英文欣赏:朋友的种类Types of Friends

友谊的基础在于两个人的心肠和灵魂有着最大的相似 。 -贝多芬 A Faraway Friend is someone you grew up with or went to school with or lived in the same town as until one of you moved away. Without a Faraway Friend, you would never get any mail addressed in handwriting. A Faraway Friend calls late at night, invites you to her wedding, always says she is coming to visit but rarely...

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英语沙龙:纵情起舞

Dancing All the Dances As Long As I Can I believe in dancing. I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. So I dance daily. The seldom-used dining room of my house is now an often-used ballroom—an open space with a hardwood floor, stereo, and a disco ball. The CD-changer has six discs at the ready: ...

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英文欣赏:失败是件好事Failure Is a Good Thing

成功是令人厌烦的。成功只是证明你能够做你已经知道自己会做的事情,或是第一次就能正确地做某件事情,而这通常是一次有问题的成功。第一次的成功通常都是侥幸的成功,相反的,第一次的失败恰恰是值得期待的。这是事物的自然法则。 Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and, as is conventional, I wished her success. I was lying. What I actually wish for her is failure. I believe i...

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英文欣赏:母亲节和父亲节

这两天是儿女向父母表示一片爱心和敬重之情的日子。父母们把孩子们带大,教育他们成为有责任感的公民,并给予他们爱心和关怀。 Mother’s Day and Father’s Day People in the United States honor their parents with two special days:Mother’s Day,on the second Sunday in May,and Father’s Day,on the third Sunday in June. Mother’s Day was proclaimed a day for national observance by Presi...

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英语沙龙:Choosing an Occupation

Dear sir, I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me from sending an earlier reply to your letter. In my opinion a man’s first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to do work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itse...

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英语沙龙:Salaries

Salaries Economists and experts on wages have long tried to discover what factors were influencing people’s salaries. Most of the factors they listed one or two centuries ago are still important today. One of those is education: college graduates have earned and are still earning more than workers who have only finished high school, and high-school graduates earn more than w...

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英语沙龙:Success Is a Choice

All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist through the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your b...

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英语沙龙:Beautiful Smile and Love

Beautiful Smile and Love I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours… And I think that in our family we don’t need bombs and guns, to destroy, to bring peace; just get together, love one another,...

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英文欣赏:清晨的许愿

我希望这一天能够带给我无畏远行的胸怀,即使旅途没有光亮的照耀;我还希望这一天能够带给我善解人意的心。 A Morning Wish The sun is just rising in the morning of another day. What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop me but touch m...

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英文欣赏:人在旅途We Are on a Journey

无论你身在何处,也无论你是何人,此时此刻,有一件事于你我而言都是相同的,而且只要我们活着,这个共同点就存在。那就是,我们并非停留不前,而是人在旅途。 We Are on a Journey By Henry Van Dyke Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike,at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence.We are not at rest; we are on a jour...

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英文欣赏:一双丝袜 A Pair of Silk Stockings

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected owner of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money. The way it filled up her worn money holder gave her a feeling of importance that she had not enjoyed for years.  一天,身材娇小的萨默斯太太意外地捡到十五美元。这对她来说算是一笔可观的财富了。这些钱把萨默斯太太那破旧的钱夹撑得鼓鼓的,她觉得自己仿...

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英文欣赏:七月之美Beauty of July

英国女诗人艾丽丝·梅内尔(Alice Meynell)这段关于夏日的描绘虽然写于上百年前,然而,四季更迭的自然之美,可以越过悠远的年代,在任何时候都能够捕捉住人的视线。诗人优美的文字及其中对季节变换,人生从激情绚烂转至平淡宁静的沉思,读起来让人不禁反复咀嚼,细细品尝依然回味无穷。 Beauty of July By Alice Meynell One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of ...

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英文欣赏:青少年Adolescence

不管家长的人品有多么好,作为父母有多么合格,孩子们对家长幻想的破灭在某种程度上是不可避免的。除非父母自身不能令人满意,大多数孩子对父母估价过高,以致这种估价很难指望经受住现实的考验。 Parents are often upset when their children praise the homes of their friends and regard it as a slur on their own cooking, or cleaning, or furniture, and often are foolish enough to let the ado...

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每日阳光絮语:发现智慧

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。 We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. 我们不接受智慧;我们必须经过一段没有人能接受或宽恕我们的旅程来自己发现。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学组)/SDcamps全国中小学生英语演讲与...

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每日阳光絮语:Peace Pilgrim

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine, Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 How inspiring it is to walk all day in the sunshine and sleep all night under the stars. What a wonderful experience in simple, natural living. You realize what the essentials of life are – such as warmth when you are cold, a dry spot on a rainy day…You experience and lear...

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英文欣赏:真正的朋友My one true friend

我希望遇见,一个这样的朋友; 我不知道是个男孩还是女孩,但我始终相信我会找到,一位真正的朋友。 My one true friend ——Germaine A true friend is always there for you. A person who will help, with all your problems. The one whom you can trust, With all your secrets. And the one who cheer you up when you are lonely. That is a friend. I want to meet. I do not know, if he’s a ...

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英文欣赏:友谊的颜色The colors of friendship

“今后,当下雨时,你们所有的颜色将横跨填空,形成一道巨大的彩虹,以提示你们七种颜色能友好共处。记住,彩虹象征着明天的希望。”因此,每当好雨洗礼世界的时候,一道彩虹都会出现在天空,让我们记得要学会彼此欣赏。 The colors of friendship Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best. The most important. The most useful. The favorite. ...

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英文欣赏:生活的真谛A Truth of Life

一个人拥有的东西再多,也多不过其没有得到的。所以,如果你的快乐建立在无限拥有的基础上,那它就太脆弱了。为了不断索取,你会劳碌一生,忧虑一生,根本顾不上快乐。相反,如果你对自己已经拥有的东西知足,快乐就会像阳光一样将你的日子照亮。 One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness ...

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每日阳光絮语:你的镜子

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。 A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is a mirror. 有爱心的人生活在充满爱意的世界里,有敌意的人生活在充满敌意的世界里,你所遇到的每一个人都是你的镜子。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学组)/SDcamps...

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英语沙龙:品味今天

Relish the Moment Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the moment. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn ad wheat...

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