It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and jamtresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had even seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said so, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause, "What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room." It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is "aim high". I would not give a fig for the young man who has not already seen himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, "My place is at the top." Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which your are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket". Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets, that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: Aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm's interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly be not impatient, for, as Emerson says, "no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves." ）
Everyone has their own dreams, I am the same. But my dream is not a lawyer, not a doctor, not actors, not even an industry. Perhaps my dream big people will find it ridiculous, but this has been my pursuit! My dream is to want to have a folk life! I want it to become a beautiful painting, it is not only sharp colors, but also the colors are bleak, I do not rule out the painting is part of the black, but I will treasure these bleak colors! Not yet, how about, a colorful painting, if not bleak, add color, how can it more prominent American? Life is like painting, painting the bright red color represents life beautiful happy moments. Painting a bleak color represents life difficult, unpleasant time. You may find a flat with a beautiful road is not very good yet, but I do not think it will. If a person lives flat then what is the point? Life is only a short few decades, I want it to go Finally, Each memory is a solid.
When we were young, we had dreams and expectations. We imagine things; we keep thinking about what we want to be, what we want to do, what makes us proud and happy and what will we become.
We grew up, and things seemed like having their own way. We accept our success or failures and we move on. The rapid change, the need to do the urgent things, the works, the pressures and the failures, all kill part of our visions.
Things have changed, but they cannot really take away the dreams. We still have to dream on, to visualize our desires, our wants, our vision of our future, even when we are considered too old for such things.
Cornell Sanders started his business when he was sixty, and started the whole successful KFC business. The main thing is not the age whether being too old, or too young, but it is the desire to dream on, and the courage to realize it.
The ability to dream on is one of the fine qualities of human race that other species do not possess. So dream on, and put a deadline: make it a giant dream, a tiny one, an old everlasting one, a new-found one, a hobby-related one, a change of life one, a religious one, a stupid one, a stroke of genius one, or just whatever... just continue to dream on... Then, Just Go and Do It!
People always want to learn from successful people and want to be one of them. So listening to the speech is the best way to learn from these great people and see how they get the great achievements.
The famous celebrities like Bill Gate and Steve Jobs, they created the fashion and even changed the world.
The common thing is that they never graduated from university, then they quit school as they studied for a while. So many young people wonder if they should follow their steps, just quit study and do what they want. The difference between these great men and normal people is thought.
Even Bill Gates quit school, he still kept thinking and searching, while normal people just lie in the bed and play computer games. Everyone has different ways to get the achievement, so we need to think what is suitable for us instead of following the trend.
It was all that could be done for the whole wide world, for there was onlyone of the man that care mostly for him than it is to other things or objects orthings like that; well mostly he cared for himself as I said.
One day he was going to work when he found a very big rock. He loved it andso carried it to work; when he was there his companions argued with him becauserocks were not allowed in his office or his work area I said.
The man didn’t care for as I had said before this greedy man cared the mostwas him and not others. When it was at the end of the day the man went home andof course went to the mirror to look at himself perfectly. When it was time foranother day at work, the man was very, very, very sad; for his rock was gone.Now it all happened that there was this rock collector that wanted to collectall the rocks in his country.
When his companions told him about that he was not happy to hear it, and sothe man had decided to go on an adventure to find the one that had stolen hisrock; even though he didn’t even know what he looks like, but he had a sick planwhich will fool the one that won’t confess his fault. After giving or preparingthe things he’ll need, he hopped on his scooter and drew off to find the guythat he was searching for.
The guy was soon found out and when he had been caught by the police, thenthat time was the guy’s end. Everybody was happy to get their rock back, andeven though they knew that rocks didn’t have their lives; they were still happytogether. Now you know the meaning of rebound, it means: When you do a bad thingthen another bad thing will happen to you. I hope this story will teach yousomething important.
And for the one that had stolen the rocks from other people, he knew hisown fault, but it was too late to confess it…
Even if the guy didn’t go to jail, he still knew his own fault and I am 100percent sure that he will confess it too you know…
——英语晨读美文(十)份
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can :see the folks,:” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day’s solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and :the blues:; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?
And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
我发现人若大部分时间用于独处，将有益身心。与人为伴，即使是挚友，也很快会有厌烦或虚度光阴的感觉。我爱独处，我发现没有比独处更好的伴侣了。出国，身在熙攘人群中，要比退守陋室更让人寂寞。心有所想，身有所系的人总是孤身一人，不论他身处何地。独处与否也不是由人与人之间的距离来确定。在剑桥苦读的学子虽身处蜂巢般拥挤的教室，实际上却和沙漠中的苦行僧一样，是在独处。家人终日耕于田间，伐于山野，此时他虽孤单但并不寂寞，因他专心于工作;但待到他日暮而息，却未必能忍受形影相吊，空有思绪做伴的时光，他必到“可以看见大伙儿”的去处去找乐子，如他所认为的那样以补偿白日里的孤独;因此他无法理解学子如何能竟夜终日独坐而不心生厌倦或倍感凄凉;然而他没意识到，学子虽身在学堂，但心系劳作，但是耕于心田，伐于学林，这正和农人一样，学子在寻求的无非是和他一样的快乐与陪伴，只是形式更简洁罢了。
与人交往通常都因唾手可得而毫无价值，在频繁的相处中，我们无暇从彼此获取新价值。我们每日三餐相聚，反复让彼此重新审视的也是依旧故我，并无新奇之处。为此我们要循规蹈矩，称其为懂礼仪，讲礼貌，以便在这些频繁的接触中相安无事，无须论战而有辱斯文。我们相遇在邮局，邂逅在社交场所，围坐在夜晚的炉火旁，交情甚笃，彼此干扰着，纠缠着;实际上我认为这样我们都或多或少失去了对彼此的尊重。对于所有重要的倾心交流，相见不必过频。想想工厂里的女孩，她们虽从不落单，但也少有梦想。像这样方圆一英里仅一人居住，那情况会更好。人的价值非在肌肤相亲，而在心有灵犀。
我的房子里有很多伙伴，尤其在无人造访的清晨。我把自己和周围事物对比一下，你或许能窥见我生活的一斑。比起那湖中长笑的潜鸟，还有那湖，我并不比它们孤独多少。你看：这孤单的湖又何以为伴呢?然而它那一湾天蓝的湖水里有的却是天使的纯净，而非魔鬼的忧郁。太阳是孤独的，虽然时而在阴郁的天气里会出现两个太阳，但其中之一为幻日;上帝是孤独的 – 魔鬼才从不孤单，他永远不乏伙伴，因从他都甚众。比起牧场上的一朵毛蕊花，一支蒲公英，一片豆叶，一束酢浆草，一只牛虻或大黄蜂来，我并不孤单多少;比想密尔溪，风标，北极星，南风，四月春雨，正月融雪，或者新房中的第一只蜘蛛，我也并不更加孤单。
Figure it out for yourself, my lad. You have got all that the great have had: two arms, two legs, two hands, two eyes, and a brain to use if you'd be wise. With this equipment they all began, so start for the top and say" I can".
Look them over the wise and the great. They take their food from a common plate. With similar knives and forks they use; with similar laces they tie their shoes. The world considers them brave and smart, but you know--- you have got all they had when they made their start.
You can triumph and come to skill; you can be great if you only will. You are well equipped for the fight you choose you have arms and legs and brains to use. And people who have risen, great deeds to do started their lives with no more than you.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You must say where you want to go, and how much you will study the truth to know. God has equipped you for life, but he lets you decide what you want to be.
The courage must come from the soul within; you must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad; you were born with all the great have had; with your equipment they all began. Get hold of yourself and say" I can".
你会发现，自己已经具备了所有伟人所拥有的：两条胳膊，两条腿，两只手，两只眼睛以及为你带来智慧的大脑。这些伟大的人在奋斗之处也只拥有这些。因此，开始为了梦想奋斗吧，告诉你自己：“我行！”。
看看那些伟大睿智的人，他们吃饭用寻常的盘子和刀叉；甚至用类似的方法系鞋带－－世人皆认为他们兼具勇敢与智慧。但你要知道，此刻你已拥有他们拼搏向前的一切。
如果你愿意，你同样可以取胜，同样可以伟大。在奋斗的路途上你已拥有最精良的装备，不断向前成就伟业的人在奋斗之初并不比你多多少。
你必须面对的是你自己，仅有你自己可以决定自己的处境。说出自己想要达到目标,讲出自己掌握的真相。上帝已为你提供了装备，但方向只能由你自己来决定。
勇气来自内心深处，下定决心取得胜利。所以，自己想想吧，伟人的资本与生俱来。把握好自己，告诉自己：“我行！”。
On Motes and Beams
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.
But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?
There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.
译文：
微尘与栋梁
让人奇怪的是，和别人的过错比起来，我们自身的过错却往往不是那样的可恶。我想，其原因应该是我们知晓一切导致自己犯错的情况，所以能够设法谅解自己的错误，而别人的错误却不能谅解。我们对自己的缺点不甚关注，即便是深陷困境而不得不正视它们的时候，我们也会很容易就宽恕自己。据我所知，我们这样做是正确的。缺点是我们自身的一部分，我们必须接纳自己的好和坏。
但是当我们评判别人的'时候，情况就不同了。我们不是通过真实的自我来评判别人，而是用一种自我形象来评判，这种自我形象完全摒弃了在任何世人眼中会伤害到自己的虚荣或者体面的东西。举一个小例子来说：当觉察到别人说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊!但是，谁能够说自从未说过谎?可能还不止一百次呢。
人和人之间没什么大的差别。他们皆是伟大与渺小，善良与邪恶，高尚与低俗的混合体。有的人性格比较坚毅，机会也比较多，因而达个或那个方面，能够更自由地发挥自己的禀赋，但是人类的潜能却都是相同的。至于我自己，我认为自己并不比大多数人更好或者更差，但是我知道，假如我记下我生命中每一次举动和每一个掠过我脑海的想法的话，世界就会将我视为一个邪恶的怪物。每个人都会有这样的怪念头，这样的认识应当能够启发我们宽容自己，也宽容他人。同时，假如因此我们得以用幽默的态度看待他人，即使是天下最优秀最令人尊敬的人，而且假如我们也因此不把自己看得过于重要，那是很有裨益的。
5.never too late to become what you want to be
The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.
"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."
"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we wouldleave class together and tolk nonstop. I was always listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she sim*** said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began:" We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.
Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.The only people who fear death are those with regrets."
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
高中英语晨读美文：Up to You
4.Up to You
Jerry was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. "
"Yeah, right, it’s not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I changed my job. We lost touch.Several years later, I heard that Jerry was robbed and was shot. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "I feel really good.”
I asked him what had gone through his mind when he was taken to the hospital.
Jerry replied, “The first thing came to my mind was that I should have closed the back door. Then I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. ”
Jerry continued, "The nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses scared me. In their eyes, I read,‘He’s a dead man. ‘I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything," said Jerry, ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses were waiting for my re***... I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live positively.
高中英语晨读美文：Adrift
3.Adrift
In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was floating in a life raft, alone. When three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was still alive.
