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编者按： 营养上的不足削弱了她肌肉的生长和发育。除此之外，在那个时代，对于任何一个男芭蕾舞演员来讲，她都长得太高了。 Hepburn’s Dream My mother’s dream was always to be a prima ballerina. No matter how hard she had trained her most important and formative years had passed and could not be recaptured. The war had been tough on her, and poor nutrition had impaired some of her mu...
编者按： 值得结交的人相处—在事业的每个阶段你身边都有有成就的人，这很重要。 倍加重视有一个健康的身体—努力提高健康水平，保持精力旺盛。 Secrets of Self-made1) Successes １．Dream Big Dreams－－How to visualize2)，imagine and create an exciting picture of prosperity． ２．Develop a Clear Sense of Direction－－Learn a powerful，proven goal－setting exercise that c an ...
编者按： 1962年肖恩·康纳利向全球的影迷宣布：“我叫邦德—詹姆斯·邦德。”在21年间的七部邦德影片中，这位高大，黝黑的苏格兰人表现出的温文尔雅的特工形象，使全世界对他的代号都耳熟能详：007。 HOW TO ACT 007—SEAN CONNERY “My name is Bond—James Bond,” Sean Connery informed the world’s movie-goers in 1962. In seven Bond films over a span of 21 years, the tall, dark Scot come to embody th...
编者按： 他把它拣了起来，此刻侦探打开了灯。邓恩看了看他手里的东西。 竟然是他的手套。 The Glove James Dunne hung from the window and，after a moment，dropped to the ground．He had made no noise．He looked about him．The house was on the edge of the town and it was not too near the road．It was almost two o’clock and the night was dark．“Nobody will see me at this time of nigh...
【英文原文】 Sleeping tight could be bad for your kidneys Good news for restless sleepers －－researchers at the University of California tell us that kidney stones could be caused by sleeping too long in one position．Over ７５percent of people with recurrent kidney stones who always slept on one side got stones on that side of the body．This led the researchers to suggest ...
【英文原文】 Vanishing Breed European mink once thrived along waterways throughout most of Europe．The fur of this small mammal is soft and beautiful．But some people believed the fur of its relative the American mink was more desirable．Fur farmers released thousands of American mink in eastern Europe，and they spread throughout Europe．In the wild，American mink chased ...
【英文原文】 The Jazz Musician：Louis Armstrong Like most of the great innovators1) in jazz, Louis Armstrong is a small man. But the extent of his influence across jazz, across American music and around the world has continuing stature. His life was the embodiment2) of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armst...
编者按： 尽管两人已记不清那段往事，可当黛安娜头一次见到她未来的丈夫时，还只是个孩子。那是在1961年的冬天，当时年仅十二岁的威尔士王储查尔斯正呆在夏丁汉他母亲的休养所。 WHATEVER LOVE MEANS—DIANA Although neither nor them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prin...
编者按： 最沉重的负担同时也是一种生活最为充实的象征。负担越沉，我们的生活也就贴近大地，越趋近真切和实在。 相反，完全没有负担，人变得比大气还轻，会高高地飞起，离别大地亦即离别真实的生活。他将变得似真非真，运动自由而毫无意义。 ①If 1)eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness. But, is heaviness truly 2)depl...
编者按： 交响乐是生命的一种符号,在团体中尤其如此。每种乐器的差异性混合在一起，使得交响乐的声音具有唯一和独特性，我们的生命和我们生活的这个世界都是如此。每个个体带来各自的不同，而这些不同又影响着其他个体。 The auditorium is full of people conversing in the audience. On the stage the performers are shuffling their music and tuning their instruments as they prepare for the perf...
【英文原文】 The Amazing Migraine Cure Migraines are an absolute nightmare．The pain is excruciating．．．and it’s often accompanied by nausea，vomiting，and extreme sensitivity to light． But now there’s a cure for migraines －－an herb that not only relieves migraine pain，but decreases the frequency of attacks．The herb is called feverfew，and it works by prev...
【英文原文】 May 12 Florence Nightingale’s Birthday In 1837，to the age of seventeen，Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse，which horrified1) her whimsical2) mother．In those days，nurses were little more than janitors3)，and hospitals were pits of squalor and neglect．Nightingale pressed on，and in 1853she became superintendent4) of a small London hospital．She we...
编者按： 我知道我这样做很不理智, 但我还是直奔县城, 在那里买了一本皮面袖珍词典和一支金笔。我向父亲的遗体告别时把词典和笔放在父亲的那双大手里, 那双手曾经是那样温暖, 那双手曾经让他生活得很美满, 但却从来没有学会写字。 My Father’s Hands His hands were rough and exceedingly1) strong. He could gently prune2) a fruit tree or firmly ease a stubborn horse into a harness. What I rememb...
【英文原文】 Excerpt from Tom Jones, chapterⅣ [There was previously] a quarrel between Master Blifil and Tom Jones, the consequence of which had been a bloody nose to the former；for though Master Blifil, not with standing he was the younger, was in size above the other’s match, yet Tom was much his superior at the noble art of boxing. Tom, however, cautiously avoided all en...
【英文原文1】 Kitty Magic After a meeting one night，I felt very tired．Eager to get home and get to sleep，I was approaching my car when I heard mew，mew，mew，mew．．．Looking under my car，I saw a teeny little kitten，shaking and crying，huddled close to the tire． I have never had a fondness for cats．I‘m a dog person，thank you very much．I grew up with dogs all my yo...
编者按： 突然，我记起圣诞节快到了，并想起祖母常说的一句话：“当有人从你这儿拿走一样东西时，主动给他，这样你就永远不会遭劫。” Angel on a Doorstep When Ben delivered milk to my home that morning，he wasn’t his usual sunny self．Instead，he was the epitome1) of gloom as he dropped off his wares from his wire carrier．It took slow，careful questioning to extract the story from hi...
编者按： 假如今天是我生命中的最后一天。如果不是的话，我要跪倒在上苍面前，深深致谢。 I will live this day as if it is my last. And what shall I do with this last precious day which remains in my keeping? First, I will seal up its container of life so that not one drop spills itself upon the sand. I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday̵...
【英文原文】 A real doctor Agony is a remote mountain village which is far from town and far from civilization. The villagers own their own farms and open their own factories. Life here is generally quiet and peaceful. But life also means a lot of inconveniences in this part of the world. For example, if someone is ill, it is difficult to get a doctor nearby. Some young peo...
【英文原文】 Chack Jones’s Beautiful Life Academy Award－winning animator1) Chuck Jones，who drew such beloved cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny，Daffy Duck and Porky Pig，died of congestive2) heart failure at his home on Feb．22，2001．He was 89． Jones worked on more than 300animated films in a career that spanned more than 600years．Three of Jones’ films won Academy Awards...
The Props to Help Man Endure I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work, a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit. Not for glory and least of all, for profit, but to create out of the material of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It would not be difficult to find a dedication fo...