四六级必读美文系列:装穷族

Brooks dubbed them BoBos, the bourgeois bohemians who created a new anti-establishment establishment. (1) They were the specialty-cheese-eating, sport-utility vehicle-driving environmentalists who railed against the elite even as they became one of t

四六级必读美文系列:世界最大的纸杯蛋糕

【中英双语文本】 A 4 feet cupcake weighing a hefty 1,224 pounds has been officially recognized as the world's largest by the Guinness Book of Records. 一个身高4英尺、体重达1224磅的杯蛋糕日前被《吉尼斯世界记录》正式认

双语美文：难忘的钢琴曲

There are advantages and disadvantages to coming from a large family. Make that a large family with a single parent, and they double. The disadvantages are never so apparent as when someone wants to go off to college. Parents have cashed in life insu

美文赏析:艰难，才是生活的常态

Through the cold winter wasteland a man trudged, leaning into the harsh wind which spitefully tried to force him back. He was covered from head to toe in layers of thick clothing, layers of protection against the harsh environment. On he fought, sear

美文赏析:再微小的力量，也能改变世界

A friend who was down in the dumps wrote me a letter a few weeks ago. His life was full of problems. His heart was full of worries. He was low on hope. 几周前，一位生活几经波折的友人给我来信，说他的生活中充斥着麻烦，对此

高中英语美文:把心门敞开

把心门敞开 There are two brothers, aged four or five years old, as the bedroom windows are closed all day, and they think the house is too dark to see outside the bright sun, feel envy. Brothers on the discussion, said: We can put together a lit

美文赏析:茵梦湖岛

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wottles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. 我将要动身去茵梦湖， 在那里建座小屋

美文美诗:仙女对牧羊人的回答

Fall the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherds tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. 假若世界和爱情永远年轻， 假若牧羊人的话句句成真， 这些美妙快乐能把我打动

美文阅读：青春物语

青春消逝，蓦然回首，无论是谁，心中都会充满无尽的忧伤，充满无穷的懊悔。曾经才智卓越，却白白浪费了，曾经财富殷实，却一无所有，曾经本事高强，却从未利用。一个认识到自己失落

励志美文：你可以选择自己想过的生活

Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica H

双语美文：去认识大自然之美

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in

双语美文：幸福是一种态度

The 92-year-old,petite,well-poised and proud lady,who is fully dressed each morning by eight oclock,with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied,even though she was legally blind,moved to a nursing home today. 这位92岁高龄、个子

双语美文：花之歌

I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the Blue tent upon the green carpet. I am the daughter of the elements With whom Winter conceived; To whom Spring gave birth; I was Reared in the lap of Summer and

英语哲理美文

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more but enjoy less. 我们这个时代在历史上的说法就是我们拥有更高

双语美文：成功的秘诀其实并不深奥

You want to know the secret to success? Here it is: 你想知道成功的秘诀吗？下面我就告诉你： Believe in yourself so much, that no one else can tell you otherwise. 要足够相信自己，这样就没有人能对你指手画脚了。

双语美文：我决定从此过上幸福的生活

It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale to my little girl. She sat next to me with her head on my arm as I told the tale. When it came to the end I finished with those famous words: And they lived happily ev

感人美文：我的父亲

Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sunda

双语美文：当一个作家 书写自己的人生

小编导读：是什么让作家成为作家?这个问题听起来好像挺绕的不过，成为作家的一个原因大概就是被那种主宰故事发展的力量所吸引吧!其实我们的人生何尝不是这样?我们总有主宰它的力量~

哲理美文 当一个作家书写自己的人生

The gas station nearest my house happens to face a strip club. It is apparently a very successful strip club, as they could afford to install a LCD screen on their roof that might be visible from the Space Station. It's certainly visible from the gas

美文赏析:欲爱人 先爱己

I want to fall in love in 2016. 在2016年我渴望坠入爱河 I want to fall head over heels this year. By the very end of it, I want to be bursting at the seams of all my scars with a love burning happily in my heart. 这一年我希望自己爱得死