英文欣赏:The Old Man and the Sea老人与海

Part 6 The Old Man and the Sea 第六部分 老人与海 The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed withou...

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英文欣赏:Death of Jean 珍之死

Lesson 9 part 1 Death of Jean 第九课 第一部分 珍之死 Christmas Eve, 11 A.M. 1909 1909年12月24日上午11时 Jean is dead! 珍死了! Has any one ever tried to put upon paper all the little happenings connected with a dear one-happenings of the twenty-four hours preceding the sudden and unexpected death of that dear one? Would a book contain them? Would two books ...

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英文欣赏:John Adams to His Wife约翰·亚当斯致妻

Part 5 John Adams to His Wife 第五部分 约翰·亚当斯致妻 Prince Town New Jersey Aug. 28th, 1774 于新泽西普林斯镇1774年8月28日 My Dear: 我亲爱的: I received your kind letter, at New York, and it is not easy for you to imagine the pleasure it has given me. I have not found a single opportunity to write since I left Boston, excepting by the post and I don’...

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英文欣赏:Lord Chesterfield to His Son切斯特菲尔德勋爵致儿子

Part 6 Lord Chesterfield to His Son 第六部分 切斯特菲尔德勋爵致儿子 London,March 6, 1747 1747年3月6日于伦敦 Dear boy, 亲爱的孩子: Whatever you do, will always affect me, very sensibly, one way or another, and I am now most agreeably by two letters, which I have lately seen from Lausanne, upon your subject; the one from Madame St. Germain, the other from Mo...

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英文欣赏:How Could I Love a Race of People Who Hated Me我如何能热爱一个憎恨我的民族

Part 2 How Could I Love a Race of People Who Hated Me 第二部分 我如何能热爱一个憎恨我的民族 There was a pretty strict system of segregation in Atlanta. For a long, long time I could not go swimming, until there was a Negro YMCA. A Negro child in Atlanta could not go to any public park. I could not go to the so-called white schools. In many of the stores downtown, I co...

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英文欣赏:Fellow Travelers 同行者

Part 4 Fellow Travelers 第四部分 同行者 August 28th, 1931 1931年8月28日 The next day in the afternoon four of us started out for the hop-fields. The most interesting of the men with me was a youth named Ginger, who is still my mate when I write this. He is a strong, athletic youth of twenty six, almost illiterate and quite brainless, but daring enough for anythi...

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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 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: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: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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