春 情Spring Fever

【英文原文1】 Spring Fever Peter could no longer remain in doors, not another minute. The beautiful spring days gave him strange feelings. It left him helpless with no control over himself. He took his hat and walked out of his office. Peter kept going until he reached Highland Amusement park. He knew this park;here he had felt the first excitement of love more than 25 year...

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双语:ABC OF AIDS艾滋病小知识

【英文原文】 ABC OF AIDS AIDS is the abbreviation of ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.It is a complicated illness that may involve several phases.it is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person.AIDS impairs the human body’s immune system,the system responsible for keeping off disease,and leaves the victim easily affected by various infection. ...

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用“谎言”装点圣诞

编者按: 不论我最终跟她讲些什么,我希望至少我能让我的女儿感觉到圣诞是一段特殊的日子,一段她会日夜期盼、带着兴奋与想像翘首以待的日子。 Deck the Halls With Fibs & Folly “So anyway,is Santa real or fake?”the smallest person in the house demanded of me last week.“Why?What have you been told?”I answered suspiciously. “That he’s just a man dressed up.” “Well...” “And...

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老约翰与魔鬼Old John And The Devil

【英文原文1】 Old John And The Devil (An American Folktale) This folktale1) comes from the South eastern United States. It takes place in the days before automobiles when everyone used horses. A blacksmith――a man who makes horseshoes and other items from metal――was at that time quite an important part of the community. Because every one needed horseshoes and pots and pans ...

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英语沙龙:大金字塔内又发现一道石门

埃及考古学家哈瓦斯说,科学家们在大金字塔塔内深处利用机器人又发现一道石门。 Another stone door found in Egyptian pyramid1) Scientists using a robot have discovered yet another door deep inside the Great Pyramid,Egypt’s archaeologist2) Hawass said.This find is a similar stone door with last week’s door,but this in the northern shaft,last week’s discovery in the south...

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基督山伯爵的告别信

编者按: 幸福地生活下去吧,我心爱的孩子们。请你们永远记住:在上帝为人们揭示未来情景之前,人类的全部智慧就包含在这几个字里:等待和希望。 A Farewell Letter From the Count of Monte Cristo My Dear Maximilian, There is a felucca1) for you at anchor2).Jacopo will conduct you to Leghorn,where M.Noirtier waits his granddaughter,whom he wished to bless before you lead her to th...

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英文欣赏:回忆美好Try to Remember the Good Things

从你的生活中多抽出点时间去梦想,重振你的精力,你会完全准备好又去迎接新的一天。 当你感觉到紧张的压力,做一些有乐趣的事吧。你会发现压力在渐渐消逝,你的想法也渐渐明朗了。 When times become difficult (and you know they sometimes will), remember a moment in your life that was filled with joy and happiness. Remember how it made you feel, and you will have the strength you need to ...

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每个人,都需要他人的认可(双语)

【Transcript】 I work at a company where there are about a gazillion employees. I can’t say that I know them all by name, but I know my fair share of them. I think that almost all of them know me. I’d say that’s the reason I’ve been able to go wherever it is I’ve made it to in this world. It’s all based on one simple principle: I believe every single person deserves to be ac...

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英文欣赏:许愿的小女孩The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish

那一年,韦恩堡市长正式宣布12月21号作为全市的艾米日。市长解释说,因为艾米敢于做出这样一个简单的许愿,她让大家都学到了东西。 “所有人,”市长说道,“都希望得到并且应该得到尊重、尊严和友善。” The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she collided with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction. “...

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英文欣赏:萧伯纳在他七十大寿宴会上的讲话

编者按: 我知道这一切的价值,在我年届70的时候(人生70岁只有一次,因此我这样说也是最后一次了),它使我能说出许许多多人不能说的话,这使我感到极大的快乐。 George Bernard Shaw July 26, 1926 Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me in every way they possibly can, and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me Bs a great man. This is a dreadful fa...

