WHERE have I come from, where did you pick me up? the baby asked its mother. 我是从哪儿来的,你,在哪儿把我捡起来的?孩子问他的妈妈说。 She answered half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast, You were hidden
HAPPY, happy, never-returning time of childhood! 幸福的,幸福的,一去不返的童年时代啊! How can we help loving and dwelling upon its recollections? 怎能不爱惜,不珍重对童年的回忆呢? They cheer and elevate the soul, and become to one a
Image life as a game in which you are playing some five balls in the air.You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all these balls in the air. You understand that wo
A very special meal 一顿特殊的午餐 Once there was a very poor and devoted woman who always prayed to the Glory of God, asking very little, if anything for herself. 从前有一个很贫穷,很虔诚的妇人,她常常向圣明的上帝祷告,但却基本上不为自己祈祷什么—即
The last few days have found me very restless. This evening as I sat in the yard to enjoy the cool, it struck me how different the lotus pool I pass every day must look under a full moon. The moon was
In the pause towards the end of April, when the flowers seem to hesitate, the leaves make up their minds to come out. 寂静的四月底,在花儿们踌躇不定的时候,叶子们一股脑地跑了出来。 For some time, at the very ends of the bare boughs
“Who moved my cheese?”is a story about change that takes place in a Maze where four amusing characters look for “Cheese”.cheese being a metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether it is a job,
Moon gazing is an ancient art. 观月是一门古老的艺术。 To prehistoric hunters, the moon overhead was as unerring as a heartbeat. 在远古的猎人眼里,天空中月亮变化的规律如同心跳一样准确无误。 They knew that every 29 days it became full-bellied
Bowling has been around as a very popular leisure activity for many decades.Whether professional or amateur,bowlers go to bowling alleys to bowl at their own paces.Nowadays,bowling alleys are not just
In the future days, which we seek to make secure,we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The sec
The withdrawn and tense sky seems groined like the aisles of a cathedral, and the polished air sparkles as if there were crystals of ice floating in it. 天空似乎被绷紧了,往后移动,从下向上望,感觉像置身于大教堂中,头上是一块块连在一起的弧形的屋顶
And whenever his boat was laid up he would come home and swell around the town in his blackest and greasiest clothes, so that nobody could help remembering that he was a steamboatman; and he used all
What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! 人终究一死,我们所面临的情形是多么不同寻常! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; 每个人来到这个世界上,都是短暂的停留; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he f
I PACED alone on the road across the field while thesunset was hiding its last gold like a miser. 我独自在横跨过田地的路上走着,夕阳像一个守财奴似的,正藏起它的最后的金子。 The daylight sank deeper and deeper into thedarkness, and the wi
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.There was a time when we were not: this gives me no concern-why then should it trouble us that a t
The stillness of the morning is impressive. 早晨的寂静真令人难忘。 The floor creaks under our feet as we move toward the window to look abroad through some clear space over the fields, we see the roofs stand und
I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, 夏天的一个清晨,我碰巧起得很早。 and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows, while the green was new, and the flowe
I remember being so over enjoyed, when a year later, you gently held my hand to your waist and whispered in my ear that we were going to be a family. 一年后,你轻轻地把我的手放到你的腹前,对着我的耳朵悄悄透露这个让我欣喜若狂的好消息:我们就快有宝宝啦
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and suppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it i
Opening the gate,we tread briskly along the lone country road,crunching the dry and crisped snow under our feet, or aroused by the sharp, clear creak of the wood sled, just starting for the distant ma