英语沙龙:打造完美生活的六种武器

Top Six Ways to Build a Wonderful Life 1. Live Below Your Means There will always be temptation to forsake the future for immediate gratification. We all want to buy that new piece of technology, treat ourselves to an expensive night on the town, or take out a loan for the flashy car we can’t afford. It might feel great at the time but rash spending hurts a lot later o...

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英文欣赏:徘徊的岁月The Year of Wandering

徘徊时期不是胸无大志的表现,而恰恰是雄心壮志的表现。年轻人正是在这一时期的骚动不安中明确人生的方向并为人生使命的实现做好了最后的准备。 Between the preparation and the work,the apprenticeship and the actual dealing with a task or an art,there comes, in the experience of many young men,a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counted as time waste...

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英文欣赏:变化之道On Changes

变化是世界上惟一绝对的东西,  是惟一你能相信的事情。 On Changes –Irene Dunlap Change is the only absolute in the world, the only thing that you can depend on. Nothing stays the same. Tomorrow will come, bringing with it new beginnings and sometimes unexpected endings. You can hold on to the past and get left in the dust; or, you can choose to jump on the ride of life...

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英文欣赏:你的守护天使

上帝轻轻地拍了一下孩子的脑袋说:“你的天使会对你说最最美丽、最最动听的话语,而这些都是你从未听过的。她会不厌其烦地教你说话。” Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?” God replied, “Among the many angels, I ch...

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英语沙龙:如何梦想成真

Dreams To accomplish great things, you must dream great dreams. But dreaming alone isn’t enough, you must believe in your dreams and you must act. Without action, even the most grand of dreams evaporate into the air when left unnurtured in the misty realms of the mind. Do you dare to be a dreamer? Prepare to go it alone. Dreamers build bridges between the known and the...

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英文欣赏:永远的朋友A forever friend

你真正的朋友会让你振作起来,原本黯淡、空虚的世界顿时变得明亮和充实。 你真正的朋友会与你一同度过困难、伤心和烦恼的时刻。 A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Sometimes in life, you find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop; Someone who makes you believe that there re...

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英文欣赏:Silence沉默

沉默本身也是一种思想和心境的流露,是灵魂的另一种形式的回声。 Indeed, for a living being there is no such thing as true silence, for silence itself is a revelation of the mind and the heart, an echo of the soul of a different form. Some people use silence as a disguise of the emptiness of the head. Some use it as a means to depict their disorientation and melancholy. And some...

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英文欣赏:人生的回音The Echo

我们常把生活比作镜子,它折射出你对生活的态度,当你微笑时,镜中的人也会对你微笑;当你苦恼时,镜中的人也会和你一起苦恼;当你生气时,镜中的人也会生气。对生活微笑吧,生活也会给你带来微笑! A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams, “AAAhhhh!!!”To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the ...

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英文欣赏:这些美好不会消逝

一切纯洁的、辉煌的、美丽的,强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的,推动着我们做无言的祷告的,让我们梦想着爱与真理的…这些美好不会消逝。 These Things Shall Never Die by Charles Dickens The pure.the bright,the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longing after something’s lost, The spirit’s year...

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每日阳光絮语:Something to believe in

Welcome to another brand new day at Faithradio online daily sunshine, Faith英语电台每日阳光絮语。 One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world. 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辩论大会(中小学及幼儿...

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英文欣赏:忧郁的日子The Blue Days

那些日子真是惨透了,你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底的精疲力竭。那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道,每件事情似乎都够不着边。你根本无法振作起来。 Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach.You can’t rise to t...

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英文欣赏:美是大地的微笑-爱美之心

美是如此宝贵,如此适意于我们的最温柔和高贵的情感,所以一想到芸芸众生居处在美之间,却对美几乎视而不见,就会令人内心苦痛。 The Love of Beauty The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to t...

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英语沙龙:Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline

Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr Caroline has known to me all my life. It was my privilege to see her out of hers. After my father’s death, to Mammy I came to represent the head of that family to which she had given a half century of fidelity and devotion. But the relationship between us never became that of master and servant. She still remained one of my earliest rec...

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每日阳光絮语:永远得不到的东西

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。 The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. 我们永远得不满足的一样东西是爱。我们永远给不够的东西也是爱。 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辩论大会(中小学及幼儿组)/美式辩...

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每日阳光絮语:阳光令人愉悦

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。 Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. 阳光令人愉悦;雨水令人清醒;风声令人奋起;雪花令人兴奋。这个世界没有所谓的坏天气,只有不同的好天气。 (—— John Rus...

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英语沙龙:Children’s Hours at Home

Children’s Hours at Home However important we may regard school life to be, there is no denying that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong allies of the school personnel or they can consciously or unconsciously hinder curricular objectives. Admin...

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英语沙龙:Did The Earth Move for You?

Did The Earth Move for You? Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness. They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that few, if any, wer...

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英文欣赏:Think it Over好好想想……

寻找更我的知识,多读一些书,坐在你家的前廊里,以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景,不要带上任何功利的想法; 花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起,吃你爱吃的食物,去你想去的地方; 生活是一串串的快乐时光;我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存; Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; We spend more,but enjoy less; We have bigger houses,but ...

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英语沙龙:Education and Schooling

Education and Schooling It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education...

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英文欣赏:让我们成为更有爱心的人

倘若所有的星星消失或者消亡,我应该学会仰望空荡的天空, 同时感受天空一片漆黑的崇高,虽然这样可能要花费一点时间。 The More Loving One by W.H.Auden/W.H. Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we ...

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