美丽英文诵读(8)Love(爱情)

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.我爱你,不是因为你是一个怎样的人,而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won’t make you cry. 没有人值得你流泪,值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。 The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have...

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美丽英文诵读(11)Discovery(发现)

The word “discovery” literally means, uncovering something that’s hidden from view. But what really happens is a change in the viewer. The familiar offers comfort few can resist, and fewer still want to disturb. But as relatively recent inventions such as the telescope and microscope have taught us, the unknown has many layers. Every truth has geological st...

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美丽英文诵读(14)How to Grow Happiness(种植幸福的三个步骤)

Step one:  Plant yourself deep in a bed of faith, and pack it down solid and tight. Drench daily with positive thinking, and keep saturated just right. Mulch often with forgivenss, for this will help you grow. Quickly remove any seeds of worry, for they will soon germinate, and keep out the weeds of despair. Nourish disappointments with hope whenever it is neeeded, and alwa...

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美丽英文诵读(13)Have Faith,and Expect the Best

Faith begins by believing in your heart that what is right has a chance. 信念始于内心对机缘深信不疑。 Faith is knowing in your heart that good can overcome evil, that the sun can shine in a rainstrom.信念是心底深信善良能战胜邪恶,太阳会在暴风雨中升起。 Faith is peaceful and comforting, because it comes from within where no one can invade your private dreams. 信念平静而给人慰...

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美丽英文诵读(9)Self-Awareness(自我意识)

The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do finer than they do it, and a lethargy steals ...

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美丽英文诵读(7)The More Loving One(让我成为更有爱心的人)

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. 仰望群星的时分,我一清二楚, 尽管它们关怀备至,我亦有可能赴地府, 可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧 人类或禽兽的那份冷漠。How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affectio...

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美丽英文诵读(12)Genius at Work(天才在工作)

Henry Ford didn’t always pay attention in school. One day, he and a friend took a watch apart. Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. But the teacher did not know young Ford’s genius. In ten minutes, this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on his way home.   亨...

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精美短文:If I Were A Boy Again 假如我又回到了童年

If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only two creatures,” syas a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids — the eagle and the snail.” If I were a boy again, I would school myself in...

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精美短文 第36篇:Museums 博物馆

Museums From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future. In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space a...

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英语范文背诵 (1):Ideas of Home Have Changed

A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not. In the old days life was difficu...

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英语范文背诵 (7):How to Grow Old

How to grow old by Bertrand Russell 1、In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old,which,at my time of life,is a much more important subject.My first advice would be to choose your ancestors.My maternal grandfather,it is true,was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven,but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eig...

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精美短文 第49篇:Salt and Metabolism

Salt and Metabolism Just how salt became so crucial to our metabolism is a mystery; one appealing theory traces our dependence on it to the chemist ry of the late Cambrian seas. It was there, a half billion years ago, that tiny metazoan organisms first evolved systems for sequestering and circulating fluids. The water of the early oceans might thus have become the chemical p...

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精美短文 第44篇:Plate Tectonics板块结构与海床扩展

Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle.The lithosphere is divided into a few dozen plates of various sizes and shapes, in general the plates are in motion with respect to one another. A mid-oce...

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精美短文 第83篇:我的小提琴生活

In order to tell what I believe, I must briefly sketch something of my personal history. The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession. This was understandable in view of the family background. My grandfather had taught mus...

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精美短文 第82篇:推开石头

Roll Away the Stone I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it’s born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happ...

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精美短文 第2篇:American Black Bears

American Black Bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these bears have shiny black fur, but in the west they grow brown, red, or even yellow coats. To the north, the black bear is actually gray or white in color. Even in thesame litter, both brown and black furred bears may be born. Black bears...

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精美短文 第58篇:The Alaska Pipeline阿拉斯加输油管

The Alaska Pipeline The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States,ending at a remote ice free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate.The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of d...

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精美短文 第8篇:Botany植物学

Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge.For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that stil...

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