一艘客轮在海上遇到暴风雨而翻覆，只有两个人游泳到一个荒凉的小岛上。在无计可施的情况下，这两个人都认为只有向上帝祷告才是唯一之道。但是为了看谁的祷告比较有效，他们协议把小
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经典英语美文阅读：Proud Americans 骄傲的美国人 Americans are proud to be Americans.But each individual will explain that he ,personally,is not like the other Americans. He is better. Americans are proud to be different from each other
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自由飞翔：在一个有风的春日，我看到一群年轻人正在迎风放风筝玩乐，各种颜色、各种形状和大小的风筝就好像美丽的鸟儿在空中飞舞。当强风把风筝吹起，牵引线就能够控制它们。 风筝迎
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我与约翰契弗的友谊 My Friendship with John Cheever ：In a California bookstore recently, I saw a copy of The Short Stories of John Cheever, my all-time favorite collection of short fiction. On the table near it was a book that I wrote calle
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人生路上，我们热衷于追逐，热衷于攀登！一次次告诉自己，水往低处流，人往高处走！ 渐渐地，随着年龄的增长，我们开始发现：原来不计一切、不停攀登未必是好事，找到人生的平衡点才
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经典父爱美文欣赏：In praise of hugs父亲的拥抱：在距离和情感上远离冷漠的父亲成长, 意味着凯瑟琳伯德特常常怀疑父亲对她的感情, 直到他弥留的那几天 Growing up at a distance geographical and emotio
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Wisdom Keeper智慧的守护者 Earlier this year I participated in an unusual video series called Wisdom Keepers. Its planned as a number of short interviews with older people of accomplishment, from dancers to environmentalists to writers such as m
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Wisdom Keeper智慧的守护者 Earlier this year I participated in an unusual video series called Wisdom Keepers. Its planned as a number of short interviews with older people of accomplishment, from dancers to environmentalists to writers such as m
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If life were always merry If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would fain Feel once more The cooling splash of rain If all the world were music Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence To break the endless song If life were alw
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从前，有位年轻人即将大学生毕业。数月来，他一直渴望得到某 汽车商产品陈列室中的一辆跑车，他知道，他那富有的父亲肯定买得起这辆车，于是，他便跟父亲说他很想得到那辆漂亮的跑车
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一天，我们大学里一个年轻的学生和一位教授一起散步。这位仁慈的教授常称呼学生为朋友，他对那些急切希望得到指教的学生非常友善。 散步途中，他们看到一双旧鞋放在路边，便猜测鞋子
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Life from seven coup生活中取长补短的七大妙招 Alternative Wisdom: 7 Ways to Zig When Everyone Else is Zagging 二选一的智慧：众人取长，吾短求之，献上七个建议 The world is whizzing by and your head's spinning. 世界变化
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Are you happy? I asked my brother, Ian, one day. Yes. No. It depends on what you mean, he said. Then tell me, I said, when was the last time you think you were happy? April 1967, he said. 你幸福吗？一天我问我的兄弟伊恩。 又幸福，又
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When you are first learning or perfecting a skill, whether it be baking, archery, or public speaking, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle of analysis paralysis. You want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you e
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One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students. He stood in front of them and said, Okay, time for a quiz. Then he pulled out a wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table. He then produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks
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A couple often went shopping together. They both liked teacups. One day they saw a beautiful teacup in a store. As they picked it up, it suddenly spoke. I havent always been a teacup. Once I was red earth. My master rolled me over and over and I shou
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There was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving songbirds. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She cared them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning
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