英文欣赏:蹦极—玩的就是心跳(上)

Bungee — Just for the Thrill 蹦极—玩得就是心跳 Would you pay lots of money to fall off a 120-foot high platform, 你愿意花重金,仅在腰部和脚踝上挂着弹性绳索, held only by an elastic cord around your waist or ankles? 就从120英尺的高台上跳下去吗? It may sound crazy, but lots of people do it. 这虽听起来很疯狂,但很多人都在玩。 Bungee Jumping, as it is called, is gaining ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (48)曼德拉就职演说

To my compatriots, 对我的同胞, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld. 我可以毫不犹疑地说,我们每一个人都跟这美丽祖国的大地亲密地牢不可分,就如红木树之 于比勒陀利亚,含羞草之于灌木林。 That spiritual and physical onen...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (85)肯德基爷爷的真实故事 KFC's Colonel Sanders

KFC’s Colonel Sanders 肯德基爷爷的真实故事 When I read last week that a majority of Americans ages 18 to 25 didn’t know who Colonel Sanders was,I was shocked. 上周报上的一条消息让我感动非常震惊:大多数18到25岁的年轻人不知道桑德斯上校是谁。 According to USA Today,61% of respondents didn’t know who the guy with the beard in the KFC logo was. 据《今日美国》报道...

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英文欣赏:日本投降"二战"胜利日水手(下)

As he did, Alfred Eisenstadt walked up and took photographs which would record the moment in American history.George says that he really can’t explain the kiss. 就在他亲吻的时候,阿尔佛雷德·艾森施泰特碰巧路过,拍下了见证美国历史上的经典瞬间。乔治说他也不知道当时为何突然吻那个护士。 He will only say the combination of the joy of the moment, the drinks and the soft spot ...

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英文欣赏:尼斯湖水怪 The Loch Ness Monster(上)

The Loch Ness Monster 尼斯湖水怪 Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles, is twenty four miles long and, at one point, one and a half miles wide. 尼斯湖是大不列颠群岛最大的淡水湖,有24英里长,一边有1.5英里宽。 It has an average depth of four hundred and fifty feet and at times drops close to a thousand. 湖的平均水深是450英尺,有时候高达1000英尺。 It is co...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (96)甜心陨落 Sweetheart Dethroned

Sweetheart Dethroned 甜心陨落 For some years Whitney Houston held the post of America’s Sweetheart,pretty, God-fearing and patriotic. 曾经有许多年,她是美国人心目中的甜心。她美丽动人,虔诚爱主,忠诚爱国。 She went to the White House to discuss youth projects,and set up a foundation to fight illiteracy. 她曾在白宫讨论过青年计划,也曾建立以消除文盲为目的...

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英文欣赏:互联网威胁个人隐私(下)

For some websites, the approach is direct: they ask you to take a survey about what you like, and then make offers that match your interests. 有一些网站采用直接的办法:他们会对你的喜好进行调查,然后提供和你的兴趣匹配的服务。 Another way is through IP addresses, the electronic place from which you browse the Web. 另一种方法是通过IP地址,找到你经常浏览的网页地址。 ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (35)希拉里退选演说

So to all those who voted for me and to whom I pledged my utmost,my commitment to you and to the progress we seek is unyielding. 我亲爱的选民们,我曾经信誓旦旦承诺过的人们,我想对你们说,我对你们的承诺绝不食言,我将坚持不懈地为我们追求的进步而奋斗。 And I will continue to stand strong with you every time,every place, in every way that I can. 无论何时何地,我都将倾尽全力继续...