His account of how he survived is fascinating. But the thing that caught my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no point in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life raft was punctured and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to fix it, it was still leaking air. Giving up would have seemed the only sane option.
When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in similarly desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the guts to carry on in spite of overwhelming odds.
"I tell myself I can handle it," wrote Callahan in his narrative."Compared to what others have been through, I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, building up fortitude..."
I wrote that down after I read it. It struck me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my senses.
The truth is our circumstances are only bad compared to something better. But others have been through much worse. I’ve read enough history to know you and I are lucky to be where we are, when we are, no matter how bad it seems to us compared to our fantasies. It’s a sane thought and worth thinking.
So whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with a little more fortitude.
高中英语晨读美文：The Farmer's Donkey
2. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone. Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.2. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.
Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.
高中英语晨读美文：Follow your dream
1.Follow your dream
There was a young man,born in a poor family.As a result,the boy's high school career wascontinually interrupted.Once he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up .
That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch.He wrote about his dream in great detailand he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch.Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot housethat would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
He put a great deal of his heart into the projectAnd the next day he handed it in to his teacher.Two days later he received his paper back.On the front page was a large red F with a note that read,"See me after class."
The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after classand asked,"Why did I receive an F?"
The teacher said,"this is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you.You have no money.you have no resources from your family.There's no way you could ever do it."Then the 1.teacher added,"if you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal,I will reconsider your grade."
The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.He ask his father what he should do.His father said,"look,son,you have to make up your own mind on this.However,I think it is a very important decision for you."
Finally,after sitting with it for a week,the boy turned in the same page,Making no changes at all.hestated,"you can keep the F and I'll keep my dream."
Recollecting the story,My friend Monty and I are now sitting in his 4000-square-foot house
in the middle of a 200-acre house ranch.Two summers agothat same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on his ranch.When the teacher was leaving,hesaid,"lookMonty,I can tell you this now.When I was your teacher,I was something of a dream stealer.During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams.Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours."
Don't let anyone steal you dream.follow you heart,no matter what.
高考双语阅读：超萌小小熊猫狗惹人爱 成为“新宠”
It’s panda-monium in pet shops in China as dogs that look like the country’s unique and rare bears become all the rage.
These dogs that look like pandas are selling out in pet stores across the country.
In Chengdu city in southwest China’s Sichuan province, pet shop owner Hsin Ch’en cannot satisfy demand among the country’s new middle class who want the cute dogs as pets.
“Ten years ago the natural instinct of a Chinese person was to eat a dog,” he told London’s Metro newspaper.
“Now we are like Westerners and want one as a companion. The cute breeds like French bulldogs and Labradors were the favourites, but now it is the panda dog.”
Actually, Hsin Ch’en is being disingenuous. The panda dog is not a separate breed of pooch at all, but rather a chow which has undergone a lot of cosmetic tomfoolery to make it resemble a panda.
He went on: “I perfected the technique here and now it is spreading across the country. With a bit of careful grooming and coloring, it is easy to turn a chow into a panda dog in about two hours. Then the look will stay with the dog for around six weeks and the owners bring them back for some touching up.
“There are no chemicals or cruelty involved. But the price of the dog does rise significantly because of the amount of grooming that goes into it. People don’t mind paying the extra, though — they like the fact that heads turn in the street and they can tell their friends: ‘I have a panda dog.’”
据《纽约邮报》5月14日报道，中国的宠物商店里出现了《魔豆传奇》的主人公!事实上，这是一种酷似国宝大熊猫的狗，最*，这种熊猫狗十分流行。
在中国的宠物商店里，这种熊猫狗遭疯抢，很快便售罄。
在中国西南部四川省成都市，一家宠物店店主陈先生表示，中国的新兴中产阶级想要可爱萌人的狗当宠物养，已经无法满足他们的要求了。
“十年前，中国人提到狗时，他们的自然本能是吃狗肉。”陈先生告诉伦敦地铁报。
“现在我们有点像西方人，都想找个宠物做伴。这种可爱的狗看着类似法国斗牛犬和纽芬兰猎犬，是顾客们的.最爱。但它现在是‘熊猫狗’。”
实际上，陈先生没有说出实情。熊猫狗并不是杂种狗的另外一个品种，她的真实身份是一只松狮犬，经过美容之后，使得这种狗看起来像熊猫。
陈先生还说：“我完善了美容技术，现在，这种技术正遍及全国。经过一些仔细的修饰和上色，松狮犬就轻而易举地在两个小时内变身为熊猫狗。
“在变身过程中，没有涉及任何的化学物质和残忍行径。由于多了美容的这道工序，熊猫狗的价格确实飞快上涨。不过人们并不在意，他们更喜欢街上的高回头率，好向朋友们炫耀：“瞧，我有一只熊猫狗。”
Prometheus was a Titan ．In the war between Zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new Olympian gods．Out of the clay he made the first man，to whom Athena gave soul and holy breath．Prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire．The fire raised man above all animals ．Later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men．The meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should be given to gods and what to men．Prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish Zeus loved fat． Zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the Prometheus' favor towards men．So in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind．However，Prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down to men．Flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion，Zeus let the other gods chain Prometheus to a rock on Mountain Caucasus，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again．His period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years．Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before Zeus．At last Heracles made Prometheus and Zeus restore to friend ship，when Heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free．
普罗米修斯是泰坦巨人之一。在宙斯与巨人的战争中，他站在新的奥林波斯山神一边。他用粘土造出了第一个男人。雅典娜赋予了这个男人灵魂和神圣的生命。普罗米修斯还花费了很多时间和精力创造了火，并将之赠予人类。火使人成为万物之灵。在这之后，举行了第一次神与人的联*会议。这个会议将决定烧烤过的动物的哪一部分该分给神，哪一部分该给人类。普罗米修斯切开一头牛，把它分成两部分：他把肉放在皮下，将骨头放在肥肉下。因为他知道自私的宙斯爱吃肥肉。宙斯看穿了他的把戏。普罗米修斯偏袒人类，这使宙斯感到不快。因此，他专横地把火从人类手中夺走。然而，普罗米修斯设法窃走了天火，偷偷地把它带给人类。宙斯对他这种肆无忌惮的违抗行为大发雷霆。他令其他的山神把普罗米修斯用锁链缚在高加索山脉的一块岩石上。一只饥饿的老鹰天天来啄食他的肝脏，而他的肝脏又总是重新长出来。他的痛苦要持续三万年。而他坚定地面对苦难，从来不在宙斯面前丧失勇气。最后，海格立斯使普罗米修斯与宙斯恢复了他们的友谊，找到了金苹果，杀死了老鹰，因而解救了人类的老朋友。
It is said that life is not measured by the breaths you take，but by the moments that take your breath away.
If this is correct，then are we really living our lives to the fullest？ Are we enjoying every moment and giving each one the opportunity to mesmerize us？ How many memories can you recollect that left you breathless and in absolute awe？ Were you able to count beyond your fingertips？ Think about it； 20，30，40 or more years，and just a few such moments？
The problem isn’t that such mesmerizing events rarely occur，but rather it is our lack of being present in the moment that allows us to miss it all.It is often the simplest things in life that are the most magical： from falling in love to watching a child take their first step，moments that make the heart skip a beat are hard to miss if you are paying attention.They aren’t expensive to the pocket and neither do they consume too much time—you just need to be consciously present in the moment to be able to encapsulate the magic that lies within.
We all know that life can sometimes get overwhelming： from rush hour traffic to the never ending workload，there is always something that needs our attention.As you get stuck in the monotonous everyday rut，take a moment to stop and acknowledge your existence.This isn’t to propose that you drop everything and enter into a state of meditation but rather sim*** be consciously present in even the most mundane of your everyday activities.
Life can crawl through you if you let negativity overtake your mind，and it will fly by in the blink of an eye if you get too engrossed in everyday life and fail to recognize and differentiate the you apart from the everything else.It is therefore very important that you find time to nurture yourself and give it the attention it deserves.
Solitude
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can :see the folks,:” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day’s solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and :the blues:; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?
And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
1. The Brick in Your Life
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
As his car passed, one child appeared, and a brick smashed into the Jag's side door. He slammed on the brakes and spun the Jag back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown.
He jumped out of the car, grabbed some kid and pushed him up against a parked car, shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?" Building up a head of steam, he went on"That's a new car and that brick you threw is gonna cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"
"Please,mister, please,I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do!"pleaded the youngster.
"It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.
Sobbing, the boy asked the executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be okay.
"Thank you, sir. And God bless you," the grateful child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother to the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long walk backs to his Jaguar... a long, slow walk. He never did repair the side door. He kept the dent to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.
Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes, when you don't have the time to listen... Life throws a brick at your head. It's your choice: Listen to the whispers of your soul or wait for the brick!
Do you sometimes ignore loved ones because your life is too fast and busy leaving them to wonder whether you really love them?
高中英语晨读美文：The fire
高中英语晨读美文
2.The fire
A couple,John and Mary,had two lovely children.John had just been asked to go on a business trip and would be gone for several days.Mary would go along too.They hired a reliable woman to care for children and made the trip,returning home a little earlier than they had planned.
As they drove into their home town feeling glad to be back,they noticed smoke,and they went off their usual route to see what it was.They found a home in flames.Mary said,”Oh,well, it isn’t our fire,let’s go home.”
But John drove closer and exclaimed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant.He wouldn’t be off work yet,maybe there is something we could do. ” “It has nothing to do with us, ”protested Mary.
But John drove up and stopped and they were both horror stricken to see the whole house in flames.A woman on the lawn was in hysterics screaming, “The children!Get the children! ”John grabbed her by the shoulder saying, “Get a hold of yourself and tell us where the children are! ”“In the basement, ”sobbed the woman,”down the hall and to the left. ”
In spite of Mary’s protests John bolted for the basement which was full of smoke and scorching hot.He found the door and two children.As he left he could hear some more whimpering.He delivered the two badly frightened and nearly suffocated children into waiting arms and started back asking how many more children were down there.They told him two more and Mary grabbed his arm and screamed, “John!Don’t go back!It’s***!That house will cave in any second. ”
But he ran into the smoke filed hallway and into the room.At last he found both children.As he stumbled up the endless steps,the thought went through his mind that there was something strangely familiar about the little bodies clinging to him,and at last when they came out into the sunlight and fresh air,he found that he had just rescued his own children.
The baby-sitter had left them at this home while she did some shopping…
高中英语晨读美文：never too late
高中英语晨读美文
3.never too late to become what you want to be
The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.
"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."
"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we wouldleave class together and tolk nonstop. I was always listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she sim*** said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began:" We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change.
Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.The only people who fear death are those with regrets."
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
高中英语晨读美文：Up to You
高中英语晨读美文
4.Up to You
Jerry was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. "
"Yeah, right, it’s not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I changed my job. We lost touch.Several years later, I heard that Jerry was robbed and was shot. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "I feel really good.”
I asked him what had gone through his mind when he was taken to the hospital.
Jerry replied, “The first thing came to my mind was that I should have closed the back door. Then I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. ”
Jerry continued, "The nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses scared me. In their eyes, I read,‘He’s a dead man. ‘I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything," said Jerry, ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses were waiting for my re***... I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live positively.
