Americans celebrate Valentine's Day each year on February fourteenth. 美国人在每年的2月14日庆祝情人节。 It is a holiday for lovers. 这是情人们的节日。 Valentine's Day is a good day for a man to ask his girlfriend to marry hi
The wholeness of life 健全的人生 Once a circle missed a wedge. 从前，一只圆圈缺了一块楔子。 The circle wanted to be whole, 它想保持完整， so it went around looking for its missing piece. 便四处寻找那块楔子。 But because it was incomplet
The Optimism Bias 盲目乐观的好处 We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. 我们喜欢把自己当作理智的生物。 We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. 我们总会提防背后的危险，权衡胜负的几率，随身携带雨伞以防下雨。 But both neuroscien
Baby Names 孩子起名学问大 Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring. 给自己的孩子取名完全是个人私事， Yet laws regulating the choice of both first names and surnames are common around the world. 但世界上对孩子取名
If 如果 If you can keep your head when all about you, 如果周围的人都失去理智怪罪于你， Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 而你仍能镇定自若保持冷静， If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 如果所有人都对你心存猜忌， But make all
Once More to the Lake 旧湖重游 Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, 夏日，哦，夏日，生命中的印记留存不去， the fade proof lake, 那永不消失的湖泊， the woods unshatterable, 永不摧折的林木， the pasture with the sweet fern an
Exercise and Longevity 健身与长寿的关系 ONE sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any ailment. 如果有人宣称他的药能包治百病，我们一般就能确定这是个庸医。 There are, sadly, no panaceas. 因为世上根本没有所谓的灵丹妙药。 But
Summer Sunrises on the Mississippi 密西西比河上夏天的日出 One can never see too many summer sunrises on the Mississippi. 夏天，密西西比河上的日出奇美无比， They are enchanting. 令人百看不厌。 First, there is the eloquence of silence;fo
Members of the Harvard Family: 哈佛是一个大家庭。 Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world. 这个院子里在场的人们，是全世界最有智力的人类群体之一。 For what purpose? 我们可以做些什么？ There is no quest
When It's Light Out, You're Out 去室外玩耍吧 Television can be a wonderful learning tool. 电视能成为很好的学习工具。 Thirty-odd years ago, "Sesame Street" ,"The Electric Company" and "Mr. Rogers'Neighbourhood"helped my
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. 87年前，我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家
Napoleon to Josephine 拿破仑致约瑟芬 I have your letter, my adorable love. 我收到了你的信，我膜拜的心上人。 It has filled my heart with joy... 你的信使我充满了欢乐… Since I left you I have been sad all the time. 自从与你分手以后，我一直闷闷不乐，愁眉不展
Weather Forecasting 天气预报 It is the material for the conversation of board chairman and bored cleaning woman,of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. 天气是董事会主席和无聊的清洁女佣之间闲聊的话题，也是
Liberating the Modern Woman? 解放现代妇女？ Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work
William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 Of all the famous English writers,probably the best known is William Shakespeare. 在所有举世闻名的英文作家中，最著名的的也许要数莎士比亚了。 He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 on April the 23rd. 莎
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. 快乐就像一块为了激起阵阵涟漪而丢进池塘的小石头。 As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. 正好史蒂文森所说，快乐是一种责任。 There is no
In our society, what is formal? Very little. On average, clothing, language, behavior -- all is very informal. Individuals who are formal (polite, inoffensive, organized) in their daily dealings with
Foreign Motorists 外国司机 The chief problem in coping with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from yourself,but that they are enormously variable. 应对外国司机问题的主要困难不是要记住他们与你
The Furthest Distance in the World 世界上最遥远的距离 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not between life and death, 不是生与死 But when I stand in front of you, 而是我就站在你的面前 Yet you don't know that 你却不知
So, how do I define success? 那么我是如何定义成功的呢？ Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. 让我告诉你，钱很美好。 I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that it's not about money,'cause money is very nice. 我不会告诉你们成功与
