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Pain 疼痛 There is a phrase no pain no gain,it's used a lot by coaches ,teachers, and parents. 有一句话是没有痛苦就没有收获,许多教练、教师及家长都在使用它。 The idea is that good things don't come easily ,we have to work for them ,the more we invest the big we reward,so pain could be mental or physical. 这个想法是好的东西来之不易,我们通过努力争取,我们越投入，得到的奖...
Karen, Judy and I were the last ones back in the school room after lunch. We put our metal lunch boxes on the shelf above the coat hooks, which were mostly empty. All of the other sixth graders were already outside, playing marbles or hop scotch or jumping rope, since it was a pleasant spring day. 卡伦、朱迪和我是最后三个吃完午饭回到教室的。当我们把各自的金属饭盒放到衣帽钩上...
Fighting a cold 对抗感冒 How do you fight a cold? 你怎样和感冒作斗争？ When I get sick, I think every kind of bad strategy is manageable. 当我生病时,我认为每一种不好的办法都是可行的 Perhaps you can let me know some ways to get over a cold or give me some ideas that I haven’t tried yet for the next time I get sick. 也许下次我生病时你可以告诉我些方法来摆脱感冒抑或是我还没有尝...
The first snow 初雪 The first snow came.How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! 初雪来了。她是多么美丽。一整天，一整夜，静静地落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在人们居住的房顶上，落在沉寂的坟墓上！ All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding bl...
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundation though their melancho...
When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险...
Asking questions 问问题 Knowing how to ask questions is so important. 知道如何问问题至关重要。 I usually start an English class by writing questions on the blackboard, with words like who,what,when,where,why,how and which. 我通常通过在黑板上写问题开始上英语课，上面充斥着像谁、什么、何时、何地、为什么、怎样和哪一个这样的词语。 The most simple conversation is made up of questi...
You went to the butcher’s for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the packed, jumbled shelves around me? 到肉铺买肉、到药房买药、去食品杂货店买食品,这都很平常。可那年夏天我呆在纽约州沃里克...
Thank you 谢谢你 Magic words,There are so many of them. 这是一句有魔力的词语，而且有很多这样的词语。 Let's talk about another magic word in English. 让我们来谈谈在英语的世界里另一个具有魔力的词。 If someone does something for you,it's considered polite to thank him. 如果有人为你做了什么事情,感谢他被认为是一种礼貌。 A simple "Thank you " or "Thanks"...
Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave . 从前有一个岛，所有的情感都住在那里：幸福、悲伤、知识和所有其它的，爱也不例外。一...
Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you’ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, they are always there for you—whether it’s in person or via late night phone calls—through good times and bad. But as the years pass, it becomes increasingly difficult to see each oth...
The sun shone brightly in the cloudless blue Wabash, Indiana, sky. 印第安纳州沃巴什县晴空万里的蓝天上，太阳光芒四射地照耀着。 “That was an especially beautiful sunny day,” recalls Jimmy Mitchell, a statuesque man in his early thirties. “那是一个特别美丽的晴日。”吉米•米切尔回忆道。他30出头，五官轮廓分明。 That day Jimmy was driving his car beh...
It's Great to Be a Guy/Woman Because… 做男人/女人真棒，因为…… It's Great to Be a Guy Because… 我想成为一个男子汗因为…… Our last name stays put. 称谓还等着我们去填写。 We can be President. 我们可能称谓总统。 The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. 几年保持同一个发型，也许是十年。 Car mechanics tell us the truth. 汽车修理师告诉我们一个真理。 We d...
Red 红色 When learning English, a good memory will help you, but a good imagination may help you even more. 在学英语的过程中,一个好的记忆将有助你的学习,但一个好的想象力可以帮助你更多。 For example, in English we don't have many words for colors, but we have many ways to describe a color. 举例来说,在英语里,对于颜色我们没有很多的词汇,但是我们有很多方式来描述一种颜色。 We s...
After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was weak and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of fresh orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with a note saying, "Drink your juice." Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as Dad had been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned my Mom:...
Graduation and moving on 毕业并继续前进 At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. 至少每年一次,会有很多的毕业典礼。 It’s a time when a lot of people move on, 这是一个很多人继续前进的时刻, from where they were, to another school or another class, 从那里的人们会到另一个学校或另一个班级, or out into a real world. 或者到了一个真实的世界。 To graduate means to take a ...
Welcome what comes or Run? 坦然面对到来的…还是逃落荒而逃? Some people say that we should welcome whatever comes our way. 有些人说我们应该欢迎无论什么降临到我们头上的事情。 If unpleasant are directed at us, that's all the better. 如果是针对我们的不愉快,那一切就更美好了。 The best way to deal with it is by absorbing it. 最好的应对方法是通过汲取其中。 If we can digest whate...
I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our seminars is the retention of quality employees—a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants, "What has caused you to stay long ...
Being Young: A State of Mind 保持年轻:一种精神状态 I recently went on a family outing. 我最近参加了一次家庭郊游。 The kids were running around, 孩子们到处乱跑, being crazy like kids do, 就像孩子们那样疯狂, and my wife and I taking care of them. 而我的妻子和我负责照顾他们。 My mother-in-law also came to have fun and help, 我的婆婆也来参加并且帮助我们, and believe it or not, ...
Finally, for the first time in my life, I was going to move into brand-new house and it was an absolute beauty. I spent hours upon hours walking up and down the hallway just looking at that sunken living room. I had never actually seen one of those before and always thought they were only for rich people. It sure made me proud to now have one for my very own. I smiled real b...