英语沙龙:Learn to Live in the Present Moment

To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, or what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are—always! Without question,many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of t...

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英语沙龙:The Angler

The Angler How comforting it is to see a cheerful and contented old age; and to behold a poor fellow, like this, after being tempest-tost through life, safely moored in a snug and quiet harbor in the evening of his days! His happiness, however, sprung from within himself, and was independent of external circumstances; for he had that inexhaustible good-nature, which is the m...

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英文欣赏:青春物语 Man's Youth

青春奇妙无穷,充满魅力,充满痛楚.青春年少的时候根本不知青春为何物,直到青春一去不复返了才对青春有了真正的认识。 Man’s youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he nevr comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow and regret, i...

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英文欣赏:把学习当作一生的事业

学习之于心灵,就像食物之于身体一样。摄取了适量的营养食物,我们的身体得以生长而肌肉得以发达。 同样地,我们应该日复一日不断地学习以保持我们心智的敏锐,并扩充我们的智力容量。 Learning: a Lifelong Career As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day...

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英文欣赏:学会生活在现实中

我们内心是否平和在很大程度上是由我们是否能生活在现实之中所决定的.不管昨天或去年发生了什么,不管明天可能发生或不发生什么,现实才是你时时刻刻所在之处。 To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live on the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the presen...

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每日阳光絮语:The simple beauty of nature

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine, Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens and nature, because our angel wishes to see us happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学组)/SDcamp...

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每日阳光絮语:守卫内心的珍宝

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine. 欢迎来到Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself. NSDA“SD...

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英文欣赏:万物皆有时节,一切自有深意

大千世界中,万物皆有时节,一切自有深意: 有诞生,也有死亡的时候。有种植也有采摘的时候。 There is a time For everything there is a season and the time for every purpose under the heaven-a time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to pick up what is planted; A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to break down and a time to build up; A time to weep and a...

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英文欣赏:A Grain of Sand一粒沙子

从一粒沙子看到一个世界 从一朵野花看到一个天堂 A Grain of Sand by William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild fllower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. 一粒沙子-威廉.布莱克 从一粒沙子看到一个世界, 从一朵野花看到一个天堂, 把握在你手心里的就是无限, 永恒也就消融于一个时辰。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学...

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英文欣赏:成功的最大秘诀

年轻人不解地问苏格拉底为什么要这样做,苏格拉底回答说:“我只想告诉你,做什么事都必须有绝处求生那么大的决心,才能获得真正的成就。” The biggest secret of success Once there was a young man who came to ask Socrates how to learn philosophy. Socrates said nothing but took him along to a river. He suddenly pushed him into the river forcibly. At first the young man thought Socrates ...

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英文欣赏:Words to Live by生活的忠告

找一个你爱聊的人结婚;因为年纪大了后,你会发觉喜欢聊天是一个人最大的优点; 过一种高尚而诚实的生活。当你年老时回想起过去,你就能再一次享受人生。 I’ll give you some advice about life. Eat more roughage; Do more than others expect you to do and do it pains; Remember what life tells you; Don’t take to heart every thing you hear. Don’t spend all that you have. Don’t sleep as long...

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英文欣赏:别错过机会

有一种独特的蓝色小花总能吸引我的目光。我注意到它只在早上的时间开放,下午的日光对它来说太温暖了。大概有两周的时间,我每天都能看到那些美丽的花儿。 Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I’ve noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours,...

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英语沙龙:Ambition

It may seem an exaggeration to say that ambition is the drive of society, holding many of its different elements together, but it is not an exaggeration by much. Remove ambition and the essential elements of society seem to fly apart. Ambition is intimately connected with family, for men and women not only work partly for their families; husbands and wives are often ambitiou...

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英文欣赏:幸福的悖论

幸福是个人的一种感知。我们本能地受限于外界,找寻着生活的瑕疵,出于人的天性,我们从有能力自由思考的那刻起,就开始对生活吹毛求疵。也就在那时,我们失去了对自我价值的认知,也失去了生命的活力,陷于幸福的矛盾中,找不到幸福的方向。 The Paradox of Happiness What is the definition of “happiness?”Is it material wealth filled with fancy cars, a dream house,exteravagant furs...

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英文欣赏:卓越仅仅是一个习惯

习惯对我们的生活有绝大的影响,因为他是一贯的。 在不知不觉中, 经年累月影响着我们的品德,暴露出我们的本性,左右着我们的成败。 Excellence is not an act, but a habit Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes. Habits are power...

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英语沙龙:Tourism

Tourism Railroads, ships, buses, and airplanes have made travel easier, faster, and cheaper; and the number of people who can spare the time and the money to take trips has grown enormously. It is not reserved to a lucky few, nowadays, to admire Inca temples, French castles, and Australian kangaroos. Millions of people do each year. But instead of being called travelers, the...

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英语沙龙:Work

Work It is physically impossible for a well-educated,intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; as physically impossible as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinner, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy?minded people like making money —ought to like it...

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英文欣赏:自然之美The Beauty of Nature

晨曦是我的亚述古国; 日落和明月是我梦想中怕弗仙境;正午是我感觉与理解中是英格兰;夜晚是我神秘哲思与梦境的德意志。 The Beauty of Nature Nature satisfies by its loveliness,and without any mixture of corporeal benefit.I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house,from daybreak to sunrise,with emotions which an angel might share.The long slender bars of c...

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英语沙龙:怒放的生命

Deciding to Live I believe I am a climber. Three years ago, a series of medical and personal crises took what was a clinical depression and made it something much darker. I thought of it as falling—as jumping off a bridge on a rainy winter day: three seconds in the air before I hit the water and plunged deep into the icy cold, my heavy coat pulling me deeper. And the surface...

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英文欣赏:一个人何时变老

他一旦停止成长,他一旦对自己说“我该懂的都懂了”,这个时候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25岁时死去,也可能在75岁时死去,这都没有区别。就在那一天,他开始变老。 “I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, “it makes me realize I am growing old.” William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are “old fogies at twenty-five”,...

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