美文阅读 (425)心怀感激

Be Thankful — Anonymous 心怀感激–佚名 Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire. 如果你想要的都还没得到,心怀感恩吧。 If you did, what would there be to look forward to? 因为如果你已经得到了,还有什么盼头呢? Be thankful when you don’t know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn. 如果你还有什么不知晓的,心怀感恩吧,因...

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美文阅读 (455)与我共舞 直到爱的尽头

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 让你的舞步伴着一把燃烧的小提琴将我引向你的美 Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in 让你的舞步带我穿越那恐慌,直到我被安全接纳 Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove 像扶起一株橄榄枝一样将我扶起,做我的归家鸽 Dance me to the end of love 让你的舞步带我去那爱的尽头 Dance me to the end of lo...

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朗读英语美文(173)万圣节习俗

In the United Kingdom, Halloween traditions are very popular, especially among kids and teenagers. We looked at some of the most common activities. 在英国,万圣节习俗非常流行,尤其受到了小朋友和青少年的喜爱。我们一起来看看其中一些最常见的活动吧。 Pumpkin lanterns南瓜灯 These are pumpkins with the inside removed and eyes, a mouth and a nose cut into one side. A candle is plac...

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朗读英语美文(180)Young And Beautiful

I’ve seen the world 我已看遍世间繁华, Done it all, had my cake now 历经沧桑,人已老, Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now 如今有钻石珠宝,名声显赫,坐拥豪宅, Hot summer nights mid-July 七月中旬,炎热的夏日夜晚, When you and I were forever wild 过去你和我放荡不羁无止尽, The crazy days, the city lights 疯狂的日子,在城市霓虹下, The way you’d play with me like...

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朗读英语美文(45)这一天,什么都没发生

I’m just sitting here in my room today, listening to music while it rains outside my window, and I can’t stop thinking about how happy I am and how great my life is. There’s nothing particularly special about it – I’m not rich or famous, I’m not exceptionally talented, and I don’t do anything particularly fabulous for a living. But I...

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美文阅读 (454)千吻之深

A Thousand Kisses Deep by Leonard Cohen 千吻之深 The ponies run, the girls are young 小马疾奔,女孩们正青春 The odds are there to beat 前途充满不定与变数 You win a while, and then it’s done 你才小赢,随即结束 Your little winning streak 你一点点的好运 And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeat 你现在受召,必须面对你如排山倒海的溃败 You live your life as if it&...

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朗读英语美文(141)一个男人心碎却温暖的祈祷

Dear God 敬爱的上帝啊 I know that she’s out there 我知道她就在那里 The one I’m suppose to share my whole life with. 那个我想把我的一生 都奉献给的女孩 And in time 总会有一天 You’ll show her to me 你会把她带到我身边的 Will you take care of her 你要好好照顾她 Comfort her 在她伤心的时候安慰她 And protect her 保护她 Until that day we meet 直到我们见面的那一天 An...

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朗读英语美文(157)一生中最美好的时光

It was June 15, and in two days I would be turning thirty. 那天是6月15日, 再过两天我就要30岁了。 I was insecure about entering a new decade of my life and feared that my best years were now behind me. 要进入生命中又一个新的十年, 我对此感到忐忑不安, 担心自己最美好的岁月已经离我远去了。 My daily routine included going to the gym for a workout beforegoing to work. 我每日上班...

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朗读英语美文(33)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 black line acr...

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美文阅读 (413)毕业日

Graduation Day — Ellen Bailey 毕业日–艾伦·贝利 Today is my graduation day 今天我就毕业了 My school years have all passed away 在校的时光转瞬飞逝 I will tell my old friends goodbye 我会和老友告别 I am happy but still I cry 即便眼噙泪水我也很开心 I stand arrayed in my cap and gown 我穿着礼袍戴着礼帽站在队列 I wear a smile instead of a frown 嘴角上扬不悲伤沮丧 I wal...

