英文欣赏之人生感悟 (63)情人节

Americans celebrate Valentine's Day each year on February fourteenth. 美国人在每年的2月14日庆祝情人节。 It is a holiday for lovers. 这是情人们的节日。 Valentine's Day is a good day for a man to ask his girlfriend to marry him. 情人节是男士向女友求婚的好日子。 It is also a good day for couples to get married. 同样,情人节也是情人们结婚的好日子。 Other couples might go ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (12)健全的人生

The wholeness of life 健全的人生 Once a circle missed a wedge. 从前,一只圆圈缺了一块楔子。 The circle wanted to be whole, 它想保持完整, so it went around looking for its missing piece. 便四处寻找那块楔子。 But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, 由于不完整,所以它只能慢慢地滚动。 it admired the flowers along the way. 一路上,它对花儿露出羡...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (87)盲目乐观的好处 The Optimism Bias

The Optimism Bias 盲目乐观的好处 We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. 我们喜欢把自己当作理智的生物。 We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. 我们总会提防背后的危险,权衡胜负的几率,随身携带雨伞以防下雨。 But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. 但神经学和社会学都揭示,我们的乐观性大于现实性。 O...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (94)孩子起名学问大 Baby Names

Baby Names 孩子起名学问大 Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring. 给自己的孩子取名完全是个人私事, Yet laws regulating the choice of both first names and surnames are common around the world. 但世界上对孩子取名有所限制的国家还真不少。 Denmark expects new parents to choose from a register of acceptable names;Portugal lists banned and approved ones. 丹麦...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (56)如果 If

If 如果 If you can keep your head when all about you, 如果周围的人都失去理智怪罪于你, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 而你仍能镇定自若保持冷静, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 如果所有人都对你心存猜忌, But make allowance for their doubting too; 而你仍能自信如常并认为他们的猜忌情有可原; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 如果你能耐心等...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (29)旧湖重游

Once More to the Lake 旧湖重游 Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, 夏日,哦,夏日,生命中的印记留存不去, the fade proof lake, 那永不消失的湖泊, the woods unshatterable, 永不摧折的林木, the pasture with the sweet fern and the juniper forever and ever, 牧场上遍布香蕨木和桧树,年年岁岁,郁郁蓊蓊, summer without end; 夏日没有尽头; this was the background,a...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (91)健身与长寿的关系 Exercise and Longevity

Exercise and Longevity 健身与长寿的关系 ONE sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any ailment. 如果有人宣称他的药能包治百病,我们一般就能确定这是个庸医。 There are, sadly, no panaceas. 因为世上根本没有所谓的灵丹妙药。 But some things come close, and exercise is one of them. 但有些事情却类似这种药,比如说健身就是其中之一。 As doctors never tire...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (22)密西西比河上夏天的日出

Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi 密西西比河上夏天的日出 One can never see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi. 夏天,密西西比河上的日出奇美无比, They are enchanting. 令人百看不厌。 First, there is the eloquence of silence;for a deep hush broods everywhere. 日出伊始,河面一片宁静,仿佛世界都陷入了沉思当中。 Next, there is the haunting sense of loneliness, isolation...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (35)比尔·盖茨哈佛大学毕业典礼演讲

Members of the Harvard Family: 哈佛是一个大家庭。 Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world. 这个院子里在场的人们,是全世界最有智力的人类群体之一。 For what purpose? 我们可以做些什么? There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (108)去室外玩耍吧

When It's Light Out, You're Out 去室外玩耍吧 Television can be a wonderful learning tool. 电视能成为很好的学习工具。 Thirty-odd years ago, "Sesame Street" ,"The Electric Company" and "Mr. Rogers'Neighbourhood"helped my sons learn to read, count,socialize and cope with feelings. 30多年前,电视节目“芝麻街”,“电子公司”和“罗杰斯显示的街...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (41)葛底斯堡演说

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 87年前,我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家,它孕育于自由之中,奉行一切人生来平等的原则。 Now we are engaged in a great civil war,testing whether that nation, or any nation,so conceived and so dedi...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (60)拿破仑致约瑟芬 Napoleon to Josephine

Napoleon to Josephine 拿破仑致约瑟芬 I have your letter, my adorable love. 我收到了你的信,我膜拜的心上人。 It has filled my heart with joy… 你的信使我充满了欢乐… Since I left you I have been sad all the time. 自从与你分手以后,我一直闷闷不乐,愁眉不展。 My only happiness is near you. 我唯一的幸福就是伴随着你。 I go over endlessly in my thought of your kisses,your tear...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (88)天气预报 Weather Forecasting

Weather Forecasting 天气预报 It is the material for the conversation of board chairman and bored cleaning woman,of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. 天气是董事会主席和无聊的清洁女佣之间闲聊的话题,也是年轻人和老人,聪明人和笨蛋,穷人和富人的谈资。 As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, 这个基本的聊天话题仿佛需要点亮色, the av...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (109)解放现代妇女? Liberating the Modern Woman?

Liberating the Modern Woman? 解放现代妇女? Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. 许多在广告中宣称解放了现代妇女的家用电器商品似乎起到了相反的效果,因为它们只是改变了工作的性质而没有消除工作。 Machines have a certain novelty ...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (79)莎士比亚 William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 Of all the famous English writers,probably the best known is William Shakespeare. 在所有举世闻名的英文作家中,最著名的的也许要数莎士比亚了。 He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 on April the 23rd. 莎士比亚于1564年4月23日出生在埃文河畔的斯特拉特福德镇。 His father was an important man in town so Shakespeare had a good upbringing. 其父亲在该...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (3)快乐之门

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. 快乐就像一块为了激起阵阵涟漪而丢进池塘的小石头。 As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. 正好史蒂文森所说,快乐是一种责任。 There is no exact definition of the word happiness. 快乐这个词并没有确切的定义, Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. 快乐的人快乐的理...

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英文欣赏:高中生舞会:成年仪式(下)

In our society, what is formal? Very little. On average, clothing, language, behavior — all is very informal. Individuals who are formal (polite, inoffensive, organized) in their daily dealings with people are often looked upon as boring. 我们这个社会,有什么是完全中规中矩的呢?很少。衣着,语言和举止,都非常随意。那些非常正统古板的人(他们彬彬有礼,不触犯他人,中规中矩...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (107)外国司机 Foreign Motorists

Foreign Motorists 外国司机 The chief problem in coping with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from yourself,but that they are enormously variable. 应对外国司机问题的主要困难不是要记住他们与你不同,而是记住他们极其多变,各不相同。 Cross a frontier without adjusting and you can be in deep trouble. 不作些调整就通过边界,你会遇到大麻烦。 One of...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (57)世界上最遥远的距离 The Furthest Distance in the World

The Furthest Distance in the World 世界上最遥远的距离 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not between life and death, 不是生与死 But when I stand in front of you, 而是我就站在你的面前 Yet you don't know that 你却不知道 I love you; 我爱你 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not when I stand in front of you, 不是我就站在你的面前 Ye...

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英文欣赏之人生感悟 (47)奥普拉斯坦福大学毕业典礼演讲

So, how do I define success? 那么我是如何定义成功的呢? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. 让我告诉你,钱很美好。 I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that it's not about money,'cause money is very nice. 我不会告诉你们成功与钱无关,因为钱是好东西。 I like money. 我喜欢钱。 It's good for buying things. 它能买东西。 But having a lot of money does ...

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