英语美文：橡叶里的婚戒

在祖母的最后十年，她在手指上戴过两枚结婚戒指：她自己的戒指和祖父的戒指。祖父去世后，她总是将对他的回忆贴在她柔软起皱的手上，感到暖呼呼的。这种特殊的爱恋--金金相亲--对他们

现在谁能告诉我们哪个是哪个吗？

Teacher: Here are two birds, one is a swallow, and the other is sparrow. Now who can tell us which is which? Student: I cannot point out but I know the answer. Teacher: Please tell us. Student: The swallow is beside the sparrow and the sparrow is bes

英语美文：为什么我们需要放弃

Persistence is important to achieve success, but giving up is also important. Why is it essential? Why is it necessary to give up? Because it allows you to focus your energy on the few things that are truly important. By giving up, you: 坚持是成功

英语美文：当你年老时

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, 当你老了，白发苍苍，睡思昏沉， And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 在炉火旁打盹，请取下这部诗歌， And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 慢慢读，回想你过去

英语美文：每件事情都至关重要

英语励志美文：每件事情都至关重要 Thank you for your application. We would like to congratulate you, the letter read. Those words can make your heart skip a beat and bring tears to your eyes. The feeling of following your dreams is ine

英语美文：圣诞奇迹

克里斯汀一起床就片刻不离地守着安娜,对她说话,给她唱歌,为她祈祷,也为她哭泣。圣诞前夜到了,克里斯汀用小灯和一棵迷你圣诞树装饰安娜的病房。她打开收音机,调到一个正在播放圣诞颂歌

英语美文：The Beggar and the Miser

One day, an old beggar went to the village. He knocked at the door of a rich man to beg for food. 一天，一个老乞丐来到一个熟悉的村子里。他敲上了一个富人家的门，想跟他讨点儿东西吃。 This was a big house and at

英语美文：Dear Sir or Madam

What's in a word? Quite a lot, I suspect. Travellers to Francophone and Hispanophone countries will have noticed a superiority of everyday social interactions to those observable in our own country. They retain a slightly formulaic ceremoniousness th

英语美文：我要笑遍世界

The Scroll Marked Seven 羊皮卷之七 I will laugh at the world. 我要笑遍世界。 No living creature can laugh except man. Trees may bleed when they are wounded, and beasts in the field will cry in pain and hunger, yet only I have the gift of

谱写生命的乐章

Suppose someone gave you a pen - a sealed, solid-colored pen. 假如有人送你一支笔，一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔. 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 crea

英语美文：莫等到花儿都谢了

Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is to

英语美文：无形的墙

The Invisible Wall 和丈夫堕入爱河那一刻，我们正坐在旧公寓的客厅里，眼前的白色长窗帘垂落在落地窗前。我们边聊天，边细呷着滚烫的黑咖啡。我们可以就一直这么坐着聊天有时候可以聊到第

英语美文：我的小猪挚友－阿诺德

I recently lost my best friend Arnold in an automobile accident while moving my family to our new home in Arizona. Arnold was an 8-month-old pot belly who taught me so much about love, devotion and companionship. I am devastated by his loss, but than

英语美文：The Remembrance of Lilacs

The Remembrance of Lilacs 紫丁香的回忆 The family had just moved to Rhode Island，and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that Sunday in May. After all，it was Mother's Day--and 800 miles separated her from her parents in Ohio.

英语美文：爷爷的饭桌

Grandpa's Table A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather's

女孩的记忆

We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school, no rules , no par

英语故事:The Swallow’s Words 燕子的忠告

It happened that a country man was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other Birds were hopping about picking up their food. Be ware of that man,said the Swallow. Why, what is he doing? said the others. Those are hemp seeds he

英语故事:和阻碍你发展的人做最后的告别

There was a big company located in St. Louis, Missouri. One day, after lunch, all the staff saw a poster beside the gate of the company. The poster read: Yesterday a clerk who had long impeded your promotion passed away. Therefore, we would like to i

你爱我什么

约翰正在等一个女孩，他们已经通信长达一年多，彼此深交已久，但却素未谋面。女孩告诉他，自己会把一朵红玫瑰别在衣领上。到了约定时间，约翰看见一位身穿绿色衣服的年轻女子，她貌

实用口语练习:当猪飞起来的时候

1．When pigs fly 无稽之谈 如果哪一天猪都能飞起来，那可真是怪了，所以这句话就用来表示某事根本不可能，纯属无稽之谈。 例如：He'll win a match when pigs fly. 他要是能赢得比赛就怪了！ He will