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:聆听黎明的训导

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine, Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; 聆听黎明的训导! 把握今天! 因为今天就是生活,真正的生活。 成长的喜悦, 行动的荣耀, 美的光辉; Faith ‘s Email: ...

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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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英文欣赏:On Etiquette论礼仪

假定社会是一辆贵宾车,礼仪就好比轮子与轴,马车只有靠它们才能滚滚前进。缺了礼节,最亲密的朋友会变成死敌,友好或结盟的国家会兵戎相见。 On Etiquette Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state and the nece...

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英文欣赏:Trees by Joyce Kilmer

它整天仰望着上帝,举起枝叶繁茂的手臂祈祷, 它那茂密如发的枝叶里,夏天会筑起知更鸟的安乐窝。 Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose ...

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英文欣赏:多才多艺的人Versatile Man

达芬奇忙于他的很多发明以至于不能完成他的画作;年仅32岁战死沙场的西德尼不只是个伟大的战士,还是个出色的学者和诗人。这两个人都达到了文艺复兴的“通才”思想,他们精通一切。 It is perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile men. Right up until comparatively recent times, it was possible for an intelligent person to acquaint him...

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英文欣赏:生活靠我们自己创造

你对今天的成就感到不满意吗?今天的丰收源自昨日的播种。你梦想有一个金色的明天吗?你今天种下了什么,将来就会收获什么。我们从生活中获取我们所投入的。 Life is What We Make It Are you dissatisfied with today’s success? It is the harvest from yesterday’s sowing. Do you dream of a golden morrow? You will reap what you are sowing today. We get out of life just what we put into it. N...

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英文欣赏:今天,我开始新的生活

今天,我的老茧化为尘埃。我在人群中昂首阔步,不会有人认出我来,因为我不再是过去的自己、我已拥有新的生命。 Today I begin a new life. And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life’s growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of d...

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英文欣赏:青春常驻的秘诀

把你的爱告诉你所爱着的人们,把握住每一个表达机会。 千万记住:度量生命的不是呼吸的次数,而是那些最最难忘的时刻。 Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That’s why you pay him/her. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whateve...

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英文欣赏:小女孩A little Girl

呈现在我眼苎的这一美的形象似乎比我在最美好的梦境中所见过的更美。然而,与其说是她的美丽,不如说是她朝我看的那种眼神,更使我着迷,更使我陶醉. Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl.With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a gold...

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英文欣赏:写作的乐趣

在一个阳光明媚的早晨,临桌而坐,整整四个小时不受打扰,有足够数量的雪白稿纸,还有一支“挤压式”妙笔——那才叫真正的幸福。 The Joys of Writing The fortunate people in the world—the only reallyfortunate people in the world, in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and authors are per...

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英语沙龙:真爱无极限

Love Unlimited Freda Bright says: “Only in opera do people die of love.” It’s true. You really can’t love somebody to death. I’ve known people to die from no love, but I’ve never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can’t love one another enough. A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a r...

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英文欣赏:想想那些美好的

当你面对重重困难的时候,要意识到相对于你的整个生命,这些难题其实是微不足道的--铭记你生命中美好的东西。 Try to remember the good things 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 get through any trial. When li...

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英文欣赏:准备好爱你

有时需要独处 人们才能发现真实的自我 有时需要醒悟 人们才能明智 Sometimes it takes adverse conditions for people to reach out to one another Sometimes it takes bad luck for people to understand their goals better Sometimes it takes a storm for people to appreciate the calm Sometimes it takes being hurt for people to be more sensitive to feelings Sometimes it takes doubt for pe...

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英文欣赏:选择乐观Choose Optimism

乐观和悲观都是强大的力量,我们每个人都必须在这两者之间做出选择,从而给我们对未来的展望和预期染上或明或暗的色彩。 Choose Optimism–By Rich De Vos If you expect something to turn out badly, it probably will.Pessimism is seldom disappointed. But the same principle also works in reverse. If you expect good things to happen, they usually do! There seems to be a natural cause...

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英文欣赏:青春永恒-两条道路

正在人生路口徘徊,犹豫着是否选择光明之路的年轻人啊!请记住,当时光已逝,你的双脚在黑暗的山间举步维艰、跌跌撞撞的时候,你会痛苦地呼喊:“啊,青春!回来!啊,把我逝去的日子还给我吧!”可是,那一切都是没用的! It was New Year’s Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the...

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英文欣赏:自如射箭的心境

觉察到这位挑战者的窘境,禅师说道:“你拥有高超的弓箭术,但你缺乏自如射箭的心境。” After winning several archery contests,the young and rather boastful champion challenged a Zen master who was renowned for his skill as an archer. The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull’s eye on his first try,and then split that arrow with his seco...

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英文欣赏:生活之路The Road of Life

当我们处在一个十字路口时,我们似乎可以决定向左走还是向右走,可是一旦做出选择,我们却很难意识到,实际上是世界历史的全部进程强迫我们做出了那样的选择。 The lives of most men are determined by their enviroment.They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will.They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and ...

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