英文欣赏:给自己放松Give Yourself a Relaxing Day

在办公室里度过的时光可能是你一天中最紧张的一段时间,但是这种情况是可以改变的.你有很强的能力来营造良好的办公气氛,只是你可能并没有意识到自己的这种能力。 The time you spend at the office may be the most stressful part of your day, but it doesn’t have to be. You have a greater ability to shape your office environment than you may realize. Take breaks throughout the day. It ...

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英语沙龙:Work and Play

Work and Play Our everyday existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and night. We call them work and play. We work so many hours a day, and when we have allowed the necessary minimum for such activities as eating and shopping, the rest we spend in various activities which are known as recreations, an elegant word which disguises the fact that we usually do no...

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英文欣赏:利用好你的错误

当你犯错时,不要总放在心上。记住犯错的原因,然后向前看。犯错是智慧的课程。过去无法改变。现在仍在你的手中。利用好你的错误,来实现你的目标和理想。 Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life. Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who are able to learn...

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英文欣赏:在探索中成长

美丽总会稍纵即逝,从外到内,给人留下无尽的感伤。对美的需求是人类最崇高的善举,是人类灵魂最伟大的天赋。 Growing in the Middle Ground Anne Phipps I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searching. Until this winter, I be...

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英语沙龙:The Success Personality

The Success Personality Is there a “success personality” — some winning combination of qualities that leads almost inevitably to achievement? If so, exactly what is that secret success formula, and can anyone develop it? At the Gallop Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes of 1500 prominent people selected at random from Who’s Who in Amer...

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英文欣赏:聆听内心的声音

从我们来到这个世界的那一刻起,请仔细聆听你的心灵.在来到这个世界的最初的两年里,我们还不能开口讲话,心灵是我们理解事物的一种方式. Very much ,ever since you were brought into this world. when you coulden’t open your mouth till the first two years on planet earth, inner voice is the one through which you interpreted and understood things. Inner voice is the voice mouth ...

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英语沙龙:父亲的曼陀林

Dad’s Mandolin My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not read music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it. When he was younger, he was a member of a small country music band. They would play at local dances and on a few occasions would play for the local radio station. He often told...

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英文欣赏:大学的意义

这个世界的悲剧在于那些富有想象力的人经验不多,而那些富有经验的人却想象不足。没有知识的傻瓜全凭想象办事,没有想象的学究全凭知识办事。大学的任务就是把想象和经验彼此结合起来。 Universities and Their Function By Alfred North Whitehead The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old i...

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英文欣赏:再别康桥Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again

悄悄的我走了, 正如我悄悄的来; 我挥一挥衣袖, 不带走一片云彩。 Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again — by Xu Zhimo Very quietly I take my leave As quietly as I came here; Quietly I wave good-bye To the rosy clouds in the western sky. The golden willows by the riverside Are young brides in the setting sun; Their reflections on the shimmering waves Always linger in the dep...

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英语沙龙:The Two Drives in Man

The Two Drives in Man Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in thei...

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英语沙龙:福克纳:人类生存的支柱

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...

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英文欣赏:站在进步的起跑点

我希望未来比过去更加美好,希望未来不会沾染历史的错误与过失。我们都应举目向前,因我们的余生要用未来书写。 “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 and ...

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英语沙龙:Human Thought Grows Like a Tree

Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowly—you can watch it long and see no movement —very silently, unnoticed. It was planted in the world many thousand years ago, a tiny, sickly plant. And men guarded it and tended it, and gave up life and fame to aid its growth. In the hot days of their youth, t...

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英语沙龙:Wild Flowers

Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eyes. I’ve noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is too warm for it. Every day for approximately two weeks, I see those beautiful flowers. This spring, I started a wildflower...

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英文欣赏:幸福的回忆

呃……我住过的最可爱的房子,就是小时侯和爷爷奶奶一起住的房屋了。房子的名字叫“十字地带”,它留给我一些令人非常愉快的回忆。 A Beautiful Memory Er…the loveliest house that I’ve ever lived in was one that I lived in with my grandparents when I was a child. And the name of the house was Crosslands. And I have some very happy memories of Crosslands. It was, it seemed, so ...

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英语沙龙:Address at Gettysburg

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedic...

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每日阳光絮语:你会感到幸福

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine. 欢迎来到Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 Compare what you want with what you have, and you’ll be unhappy; compare what you have with what you deserve and you’ll be happy. 拿你想要的与所拥有的相比,你会不感到快乐;而拿你所拥有的与你应得的相比,你会感到幸福。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学...

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英文欣赏:思考你的生活Thinking about Your Life

你的生活目的和人生使命是什么呢?你把它写下来了吗?你是否重新审视过,经常思考这件事呢?你的生活都是围绕这个目标进行的吗?你是否设置一系列小目标来实现这个大目标呢? How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time ...

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英语沙龙:The Bread of Life

There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved; with barns and warehouses filled, with shelves and larders laden they are empty and hungry. No man need envy them; their feverish, restless whirl in the dust of publicity is but the search for a satisfaction never to be found in things. They are called rich in a world where no others are more truly, pitiably p...

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英文欣赏:完美的人生The Wholeness of Life

人生的完整性在于知道如何面对缺陷,如何勇敢地摒弃不现实的幻想而又不以此为缺憾。 Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pi...

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