Nalini Nadkarni:监狱中的生命(与)科学 30

Nalini Nadkarni挑战我们对于树木及监狱的传统观点，她认为这两者都比我们所想得更具活力。经由与华盛顿州政府的合作，她将科学课程及保育计划引进给受刑囚犯，并得到超乎预期的效果。

美文欣赏：生命中的匆匆过客（双语）

When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed。 There were pieces of me all over the tidy， tan tiles。 He kept talking， telling me why he was leaving， explaining it was for the best， I could do better， it was hi

英语中几种常见的修辞格

1.借代（the synecdoche） 比喻一定要用一种事物比方另一种事物，无论明喻、隐喻和转喻都是如此。转喻虽然表面上只剩下喻体事 物，省去了本体事物，但仍然是两种事物相比。然而借代只有一

名人励志英语演讲 第160期:奏出生命中最美的乐曲(7)

Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and its effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider

精美英文欣赏:我生命中的另一个女人

那一刻，我突然体会到及时说出我爱你有多么重要，与那些我们深爱的人分享他们应得的时光是多么美好...... 昨天是支票，已经付讫。 明天是本票，还未到期。 今天是现金......用心去花。

英语故事;从小甜饼中得来的幸福

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was having the cookie. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn't have the cookie, life wa

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(8)

And I sometimes wonder 有时候我在想 whether I could have found such fulfillment 如果婚姻和孩子 in marriage and children 来得更容易些， if they'd come more readily, 我是否会找到这样的满足， if I'd been straight in my yo

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(3)

Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist 马提达博士，一位人活跃的权运动领袖 who had nearly died in prison 曾经几乎丧命于狱中 and had spent many years in solitary confinement, 并在单独禁锢中度过多年， told me

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(6)

But if you banish the dragons, 但如果你驱逐了恶龙， you banish the heroes, 你也同时驱逐了英雄， and we become attached 而我们无法放下 to the heroic strain in our own lives. 我们生命中英雄的那一部分。 I've somet

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(5)

And they went on and on, 他们滔滔不绝地说着， and the soldier watched, 而那名士兵看着他们， and then he sat there for a full minute 知道他们说完了之后， after they were finished 他坐在那里待了整整一分钟， an

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(4)

We cannot bear a pointless torment, 我们不能承担无谓的痛苦， but we can endure great pain 但如果我们认定它是有意义的， if we believe that it's purposeful. 我们就能忍受巨大的痛苦。 Ease makes less of an impression

TED演讲 :生命中最惨痛的时刻如何造就我们(1)

As a student of adversity, I've been struck over the years 我从逆境中学习：这些年来，我一次又一次 by how some people with major challenges 被人们如何从极大的挑战中 seem to draw strength from them, and I've heard the pop

【英语语言学习】我生命中最艰难的105天

So in the oasis of intelligentsia that is TED, I stand here before you this evening as an expert in dragging heavy stuff around cold places. I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my adult life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere

美国俚语:life of the party聚会中活跃气氛的中心人物

life of the party 聚会中活跃气氛的中心人物 life of the party用来说某一种人。什么样的人呢？我们听个例子来体会吧。这个小伙子要向我们介绍他妹妹 Jenny, 听了他的描述，你一定觉得Jenny是非常讨

全球海选：生命中最寻常的幸福小事

They say the best things in life are free. 人们常说，生命中最美妙的事情都是无价的。 A Reddit user asked people from around the world what life's most simple pleasures were, one of which was getting in your own bed after a long jou

生命中什么才是最重要的?

【原文】 Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal powe

【英语语言学习】生命中最糟糕的时刻

As a student of adversity, I've been struck over the years by how some people with major challenges seem to draw strength from them, and I've heard the popular wisdom that that has to do with finding meaning. And for a long time, I thought the meanin

艾伦脱口秀第2期:感激生命中的奇迹

I wanted to find out what kind of caterpillar it was,cause I loved nature. 我想弄清楚它是哪种毛毛虫 因为我爱自然 And because I touched,and I thought it maybe poisonous 也因为我摸过它 我觉得它可能有毒 So I did what I a

美文阅读：别了，我生命中的过客

When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. There were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving, explaining it was for the best, I could do better, it was his fault and no

第608期:家人就像我们生命中的指南针

回家过年，与家人团聚，哪怕只是吃一口爸妈亲手煮的饭菜，说一两句知心话，就算他们无法在生活和工作中给予我们具体的帮助，甚至当我们谈起工作时，他们可能也是一知半解。但只要我