高中英语晨读美文：Adrift
高中英语晨读美文
5.Adrift
In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was floating in a life raft, alone. When three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was still alive.
His account of how he survived is fascinating. But the thing that caught my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no point in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life raft was punctured and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to fix it, it was still leaking air. Giving up would have seemed the only sane option.
When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in similarly desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the guts to carry on in spite of overwhelming odds.
"I tell myself I can handle it," wrote Callahan in his narrative."Compared to what others have been through, I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, building up fortitude..."
I wrote that down after I read it. It struck me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my senses.
The truth is our circumstances are only bad compared to something better. But others have been through much worse. I’ve read enough history to know you and I are lucky to be where we are, when we are, no matter how bad it seems to us compared to our fantasies. It’s a sane thought and worth thinking.
So whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with a little more fortitude.
高中英语晨读美文：The Farmer's Donkey
高中英语晨读美文
6. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone. Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.2. The Farmer's Donkey
One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.
Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.
What is Love? The eternal question we all carry around deep within our heart. Love is the eternal search. Love is eternal when we find it. But do we really ever find it ? When we define it do we negate it? When we set limits on what we believe to be love do we begin to destroy it by hoping to understand or own it for ourselves? We offer it through all of our relationship we vary our giving, often by what we hope to receive in return. But is this really love?
爱是什么?这是所有人心底永恒的问题。爱，是永恒的寻觅。爱一旦被找到，它也将变为永恒。但我们真的找到过爱吗?当我们定义爱的同时，是否也在否定爱呢?在给我们所认为的爱加种种限制的同时，我们试图按自己的方式理解它，或想将其据为己有时，我们是否也在破坏它呢?我们将爱施与周围的所有人，而如何给予是由期望的回报来决定的。但是这是真正的爱。
I recently overheard someone say in a conversation that there is no such thing as “ unconditional love .” I would have to agree, although for different reasons. Love within itself is unconditional. Anything else is only an attempt to love, a learning to get us nearer to the one true knowing of love. It may be honorable, well-intentioned, passionate and desiring, courageous and pure. It may be felt as temporary, but if lost easily it may not have been love at all. Love cannot be thwarted and often fall short of what we hope love will be. This is where we learn we are human.
最*，我无意间听别人说，世上没有所谓的“无条件的爱”。在此，我不得不表示同意这一论断，尽管理由不尽相同，但是爱本身确是无条件的。其他一切都仅仅是爱的一种尝试，通过它们去逐渐地理解爱的真谛。爱可能是高贵善意的，是充满热情与渴望的，是勇敢与纯洁的；爱是势不可挡的，而且，常常达不到我们的期望值。由此我们可以透察人性。
Love has been experienced as a life of living poetry. Love has been experienced as being the very notes of song, uplifting and generous to the wanting ear. Love has been experienced as the final act of giving one’s life for another in battle. Love has been experienced as an endless passionate over flow of emotion in the arms of waiting lover.
爱的经历像一首鲜活灵动的诗；爱的经历像一个个美妙动听的音符，让企盼的双耳得到振奋、满足；爱的经历像战场上舍己救人的一幕；爱的经历像赋予人新生的选择；爱的经历像依偎在期盼已久的爱人臂弯时所流露出的无尽爱意。
What do you do with the love granted to you each day? How many times do we deny its expression for others because we fear what our own expressions will bring? Are we not denying our creator every time we deny the expression of love?
你是怎样对待每天给予你的爱的呢?有多少次由于害怕被拒绝，我们未能向他人表达爱意?在每次拒绝爱的表白之时，难道我们不是拒绝造物主的恩赐吗?
Lost, empty, alone and searching. As individuals who have experienced separation or divorce, or even the loss of a loved one to death, the separation can be the most traumatic experience we live through. The heart-wrenching pain that seems to never really go away, the enormous waves that hit us daily, the times we hit the wall right after a strong and uplifting experience reminds us that we are learning. We are learning about strength, passion for our own life, about our own sincerity in our beliefs, about our loyalty to who we are, and certainly about our own genuineness. We search for that day when love will come again. We search everywhere, everyday, almost every hour.
迷茫、空虚、孤独、寻觅。对于那些经历过分别、离异，甚至失去过爱人的人来说，这样的离别乃是生命中最大的伤痕。揪心的伤痛永无此境；生活中的挫折与磨难无时无刻不在提醒我们：我们正处于认知的过程中。我们正在认识自己生命的力量与激情，认识对信仰的虔诚，认识对自的忠贞，认识自己的本性。我们期待真爱重回的那一天，我们每时每刻都在每一个角落寻觅。
It has been said for centuries that “ love is where the eyes meet with passion, for the eyes cannot hide what the heart feels.” So we have learned to look outward for this eternal love that will fulfill us, forgetting that it must first fill our own hearts. Perhaps that is why we fall into such pain and agony and sorrow when a love affair fails. It is at that moment that we realize we did not fail the other person we expressed love to , but we have somehow not fulfilled ourselves once again. We combat failure with a misunderstood unfulfilled promise. We lade it, not knowing if we will ever find it again. The emotion tides life and fall ,crash and settle, then lift again.
几个世纪以来，我们一直说：“爱就是充满激情的目光相遇，因为眼睛掩饰不住内心的真实感受”。因此，我们都学会了向外看，去寻找那份永恒的能使自己充实起来的爱，却忽略了它首先应占据我们自己心灵的领地。或许，这就是当一段恋情受挫时，我们会如此地痛苦与悲伤的原因所在。此时，我们才意识到，我们并未负于曾向我们示爱的那一个人，只是我们认为它没能让我们充实、完整。我们用误解且无法兑现的承诺来抑制失败。我们失去了爱，不知是否能再次找回它。感情的潮水起伏不定，时而汹涌，时而*与，继而会再次澎湃。
No one else, no matter how much we talk or cry, can pull us through the anxious hours of soul repair and growth. It is our own fire within that needs rekindling, guarding against the winds that would blow it out and leave us dark, cold and helpless. It is at this time that we find the lobe that binds us together with every other being that surrounds us on the planet. Eventually we find the sun still rises to meet in the morning and the stars continue to show us the way each night. The rivers still flow downstream into oceans that will never turn them away. The trees still reach upward every day praising the God that made them. We stand up straight and take a lesson from it all.
无论我们说了多少话，流了多少泪，无人能帮助我们过心灵修复的阴霾与成长过程中的绵绵阴雨。我们的心灵为火需要再燃，需要呵护，不致让风将其吹灭，不致让自己被黑暗、阴冷与无助所包围。此时，我们便找到把我们与周围的每个生命维系在一起的那份爱。我们终会发现，太阳依然长期升起，来迎接黎明的到来；星光依然闪烁，来指引我们夜行的方向；江河依然流向下游，归入广纳百川的大海；树木依然日日向上生长，歌颂赋予其生命的上苍。我们挺直身躯，从这一切中汲取教训。
What if you woke up one morning and realized that you were the only person left on the face of the earth? Who would you love? Why do we wait so long to start the journey that begins in the same place that it ends?Love, in all its endlessness, unboundedness and failed definitions is this experience.
如果某天早上，当你醒来，发觉这一个世界只剩下你一人，你当如何应对?你去爱谁?我们为何要等如此长的时间，才在终点重新形开始新的旅程?这是一次无边无尽、无从定义的爱之旅。
Love doesn’t ask why. It doesn’t come. It doesn’t go. It just is. It is not only in our hands, it is our hands. It isn’t only in our heart, it is what makes our heart beat every beat. It wraps itself around us so securely that all we need to do to survive against all odds is to recognize it as the very breath we just drew, and the last breath we just let go.
爱不问理由。它不会走*你，也不会远离你。爱始终存在着。它就是我们的手中，在我们的心里，确切地说就是我们的双手，就是我们每一次心跳的动力。爱将我们安全地包围着，我们把它当成每一次真切的呼吸，时刻与爱同在，是我们克服一切困难有秘诀。
Look like a million -- without breaking the bank!
Sure, celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Uma Thurman always look chic and stylish -- they also have
unlimited clothing budgets that put the latest looks at their fingertips! But you can still look amazing without
spending lots of money on your wardrobe.
Sim*** try these 10 tricks:
1. Shop seasonal sales. Make seasonal purchases -- winter coats, leather jackets, bathing suits, even
summer dresses -- at the end of the season. You'll get major discounts, and you'll be stocked up for next year.
2. Watch your fabrics. Stick to machine-washable materials, and pick dry-clean-only garments carefully.
3. Invest in wear-with-anything pieces. A great-fitting pair of black trousers and a knee-length skirt go the
distance, since you can wear them several times a week, paired with different tops.
4. Check out discount stores for basics. Discount department stores may not be the place to buy an elegant
evening dress, but they're perfect for snapping up t-shirts, basic stretch pants, and cotton undergarments.
5. Bump up your accessories. Spend your money on beautiful shoes and a great bag. Rich-looking extras
make even the simplest outfit look polished.
6. Take inventory before you shop. Impulse buys can be a waste of money -- especially if you splurge on a
pair of black pants, only to see your ten other pairs when you get home. Assess your needs before you hit
the stores so you won't buy pieces similar to those you already have.
7. Find a great tailor. For pieces that don't quite fit right, a tailor is an asset: He can alter them to fit you
perfectly. Great-fitting clothes always look better than ill-fitting ones -- regardless of how much they cost.
8. Look for store labels. Many department stores, such as Saks Fifth Avenue, have a house clothing brand.
They offer up-to- the minute styles but are much cheaper than big-name brands.
9. Get a great haircut. When your hair looks fabulous, you look more stylish and fashion-forward than when
your cut is shaggy or growing out.
10. Stay away from "outfits." They look too contrived -- and buying separates is much more affordable. The
only outfit exception: A well-cut suit.
