英文欣赏:Wandering in Brazilian Forest漫步巴西森林

Part 3 Wandering in Brazilian Forest 第三部分 漫步巴西森林 February 29th, 1832 1832年2月29日 The day has past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has been wandering by himself in a Brazilian forest. Among the multitude of striking objects, the general luxuriance of the vegetation ...

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英文欣赏:My Pain我的痛苦

Part 5 My Pain 第五部分 我的痛苦 I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me- because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction- because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me w...

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英文欣赏:At the Sleepy Hollow睡谷经历

Part 2 At the Sleepy Hollow 第二部分 睡谷经历 August 12, 1841 1841年8月12日 After leaving the book at Mr. Emerson’s, I returned through the woods, and entering Sleepy Hollow, I perceived a lady reclining near the path which bends along its verge. It was Margaret herself. She had been there the whole afternoon, meditating or reading; for she had a book in h...

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英文欣赏:The Best Nourishment of Life 生命最好的养料

Part 2 The Best Nourishment of Life 第二部分 生命最好的养料 A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because poliomyelitis made his leg lame and his teeth uneven and protrudent. He seldom played with his classmates; and when the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always lowered his head without a word. 一个小男孩几乎...

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英文欣赏:The Brightest Heaven of Invention最璀璨的创新天堂

Part 4 The Brightest Heaven of Invention 第四部分 最璀璨的创新天堂 The saga of Steve Jobs is the Silicon Valley creation myth writ large: launching a startup in his parents,garage and building it into the world’s most valuable company. He didn’t invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that in...

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英文欣赏:The School学校

Part 3 The School 第三部分 学校 Yes, study comes hard to you, my dear Enrico, as your mother says. I do not yet see you set out for school with that resolute mind and that smiling face which I should like. You are still intractable. But listen; reflect a little! What a miserable, despicable thing your day would be if you did not go to school! At the end of a week you ...

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英文欣赏:Companionship of Books 以书为伴

Part 6 Companionship of Books 第六部分 以书为伴 A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. 了解一个人,通常可以看他读什么书,结交什么人.因为有人以人为伴,有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友...

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英文欣赏:The Man and the Opportunity 人与机遇

Lesson 10 Part 1 The Man and the Opportunity 第十课 第一部分 人与机遇 The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. 缺乏机遇总是意志薄弱、优柔寡断者的借口。机遇!每个人的生命中都充满着机遇! Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity. Every examination is a chance in life. Every busines...

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英文欣赏:Ogden Nash to His Daughters奥格登·纳什致女儿

Part 3 Ogden Nash to His Daughters 第三部分 奥格登·纳什致女儿 February 6, 1939 1939年二月六号 My sweet girls, 我可爱的女儿们: I wish so that you were here with us. the next time we must surely bring you along. so remember to practice your manners and (learn to eat all sorts of food. Paris is full of children. There are lots of parks, and every park is full...

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英文欣赏:Solitude 独处

Part 4 Solitude 第四部分 独处 I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is alway...

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英文欣赏:The Most Important Day in My Life我人生中最重要的日子

Part 3 The Most Important Day in My Life 第三部分 我人生中最重要的日子 The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887,three months before I was seven years old. ...

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英文欣赏:The Pleasures of Ignorance 无知的快乐

Part 5 The Pleasures of Ignorance 第五部分 无知的快乐 It is impossible to take a walk in the country with an average townsman-especially, perhaps, in April or May-without being amazed at the vast continent of his ignorance. It is impossible to take a walk in the country oneself without being amazed at the vast continent of one’s own ignorance.Thousands of men an...

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英文欣赏:Morrie,My Old Professor 我的老教授莫里

Part 5: Morrie:My Old Professor 第五部分 莫里:我的老教授 Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. 你曾真正拥有一位良师吗? 一位认为你虽然未加雕琢却弥足珍贵的老师,一位 ...

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英文欣赏:Different from the Start一开始就与众不同

Lesson 12 Part 1 Different from the Start 第十二课 第一部分 一开始就与众不同 Five-year-old Albert Einstein stared at his hand as if it held magic. Cupped in his palm was a small,round instrument with a glass cover and a jiggling needle. Albert’s father called it a compass. Albert called it a mystery. No matter how he moved the compass, the needle always pointed...

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英文欣赏:Abraham Lincoln亚伯拉罕·林肯

Part 5 Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯 August 12th, 1879 1879年8月12日 I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location some three miles north of the city, the Soldiers’ home, a United States military ...

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英文欣赏:Down the Rabbit-Hole掉进兔子洞

Part 2 Down the Rabbit-Hole 第二部分 掉进兔子洞 Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?...

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英文欣赏:I Will Live This Day as if It Is My Last 我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去过

Part 6 I Will Live This Day as if It Is My Last 第六部分 我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去过 I will live this day as if it is my last. 我会把今天当成生命的最后一天去过。 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 ...

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英文欣赏:I Am a Chatterbox我是个话匣子

Part 6 I Am a Chatterbox 第六部分 我是个话匣子 Sunday, June 21, 1942 1942年6月21日,星期日 Dearest Kitty, 最亲爱的基蒂: Our entire class is quaking in its boots. The reason, of course, is the upcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll be promoted to the next grade and who’ll be kept back. Half the class is making bets. G. Z. and I la...

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英文欣赏:Susan Brownnell Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton苏珊·布朗内尔·安东尼致伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

Part 2 Susan Brownnell Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton 第二部分 苏珊·布朗内尔·安东尼致伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿 October,1902 1902年十月 My dear Mrs. Stanton, 我亲爱的斯坦顿太太: I shall indeed be happy to spend with you November 12, the day on which you round out your four-score and seven, over four years ahead of me, but in age as in all else I follow you cl...

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英文欣赏:Friday星期五

Part 4 Friday 第四部分 星期五 When the three persons came to the creek, I found that two of them could swim, but the third could not, and that, standing on the other side,he looked at the others, but went no farther, and soon after went softly back again; which, as it happened,was very good for him in the end. I observed that the two who swam were yet more than twic...

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