美好而忧伤的美文 (55)天底下最真挚的爱情(上)

The best kind of love – Feiby 天底下最真挚的爱情 – 菲比 I have a friend who is falling in love. She honestly claims the sky is bluer. Mozart moves her to tears. She has lost 15 pounds and looks like a cover girl. 我有一个朋友正在热恋中,她发自内心地说,天空都好像更蓝了。莫扎特的音乐让她感动涕零。自恋爱以来,她体重已经减了十五磅,现在苗条得活像封面女郎。 “I&...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (57)善心可依(上)

A good heart to lean on 善心可依 When I was growing up, I was embarrassed to be seen with my father. He was severely crippled and very short, and when we would walk together, his hand on my arm for balance, people would stare. I would inwardly squirm at the unwanted attention. If he ever noticed or was bothered, he never let on. 在我成长的过程中,我一直羞于让别人看见的和父亲...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (65)我们身处的谎言世界(2)

If you live in America there’s a 41% chance you’ll get cancer. 如果住在美国,你将有41%的几率患上癌症。 Heart disease will kill one out of three Americans. 每三个美国人中就有一人将死于心脏病。 We take prescription drugs to deal with these problems, but medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease. 我们以为吃处方药就可以解决问题...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (61)爱的艰程

An ingenious love letter 爱的艰程 There once lived a lad who was deeply in love with a girl, but disliked by the girl’s father, who didn’t want to see any further development of their love. 一个小伙子非常爱一位姑娘,但姑娘的父亲却不喜欢他,也不让他们的爱情发展下去。 The lad was eager to write to the girl, yet he was quite sure that the father would read it first....

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幸福是一种态度 (31)难忘的钢琴曲(上)

Piano Music 难忘的钢琴曲 There are advantages and disadvantages to coming from a large family. Make that a large family with a single parent, and they double. The disadvantages are never so apparent as when someone wants to go off to college. Parents have cashed in life insurance policies to cover the cost of one year. 来自大家庭既有好处也有坏处。如果是个单亲大家庭,好坏都会...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (27)好运符 – 一张两美元钞票(下)

She asked me a series of questions and the interview was over. As I exited her office, I turned around and said, ‘Mrs. Martin, I know that I am not qualified like your other applicants, but please give me a chance. I learn quickly and can be a very productive member of your team.’ 回答完一连串的问题后,面试结束了。我正要迈出办公室时,转过身对马丁太太说:“马丁太太...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (31)爱的小纸条(上)

爱的小纸条 Love Notes It’s been over eleven years now. It was a wintry afternoon, the snow swirling around the cedar trees outside, forcing little icicles to form at the tips of the deep green foliage clinging to the branches. 11年前,那是一个寒冬的下午,窗外,大片的雪花绕着雪松盘旋飞舞,枝头深绿色的叶尖上挂着小小的冰柱。 My older son, Stephen, was at school, and Reed ...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (14)朋友就该这么做(下)

Jack avoided me the rest of the week. Proposals, specs, and letters appeared on my desk while I was at lunch, and my corrected versions were not seen again. I brought cookies to the office one day and left a batch on his desk. Another day I left a note. “Hope your day is going great,” it read. 那个星期余下的几天,杰克一直躲着我。他总趁我吃午饭时,把计划书、技术说...

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诗歌朗读 (42)十四行诗98

Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare 十四行诗 98 威廉·莎士比亚 From you have I been absent in the spring, 我离开你的时候正好是春天, When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim 当绚烂的四月,披上新的锦袄, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, 把活泼的春心给万物灌注遍, That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him. 连沉重的土星也跟着笑和跳。 Yet nor the...

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好诗献给你 (1)请记住我 Remember

Remember – Christina Rossetti 请记住我 – Christina Rossetti Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; 请记住我,当我已离去,到那遥远而静谧的土地; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. 你再不能牵住我的手,而我也无法将去还留。 Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that y...