的确，像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿和乌玛·瑟曼这样的名人总是穿戴得时髦雅致，她们购置服饰也从不用精打细算，只要看看他们手指尖的最新装扮就知道了！不过，你不用花很多钱来充实你的衣柜，照样也可以把自己打扮得光彩照人。试试下面的十条小窍门：
1．购买换季减价商品。在即将换季的时候去购买衣物，如：冬天的外套、皮夹克、游泳衣、甚至是夏装。你会享受到较大的折扣，而且你也可以为来年备一些衣物。
2．注意衣服的质地。最好买可以机洗的衣料，并在选择只能干洗的衣物时一定要小心谨慎。
3．购买易搭配的衣服。很合身的黑色裤子和齐膝的短裙始终不会过时，因为你一周可以穿好几次，与不同的上衣搭配。
4．光顾打折商店购买必需品。在打折商店也许买不到端庄的晚礼服，但它却是抢购T恤衫、弹力裤和棉质内衣的极佳地方。
5．多买一些装饰品。买一些漂亮的鞋和手提包。漂亮的饰品甚至会使最简单的装扮看上去熠熠生辉。
6．购物前拉个清单。即兴购物往往会浪费很多钱。特别是当你花大价钱买了一条黑色裤子时，结果回家后发现自己已经有十条了。在去商店买衣服之前，考虑一下你是否真得需要，这样你就不会买到重样的衣服。
7．找一个好裁缝。衣服不太合身的时候，有个裁缝很重要。他能把衣服改得非常适合你。不管花多少钱，穿上非常合身的衣服看上去总是比不合身要好看得多。
8．挑选合适的商店。许多象“Saks Fifth Avenue”这样的服装店都有很好的家用服装品牌。他们有最新的款式，但是价格比一些名牌便宜的多。
9．理个漂亮的发式。如果发型做的漂亮，整个人看上去要比头发杂乱或参差不齐时更时尚、更前卫。
10．不买套装。因为套装看上去太做作，分开买更实惠些。但裁剪得体的套装除外。
（二）
It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels.This is exciting.Yet, on the other hand, competition breeze a pragmatic attitude.People choose to learn things that are useful,and do things that are profitable.Todays' college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism. Many college students choose business nor computing programming as their majors convinced that this professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking a part time jobs as a warming up for the real battle.I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving licence to get a licence. Well, I have nothing against being practical. As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical. However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism is prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation of students' minds,or nurturing of their soul. We will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines.If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mind-forged medicals lost in the money-making ventures;we will see humality lossing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous.I'd like to think society as a courage and people persumed for profit or fame as a horese that pulls the courage.Yet without the driver picking direction the courage would go straight and may even end out in a precarious situation .A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities ,these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way.In today's world, whether highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise , but vision and strategy. Your intellectual quality largely determinds how far you can go in your career.
（三）
Chinese Undergraduates in the US
Each year, elite American universities and liberal arts colleges, such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst and Wellesley, offer a number of scholarships to Chinese high school graduates to study in their undergraduate programs. Four years ago, I received such a scholarship from Yale.
What are these Chinese undergrads like? Most come from middle-class families in the big urban centers of China. The geographical distribution is highly skewed, with Shanghai and Beijing heavily over-represented. Outside the main pool, a number of Yale students come from Changsha and Ningbo,swhereseach year American Yale graduates are sent to teach English.
The overwhelming majority of Chinese undergraduates in the US major in science, engineering or economics. Many were academic superstars in their high schools - gold medallists in international academic Olympiads or prize winners in national academic contests. Once on US campuses, many of them decide to make research a lifelong commitment.
Life outside the classroom constitutes an important part of college life. At American universities the average student spends less than thirteen hours a week in class. Many Chinese students use their spare time to pick up some extra pocket money. At Yale, one of the most common campus jobs is washing dishes in the dining halls. Virtually all Chinese undergraduates at Yale work part-time in the dining halls at some point in their college years. As they grow in age and sophistication, they upgrade to better-paying and less stressful positions. The more popular and interesting jobs include working as a computer assistant, math homework grader, investment office assistant and lab or research assistant. The latter three often lead to stimulating summer jobs.
Student activities are another prominent feature of American college life. Each week there are countless student-organized events of all sorts - athletic, artistic, cultural, political or social (i.e. just for fun). New student organizations are constantly being created, and Chinese undergrads contribute to this ferment. Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China. At Yale, intramural sports from soccer to water polo take place all year long; hence athletic talent is a real social asset. One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago was a versatile sportsman. His athletic talents and enthusiastic participation in sporting events, combined with his other fine qualities, made him a popular figure in his residential college.
（四）
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, without moving to hide it
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
I want to know if you can see beauty , if you can source your life from god’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
（五）
there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.
I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her dee***.
Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.
It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.
The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that ***. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.
（六）
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
工作和娱乐
要想获得真正的快乐与安宁，一个人应该有至少两三种爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到晚年才说“我对什么什么有兴趣”是没用的，这只会徒然增添精神负担。一个人可以在自己工作之外的领域获得渊博的知识，不过他可能几乎得不到什么好处或是消遣。做你喜欢的事是没用的，你必须喜欢你所做的事。总的来说，人可以分为三种：劳累而死的、忧虑而死的、和烦恼而死的。对于那些体力劳动者来说，经历了一周精疲力竭的体力劳作，周六下午让他们去踢足球或者打棒球是没有意义的。而对那些政治家、专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为严肃的事情操劳或烦恼六天了，周末再让他们为琐事劳神也是没有意义的。
也可以说，那些理性的、勤勉的、有价值的人们可分为两类，一类，他们的工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；而另一类，他们的`工作即娱乐。大多数人属于前者，他们得到了相应的补偿。长时间在办公室或工厂里的工作，回报给他们的不仅是维持了生计，还有一种强烈的对娱乐的需求，哪怕是最简单的、最朴实的娱乐。不过，命运的宠儿则属于后者。他们的生活很自然和谐。对他们来说，工作时间永远不嫌长。每天都是假日，而当正常的假日来临时，他们总是埋怨自己所全身心投入的休假被强行中断了。不过，有些事情对两类人是同样至关重要的，那就是转换一下视角、改变一下氛围、将精力转移到别的事情上。确实，对那些工作即是娱乐的人来说，最需要隔一段时间就用某种方式把工作从脑子里面赶出去。
——晨读英语美文实用5篇
All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.
So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin rental”at altavista.com, I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.
I was wrong. The first site that I tried, cyberrentals.com, grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding, places as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings.Another site, vacationspot.com, let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter.
I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, I was ready to throw my computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a headache.I finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place.
Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I dreamed it would be.
If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈
The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.
Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.
Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.
Equipment
Figure it out for yourself, my lad. You have got all that the great have had: two arms, two legs, two hands, two eyes, and a brain to use if you'd be wise. With this equipment they all began, so start for the top and say" I can".
Look them over the wise and the great. They take their food from a common plate. With similar knives and forks they use; with similar laces they tie their shoes. The world considers them brave and smart, but you know--- you have got all they had when they made their start.
You can triumph and come to skill; you can be great if you only will. You are well equipped for the fight you choose you have arms and legs and brains to use. And people who have risen, great deeds to do started their lives with no more than you.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You must say where you want to go, and how much you will study the truth to know. God has equipped you for life, but he lets you decide what you want to be.
The courage must come from the soul within; you must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad; you were born with all the great have had; with your equipment they all began. Get hold of yourself and say" I can".
你会发现，自己已经具备了所有伟人所拥有的：两条胳膊，两条腿，两只手，两只眼睛以及为你带来智慧的大脑。这些伟大的人在奋斗之处也只拥有这些。因此，开始为了梦想奋斗吧，告诉你自己：“我行！”。
看看那些伟大睿智的人，他们吃饭用寻常的盘子和刀叉；甚至用类似的方法系鞋带－－世人皆认为他们兼具勇敢与智慧。但你要知道，此刻你已拥有他们拼搏向前的一切。
如果你愿意，你同样可以取胜，同样可以伟大。在奋斗的路途上你已拥有最精良的装备，不断向前成就伟业的人在奋斗之初并不比你多多少。
你必须面对的是你自己，仅有你自己可以决定自己的处境。说出自己想要达到目标,讲出自己掌握的真相。上帝已为你提供了装备，但方向只能由你自己来决定。
勇气来自内心深处，下定决心取得胜利。所以，自己想想吧，伟人的资本与生俱来。把握好自己，告诉自己：“我行！”。
Dreams
When we were young, we had dreams and expectations. We imagine things; we keep thinking about what we want to be, what we want to do, what makes us proud and happy and what will we become.
We grew up, and things seemed like having their own way. We accept our success or failures and we move on. The rapid change, the need to do the urgent things, the works, the pressures and the failures, all kill part of our visions.
Things have changed, but they cannot really take away the dreams. We still have to dream on, to visualize our desires, our wants, our vision of our future, even when we are considered too old for such things.
Cornell Sanders started his business when he was sixty, and started the whole successful KFC business. The main thing is not the age whether being too old, or too young, but it is the desire to dream on, and the courage to realize it.
The ability to dream on is one of the fine qualities of human race that other species do not possess. So dream on, and put a deadline: make it a giant dream, a tiny one, an old everlasting one, a new-found one, a hobby-related one, a change of life one, a religious one, a stupid one, a stroke of genius one, or just whatever... just continue to dream on... Then, Just Go and Do It!
We Were Dear to Each Other 相亲相爱
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn,which have no songs,flutter and fall there with a sign.
O Troupe of little vagrants of the world,leave your footprints in my words.
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song,as one kiss of the eternal.
It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun,you also miss the stars.
The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement,dancing water,Will you carry the burden of their lameless?
Her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
Once we dreamt that we were strangers.
We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
夏天的飞鸟,飞到我的窗前唱歌,又飞去了。
秋天的黄叶,它们没有什么可唱,只叹息了一声,飞落在那里。
世界上的一小队小小的漂泊者呀,请留下你们的脚印在我的文字里。
世界对着它的爱人,把它浩瀚的面具揭了下来。
它变小了,小如一首歌,小如一回永恒的吻。
是大地的泪点,使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。
无垠的沙漠热烈地追求一叶绿草的爱,她摇摇头笑着飞开了。
如果你因失去了太阳而流泪,那么你也将将失去群星了。
跳着舞的流水呀,在你途中的泥沙,要求你的`歌声,你的欢跳.你肯挟痂足的泥沙而俱下么?
她的热切的脸,如夜雨似的,搅扰着我的梦魂。
有一次,我们梦见大家都是不认识的。
我们醒了,却知道我们是相亲相爱的。
Prometheus 普罗米修斯
Prometheus was a Titan ．In the war between Zeus the giants he had stood on the side of the new Olympian gods．Out of the clay he made the first man，to whom Athena gave soul and holy breath．Prometheus spent a lot of time and energy in creating the gift of fire．The fire raised man above all animals ．Later，there held a joint meeting of gods and men．The meeting was to decide what part of burnt animals should be given to gods and what to men．Prometheus cut up an ox and divided it into two parts：under the skin he placed the fresh，and under the fat he put the bones，for he knew the selfish Zeus loved fat． Zeus saw through the trick and felt displeased at the Prometheus' favor towards men．So in a masterful way he took away the gift of fire from mankind．However，Prometheus managed to steal fire from heaven and secretly brought it down to men．Flying into an anger at this unjustified act of rebellion，Zeus let the other gods chain Prometheus to a rock on Mountain Caucasus，where a hungry eagle ever tore at his liver which ever grew again．His period of pain was to be thirty-thousand years．Prometheus faced his bitter fate firmly and never lost courage before Zeus．At last Heracles made Prometheus and Zeus restore to friend ship，when Heracles came over in search of the golden apple and killed the eagle and set the friend of mankind free．
普罗米修斯
普罗米修斯是泰坦巨人之一。在宙斯与巨人的战争中，他站在新的奥林波斯山神一边。他用粘土造出了第一个男人。雅典娜赋予了这个男人灵魂和神圣的生命。普罗米修斯还花费了很多时间和精力创造了火，并将之赠予人类。火使人成为万物之灵。在这之后，举行了第一次神与人的联*会议。这个会议将决定烧烤过的动物的哪一部分该分给神，哪一部分该给人类。普罗米修斯切开一头牛，把它分成两部分：他把肉放在皮下，将骨头放在肥肉下。因为他知道自私的宙斯爱吃肥肉。宙斯看穿了他的把戏。普罗米修斯偏袒人类，这使宙斯感到不快。因此，他专横地把火从人类手中夺走。然而，普罗米修斯设法窃走了天火，偷偷地把它带给人类。宙斯对他这种肆无忌惮的违抗行为大发雷霆。他令其他的山神把普罗米修斯用锁链缚在高加索山脉的一块岩石上。一只饥饿的老鹰天天来啄食他的肝脏，而他的肝脏又总是重新长出来。他的痛苦要持续三万年。而他坚定地面对苦难，从来不在宙斯面前丧失勇气。最后，海格立斯使普罗米修斯与宙斯恢复了他们的友谊，找到了金苹果，杀死了老鹰，因而解救了人类的老朋友。
Write Your Own Life
Suppose someone gave you a pen―a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!
Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it?
How would you play the game?
Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you? Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
Would you write to please just yourself?Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?
Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?
Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.
Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?
Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?
There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there? Now, suppose someone gave you a
英语美文30篇11-What is Your Recovery Rate
What is Your Recovery Rate ?
By Graham Harris
What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.
You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missed opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!
Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a full stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.
Don’t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.
Live in the present. Not in the precedent.
你的恢复速率是多少？
你的恢复速率是多少？你需要多长时间才能从让你烦恼的行为中恢复？几分钟？几小时？几天？几星期？你需要的恢复时间越长，那个事件对你的影响就越大，你也就越不能做到最好。简言之，你的恢复时间越长，你就越软弱，你的表现也就越差劲。
你充分意识到，要保持身体健康你需要锻炼，并且你无疑会接受，你的'心脏和呼吸系统在锻炼后的恢复速度是衡量健康的一个合理尺度。同样，你越快摆脱是你烦恼的问题，越快恢复*静，你就越健康。此类行为的最好典范是专业运动员。他们知道，越快忘记一件事或失去的机会而好好比赛，他们的发挥就越好。实际上，大多数运动员会估量自己克服并忘记比赛中一个事件所需的时间，而且大多数人都认为30秒的恢复时间太长了！
想象自己是一位站在舞台上的戏剧演员。你的目标是尽全力扮演好你的角色。你已经拿到了剧本，而剧本中的每句话都以句号结尾。每次你念到一个句子的末尾，你就会开始一个新的句子。尽管下一句和上一句有关联，但并不受它的影响。你的工作是尽力说好每句台词。
不要生活在过去！要学会生活在现在，学会克服过去；不要让过去影响你的日常生活；不要让过去的思想妨碍你做到最好；不要让过去干扰你的生活；学会快速恢复。
生活在现在，而不是从前
Two Ways of Thinking of History
There are two ways of thinking of history. There is,first, history regarded as a way of look¬ing at otherthings, really the temporal aspect of anything, fromthe universe to this nib with which I am writing.Everything has its history. There is the history of theuniverse, if only we knew it-and we know something of it, if we do not know much. Nor is thecontrast so great, when you come to think of it, between the universe and this pen-nib. Amere pen-nib has quite a considerable history. There is, to begin with, what has been writtenwith it, and that might be something quite important. After all it was probably only one quill-pen or a couple that wrote Hamlet. Whatever has been written with the pen-nib is part of itshistory. In addition to that there is the history of its manufacture: this particular nib is a'Relief' nib, No. 314, made by R. Esterbrook and Co. in England, who sup*** the Midland Bankwith pen-nibs, from whom I got it—a gift, I may say, but behind this nib there is the wholeprocess of manufacture. In fact a pen nib implies of universe, and the history of it implies itshistory. We may regard this way of looking at it—history as the time-aspect of all things: a pen-nib, the universe, the fiddled before me as I write, as a relative conception of history. Thereis, secondly, what we mat call a substantive conception of history, what we usually mean byit, history proper as a subject of study in itself.
参考翻译：
历史的思考方式有两种。其一，历史作为审视其它事物是一种，其实仅为所有事物暂时的面貌，从整个宇宙到有正在书写的笔端。每一样事物都有它的历史。宇宙也有它的历史，要是我们知道的话──虽然我们所知有限，总算知道一些;仔细想一下，宇宙和这笔端，其间的差异也不是那么大。但即使仅是这笔端也有一段历史。首先，透过它便有写出来的东西，而这些可能相当重要。毕竟莎剧(哈姆莱特)也只靠一支鹅毛笔或二支便完成了。通过笔端所写出来的变成了它自身的历史。此外，还有制造过程的历史：我这支笔尖其实是英国艾斯塔布禒克(Esterbrook)厂牌314号凸版型产品，专门供应米特兰银行用品，我是从那儿取得的───或许应该说是银行的赠品。在这笔尖的北后有一连串的制造过程……。故此，这笔尖蕴含了一个宇宙，而它的历史也蕴含了它自身的历史。
我们可以把这种审视的方式看作──历史就是所有事务的时间之面貌：一支笔尖、宇宙、眼前我写作的领域……作为历史的相对观念。
其二，则为我们称作实质观念的历史，就是我们通常所说的，历史本身作为一个研究的科目。
核心词汇：
temporal：当时的, 暂时的, 现世的
Although spiritual leader of millions of people, thePope has no temporal power.
教宗虽然是亿万人的精神领袖，但没有丝毫的世俗权力。
nib：鹅管笔的尖端, 钢笔尖
considerable：worthy of consideration; significant 重要的值得考虑的;有重大意义的
The project wasted a considerable amount of time and money.
那项工程耗费了相当多的时间和资金。
Damage to the building was considerable.
对这栋建筑物的损坏相当的严重。
Midland Bank：米特兰银行
the fiddled：不重要的事
substantive：实质的，实在的
substantive issues/***
实质性问题
The report concluded that no substantive changes were necessary.
报告的结论是，无须作任何重大变更。
There is no substitute for good preparation. Arm yourself with background knowledge by researching information about the country you are going to. Thanks to the Internet, most of this can be found at the click of a button.
If you are fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of a foreign native (from the country you wish to study in), be sure to ask them as many questions as possible on things such as good places to live, the cost of transport or important celebrations during the year. The information they provide would most likely not be published in any textbooks or tourist magazines.
2.Attitude is everything.
Don't underestimate the power of the mind in determining how events turn out. Decide how to approach any situation, before you are placed in it. Positive thoughts about your new circumstances and a positive attitude toward your new home and hosts will bring positive results.
Don't sabotage your chances at being happy and successful in your future study and new life before they have even started.
3.Pack using your head and your heart.
It's not easy being practical when deciding what to pack and there is always that temptation to bring cherished personal belongings such as books, letters or fluffy toys. Whatever you bring, make sure that is will be something that you think might help your chances of succeeding.
This includes practical items such as study materials, old class notes, favorite textbooks or pens and even the contact details of previous teachers.
4.Remember your roots.
Contact people you care about before and after. You are a person with feelings and relocating overseas is a big event. Talk to your close friends and family about your thoughts, dreams and fears for your new venture before you leave and make sure you keep in regular contact after you arrive and during your time away. Sharing the experience always halves any burdens and doubles the excitement of any achievements. Besides, with the ease and convenience of communicating via the Internet nowadays, there is no excuse not to keep in touch!
5.Take opportunities as they come.
Learn from all experiences. Value both your achievements and disappointments as learning experiences that can be applied to future situations in life. Value all positive outcomes and more importantly, don't take negative outcomes at face value. Instead, try to see the lessons in mistakes and turn them into opportunities for future improvement. Opportunities are present all the time, but often they go by unnoticed. Recognizing opportunities is a skill which anyone can learn through practice and patience.
"Everything happens for the best," my mother saidwhenever faced disappointment. "If you can carryon, one day something good will happen. And you'llrealize that it wouldn't have happened if not for thatprevious disappointment. " Mother was right, as Idiscovered after graduating from college in 1932. Ihad decided to try for a job in radio, then work myway up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicagoand knocked on the door of every station -and got turned down every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance," she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, myfather said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage itssports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The jobsounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.
My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to hunt for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The programdirector, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired anannouncer.
As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be asport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station? "
I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said aboutsports? Do you know anything about football? " Then he stood me before a microphone andasked me to broadcast an imaginary game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "if you carryon, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for thatprevious disappointment" I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I'dgotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
——英语简单晨读美文(5)份
永远的两姐妹
今天我们来读一个关于两姊妹的故事。两姊妹的名字叫珊蒂与坎蒂。
Today we are reading a story about two sisters . Their name were Sundy and Candy .
她们非常寂寞。当她们的母亲去世时，珊蒂还只个是中学生，而坎蒂只是一个小学生。
They were very lonely . When their mother died , Sundy was only junior high student and Candy was an elementary school student .
她们的父亲是一个赌徒，从早到晚只知道赌博，最后落得债台高筑
Their father was a gambler . He gambled nights and days . And finally ended up in high debt .
为了逃避赌债，他丢下两姊妹跑掉了
So to avoid repaying the money , he ran away and left the two sisters behind .
那时母亲也已经去世五年了。父亲遗弃她们后，两姐妹只能住在朋友家，因为她们自家的房子已经拿去抵债了。
At that time their mother had being died for five years . After their father walked down them . The two sisters could only stay at friend’s house because their own house was giving away to repay their father’s debt .
但两姐妹不害怕艰辛，仍然对未来抱持着美好的希望
But the two sisters never feared hardship and did not lose hope for a better life .
开朗快乐地过着每一天,两姊妹都非常勤奋。珊蒂利用课余时间打工赚钱养家。
They lived their life happily and actively . The two sisters were both wery hard working , after school Sundy the elder sister did every thing she could to support the family .
她送报纸，有时做家教赚钱。妹妹坎蒂在家负责做饭、打扫等一切家事，她年纪虽小，却能掌管好金钱。
She sold newspapers and sometimes worked as a tutor to earn extra money . And Candy the younger sister prepared meals and did all the trifles at home . Though the younger sister was small , she could manage money very well .
两姐妹互相关心，两人在学校的成绩都很突出。
The two sisters cared for each other and their school grades were excellent .
如今，她们依然贫困。但她们的故事感动了许多人，大家纷纷从各方面帮助她们。
Now the two sisters are still in poverty , but their stories have touched a lot of people .
住在同一社区的房东、管澡堂的婆婆、商店老板，以及她们的同学和老师，都照顾着她们。
And they help the two sisters in any way they can . The landlord , the by house keeper , the shop owners ,their school mates and teachers and some neighborhood are all looking after them .
虽然生活贫困艰辛，但对她们两人来说，每天都能在一起就是最大的幸福。
Poor as they are , they say : they are the happiest persons in the world because they can be with each other every day .
One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France than at any other time before or since.
Everything in Marseilles and about Marseilles had stared at the fervid sun, and had been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there. Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their loads of grapes. These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves. The universal stare made the eyes ache.
Towards the distant blue of the Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, but it softened nowhere else. Far away the dusty vines overhanging wayside cottages, and the monotonous wayside avenues of parched trees without shade, dropped beneath the stare of earth and sky. So did the horses with drowsy bells, in long files of carts, creeping slowly towards the interior; so did their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted laborers in the fields. Everything that lived or grew was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and cicada, chirping its dry hot chirp, like a rattle. The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting. Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to deep out the stare.
