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编者按： 假如今天是我生命中的最后一天。如果不是的话，我要跪倒在上苍面前，深深致谢。 I will live this day as if it is my last. And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping? First, I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday̵...
【英文原文】 A real doctor Agony is a remote mountain village which is far from town and far from civilization. The villagers own their own farms and open their own factories. Life here is generally quiet and peaceful. But life also means a lot of inconveniences in this part of the world. For example, if someone is ill, it is difficult to get a doctor nearby. Some young peo...
【英文原文】 Chack Jones’s Beautiful Life Academy Award－winning animator1) Chuck Jones，who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny，Daffy Duck and Porky Pig，died of congestive2) heart failure at his home on Feb．22，2001．He was 89． Jones worked on more than 300animated films in a career that spanned more than 600years．Three of Jones’ films won Academy Awards...
The Props to Help Man Endure I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work, a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. Not for glory and least of all, for profit, but to create out of the material of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It would not be difficult to find a dedication fo...
【英文原文】 Pioneering Jazz Icon Lionel Hampton，94，the frenetic1) jazz vibraphonist2)，gifted bandleader and storied showman who was one of the most celebrated musicians of the swing era and went on to a six－decade career on the American stage，died on August at a hospital in New York after a heart attack． A dynamic showman with an electric personality，Hampton was one ...
即使在最黑暗的日子里，当所有的希望似乎都变得渺茫，天使会赋予你生活的力量和继续前进和动力。如果你所坚信的美好在现实面前有些褪色，她们会再次激励你，并帮助你找到自己的方向。 Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I’m Faith. Surrounding you are angels, they are there to guide your path. If weakness overcomes you, they’ll give you strength if you will ask. The...
由于我工作的地方在联合车站的行李寄存处，我看得见每一个上楼的人。 哈里3年多以前来到这里，站在楼梯口等待9点05分到达的火车旅客。 Detour to Romance Located in the checkroom in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9∶05 train. I remember seeing ...
编者按： 还记得不记得过去外出吃饭是件宽心愉快的事情？有人为你掌勺、服务, 你走后又为你收拾桌子。而你所要做的只是咀嚼、吞咽和付账。可是这已成了过去。今天外出吃饭, 你就像一只实验室里的老鼠, 为了得到一块奶酪, 你不得不在迷宫中四处乱窜。 Remember when eating out was a relaxing experience？Someone else cooked for you, served you and cleaned up after you. All you had to do was chew,...
编者按： 我现在不仅每天爬１４级台阶, 还尽量给人一些小小的帮助。或许有一天, 我会给一个坐在车里像我一样在心灵上有盲点的人换轮胎。 Fourteen Steps They say a cat has nine lives, and I am inclined1) to think that possible since I am now living my third life and I’m not even a cat. My first life began on a clear, cold day in November 1904, when I arrived as the sixth of eight chil...
编者按： 看起来，幸福同纯真的赤子之心有关系，幸福是一种能从最简单的事物里–譬如说，核桃–汲取快乐的能力。 Three Peach Stones Observe a child; any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man; any one of us will do. You will notice that we...
【英文原文】 Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter，twisted lies， You may trod me in the very dirt But still，like dust，I‘ll rise． Does my sassiness upset you？ Why are you beset1) with gloom？ ’ Cause I walk like I‘ve got oil wells Pumping2) in my living room． Just like moons and like suns， With the certainty of tides， Just like hopes springi...
【Transcript】 I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I remember the exact moment when I discovered outrage as a kind of fuel. It was about 1980. I was 17, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit. After a dinner table conversation with my family about the wars going on in Central America and the involvement of the United States (m...
编者按： 表达你的兴趣。握手要有力，直视对方带以微笑。这是表现信心极好的第一印象。要问问题。没有什么比一方侃侃而谈，一方沉默无语的交谈更没意思了。会后寄份感谢卡。若想真给人家留下印象，招聘会后马上将感谢卡寄给那些激起你兴趣的公司。 Top Ten Tips for Career Fair1) Success 1.Develop a commercial．You have 30 seconds to get an employer interested in you．If you can’t，they’ll move...
【英文原文1】 An Experiment in love The dog discovered them――four newborn kittens abandoned in tall grass beside the road．When I returned from my walk carrying the tiny creatures in the palm of my hand，my partner，Mike，said firmly，“No more animals．”Mike had already been saddled with my dog and three cats，and he wasn’t used to a houseful of pets． “I won’t keep them，...
编者按： 1996年的情人节。我带着罗玛去参加奥普拉·温弗里的节目, 在这个全国性电视节目中我向她表示敬意。我想在数百万观众面前告诉她我心里一直想说的话： “亲爱的, 当我在集中营里非常饥饿时, 是你给我送来了吃的。而如今我仍然很饥饿, 我渴望得到那种我永远也不会满足的东西, 那就是：我只渴望得到你的爱。” Hungry for Your Love It is cold, so bitter cold on this dark winter day in1942. But it ...
编者按： 我的夏季婚礼最终成为现实，只不过是一年以后。站在Tim身旁，我终于穿上了我梦中的结婚礼服。在随后的十八年里，我们相亲相爱，相濡以沫。如果不是因为这件特殊的礼服，我们永远不会相遇。 The Blessed Dress I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. Th...
【英文原文1】 The Pivotal1) Figure In the Decoding2) of The Human Genome3) Bill Clinton and Tony Blair linked up by satellite on June ２６to announce the completion of the first draft of the human genome．Even when the hype is discounted，decoding the ３bn chemical“letters”of the genome is likely to have a huge impact on science，medicine and our perception of what it means ...
定向能源束从上空扫描雷区，飞机里面的分光镜“读出”数据，并记录下地雷周围细菌的具体位置。然后结合使用激光技术和定向能源束，从天空就可以起爆地雷。这样，就不再需要人和动物去干寻找和起爆地雷的高危险性工作了。 Bacteria1) Could Help Detect Mines2) An aircraft flies over a no man’s land sown with land mines，scanning it with an energy beam that pinpoints each mine and records i...
【英文原文1】 Finders Keepers When my daughters reached the third and fourth grades，I occasionally allowed them to walk to and from school alone，if the weather permitted．It was a short distance，so I knew they were safe and no trouble would befall them． One warm spring day，a small friend followed them home after school．This friend was different from any other friend t...
编者按： 早上，他睡醒了，听见鹦鹉正在大喊：“自由！自由！”他想也许鹦鹉正落在一棵树上或一块石头上呢。但当他出来的时候，鹦鹉正在笼子里，笼门还开着。 A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating “Freedom! Free...