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Language and Culture 语言与文化 Languages are marvelously complex 语言是极其复杂 and wonderfully complicated organs of culture: 难解的文化工具： they embody the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating 它们是最快捷最有效的交流思想的手段 within their respective culture. 在各文化中。 To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. 学习外语就等于学习另一...
Day 17 第17天 Mother to Son 母亲致儿子 Langston Hughes 朗斯顿·休斯 Well,son,I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. 孩子，我要告诉你 生活对于我来说没有水晶般的阶梯 It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare. 它自有自己的轨道 有荆棘 有坎坷 没有鲜花和红地毯 光秃秃的什么也没有 But all the time...
O, never say that I was false of heart, 哦，千万别埋怨我改变过心肠， Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify. 别离虽似乎减低了我的热情。 As easy might I from myself depart 正如我抛不开自己远走他方， As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie: 我也一刻离不开你，我的灵魂。 That is my home of love: if I have ranged, 你是我的爱的家：我虽曾流浪， Like him that travels I ...
When I consider every thing that grows, 当我默察一切活泼泼的生机， Holds in perfection but a little moment, 保持它们的芳菲都不过一瞬， That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows, 宇宙的舞台只搬弄一些把戏 Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; 被上苍的星宿在冥冥中牵引； When I perceive that men as plants increase, 当我发觉人和草木一样蕃衍， Cheered and check'...
Day 26 第26天 These Things Shall Never Die 这些美好不会消逝 Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯 The pure, the bright,the beautiful,That stirred our hearts in youth 一切纯洁的、辉煌的、美丽的， 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵 The dreams of love and truth;The longing after something's lost, The spirit's yearning cry, 让我们梦想着爱与真理； 在失去后感到珍惜的， 使灵魂深切地呼喊...
Few of us want to appear dependent: witness the rugged determination of many older people to resist support to which they're entitled; and the intense frustration of some who've spent a lifetime caring for others who now find it painfully difficult to accept that they're the ones who must be cared for.The Christian faith, like others, commends the good life as on...
Blue Planet 蓝色星球 We all have a common home. 我们拥有一个共同的家 She provides us with enough food, enough water and enough living room. 她向我们提供足够的粮食，足够的水和足够的空间。 We get everything from nature to live better, 为了生活得更好，我们向自然界索取， but we don't do anything to protect her. 但我们却从不保护她 Now the air is polluted,the earth is poisoned...
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, 厌了这一切，我向安息的死疾呼， As, to behold desert a beggar born, 比方，眼见天才注定做叫化子， And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, 无聊的草包打扮得衣冠楚楚， And purest faith unhappily for sworn, 纯洁的信义不幸而被人背弃， And guilded honour shamefully misplaced, 金冠可耻地戴在行尸的头上， And maiden virtue rudely strumpe...
Creating Your Own Life 创造属于你自己的生活 Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I'm Faith. 这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台节目。 Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these peo...
Morning Song—Sylvia Plath 晨歌——西尔维亚·普拉斯 Love set you going like a fat gold watch. 爱将你发动，像一块胖胖的金表。 The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry 助产士拍打你的脚底，光着头你的哭喊 Took its place among the elements. 在万物中占据一席之地。 Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. 我们的声音回响，将你的到来放大。新的雕像。 In a drafty ...
In a more agnostic culture than the one I grew up with it's a challenge to know how to talk meaningfully about something so enormous when we don't really understand it. There is scepticism about the afterlife these days. But however sceptical people may be about heaven and hell, it always feels brutal to speak of the total extinction of personality, when the personal...
Day 50 第50天 The Last Rose of Summer 夏日最后的玫瑰 Thomas Moore 汤姆斯·摩尔 'Tis the last rose of summer 这是夏日最后的玫瑰 Left blooming alone; 独自绽放着； All her lovely companions 所有昔日动人的同伴 Are faded and gone; 都已凋落残逝； No flower of her kindred, 身旁没有同类的花朵， No rose-bud is nigh, 没有半个玫瑰苞， to reflect back her blushes, 映衬她的红润， to...
Security is mostly a superstition. 安全大抵虚幻， It does not exist in nature, 世间无处寻觅。 nor do the children of men 芸芸众生， as a whole experience it. 无人有此经历。 Avoiding danger is no safer 避险难计久长， in the long run than outright exposure. 不如现身搏击。 Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. 抑或险中求胜，抑或碌碌无为，人生非此即彼。 To keep our face...
The Passover season is well and truly on us.We're preparing our homes for the festival of freedom, with its special foods and elaborate rituals, one of the oldest religious rituals in the world, and one of Judaism's most sacred moments. What's special is that it's observed not in the synagogue but at home, around the table, as a family. The starring part is a...
Day 48 第48天 Ode to a Nightingale 夜鸾颂 John Keats 约翰·济慈 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains 我的心在痛，困顿和麻木 My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, 刺进了感官有如饮过毒鸩 Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains 又像是刚把鸦片吞服 One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 於是向列斯忘川下沉 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 并不是我忌...
J. K. Galbraith once said, "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." He could have been speaking of the decisions we keep putting off about how we pay for future care of the elderly. Yet the urgent need for decisions was underlined this week by the Office for National Statistics. It revealed that ...
2. Spread Your Wings 2.展翅高飞 Close your eyes, open your heart, 闭上眼睛，打开心扉， Concentrate hard, get ready to start. 集中精力，准备出发。 It is almost time to lift off and fly. 几乎是振翅起飞的时候了。 Believe in yourself and you'll fly very high. 相信自己，你会飞得很高。 Open your wings, spread them out. 张开羽翼，展开翅膀。 This is what flying is all about. 这...
Day 70 第70天 Say Not, the Struggle Naught Availeth 不要说，努力终是脱空 Arthur Hugh Clough 亚瑟·休·克勒夫 Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, 不要说奋斗终是徒劳， 辛劳和创伤白费无功， The enemy faints not, nor faileth, 敌人未衰竭也未打倒， And as things have been they remain. 事物如旧而毫无变动。 If hopes were dupes, fears may be liar...
Who will believe my verse in time to come, 未来的时代谁会相信我的诗， If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? 如果它充满了你最高的美德？ Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb, 虽然，天知道，它只是一座墓地 Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. 埋着你的生命和一半的本色。 If I could write the beauty of your eyes, 如果我写得出你美目的流盼， And ...
When I wake up each morning and see you next to me 每天早晨当我醒来 看到你在我身旁 I know that my day will be all right 我知道我这一天将会一切都好 sometimes it is hard to put feelings into words 有时很难用话语来表达感受 but I want you to know how you affect me 但是我想让你知道你是怎样影响着我 When I wake up and see you in the morning 当我早晨醒来看到你 I am so happy that we ...