Grant it but a chink or a keyhole, and it shot in like a white-hot arrow.
You hear it all along the river. You hear it, loud and strong, from the rowers as they urge the junkwith its high stem, the mast lashed alongside, down the swift running stream. You hear it from the trackers, a more breathless chant, as they pull desperately against the current, half a dozen of them perhaps if they are taking up a sampan, a couple of hundred if they are hauling a splendidjunk, its square sail set, over a rapid. On the junk a man stands amidships beating a drum incessantlyto guide their efforts, and they pull with all their strength, like men possessed, bent double; and sometimes in the extremity of their travail they crawl on the ground, on all fours, like the beasts of the field. They strain, strain fiercely, against the pitiless might of the stream. The leader goes up and down the line and when he sees one who is not putting all his will into the task he brings down his split bamboo on the naked back. Each one must do his utmost or the labour of all is vain. And still they sing a vehement, eager chant, the chant of the turbulent waters. I do not know how words can describe what there is in it of effort. It serves to express the straining heart, the breaking muscles, and at the same time the indomitable spirit of man which overcomes the pitiless force of nature. Though the rope may part and the great junk swing back, in the end the rapid will be passed; and at the close of the weary day there is the hearty meal...
沿着整条河，都能够听见歌声，洪亮而有力度。船夫们划着木船顺流而下，船尾翘得高高的，船边绑着桅杆。这也许是急促些的号子吧。纤夫们拼命地拉着纤逆流而上，如果拉的是小木船，也许就只有五六个人，如果拉的是过急滩、扬着横帆的大船，就要二百多人了。一个壮汉站在船中央，不停地击鼓助威，指引着他们加紧干活。于是，他们用尽全身的力量，着了魔似的，俯身探地，有时用尽力了，就全身趴在地上匍匐前进，像是田地里劳动的牲畜。他们用力，拼命用力，对抗着流水无情的阻挡之力。领头的在纤绳前后不停奔走，看到有人没有竭尽全力，就用竹板打他的光背。每个人都必须竭尽全力，否则就要前功尽弃。就这样，他们仍旧唱着激昂而炙烈的号子，那汹涌澎湃的河水号子。我不知道用怎样的词语才能描写出这其中的拼搏，它体现出了紧绷的弦，几乎要断裂的筋肉，同时也体现了人类以顽强的精神克服这无情的自然力。虽然绳子可能扯断，大船可能倒退，但终能渡过激流。在筋疲力尽的一天结束之后，可以痛快地吃上一顿饱饭……
But the most agonising song is the song of the coolies who bring the great bales from the junk up the steep steps to the town wall. Up and down they go, endlessly, and endless as their toil rises theirrhythmic cry. He, aw,ah,on. They are barefoot and naked to the waist. The sweat pours down their faces and their song is a groan of pain. It is a sigh of despair. It is heart rending. It is hardly human. It is the cry of souls in infinite distress, only just musical, and that last note is the ultimate sob of humanity. Life is too hard, too cruel, and this is the final despairing protest. That is the song of the river.
然而最让人苦闷的歌是苦力的歌，他们背着从船上卸下的大包，沿着陡坡爬上城墙。他们不停地来回上下，和着没有尽头的劳动，响起有节奏的喊声：嗨，呦，嗨，呦。他们赤脚裸背，脸上的汗水不断地向下流。他们的歌是痛苦的**，失望的叹息，让人们听起来心碎不已，难以相信是人的声音。这是在无尽的悲凉中呼喊的灵魂，只不过配上了有节奏的音乐，那终曲简直就是人性最终的低泣。生活如此艰难、如此残酷，这喊声正是最后绝望的**，这就是河之歌！
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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在葛底斯堡的演说
87年前，我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来*等的原则。现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自由跟奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。我们在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上**。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们来到这里，是要把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为最后安息之所。我们这样做是完全应该而且是非常恰当的。
但是，从更广泛的意义上来说，这块土地我们不能够奉献，不能够圣化，不能够神化。那些曾在这里战斗过的勇士们，活着的跟去世的，已经把这块土地圣化了，这远不是我们微薄的力量所能增减的。我们今天在这里所说的话，全世界不大会注意，也不会长久地记住，但勇士们在这里所做过的事，全世界却永远不会忘记。毋宁说，倒是我们这些还活着的人，应该在这里把自己奉献于勇士们已经如此崇高地向前推进但尚未完成的事业。倒是我们应该在这里把自己奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务——我们要从这些光荣的死者身上汲取更多的献身精神，来完成他们已经完全彻底为之献身的事业;我们要在这里下定最大的决心，不让这些死者白白牺牲;我们要使国家在上帝福佑下得到自由的新生，要使这个民有、民治、民享的**永世长存。
In order to experience everlasting love in life, you ought to first figure out what is missing in your life and then fill in the gaps. People fall in and out of love because they expect their lovers to be everything to them and do everything for them. They then become dissatisfied when the partner fails to meet all their requirements. If you have a dream of achieving everlasting love you better create your very own life crowned by hobbies, interests and beneficial passions. This makes you a full lover when you enjoy a complete, interesting life on your own. Create a world of your own. On your to-do-list add forgiveness. It is always healthy to forgive while you can, disappointments and sadness is a part of life.
Some people find it hard to forgive their partners especially if they happened to catch them cheating on them. Seek professional help from a marriage and relationship counselor. This is an important move towards search for everlasting love. Most buried resentments are the cause to failed marriages and broken relationships. At one time they resurface and blow the present things out of proportion. To find a smooth sail in your love life you have to learn to forgive and move on with a clean slate. Accept changes when they arrive instead of fighting the reality. In life change is inevitable. At one time you will be loved, dumped, married, you will have children, become sick and die. You should acknowledge the happenings in life and move through them strongly. No matter how settled you might be it is good to know that things can change in an instant.
Always accept the unexpected. Always find Happiness in what you have and be grateful to own what you have. It is a great secret to everlasting love. Despite the greatest fear and uncertainties of the unknown, when the inevitable things happen you will look back on the good old times and wish that you had been more grateful when things were more colorful. To enjoy your love life you should give thanks every moment and learn to appreciate the small problems we experience because unknown to us they can get worse and some time they probably will. To experience how it feels to have everlasting love, create time for each other as lovers. Many people who are unhappy keep on postponing time to be together. People get caught up in the many and demanding daily activities and forget to get time to live for today.
It happens to me and you. There will always be more laundry, more house chores and more errands to be carried out. It is a routine where we retire to bed when we are very exhausted late at night only to awake and follow the same routine again the next day. To live life to the fullest stop at some point and take time for yourself and for each other too. Today might be the only gift you have in life so live like there is no tomorrow. The precious moments we reckon in life are achieved by creating time for them against the much pressure of work. Create such short and fleeting moments everyday to enjoy everlasting love.
——4级晨读英语美文 (菁华3篇)
At age 89, Mary Fasano graduated wth a bachelor s degree from the Extenson School last week and entered the hstory books as the oldest person to earn an undergraduate degree at Harvard. Followng s the speech she delvered -- "The Power of Knowledge" -- at the Extenson School dploma awardng ceremony:
remember one nght a few years ago when my daughter was frantc wth worry. After my Harvard Extenson School classes, usually arrved at the bus staton near my home by 11 p.m., but on that nght was nowhere to be found. My daughter was nervous. t wasn t safe for a sngle woman to walk alone on the streets at nght, especally one as defenseless as am: can slay a mugger wth my sharp wt, but m just too short to do any real physcal damage.
That nght my daughter checked the bus staton, drove around the streets, and contacted some frends. But she couldn t fnd me -- untl she called my astronomy professor who told her that was on top of the Scence Center usng the telescope to gaze at the stars. Unaware of the tme, had gotten lost n the heavens and was only thnkng about the new thngs had learned that nght n class.
Ths story llustrates a habt have developed over the years: lose track of the tme when t comes to learnng. How else do you explan a woman who began hgh school at age 71 and who s graduatng wth a bachelor s degree at 89? may have started late, but wll contnue to learn as long as am able because there s no greater feelng, n my opnon, than travelng to a faraway country as have and beng able to dentfy by sght the pantng of a famous artst, the statue of an obscure sculptor, the cathedral of an ancent archtect. have found that the world s a fnal exam that you can never be prepared enough for. So wll contnue to take classes and tell my story.
Lately t seems that everyone s askng me, "Mary, what advce do you have for other students?" So whle have you all here, m gong to ease my burden of answerng you each ndvdually:
f the sayng s true that wsdom comes wth age, you may safely assume that am one of the wsest people n ths hall and possbly at ths unversty today. So lsten to me when tell you ths: Knowledge s power.
My studes were nterrupted when was n the 7th grade, back sometme around World War . loved school but was forced to leave t to care for my famly. was consgned to work n a Rhode sland cotton mll, where labored for many years. eventually marred and rased 5 chldren, 20 grandchldren, and 18 great-grandchldren. But all the whle felt nferor to those around me. knew was as smart as a college graduate. knew was capable of dong a job well -- had proved t by runnng a successful famly busness for decades that stll exsts. But wanted more. wanted to feel confdent when spoke and wanted people to respect my opnons.
Does t surprse you to dscover how much you have n common wth an 89-year-old woman? know that many of you graduates today, whether you were born n 1907 or 1967, have faced smlar barrers to completng your studes and have sometmes felt nferor around those you work or socalze wth just because you ddn t have a degree.
But am here today -- lke you are -- to prove that t can be done; that the power ganed by understandng and apprecatng the world around us can be obtaned by anyone regardless of socal status, personal challenges, or age. That belef s what has motvated me for the last 75 years to get ths degree. t s also the msson of the Harvard Extenson School. Wthout the support receved from ths school, mght not have graduated untl was 100 -- a phrase that many of you have probably used n jest.
There are many students here who do not have the opportunty that do to speak ther mnds and have everybody lsten, whether they want to or not. But be assured, fellow graduates, that we are more smlar than you mght thnk. f you have treated educaton as your man goal, and not as a means to an end, then you, too, have probably been clamed as a mssng person once n your academc career, whether you were lost n the stars or the stacks of Wdener Lbrary.
And you, too, know that the journey was worth t, and that the power of knowledge makes me the most formdable 89-year-old woman at the bus stop.
"On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three n the afternoon, the greatest lvng thnker ceased to thnk. He had been left alone for scarcely two mnutes, and when we came back we found hm n hs armchar, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever.
"An mmeasurable loss has been sustaned both by the mltant proletarat of Europe and Amerca, and by hstorcal scence, n the death of ths man. The gap that has been left by the departure of ths mghty sprt wll soon enough make tself felt.
"Just as Darwn dscovered the law of development of organc nature, so Marx dscovered the law of development of human hstory: the smple fact, htherto concealed by an overgrowth of deology, that manknd must frst of all eat, drnk, have shelter and clothng, before t can pursue poltcs, scence, art, relgon, etc.; that therefore the producton of the mmedate materal means of subsstence and consequently the degree of economc development attaned by a gven people or durng a gven epoch form the foundaton upon whch the state nsttutons, the legal conceptons, art, and even the deas on relgon, of the people concerned have been evolved, and n the lght of whch they must, therefore, be explaned, nstead of vce versa, as had htherto been the case.
