英文欣赏:美的力量The Power of Beauty

人生中有比美丽更重要的事,但就如艾特考夫所说:“我们必须了解美,否则我们永远都会是它的奴隶。” One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too aware of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we spend billions ...

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英文欣赏:人生如诗Human Life Like a Poem

人生自有其韵律和节奏,自有内在的成长与衰亡。人生有童年、少年和老年,谁也不能否认这是一种美好的安排。一天要有清晨、正午和日落,一年要有四季之分,如此才好! Human Life Like a Poem I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. No one can say that a life with childhood, ma...

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英文欣赏:让我们微笑吧Let Us Smile

微笑吧!谁都懂得它意味着什么; 它价值连城却不花一文。 The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, That costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again. It’sfull of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent...

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英语沙龙:A Conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet

A Conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of...

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英文欣赏:A Psalm of Life人生礼颂

请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲:人生呵,无非是虚梦一场!因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般,事物的表里并不一样。 A Psalm of Life by Herry Wadsworth Longfellow Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art , to dust returnest, Was not sp...

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英语沙龙:塑料之父

Chemist Leo Baekeland In the opening scene of The Graduate, Benjamin (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) is awkwardly working an affluent Southern California crowd at a graduation party arranged for him by his parents when a family friend offers one of the century’s most famous pieces of cinematic advice: “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: plastic...

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英文欣赏:Discovery发现(图文)

新生儿睁开双眼的那一刻起,发现也就开始了。我是在一天清晨给一头小牛犊接生的时候突然意识到这一点的,不禁大笑。小牛仰起毛茸茸的脑袋看着我,目光中透出这个新生命对世界的一无所知。 Discovery by Diane Ackerman The word “discovery” literally means, uncovering something that’s hidden from view. But what really happens is a change in the viewer. The familiar offers comfort few can res...

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英语沙龙:戴安娜-现代灰姑娘

Whatever Love Means Although neither of 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, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother’s Sandringham retreat.At the time, your Prince Charles barely glanced at the tiny baby sleeping in her cot. After all, could a twe...

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英语沙龙:奥巴马:胜利属于你们

Obama:This Victory Belongs to You If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.? It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nati...

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英语沙龙:插上想象的翅膀

The Power of Imagination Imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived through the senses. It is the ability of the mind to built mental scenes, objects or events that do not exist, are not present or have happened in the past. Memory is actually a manifestation of imagination. Everyone possesses some imagination ability. In some it may...

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英语沙龙:What Every Writer Wants

I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two; they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; one, to my certain kno...

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英文欣赏:信心成就一切

信心成就一切,当你真正自信时,它就像灿烂的阳光一样从你身上散发出来,就像磁铁一样将成功吸引到你身上。 Nothing succeeds lacks confidence.When you are truly confident,it radiates from you like sunlight,and attracts success to you like a magnet. It’s important to believe in yourself.Believe that you can do it under any circumstances,because if you believe you can,then you ...

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英文欣赏:绅士的定义The Definition of a Gentleman

绅士,他是一个从不使别人遭受痛苦的人。这几乎就是为一个有修养的人所下的定义。 Hence it is, that it is almost a definition of a gentleman, to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he co...

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英语沙龙:Stress and Relaxation

Stress and Relaxation It is commonly believed that only rich middle-aged businessmen suffer from stress. In fact anyone may become ill as a result of stress if they experience a lot of worry over a long period and their health is not especially good. Stress can be a friend or an enemy: it can warn you that you are under too much pressure and should change your way of life. I...

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英语沙龙:岁月的便条

Yellow Post-Its Can you still find this day, my dear, among your possessions? Among the souvenirs of your trips to faraway lands, the textbooks from those halcyon days when you walked the hallowed portals of that engineering college, the cassettes whose covers were left behindafter one of those bacchanalian sessions in the hostel, the photographs of those classmates whose na...

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英语沙龙:Stress Prevention

Stress is a normal part of life and usually comes from everyday occurrences. Here are some ways you can deal with everyday sources of stress. Eliminate as many sources of stress as you can. For example, if crowds bother you, go to supermarket when you know the lines won’t be too long. Try renting videotapes rather than going to crowded movie theaters. If you are always runni...

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英语沙龙:Three Days to See

Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. The days stretch out in an endless vista, so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize ...

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英文欣赏:一切刚开始We're Just Beginning

往昔已逝,静如止水;我们无法再作改变。而前方的未来正生机勃勃;我们所做的每一件事都将会影响着它。 “We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…” I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future ...

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英文欣赏:充实你的思想

多次运用这粒种子将有助于你把许多事情联系起来,即使你做梦都想不到这些!这不是别的,就是创造力!你读的书越多,你的心智就会前所未有地开阔。 Feed Your Mind Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop othe...

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英文欣赏:林边小驻Stopping By Woods

我的小马一定以我为怪,近无房舍,为何停伫。 况只有林子与冰湖,和一年中最黑之夜。 Stopping by Woods Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though. He will not see me stopping here, To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer, To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods and frozen lake, The darkest evening of the ...

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