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
The Importance of Being Honest 诚信无价 In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened. 在繁华的纽约，曾经发生了这样一件震撼人心的事情。 On a friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the
American's Music Taste 美国人的音乐品味 James Fenimore Cooper, an early American writer, once said, "The All1eri-cans are almost ignorant of the art of music." If that was once true, you would never know it t
Every second, we have the opportunity to make the next second greater than now. 每一秒，我们都有机会让下一秒变得比现在更好。 Because destiny isn't a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. 因为真正决定命运的不是运气，而是选择。 So let go
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll 贾巴沃克 - Lewis Carroll Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 是滑菱鲆在缓慢滑动 Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 时而翻转时而平衡； All mimsy were the borogoves, 所有的扭捏作态展示了 And the mome raths out
Unit2 The Joy of Labor 第二课 劳动之乐 Wise men of ancient times and successful men of today have told us that labor is sweet. 古时的贤达和今天的成功者都告诉我们劳动是甜美的。 Its reward is not material gain but what one becomes by
All for one; one for all. —Alexandre Dumas. French writer 人人为找，我为人人。——大仲马，法国作家 Beauty lives with kindness. —William Shakespeare, English dramatist 美寓于善。——威廉·莎长比亚，英国剧作家 Virtue is bold, and goodness nev
Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. 从前，一位父亲惩罚了自己5岁的女儿，因为她用光了家里仅有的一卷昂贵的金色包装纸。 Money was tight, and he became e
So we'll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron 好吧，我们不再一起漫游 拜伦 So we'll go no more a-roving 好吧，我们不再一起漫游， So late into the night, 消磨这幽深的夜晚， Though the heart still be as loving, 尽管这颗心仍旧迷恋， And the moon still
I was nine when my father first sent me flowers. 我九岁那年，父亲第一次送花给我。 I had been taking tap-dancing lessons for six months, and the school was giving its yearly recital. 当时，我加入学校踢踏舞班才六个月，正逢学校举办一年一度的演出。 As
The Letter for My daughter 写给女儿的信 Dear Malia and Sasha, 亲爱的马莉亚和莎夏： I know that you've both had a lot of fun these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state fairs, ea
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare 十四行诗 第116首 - William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. 别让我承认，两颗真心的结俦会有什么障碍： Love is not love Which alters when it alteration find
Silver - Walter de la Mare 银 - Walter de la Mare Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; 慢慢地、静静地，现在月儿穿着一双银鞋走进了夜； This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon s
American's Way of Hospitality 美式待客之道 An American friend has invited you to visit his family. You've never been to an American's home before, and you're not sure what to do. Should you take a gift? How
Fires Long Ago 很久以前的火 We don't know how the first fire was made. 我们不知道第一束火是怎样来的。 Early fires on the earth were certainly caused by nature,not by man. 但地球上早期的火是由大自然产生的，不是人发明的。 Some were caused by light
Whoever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight? by Christopher Marlowe It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We
Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. 在我的童年时期，很长一段时间里，每个夜里，母亲总习惯来为我掖住被角。 Following her longstanding custom, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the wa
visit with a tramp 一个流浪汉的来访 I was swinging on the front gate, trying to decide whether to walk down the street to play with Verna, my best friend in fifth grade, when I saw a tramp come up the road. 我
One morning as Cam left the radio station, he saw a young man sitting in an old yellow Dodge in the parking lot Cam waved to him and drove away. When he went back to work that night, he noticed the ca
England's Bar Customs 英国人的酒吧礼仪 Amazingly for the British, who love queues, there is no formal line-up -the bar staff are skilled at knowing whose turn it is. You are permitted to try to attract attent