"But that s not all. Marx also dscovered the specal law of moton governng the present-day captalst mode of producton and the bourgeos socety that ths mode of producton has created. The dscovery of surplus value suddenly threw lght on the problem, n tryng to solve whch all prevous nvestgatons, of both bourgeos economsts and socalst crtcs, had been gropng n the dark.
"Two such dscoveres would be enough for one lfetme. Happy the man to whom t s granted to make even one such dscovery. But n every sngle feld whch Marx nvestgated -- and he nvestgated very many felds, none of them superfcally -- n every feld, even n that of mathematcs, he made ndependent dscoveres.
f somebody tells you, " 'll love you for ever," wll you beleve t?
don't thnk there's any reason not to. we are ready to beleve such commtment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. As for the belef n an everlastng love, that's another thng.
Then you may be asked whether there s such a thng as an everlastng love. 'd answer beleve n t. But an everlastng love s not mmutable.
——关于生活的态度英语作文实用五份
During my winter break, I read a children's classic, "secret garden," by Frances Burnett, a British children's novel.This book is very interesting to inspire our curiosity and determination to explore the unknown.Introduces the number of characters in the book, there was little face long and thin, thin, sparse hair and also plate with a smelly face angry, unhappy, then become very strong, has the curiosity of the little girl Mary lennox;There was also the silence, grumpiness, waiting for the death of nothing, and then become lively and cheerful, the face of the red and round young master colin craven;There were all day's busy coring's father, Mr. Craven, and the labor, loving dickon, and the faithful servant, Mrs. Ben weatherstad, and so on.
Colin's mother died, colin's father is very miss his own wife, the closed garden, who also not to close to, one is closed for more than ten years, the key to the door lock under deep buried in the garden soil.The walls were covered with weeds and vines, covering the walls.For more than a decade, no one knew what was going on in the garden.Full of curiosity and courageous enough to probe into Mary, deacon and others with the help of robin, not afraid of hardship, not only found the key to the rusty, also opened the sink more than 10 years the door of the garden, the garden tidy have a profusion of garden flowers at the same time, also make their mood changed, is also much stronger body, especially colin not only get rid of the plight of death, and become healthy and lively boy.
Reading this book made me understand that in every a century since human creation, there are many new things are discovered, however, if you don't have the curiosity and determination to explore the mystery, you won't have any findings and results, each a startling discovery, is a person of curiosity and determination.In a new century, lots of novelty, of each piece of novelty, always holding the manner which refused to believe it at first, and then begin to look forward to it, and then see it can be implemented - in the end it came true at last.The whole world is strange, and to discover the secrets of this strange world, there must be curiosity and determination.
The secret garden is full of love and passion for life, and dee*** explores the soul and growth.It shows how the human attitude determines the life of the person, and thus determines the fate.Life can be wonderful or miserable, depending on your attitude.
There are two people watching outside the window. The first man can only see the rubbish, because he is a pessimist. He always complains about his life, as he always regards that God is not equal to him. While facing difficulties, he's always frightened. Therefore he often loses his chances to win. Reminding his old days, he's very regretful. Once his father had placed him at the entrance of the road and told him to be careful while choosing his life. But he has chosen the wrong way. Now he gets nothing from his journey but remorse and errors. He dares not to see his father in the haven. He often cries bitterly but in vain. No wonder he is a penniless failure.
However, the second man is different from the first. Through the window, he can see the beautiful stars. As an optimist, he always smiles to everything. While facing difficulties, he still keeps a sense of humor. He can defeat all the setbacks and stumbling blocks by his great determination. And he often finds his life so colorful and interesting as he overcomes all the difficulties. What's more, he's very strong and powerful. Although life is very difficult outside, he still makes a great effort to overcome all the troubles. He's very brave and confident. He's so brave, brave enough to face the present life. He's so confident, confident enough to challenge himself. He's very easy-going and kind-hearted. He always helps others when they are in trouble. That's why he always owns a good fame.
From the story, we know the fact that the second man has set a good example to us, so we must follow his good example.
有两个人看着窗外。第一个男人只看到垃圾，因为他是一个悲观主义者。他总是抱怨自己的生活，因为他总是认为上帝对他不公*。在面对困难的时候，他总是害怕。因此他经常失去了获胜的机会。想起他以前的日子，他感到很遗憾。他父亲曾经将他放在道路的入口处并告诉他要小心选择自己的生活。但他选择了一条错误的路。现在，从他的旅程中他什么也没有得到，除了悔恨和错误。他不敢去见他在天堂的父亲。他经常痛哭但是徒然。难怪他是一个身无分文的失败者。
然而，第二个人和第一个人不一样。通过窗户，他看到了美丽的星星。作为一个乐观主义者，他总是微笑着面对一切。面对困难，他依然保持着幽默感。他可以通过强大的定力战胜所有的挫折和阻碍。他经常觉得他的生活是丰富多彩和有趣的，因为他克服了所有的困难。更重要的是，他非常强大。虽然生活很困难，他仍然可以通过努力克服所有的困难。他非常勇敢和自信。他是那么的勇敢，勇敢到可以面对现在的生活。他很自信，有足够的信心去挑战自己。他很随和，善良。他总是帮助那些有困难的`人。这就是为什么他总是可以拥有好名声。
从这个故事中，我们知道一个事实，第二个人已经给我们树立了一个好的榜样，所以我们以他为榜样。
It is natural that difficulties hide in every corner of our life,so we have to face them at times.But the problem is that sometimes we can do nothing to the challenging situations as our abilities are limited.In this case,what can we do is to change our attitude towards these difficulties.Just as the saying goes,”You can’t change the weather,but you can change your mood.”
Facing the misfortunes in our lives,some people choose to adopt an optimistic attitude to cope with it,while some prefer to hold a pessimistic attitude to complain about what they have lost.It is clear that the former will treasure what they have to lead a happy and substantial life,and the latter will end up with grief and depression for a long time.Therefore,we can say life is like a mirror which laughs as you laugh and cries as you cry.We should keep in mind that attitude determines everything.
Above all,to be bravely faced with happiness and sadness in the future,we need to have an optimistic and active attitude towards life. Only in this way can we surmount the tough surroundings and gain more power to pursue our dreams.
Remember ever seen such an experiment: operation experiments in advance tell this people will be using qq online chat, he will chat two objects of a singular character, temper, proud, another gentle, gentle is virtuous, are kind.The experiment began, and the man and the first person couldn't talk much longer and had a bad chat.But this person and the second person chat, the chat is not finished, it seems that they have a good chat.Actually, this person is actually talking to the same person.Why is the contrast so big?
It turned out that when the man knew the first man, he had a bad impression of him, and he did not like to talk to such people, so he had an unhappy ending.The second person impressed him very well, so he was willing to talk to such people, and the more he talked, the happier he was.It seems that attitude is very important, attitude can make a thing better, can also make a thing worse.
Will the cloudy weather affect your mood?Will your mood affect your work?
Yes, I do.A bad weather would make my mood worse, so my drawing was unsatisfactory, and the more ugly the picture, the less I wanted to draw it.This day is nothing.Not only I, but many students around me have this feeling.And when I found out that the weather was bad, the whole class didn't draw very well.When the weather is clear, the mood will be very good, and the more the picture will be drawn.
This shows how important a person's mindset is.
You can't control others, but you can control yourself.You can't predict tomorrow, but you can grasp today;You can't win, but you can do everything.You can't stretch the length of your life, but you can determine the width of your life;You can't control the weather, but you can change your mood.You can't choose your appearance, but you can smile.When something doesn't satisfy you, you can change your mindset and turn your criticism into an appreciative perspective.There are two sides to everything, and if you look on the bright side, your heart will be open.If you could do "not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personal losses", that would be great.
Such as a five flavor, acid, sweet, bitter, spicy, is all. Let you laugh when you open; sometimes you have grieved; sometimes you surprised; sometimes you wronged. Life is so wonderful, and so sad, in the face of every expression in life, there should be different ways to deal with it, will you face life? I will not teach you. Life is like a small boy, sweet and sour. Life is this, when you are misunderstood by others, you will feel the biotic acid; but when everything is truth, others say that when others say sorry, I suddenly feel Going to the bayberry sweet and sweet. When you enter a female crown, this is like this. You need you to take it slowly, and you will get its best and most beautiful. Life is like a cup of bitter coffee, plus some of the squatting, become a bitter taste, just like life journey, a lot of difficulty, quietly sitting in a corner, ending a cup of bitter coffee, memories good The past, gradually experienced the delicious coffee. You will understand that the taste after suffering is sweeter. So I want to experience the deliciousness of coffee, I need to have enough courage and will to overcome all difficulties, in order to really have a delicious coffee.
Life such as two glasses; a cup of sweet water, a cup of coffee, let you choose. However, no matter which cup of water, you need to face the courage and will of life. Have you got it?
May you get it as soon as possible. Let us face life with your heart.
——关于肥胖的英语优秀作文范本5份
Nowadays more and more people are obsessed with obesity, and they have tried in many ways to lose weight but got few result due to an unclear understanding of the factors that are responsible for obesity. In my opinion, three factors may lead to this phenomenon. Part of the explanation for it is the genetic inheritance. Some people are born bigger and fatter because they have inherited some piece of gene which decides their obese figure from their parents. But their parents are not necessarily fat, because the gene in them may not be dominant. So it seems that people are obese due to the genes can’t change their situation unless they receive some operation to utter their genes.
现在越来越多的人迷恋肥胖，他们已经尝试过很多减肥方法，但有一些成绩，由于不明确的.了解，负责肥胖的因素。在我看来，有三个因素可能会导致这种现象。对于这部分原因是基因遗传。有些人是天生的更大，更胖，因为他们继承了一些片基因这就决定他们肥胖的身影从他们的父母。但是，他们的父母并不一定是胖的，因为基因在其中可能不占优势。如此看来，人是肥胖者是由于基因，除非他们得到一些操作说出它们的基因无法改变自己的处境。
Losing weight is a hot topic among teenagers, especially high school girls. Although they are very tired with endless homework, they still want to lose weight. What they usually do is on a diet. In their mind, keeping thin makes them beautiful and confident. I have to say that their thought is one-sided. Some students will be more confident to get a nice body. However, health comes first. Before whatever you do, you should think of health first. Without health, you can do nothing. When you are sick in bed, you will envy those healthy people who can do many things outside, but what you can do is lie on the bed. What a pity! Thus, when losing weight, remember do not at the cost of your health. Owning a healthy body is also a proud thing and you can get confidence from it. The most important point is that you have enough capital to do what you want.
