晨读英语美文：The Props to Help Man Endure(I)
威廉福克纳（1897—1962），美国作家，先后创作了十几篇长篇小说和几十篇短篇小说，描述了以美国南方200年来南北战争为中心事件的社会变迁，各种家族的兴衰，各种人物的沉浮。他的小说常描写美国的黑暗面，1949年获得诺贝尔文学奖。本篇是他在接受该奖时所发表的演讲。这是一篇脍炙人口的演讲词。然而，由于福克纳本人对语言运用的独特性和精深性，所以对初学者来说，这篇美文也许颇有些难度。 I feel that ...
英文欣赏：口渴的乌鸦
The Crow and The Pitcher A crow felt very thirsty. He looked for water everywhere. Finally, he found a pitcher. But there was not a lot of water in the pitcher. His beak could not reach it. He tried again and again, but still could not touch the water. When he was about to give up, an idea came to him. He took a pebble and dropped it into the pitcher. Then he took another an...
英文欣赏：Smile微笑
Smiles send us light in the darkness. Smiles bring us warm sunlight on a cold winter day. Smiles can break the hard ice. Smiles are like the rainbow. The rainy days end and the sky is beautiful again. Smiles show love and friendship. Teachers’ smiles encourage us. Mothers’ smiles warm us. Friends’ smiles make us closer. We welcome smiles from others. And we should give other...
英文欣赏：Feed Your Mind 别让你的脑子挨饿
If you are hungry, what do you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like your stomach, even your mind is hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently began to heed to your needs and never let itself grow. When mind looses its freedom to...
英语沙龙:Food for Thought-引人深思
Food for Thought From the time I was a child growing up in New Jersey，I loved spending weekends with my grandparents．Their big old house was cozy1)，and I felt especially welcome and relaxed in Granny’s small kitchen．It was there that we had intimate conversations，and Granny always seemed to include morsels2) of wisdom with every recipe she prepared． I remember on...
晨读英语美文：The Props to Help Man Endure(2)
威廉福克纳（1897—1962），美国作家，先后创作了十几篇长篇小说和几十篇短篇小说，描述了以美国南方200年来南北战争为中心事件的社会变迁，各种家族的兴衰，各种人物的沉浮。他的小说常描写美国的黑暗面，1949年获得诺贝尔文学奖。本篇是他在接受该奖时所发表的演讲。这是一篇脍炙人口的演讲词。然而，由于福克纳本人对语言运用的独特性和精深性，所以对初学者来说，这篇美文也许颇有些难度。 Until he doe...
晨读英语美文：A Tribute to the Dog
The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he need...
英文欣赏：Churchill’s Speech丘吉尔的演讲
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs – Victory in spite of all terrors – Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without vict...
英文欣赏：财富,成功和爱
哪里有爱，哪里就有财富与成功! Wealth,Success&Love A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.” “Is the man of the house home?”, they asked. “No”...
英文欣赏： 当今改善我们生活的四种途径
引言： 先把难的事情做完，让自己真情流露，一路走来笑声朗朗，人生旅途将变得更美好。 FOUR FOOLPROOF WAYS TO IMPROVE OUR LIVES, TODAY So, my life is perfect. (Yeah.I wish!) Well, it isn’t too bad. But can it be better? I’ve been asking myself this question for several years. The answer is simple:Yes, it can! I don’t care what we are doing or how we’re doi...
晨读英语美文： Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is the combination of self-confidence and self-respect—the conviction that you are competent to cope with life’s challenges and are worthy of happiness. Self-esteem is the way you talk to yourself about yourself. Self-esteem has two interrelated aspects; it entails a sense of personal efficacy and a sense of personal worth.It is the integrated sum of self-c...
英文欣赏：Stars on a Snowy Night雨雪时候的星辰
Stars on a Snowy Night雨雪时候的星辰 The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui. It had ...
美丽英文诵读:企业着装解码
There is an age –old saying” man is judged by the boots he wear”. But is it only the boots? Well if you ask the corporate world, then boots are not enough. The employee has to be “presentable” and should dress “right”.The dressing protocol is not limited to any single industry but has spread its wings all over. Different sectors have diffe...
英文欣赏：固守自己的优势
Stick to your special talents You were born with a special talent. It may be to sing, write, teach, paint, mentor, preach, defend or befriend. You have something special to offer the world, something you can do better than 10,000 others. You must keep learning and trying new things to find your special talent. The world needs your gift. Be aware that even a special talent ca...
英语沙龙:What I have lived for-我为什么而活
What I have lived for Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly1) strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither2),in a way－ward course,over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love,first,becaus...
晨读英语美文：Night 夜
夜幕已经笼罩着乡间。一轮红月正从树林后面徐徐升起，天上几乎见不到星星。在这苍茫夜色中，寒气与露水降下来了。我坐在敞开的窗前欣赏着这夜色，耳边只听见那夏天的风声。虽然我见不到红色和蓝色的花朵，但是我知道它们在哪儿。远处的草地上，银色的查尔斯河闪闪发光。木桥那边传来了踢嗒踢嗒的马啼声。接着，万物俱寂，只留下夏夜不断的风声。有时，我丝毫辨别不出它究竟是风声，还是邻近的海涛声。村子...
名篇背诵:黄昏
编者按： 每一个时刻所能捕捉的东西是有限的 甚至每一段记忆所能缅怀的一切也是有限的 Dusk Looking into the sunset I can’t help but notice that despite her beauty, a sense of struggle and hopeless surround the sky . Deep inside you realize that this day is gone, and everything that It had brought is lost forever. Every thought,every action,every dream,every hope, every sigh...
英文欣赏：草原上的家
At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. I’m eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. I’m a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and valuable possession is our herd. I’ve never been to school. My father teaches me everything I have to know. He explains to me how t...
名篇背诵: 精神食粮
Food for thought There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us. Don’t go for looks; they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth...
英文欣赏：我的信仰
编者按： 对我同样重要的另一个信仰就是，我的能力在球技中得到了证实。如果我不能投球，那我的名字与声誉都将毫无意义。对我而言，我觉得，任何赞誉之词都是对我付出努力的回报。 I Don’t Play To The Grandstand Bobby Doerr It seems to me that what any man’s beliefs are depends upon how he spends his life. I’ve spent a good part of mine as a professional baseball player and the game that...