经典英语美文 (71)生活是一场游戏

Image life as a game in which you are playing some five balls in the air.You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all these balls in the air. You understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.But the other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these,it will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, damag...

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经典英语美文 (9)谁动了我的奶酪

“Who moved my cheese?”is a story about change that takes place in a Maze where four amusing characters look for “Cheese”.cheese being a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job, a relationship, money,a big house, freedom, health, recognition, spiritual peace, or even an activity like joggingor golf.Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we p...

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经典英语美文 (74)论四大自由

In the future days, which we seek to make secure,we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way – everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want – which, translated into world terms, me...

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经典英语美文 (91)谈怕死

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.There was a time when we were not: this gives me no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? I have no wish to have been alive a hundred years ago, or in the reign of Queen Anne. Why should I regret and lay it so much to heart th...

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经典英语美文 (4)青春

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and suppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over thelove of ease. This often e...

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经典英语美文 (100)天生赢家

Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Eachhas his or her own unique potentials – capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking,aware, and creative being – a productive person,...

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