在青少年中，特别是女高中生减肥是很热门的一个话题。尽管由于无穷无尽的作业她们已经很疲惫了，但是他们还是要减肥。她们常常的做法是节食。在她们看来，保持苗条身材可以让她们苗条跟自信。我不得不说她们的想法是片面的。对于一些学生来说，拥有苗条的身材会让她们更自信。然而，健康是最重要的。不管在做什么之前都应该想想健康。没有健康，什么都做不了。在你卧病在床时，你就会羡慕那些可以在外做很多事情的健康人了，但是你所能做的只是躺在床上。多么可惜啊！因此，减肥的时候记得不要以健康为代价。拥有健康的身体也是很值得自豪的，也会从中获得自信。最重要的是拥有足够的资本做自己想要做的事。
Nowadays obesity has been a very common problem among people, especially among people in the cities. And the diseases caused by obesity have also beleaguered people for a long time. So, how to fight against obesity?
To fight against obesity, many products or machines about loosing weight have been introduced. However, as far as I am concerned, most products or machines about losing weight would bring some side effects to our body. Therefore, to lose weight, the most important point is to find out the main reason for obesity and take action to lose weight step by step on the basic of com***ing with out body’s needs.
There are several reasons may account for my view on obesity. First, overeating but lacking of doing exercises is a common reason. In particularly, ingesting too much sugar and fat everyday are more easily lead to obesity. Therefore, to lose weight we need to control ourselves from eating too much, especially eating sugar and fat. Besides, we need to take some exercises appropriately. Second, another reason is irregular work and rest. In modern society, sleep too much or work for too long is quite universal. And this irregular work and rest has a great impact for our health and one effect of it may be obesity. Thus, to have a healthy body, we need a regular work and rest. Finally, disease can also account for obesity.
To sum up, there are various factors accounting for obesity and we need to find out the main one and take action to fight against it. And by the way, we should have awareness of that to fight against obesity needs a lot of time, patience and perseverance.
Nowadays the people are enjoying a more comfortable life and many people are suffering from obesity.Thus,losing weight becomes very popular.
However,weight reducing is a tricky topic.Some people lose weight quickly by crash dieting or other extreme measures.This will not help them lose weight since they usually gain back all (and often more) of the pounds they lost because they haven’t permanently changed their habits.What’s worse,sometimes these extreme measures will affect the individual’s health.
In my view,before one decides to lose weight,he first of all should make it clear whether he should or not lose weight.The best way to find out if you are at a healthy weight or if you need to lose or gain weight is to talk to a doctor or dietitian.He or she can compare your weight with healthy norms to help you set realistic goals.If it turns out that you would benefit from weight loss then you can follow a few of the simple suggestions which are widely accepted by weight reducing experts to get it started.
Nowadays weight-losing has become popular among young and middle-aged women. In order to make themselves pretty-looking, they try many different ways of losing weight. Some go on a diet, some take exercise,some eat medicine ,others even turn to operation for help. As a result,a lot of products have come into being,such as special medicines, tea and equipment. They are used in different ways and work differently, but some have side effects.
In my opinion, it‘s understandable that women seek beauty, but they should do it in a proper way. Taking exercise is the way that I most favor. But the other methods are likely to do harm to people‘s health more or less.
——关于兔子的英语作文(5)份
I keep a cute little rabbit, because it is near the mouth of a small black spots, so I give it a nice name: dots.
Little was wearing a white coat, and a small tail, with a short and fat small but jiongjiongweishen eyes, every now and then look in all directions, it is interested in anything in my house, b, as soon as I put it out of the east, west channeling channeling, like looking for something. Its ears are long and sensitive, with a little pricked up his ears to hear the noise, and then like to hear what, running away. It also has a pair of flexible feet, particularly fast, and often to a sharp turn, a fall, make us laugh, very cute.
I go to school every day, it had to be in a cage to eat green vegetables, turnip, very boring. Only wait for me after school, can go out to play with it, this is the most happy moment, it is always a moment jumped on, for a while, dont feel a bit tired. Caves are the sites of its game, it in there playing "hide and seek" with me, playing joyfully. On one occasion, a small dog came running, frighten it quickly jumped into my arms, also are playing the shaking body, seems to frighten not light, then I want to protect it.
In my home, it is the most like to trash cans to look for something to eat, make feet are black, Ill give it a bath, go to blow dry again into the cage, each time it is very reluctant, still want to go out to play! Little thing is really naughty and naughty, I like it.
我养了一只可爱的小兔子，因为它嘴巴附*有一个小黑点，所以我给它起了个好名字：圆点。
小家伙穿着一件白色的外套，还有一条小尾巴，长着一双又矮又胖的.小但炯炯有神的眼睛，时不时地向四面八方张望，它对我家里的任何东西都感兴趣，b，我一把它弄出来，东窜西窜，喜欢找东西。它的耳朵又长又敏感，有点竖起耳朵去听噪音，然后喜欢听什么，跑开了。它还有一双灵活的脚，特别快，而且经常要急转弯，一摔倒，让我们开怀大笑，非常可爱。
我每天上学，都要在笼子里吃青菜、萝卜，很无聊。只有等我放学后，才能出去玩它，这是最快乐的时刻，它总是一瞬间跳上，一会儿，不觉得有点累。洞穴是它的游戏场所，它在那里和我玩“捉迷藏”，玩得很开心。有一次，一只小狗跑了过来，吓得它赶紧跳到我的怀里，还玩着摇晃的身体，似乎吓不轻，于是我想保护它。
在我家，它最喜欢到垃圾桶里找东西吃，弄得脚都黑了，我就给它洗个澡，再去吹干再进笼子里，每次它都很舍不得，还想出去玩！这个小东西真的很淘气，我喜欢它。
hello, my friends! my name’s sandy. today, i will tell you an interesting story about rabbits. look at me , now , i’m not sandy but a mother rabbit.
i have a happy family because of my three daughters. they are very clever and lovely. in the morning , they have good habits . after they get up , they have good habits. after they get up in the morning, they wash the face , brush the hair , clean the ears and blow the noses. they like singing and dancing , too . now , let’s have a share , children , are you ready ? action , please!
你好，我的朋友们！我叫桑迪。今天，我要给大家讲一个关于兔子的有趣故事。看看我，现在，我不是桑迪，而是一只兔子妈妈。
我有一个幸福的家庭，因为我有三个女儿。他们非常聪明可爱。早上，他们有良好的*惯。起床后，他们有了良好的*惯。早上起床后，他们洗脸、刷头发、清洁耳朵和擤鼻涕。他们也喜欢唱歌和跳舞。现在，让我们分享一下，孩子们，你们准备好了吗？请行动！
Everyday, they play with each other happily. One day, I couldn’t find them. I asked my mother: ”Where are they? ” My mother told me that She didn’t know. At last, I found them in the grass. They were very dirty. I was angry, but when I looked at their lovely faces, I was happy again.I love my little rabbits, and they love me. They are my good friends forever.
每天，他们都开心地玩着。有一天，我找不到他们。我问妈妈：“他们在哪里？”我妈妈告诉我她不知道。最后，我在草地上找到了它们。它们很脏。我很生气，但当我看到它们可爱的脸时，我又高兴了。我爱我的小兔子，它们也爱我。他们是我永远的好朋友。
I have a super cute little rabbit.
Its body is chubby, like a pillow filled with cotton. That furry fur, feels like a handle into the twenty bed of duck down.
It had a pair of long white ears on top of his head, like a pair of white hammers, standing straight on a head like a dumpling. Sometimes the ears are tightly attached together, drooping in the back of the head, as if by any wronged.
Its eyes are round and round, like two crystal clear black gems. Its belly snow white, like wearing a white dumplings. Its tail like a small hair ball, tightly attached to its little ass, so walking to shake a very cute. Above the abdomen with four slender legs, running back and forth with the tacit understanding, back a pedal, front legs forward a flutter, jumping all of a sudden no shadow.
It loves fresh vegetables and red carrots. But its food can not touch the water, once the water it will diarrhea, and pain and death. Bunny is a three-mouth, so it can not eat anything, can only chew slowly. I saw it the front claw holding its own beloved cabbage, with its eye-catching bunny constantly gnawing the leaves, issued a "rustling" sound, as if to say: "Well, go away, this is not your "Eat the leaves to the cage to drag the leaves.
You see, how cute it! This is my favorite intimate friend - little rabbit.
我有一只超级可爱的小兔子。
它的身体是丰满的，像一个装满棉花的枕头。那毛茸茸的毛皮，摸上去像是一把把手，**了二十层的鸭绒床上。
它的头顶上有一对长长的白色耳朵，像一对白色的锤子，像饺子一样笔直地站在头上。有时耳朵紧紧地连在一起，下垂在脑后，好像受到了任何委屈。
它的眼睛又圆又圆，像两颗晶莹剔透的黑色宝石。它的肚子雪白的，像穿着白色的饺子。它的尾巴像一个小毛球，紧紧地贴在它的小屁股上，所以走路的时候摇一摇很可爱。上面腹部有四条细长的腿，用默契来回奔跑，背一蹬，前腿向前一扑，一下子跳不出影子。
它喜欢新鲜蔬菜和红胡萝卜。但它的食物不能接触到水，一旦接触到水它就会腹泻、疼痛和死亡。兔子是一个三口人，所以它不能吃任何东西，只能慢慢咀嚼。我看见它的前爪抓着自己心爱的卷心菜，它的醒目的小兔子不停地啃着叶子，发出“沙沙”的声音，好像在说：“好了，走开，这不是你的”把叶子吃到笼子里拖叶子。
你看，多可爱啊！这是我最喜欢的亲密朋友——小兔子。
My family has a lovely little white rabbit. It has a white feather like snow, two ears like antenna up, mouth into three disc, two "explosion teeth exposed, short legs, tail round like a little ball.
Its smart, but its very obedient.
"Ring......" The doorbell rang, "I came back", the white rabbit heard my voice, and quickly hopped came to the door close to my feet, I ignored it, went straight to the desk, began to write the homework. The little white rabbit jumped onto my lap. I shook my leg and it fell off my leg. He got up slowly, kicked me, shook his tail, and went out. After a while, it came to stand beside me, I hold it, it smiles and then drill into my arms to me, as if to say: "you just fell off the falls also value." I said to him: "little rabbit, I do my homework, and you can not play, I finished my homework again." He seemed to understand me, nodded and bounced off.
This is my little white rabbit. Sometimes it makes me happy. Sometimes it makes me angry. Sometimes, when Im angry, it makes me laugh!
我家有一只可爱的小白兔。它有一根雪白的羽毛，两只耳朵像天线一样向上，嘴巴变成三个圆盘，两颗“爆齿”露出来，腿短，尾巴圆得像个小球。
它很聪明，但很听话。
“铃声……”门铃响了，“我回来了”，白兔听到了我的声音，急忙跳到门口靠*我的脚，我不理它，径直走向书桌，开始写作业。小白兔跳到我的腿上。我摇了摇腿，它从腿上掉了下来。他慢慢地站起来，踢了我一脚，摇了摇尾巴，走了出去。过了一会儿，它过来站在我身边，我抱着它，它微笑着然后钻到我怀里对我说，好像在说：“你刚从瀑布上掉下来还值。”我对他说：“小兔子，我做作业，你不能玩了，我又完成了我的作业。”他似乎听懂了我的话，点了点头，蹦了出去。
这是我的小白兔。有时候它让我很开心。有时它让我生气。有时候，当我生气的时候，它会让我发笑！
