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How High Can You Jump? Flea1) trainers have observed a strange habit of fleas while training them.Fleas are trained by putting them in a cardboard box with a top on it.The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over and over again.As you watch them jump and hit the lid,something very interesting becomes obvious.The fleas continue to jump,but they ar...
My People by Langston Hughes The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. 我的人民–兰斯顿·休斯 夜色美丽， 我的人民的面孔亦美丽。 群星美丽， 我的人民的眼睛亦美丽。 太阳也美丽。 我的人们的心灵也美丽。 兰斯顿·休斯(1902—1967)在美国文坛,尤其是黑...
编者按： 美丽总会稍纵即逝，从外到内，给人留下无尽的感伤。对美的需求是人类最崇高的善举，是人类灵魂最伟大的天赋。 Growing in the Middle Ground Anne Phipps I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searching. Until this win...
编者按： 上帝，他赐予我命运并值得我的一切赞美和服务； 家庭，它给我幸福和力量； 祖国，它为我提供一切机会按照自己的良心生活； 棒球，它是一种娱乐和训练，使我健康，使我懂得生活。 这就是我的宗教信仰和人生哲学。 I Call Things As I See Them by Ralph Pinelli An umpire has to make instant decision. I’ve learned to call things as I see them. This helps me make a quick reply to s...
编者按： 我信仰人类，信仰透明、纯粹的人性。倾听人们的心声，帮助他们达成所愿，得到需要的东西，这也是我的信仰。 Give Part of Yourself Away By DR.HAROLD TAYLOR We are living in one of those periods in human history which are marked by recolutionary changes in sll of man’s ideas and values. It is a time when every one of us must look within himself to find what ideas, what...
The Ugly Duckling One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions to...
编者按： 我相信，人的生命之所以有意义，正是由于其个人树立的目标与他所处的文明、时代和国家之间有着密切的联系。 A New Control Of Destiny Children used to play a game of pointing at someone, suddenly saying, “What are you?” Some people answered by saying, “I am a human being,” or by nationality, or by religion. When this question was put to me by a new generation of children, I...
编者按： 给自己做一次DNA测试。扪心自问：“我现在做的是什么决定，所采取的是什么行动？我为何要做这些决定？为何要采取这些行动？那些决定将会把我带到何处？那些行动将会引导我走向何方？它们会引领我走向值得一搏的地方吗？”如果答案是肯定的，那么当你到达时，我们都会看见你，因为这世上没有任何东西能够阻止你。做决定吧。行动起来。这样你会迎来美好的一天！ The DNA of Success by Earl Mann Toda...
编者按： 唱则群山应， 叹则空散尽。 回声反射成欢欣， 倾诉忧虑无回音。 Solitude –Ella Wheeler Wilcox ?? Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ?? Sing, and the hills will answer; ?? Sigh, it is lost on the air. ?? The echoes bound to a joyful sound, ?? But shri...
The Wedding Dance The hand that clasps mine is not that of the child I can still remember，but that of the man he has become．From that hand to his face to the smile he beams at me，he is his father in days gone by．We move gracefully across the floor as his young bride looks on．My new daughter．Oh，how the years have passed．It seems I didn’t even notice．One day，I ...
The 175-dollar Bill I stretched my legs under the living－room desk，picked up a letter and cut it open．It came from Martel’s Department Store．I was shocked when I saw the amount we owed them：175 dollars．It was a mistake，of course．Janet and I had not spent that kind of money，certainly not with the way we had been counting every penny and saving for the first pay...
编者按： 作为一个人，一种具备身心的有机体，我能学会如何摆脱自负，这样赋予我生命和意识的神的光芒就能驱散阴影，照亮我全身。 Learning to Get Out of the Way In every one of the higher religions there is a strain of infinite optimism on the one hand,and on the other,of a profound pessimism.In the depths of our being,they all teach,there is an inner high–but an inner Light w...
10 signs your love life is going right You always keep for him the other half of the chocolate almond1) chunk2). ２. When you’re driving down the street, it seems as if all the lights really do turn green. ３. When you fantasize3)-, it’s always about the man who’s already in your life. Well, almost always. ４. When you’re talking something over with him, what you think and w...
Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach.You can’t rise to the occasion.Just getting started seems impossible.On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.This is not always such a bad thing.You feel f...
He must have a computer A mother was teaching her ５-year-old son about God. “Do you know, ”she said to him one day, “that God knows where everybody is all the time, and exactly what they are doing. ”The little boy looked at his mother wide-eyed and said, “Wow. He must have a computer.” 他一定有台电脑 一位母亲给她５岁的儿子讲上帝。“你知道吗, ”有一天她对他说, “无论一个人在哪...
Hi ,There It was Sunday，Christmas．Our family had spent the holidays in San Francisco with my husband’s parents．But in order for us to be back at work on Monday，we found ourselves driving the 400miles back home to Los Angeles on Christmas Day．We stopped for lunch in King city．The restaurant was nearly empty．We were the only family and ours were the only children...
Spring Song Spring is coming, spring is coming, Birdies, build your nest; Weave together straw and feather, Doing each your best. Spring is coming, spring is coming, Flowers are coming too: Pansies, lilies, daffodillies, Now are coming thought Spring is coming, spring is coming, All around is fair, Shimmer and quiver on the river, Joy is everywhere. By William Blake 春之颂 ...
My parents owned six books between them. Two of those were Bibles and the third was a concordance to the Old and New Testaments. The fourth was The House At Pooh Corner. The fifth，The Chatterbox Annual 1923 and the sixth, Malory’s Morte d’Artliur. I found it necessary to smuggle books in and of the house and I cannot claim too much for the provision of an outside toilet whe...
Honesty A man who is driving a car stopped by a police officer.The following exchange takes place… Man:What’s the problem,officer? Officer:You were going at least 75in a 55zone. Man:No,sir,I was going 65. Wife:Oh,Harry.You were going 80.(Man gives his wife a dirty look.) Officer:I’ m also going to give you a ticket for your broken taillight. Man:Broken tail...
Five Balls in the Air Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling1) some five balls in the air.You name them―work,family,health,friends and spirit,and you’re keeping all these balls in the air. You understand that work is a rubber ball.If you drop it,it will bounce back.But the other four balls are made of glass.If you drop one of these,it will be irrevocably2) scuffed,...