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It was New Year's night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. When he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal—the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages...
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. 话说两个好朋友正在穿越一个沙漠。途中他们忽然争吵了起来，其中一个一巴掌扇在另外一个人的脸上。 The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend sl...
If my life were a movie I would fast-forward through junior high. My junior high years were painful. Like every junior high kid, I was dealing with awakening sexuality, and struggling with who I was and how I would make my mark in life. But I was sure I was alone with these strange feelings. 如果我的人生是一出电影,我会快进初中求学那部分内容。我的初中时光充满了痛苦。像每个初...
A Wet Sunday In A Country Inn 乡村客栈一个阴雨的星期天 A wet Sunday in a country inn ! Whoever has had the luck to experience (1)one can alone (2) judge ofmy situation. The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to amuse the eye; but it seemed as if I had been placed completely ou...
Think Positive Thoughts Every Day 积极看待每一天 If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view. 如果你觉得心有余力不足，觉得缺乏前进的动力，有时候你只需要改变思维的角度。 By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, you are more likely to ha...
我们无法选择出生，无法选择父母，无法选择出生的历史时期与国家……但是在这些无法选择之中，我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式…… It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be...
Levels of Communication 3 交际面面观 Evaluative communication: Offering opinions, ideas and judgments to others. 评价交流：告诉别人自己的观点，主意和评价。 This is risky business because the odds are that others will give their own evaluations, which may be different from yours. 这是件冒险的事，因为你的评价和别人对自己的评价可能会不同。 When people always use evaluative comm...
Discovery in a Thunderstorm 雷雨中的醒悟 Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Pedaling, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it impossible to get into the clear. The clouds w...
Clouds had settled in on the frigid day.Their love was frozen, held in place.His loving stares and her fair loveCould not conquer their stubborness.No matter how hard she tried she was ridiculed.All the signs he had shown with great careWere not perceived by other than her. 在寒冷刺骨的这天，密云涌动。他们的爱犹如被冰封，停滞不前。他深情的凝视和她纯真的爱，都无法打破彼此间的...
A Harder, Better Goodbye 更难却更好的永别 Mother complained of a pain in her ribs. 我母亲曾抱怨她的肋骨疼。 She was a yoga lover, an ocean swimmer, a woman who at 72 looked ten years younger. 她是瑜伽爱好者，海洋游泳运动员，她72岁，但是看上去要年轻十岁。 She thought she had pulled a muscle. But the pain refused to go away. 她本以为是肌肉拉伤了，然而疼痛持续了很长时间也没有消...
Garfield is owned by a young man named Jon Arbuckle who also owned a happy, 加菲猫的主人是一个名叫乔恩的少年，他还有个快乐， slobbering little dog named Odie, whom Garfield is always taunting. 常流口水的小狗，名叫欧弟，加菲尔德总是嘲弄欧弟。 Davis' childhood on a farm parallels the life of Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, 戴维斯的童年生活和加菲猫的主人乔恩·阿布库有相...
Sometimes in life,You find a special friend;Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.Someone who convince you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.This is Forever Friendship. 有时候在生活中，你会找到一个特别...
There is so much I have not been, so much I have not seen. 生命中，有那么多我未曾经历过，有那么多我未曾见识过。 I have not thought and have not done or felt enough—the early sun, rain and the seasonal delight of flocks of ducks and geese in flight, the mysteries of late-at-night. I still need time to read a book, write poems, paint a picture, look at scenes and faces d...
Chopsticks. Right now, millions of people are digging into their food with two sticks that have stood the test of time as a utensil for humans, even when countless thousands of other tools, gadgets and products haven't. But what's so special about them? 筷子。现如今，当数不尽的工具、器具和产品都已被时间淘汰，只有筷子经受住了时间的考验，成千上万的人们用它们来夹取食物...
Just A Little Smile 只因一个微笑 Mike was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a tape recorder. Mike knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burde...
Not Just a Mom 母亲的含义 A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk's office was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. "What I mean is," explained the recorder, "do you have a job, or are you just a … " 一位名叫埃米莉的妇女在县办事处给驾驶执照续期时...
The Outside Chance 千载难逢的机会 It's a funny thing about money. If you haven't got it, you think it's the most important thing in the world. That's how I used to think. I don't any more, and I learned it in the hard way. 这是一个关于金钱的有趣的故事。如果你没有听过，你会觉得钱是世界上最重要的东西。这也是我曾经一直赞同的观点。不过现在不会了，我从艰辛中懂...
Use swabs to wet her mouth, the nurse told me. Hold her hand. 护士告诉我用棉签蘸水湿润她的嘴唇，举起她的手。 Her senses are dimming, but hearing will linger. Tell her you love her. 她的意识逐渐消退，但是还能够听见你的声音。快告诉她你爱她。 She died on Father's Day. I had bought Dad a bottle of cognac, 母亲在父亲节这一天去世的。我给父亲带来一瓶白兰地， which we were drink...
Freedom parrot 呼喊自由的鹦鹉 A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating "Freedom! Freedom!". And it was such a place that when the parrot repeated the word "Freedom!" it would go on ...
Lighten Up 放松心情 These days, it seems that almost all of us have something to worry about. 这些日子，似乎我们每个人都有担心的事情。 People are frustrated and uptight about almost everything—being five minutes late, 人们对很多事情会感到沮丧和紧张——还有五分钟就要迟到了， having someone else show up five minutes late, being stuck in traffic, 希望对方能在五分钟后出现，因为交...