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编者按： 那最能赋予生命价值、代价最廉而回报最多的东西， 不过一个令人心畅的微笑而已。 Let Us Smile The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, That costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again. It’sfull of worth ...
编者按： 八月是多么令人惬意的季节啊！果园和麦田到处都充溢着忙碌劳作的声响；串串果实压得果树都弯下了腰，枝条低垂到地面；还有谷穗，有的一捆捆优雅地堆挤在一起，有的迎风招展，仿佛在向镰刀求爱，它们给周围的景致染上了一层金黄的色调；整个大地似乎笼罩在醇香柔和的气氛中 August (Excerpt) by Charles Dickens There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful app...
Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. I cannot see the red and blue fl...
All I Remember When my father spoke to me，he always began the conversation with “Have I told you yet today how much I adore you？”The expression of love was reciprocated and，in his later years，as his life began to visibly ebb1)，we grew even closer．．． At ８２he was ready to die，and I was ready to let him go so that his suffering would end．We laughed and cried and hel...
编者按： 唱则群山应， 叹则空散尽。 回声反射成欢欣， 倾诉忧虑无回音。 Solitude –Ella Wheeler Wilcox ?? Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ?? Sing, and the hills will answer; ?? Sigh, it is lost on the air. ?? The echoes bound to a joyful sound, ?? But shri...
The Ugly Duckling One evening, the sun was just setting in with true splendor when 1)a flock of beautiful large birds appeared out of the bushes. The duckling had never seen anything so beautiful. They were dazzlingly white with long waving necks. They were swans and uttering a peculiar cry. They spread out their magnificent broad wings and flew away from the cold regions to...
A new Version1) of Washington and Cherry Tree Mr．Washington looked at the cherry tree and scratched his chin．“Now George，”he said to his son，“Are you sure you had nothing to do with chopping2) this tree down？”“I don’t clearly recall chopping this tree down，”answered George．“Isn’t this your axe3)？”asked the father，pointing to the tool on the ground by the stump of th...
编者按： 要无所畏惧而不是听天由命。因为你明白，我相信当我满怀诚意，静静等待事情发生时，它们便会发生。这并不是一种消极的状态，而是对自己真正处境的了解。 The Art of Bouncing Back by Joyce Grenfell I think the center of my faith is an absolute certainty of good. Like everyone else, I get low and there are times when I feel as if I have my fins backwards and am swimming upstream...
The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast- Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child – so high – you are, And all this is folly to the world. By Ezra Pound 少女 树长进我的手心， 树叶升上我的手臂， 树在我的前胸 朝下长， 树枝象手臂从...
编者按： 当你犯错时,不要总放在心上。记住犯错的原因,然后向前看。犯错是智慧的课程。过去无法改变。现在仍在你的手中。利用好你的错误,来实现你的目标和理想。 Mistakes Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life. Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who...
Please let me have a little world,please my dear husband.Be so generous as to Let me have a little of my own.If you find me scrawling on a piece of newspaper.please don’t piple over my shoulders.It may be that I’m inventing some paintful feelings long denied description,or trying to compose a little poem.Not yet for the time being,or attempting to scrath out some...
编者按： 如果有人问我如何解决学校面临的危机时，那就是惠特森先生的教学方法。我没有任何伟大的科学发现，但是惠特森先生的课给我和同学们一样重要的启示：我们要正视别人的眼睛，勇敢地告诉他们，他们错了。他也同样指出我们的不足，这会获得无穷的乐趣。 The Best Teacher I Ever Had Mr.Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about an animal called...
雨继续说：“今后，当下雨时，你们所有的颜色将横跨填空，形成一道巨大的彩虹，以提示你们七种颜色能友好共处。记住，彩虹象征着明天的希望。”因此，每当好雨洗礼世界的时候，一道彩虹都会出现在天空，让我们记得要学会彼此欣赏。 The colors of friendship Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. ?? All claimed that they were the best. ?? The most important. ?? The most use...
编者按： 但是直到多年以后我才渐渐地明白那些痛苦的“第一首诗”的经历的真正意义。当我成为一名专业作家以后，我才越来越明白自己曾多么幸运。我有一位说“巴蒂，这当真是你写的吗？我觉得写得真棒”的母亲，还有一位摇头否定说“我认为写得很糟”使我流泪的父亲。一个作家——实际上我们生活中的每个人——都需要爱的力量作为一切创作的动力，但是仅仅有爱的力量是不完整的，甚至是误导的，平衡的爱应该是告诫对方...
简布朗已经结婚2年了。她有三个孩子，住在俄亥俄州州府哥伦布市郊。最小的孩子够上学年龄时，她决定返回工作岗位。她想她应该为家庭经济做出贡献。她的薪水可能改变家庭经济拮据、节衣缩食这种困境，使家庭经济状况趋于稳定。简对她的家庭主妇的角色也感到极度厌倦、非常失望了，因此渴望更多地参与到家庭以外的社会生活中去。简担心她的孩子们适应不了这种新的变化，于是做出安排，让孩子们每天下午放学后...
编者按： 他最后一次送给我的这张贺卡如今仍保存在我的记事牌上。它提醒我父亲是多么地不同寻常，以及这些年来对我是多么地重要，我知道我有这样一位父亲，他以慷慨的胸怀、朴素的理解和一生中向他的亲人表达祝福的能力，来保持着爱的传统。 My Forever Valentine The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to...
编者按： “爱能历久常新。华发或会失去原有的光彩。双颊或会日显消瘦黯淡。然而，有爱的心中，从无寒冬霜冰，只有夏之温热。” keep walking in sunshine Years of storms had taken their toll on the old windmill. Its wheel, rusted and fallen, lay silent in the lush bluegrass. Its once animated silhouette was now a tall motionless steeple in the twilight sun. I hadn‘t walked across our o...
编者按： 要想有个美丽花园， 面积大小姑且不管， 要想园中长满鲜花， 就必须把汗水挥洒。 RESULTS AND ROSES Edgar Albert Guest The man who wants a garden fair, Or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth, That wishes can attain, Whatever we want of any worth, We?ve got to work to gain. It matters not wh...
What the Americans Don’ t Talk About ! One of the recurring questions that my students in China often ask is:”What are the things they shouldn’t talk about with Americans?”Taboo1) topics tend to make people feel uneasy.Every culture has these off－limits subjects.In ours,the following immediately come to mind: 1.Age Yes,age is a very sensitive subject...
编者按： 智慧微笑着，充满睿智地答道：“因为爱情的价值只有时间才能理解！” Love and Time Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge and all of the others, including Love. One day, it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left, except for Love. Love was the only one who stayed...