 轻狂不知疲倦 ONE I heard the echo, from the valleys and the heart 我听见回声 来自山谷和心间 Open to the lonely soul of sickle harvesting 以寂寞的镰刀 收割空旷的灵魂 Repeat outrightly, but also repeat the well-being of 不断地重复决绝 又重复幸福 Eventually swaying in the desert oasi...

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朗读英语美文(123)想要成为精英,生活就得有规律

Yes. That's right. And the first of all these would be exercising for at least 30 minutes everyday. 嗯,就是这样 最首先的一点 就是每天至少要锻炼30分钟 You already know how important exercise is, right? 我想你也知道运动很重要,对吧? It keeps your body in optimal condition, keeps your brain sharp and make you more confident. 运动能让你的身体保持最佳状态 还能让你的大脑反应...

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