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幸福是一种态度 (15)幸福的秘密

The Secret of Happiness 幸福的秘密 Once there lived a king of great strength andwealth.Yet he was not happy.He told his servants tofind him things to make him happy,but each cameback saying,”Noting in the world can match thewonderful things you have already.”Then in thatland,there lived a poor man with a patch over oneeye and a crutch to help him walk.Although he...

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诗歌朗读 (34)The Comparison

The Comparison by Catullus translated by John Lam The crowd of beauteous Quintia Prate: To me she is but fair and straight; So far I can comply. Those stated charms her form displays; But still the full, the general praise, Of beauteous I deny. No grain of sprightliness or grace In all her lofty form we trace. I Lesbia beauteous call; Who, stealing from the lovely host The s...

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美好而忧伤的美文 (12)永远的俩姐妹

Today we are reading a story about two sisters . Their name were Sundy and Candy . 今天我们来读一个关于两姊妹的故事。两姊妹的名字叫珊蒂与坎蒂。 They were very lonely . When their mother died , Sundy was only junior high student and Candy was an elementary school student . 她们非常寂寞。当她们的母亲去世时,珊蒂还只个是中学生,而坎蒂只是一个小学生。 Their father was a gambler ...

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美丽英文诗歌鉴赏 (3)云

3. The Cloud 3.云 I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, 我为焦渴的鲜花,从河川,从海洋, From the seas and the streams; 带来清新的甘霖; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid 我为绿叶披上淡淡的凉荫,当他们 In their noonday dreams. 歇息在午睡的梦境。 From my wings are shaken the dews that waken 从我的翅膀上摇落下露珠,去唤醒 ...

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美文阅读 (48)但是你没有

Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and dented it? 记得那天,我借用你的新车,我撞凹了它 I thought you’d kill me, but you didn’t. 我以为你一定会杀了我的,但是你没有 And remember the time I dragged you to the beach, and you said it would rain, and it did? 记得那天,我拖你去海滩,而它真如你所说的下了雨 I thought you’d say, “...

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美文阅读 (50)放手爱情

Well you only need the light when it’s burning low 只有在朦胧黯淡时才念及灯火光亮 Only miss the sun when it starts to snow 只有在冰天雪地时才怀念阳光温暖 Only know you love her when you let her go 只有在已然放手后才始知那是真爱 Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low 只有在身处低谷时才遥想过去峥嵘 Only hate the road when ...

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美丽英文诗歌鉴赏 (7)做最好的自己

3.Be the Best of Whatever You Are 3.做最好的自己 If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, 如果你当不了山巅的一棵劲松, Be a scrub in the valley-but be 就做山谷里的灌木–但一定 The best little scrub by the side of the rill; 要做溪边最棒的一棵; Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. 估一棵灌木,如果你成不了树。 If you can’...

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美文阅读 (36)情人节玫瑰(1)

Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. 红玫瑰花是她的最爱,她的名字也叫Rose。 And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. 每年她的丈夫都要送她打了可爱蝴蝶结的红玫瑰。 The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door. 他去世的那年,玫瑰花送到了她的门口, The card said, “Be my Valentine, “like all the years b...

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美丽英文诗歌鉴赏 (4)黄水仙

4.Daffodils 4.黄水仙 I wander’d lonely as a cloud 我孤独地漫游,像一朵云 That floats on high o’er vales and hills, 在山丘和谷地上飘荡, When all at once I saw a crowd, 忽然间我看见一群 A host of golden daffodils; 成簇的金色水仙花, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 在树荫下,在湖水边, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ...

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美文阅读 (24)如果有一天你想哭

If one day you feel like crying… 假如有一天你想哭… Call me. 打电话给我… I don’t promise that I will make you laugh, 我不能保证能使你笑, But I can cry with you. 但是我能陪着你一起哭. If one day you want to run away– 假如有一天你想逃跑– Don’t be afraid to call me. 别怕打电话给我. I don’t promi...

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