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英语沙龙:济慈书信To Fanny Keats, 5 July 1820 Wednesday

约翰·济慈(JohnKeats,1795年—1821年),出生于18世纪末年的伦敦,他是杰出的英诗作家之一,也是浪漫派的主要成员。 To Fanny Keats, 5 July 1820 Wednesday My dear Fanny; I have had no return of the spitting of blood, and for two or three days have been getting a little stronger. I have no hopes of an entire reestablishment of my health under some months of patience. My physician t...

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皮皮住进维尔库拉别墅

【英文原文】 Pippi Moves into Villa1) Villekulla (excerpt) Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown2) garden,and in the garden was an old house,and in the house lived Pippi Longstocking.She was nine years old,and she lived there all alone.She had no mother and no father,and that was of course very nice because there was no one to tell her to go t...

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英文欣赏:挤出些时间做你最想做的事

编者按: 这对夫妻选择了一种更简单的生活方式,注意只买生活的必需品,从事一些花钱不多的消遣,诸如阅读、烹调、逛公园。雪莉辞掉了原来的工作,开始做半天工作,比如说为私人购物、付款、组织聚会、做国际互联网研究方面的事情——做客户所要求做的一切。她在她的商业名片上印上“听候您的吩咐——给你自己留点时。 And free up time to do what you love most Two years ago Shirley Michels of St. Louis f...

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英文欣赏:母亲赫本

编者按: 我闭上眼睛,仍能闻到她的气息:粉扑的香味,优雅、安全、坚强,以及一种无条件的爱的气息。 Hepburn, the Mother I remember whenever she had to go to a dinner or a cocktail party, she would always say, “Oh, if only I could stay home and eat in the kitchen with you.” I remember school days, cramming for exams for which she probably fretted more than I did. She would test m...

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双语:Summer of the Raccoons浣熊的夏天(图)

【英文原文1】 If I’d had my way,the story would have ended that day where it began--on the sixth hole at Stony Brook. “What was that bawling?”my wife,Shirley,asked,in-terrupting me in mid-swing.Without another word she marched into a mucky undergrowth and re-emerged carrying something alive. “Rrrit,rrit,rrit,”it screamed. “It’s an orphaned raccoo...

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英语沙龙:助你成为工作明星的良方

编者按: 罗伯特·凯利是卡耐基-梅隆大学的教授,也是多家大公司的顾问。他撰写了一部书,名为《如何成为工作明星》。在书中他点拨读者:使用9大突破性战术可以改善他们的日常行为而成为工作中的明星。 On Being A Star At Work Robert E.Kelly,a consultant for major corporations and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University,has written a book entitled How To Be a Star at Work,in which he...

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英语沙龙:如何当老板How to be a boss

编者按: 懂得下放何种权力与如何下放权力同等重要,因为你对某项工作不喜欢或不甚了解,便随手将其交给了助手,这是很不公平的。玩游戏也是错误的,比如,让助手去做你明知她力所不能及的工作。 How to be a boss You’ve got your first promotion,and everything is going your way.Now you’ve got an assistant.But along with the excitement,you have got a load of new assignments ...

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英文欣赏:静下心来深呼吸

你的生活中有太多重要的事情需要你去料理,但是如果你静下心来放松,好好地对待自己,你会发现这几分钟的放松可以为你带来巨大的收益。 Hi, welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax. I’m Faith. It’s very easy to forget to relax during our hectic days and nights, during the time when we’re constantly trying to get things done. So many of us are spending so much time on...

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英语沙龙:蜘蛛做窝人耳朵

编者按: 希腊一名33岁的女士最近老是抱怨头疼,医生检查后发现,原来是一只蜘蛛在这名女士的耳朵中安营扎寨。 Spider1)Finds Home in a Woman’s Ear An Athens2) doctor who examined a 33-year-old woman after she complained of headaches,removed a spider that had made its home in her ear.The patient,after the doctor removed the spider,got fine again and suffered no injury ...

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Excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels《格列佛游记》

【英文原文1】 Excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels (1)When I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir:for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground;and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, fr...

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