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朗读英语美文(133)一棵开花的树

May Buddha let us meet in my most beautiful hours, I have prayed for it for five hundred years. 如何让你遇见我在我最美丽的时刻 为这我已在佛前求了五百年 求佛让我们结下一段尘缘 Buddha made me a tree By the path you may take. 佛于是把我化做一棵树 长在你必经的路旁 In full blossoms I’m waiting in the sun Every flower carrying my previous hope. 阳光下慎重地开满了花 朵朵都是...

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朗读英语美文(57)今年我二十七八岁

我今年二十七八岁, I’m in my late twenties. 每天起床的时间从中午12点变成了早上7点,睡觉的时间从凌晨变成了晚上11点。 I used to get up at 12 o’clock in the afternoon and now 7 o’clock in the morning. I used to go to bed in the midnight and now 11 o’clock in the night. 我今年二十七八岁, I’m in my late twenties. 工作中开始接触形形色色的人, At work, I begin to contact different...

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美文阅读 (343)爱上一个人的三个理由

3 Reasons for True Love 爱上一个人的三个理由 Surely, true love requires more than 3 reasons you may be thinking. I must be oversimplifying things. 当然,你可能会想,真正爱情的理由不止3个,我肯定把事情过于简单化了。 Maybe I’ve never really been in love and I have no idea what I’m talking about, or perhaps I’m just a lunatic. 或者你觉得我从没...

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朗读英语美文(144)妈妈的手

Mum’s Hands 妈妈的手 Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead. 母亲总是在我入睡之后,为我掖好被子,然后俯下身子,轻轻拨开覆在我脸上的长发,亲吻我的前额。日复一日,母亲一直保持着这个习惯,即使我已不再是小孩...

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朗读英语美文(132)我一无所求

I asked nothing,only stood at the edge of the wood behind the tree. 我一无所求,只站在林边树后。 Languor was still upon the eyes of the dawn,and the dew in the air. 倦意还逗留在黎明的眼上,露润在空气里。 The lazy smell of the damp grass hung in the thin mist above the earth. 湿草的懒味悬垂在地面的薄雾中。 Under the banyan tree you were milking the cow wi...

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美文阅读 (388)生活不胜弥甜

Life The Sweeter Made – John Greenleaf Whittier 生活不胜弥甜–约翰·格林里夫·惠蒂埃 Others shall sing the song 欢歌就让别人吟唱吧 Others shall right the wrong 过错就由他人改正吧 Finish what I begin 那些未尽之事 And all I fail to win 那些未成之事 What matter, I or they 他日也有人完成 Mine or another’s day 无论于我还是芸...

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美文阅读 (318)像个傻瓜

Like a Fool 像个傻瓜 We take a chance from time to time 我们不时会在爱情中选择冒险一番 And put our necks out on the line 甚至在其中自找麻烦 And you have broken every promise that we made 可你已打破我们之间的所有承诺 And I have loved you anyway 愚蠢的是我却一直深爱着你 Took a fine time to leave me hanging out to dry 选择一个时机悄然离开我把我...

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美文阅读 (433)我不属于你

I Am Not Yours — Sara Teasdale 我不属于你–萨拉·蒂斯黛尔 I am not yours, not lost in you 我不属于你,也不迷恋 Not lost, although I long to be 尽管我渴望沉醉 Lost as a candle lit at noon 像正午的烛光 Lost as a snowflake in the sea 像汪洋中的雪花 You love me, and I find you still 你爱我,我也知晓 A spirit beautiful and bright ...

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美文阅读 (445)困境之时

In Times of Trouble by Clay Harrison 困境之时–克莱·哈里森 Often in times of trouble, we don’t know what to say 身处困境之时,往往不知如何应对 So we choose to say nothing, and sometimes run away 所以我们选择沉默,有时落荒而逃 When friends are really hurting, we don’t know what to do 当朋友伤心之时,往往不知如何安慰 So we offer weak e...

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美文阅读 (319)时间会证明真爱

When your legs don’t work like they used to before 当你的腿脚不再像从前那般灵活 And I can’t sweep you off of your feet 当我也不再像从前那样让你神魂颠倒 Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love 你是否还记得我们相爱时的点滴滋味 Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks 你的笑颜又是否会像从前那般闪烁迷人 And darling I will be lo...

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