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英文欣赏:我们这个时代的购物狂(下)

Mental health professionals do not consider compulsive shopping an “addiction” due to the fact that there is no physical dependency as you would find with drugs or alcohol. 心理健康专家认为强迫性购物不算是一个癖嗜,因为它并没有生理依赖,这和对毒品和酒精依赖不同。 Compulsive shopping typically occurs in a continuing viscous cycle. 强迫性购物通常会形成持...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (102)机械工程师的任务 Roles for the Mechanical Engineer

Roles for the Mechanical Engineer 机械工程师的任务 Do you realize that every time you take a step,the bones in your hip are subjected to forces between four and five times your body weight? 你是否意识到,你每走一步路,你臀部的骨骼在承受四五倍于你体重的力量? When you are running, this force is increased further still. 跑步的时候,这种力量还会更大。 What happens if through di...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (54)假如给我三天光明 Three Days to See

Three Days to See 假如给我三天光明 All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. 我们大家都读过一些令人激动的故事,这些故事里的主人公仅仅活在有限并且特定的时间内, Sometimes it was as long as a year; 有时长达一年, sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. 有时却短至一日。 But always we were interested in discovering ju...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (95)开普勒的世界 Kepler's World

Kepler’s World 开普勒的世界 Much has been made of the 400th anniversary this year of Galileo pointing a telescope at the moon and jotting down what he saw. 400年前伽利略用望远镜观测月球并简要记录了观测结果,400年后的今天我们很隆重地纪念了这一历史性事件。 But 2009 is also the 400th anniversary of the publication by Johannes Kepler,a German mathematician and astronomer,o...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (27)怎样读书?

How should one read a book? 怎样读书? It is simple enough to say that since books have classes—fiction, biography, poetry, 说来容易: 既然书有各种各样—小说、传记、诗歌 we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. 该把它们分门别类,并且各按其类来汲取每本书理应给予我们的内容。 Yet few people ask from books what books ...

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英文欣赏:​Lessons from Geese 大雁的启示(上)

Lessons from Geese 大雁的启示 Lesson 1 第一课 As each goose flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird following it. 当大雁舞动翅膀,它能产生一种提升力让自己迅速飞行。 By flying in V-formation, the whole flock adds 70% greater flying range than if it flew alone. 排列V字的队列,会使整个鸟群的飞行效率相对于无规则的单独飞行提高至少71%的效率。 Pe...

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英文欣赏:时尚误区(下)

Brand is not everything, fit is. 名牌并不代表一切,适合才是王道。 Don’t be tempted to buy that pair of jeans just because they look on most girls out there. 不要因为其他女孩穿某条牛仔裤好看就去买。 If they don’t fit, there is no point wasting your money on them. 如果你穿上不合适,就没有必要浪费钱买。 I have tried loads of pairs of the new Levi’s 593 Super L...

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英文欣赏:我从他们身上获益匪浅(上)

What I Learn from Them 我从他们身上获益匪浅 When I was a child, my father (having no son) decided he would instill a love of sport in both of his daughters. 当我还是小女孩的时候,我的父亲(没有儿子)决定向他们的女儿们灌输对运动的热爱。 While my sister leans more towards football, a love of basketball took root in my own heart and flowered. 当我的姐姐开始喜欢...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (119)科学态度的本质 The Nature of the Scientific Attitude

The Nature of the Scientific Attitude 科学态度的本质 What is the nature of the scientific attitude,the attitude of the man or woman who studies and applies physics, biology, chemistry,geology, engineering, medicine or any other science? 科学态度的本质是什么?那些研究并应用物理学,生物学,化学,地质学,工程学,医学或其他所有科学的男男女女们所具有的态度的本质是什么?...

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英文欣赏:童言无忌

Unit80 As Kids Say It 第80单元 童言无忌 Tell a Story with a Moral 讲一个寓言故事 A primary school class was asked to tell a story with a moral. Kathy went first. “Once, we were driving a basket of ten eggs to market and we had a big bump in the road. The eggs broke. The moral is don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” 一个小学班级里的学生被...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (40)热血,辛劳,泪水和汗水

I now invite the House,by the Resolution which stands in my name,to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government. 现在依据我所签署的决议,请求下议院将它同意行的步骤正式记录下来,并宣示它对新政府的信任。 Sir, to form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, 要组一个这种规模而又这...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (55)真假纯朴 True and False Simplicity

True and False Simplicity 真假纯朴 Simplicity is an uprightness of soul that has no reference to self;it is different from sincerity, and it is a still higher virtue. 纯朴是无私的灵魂中一种正直的品质;它不同于真诚,并高于真诚。 We see many people who are sincere,without being simple; 许多人真诚,但绝不纯朴; they only wish to pass for what they are,and the...

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