This essay on a famous man, whose name is not revealed until almost the end of the piece, is a study of monstrous conceit. Filled with biographical details that keep the reader guessing to the last moment, the essay concludes with a challenging view

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语散文阅读

As a black boy growing up in America in the early 1900s, Richard Wright knew well the meaning of racial prejudice. He was not allowed to play in a park or borrow books from a library. While working as an office boy in a bank, though, he found a way

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It is often said that cats have nine lives, that they are lucky enough to escape from danger again and again. Here is a science fiction tale about how one such lucky escape by a cat led to a discovery that was able to change the course of people's l

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Every cloud has a silver lining, says the optimist. It follows naturally, then, that the pessimist must favor looking for the rusty lining. Just as the optimist can always find reasons for hoping that bad situations can improve, so the best pessimis

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of envy 论嫉妒 there be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love, and envy. they both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations, and suggestions; and they come easily into toe eye;

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The Story Of The Farmer And His Donkey One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the framer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up any

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A moving story--about FAMILY A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year oldson waiting for him at the door. SON: Daddy, may I ask you a question? DAD: Yeah sure, what is it? replied the man. SON: Daddy, how much do you ma

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Artist:Celine Dion Albums: All The Way - A Decade of Song Phil Spector, the genius producer behind such classic '60s hits as You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Be My Baby, devised a production strategy called Wall of Sound in which all the instrumen

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I Never Write Right When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write and illustrate my own books. Half the students sneered, the rest nearly fell out of their chairs laughing. Dont be silly, only geniuses can become write

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Happiness Equates with Fun? I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still equate happiness wit

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The Five Boons of Life In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket,and said:Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others,And be wary,choose wisely!For only one of them is valuable. The gifts were five :Fame, Love ,Riches,Pleasure,Death.The

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North country scene: A hundred leagues locked in ice, A thousand leagues of whirling snow. Both sides of the Great Wall One single white immensity. The Yellow River's swift current Is stilled from end to end. The mountains dance like silver snakes An

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双语散文: Optimism and Pessimistic The optimism all saw in each time the danger to the opportunity, but the pessimistic person all saw in each opportunity to the danger. 乐观者在每次危难中都看到了机会,而悲观的人在每个机会

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Ever seen a great champion boxer like Manny Pacquiao? With his speed, agility and power, he has conquered lots of other great boxers of the twenty first century. In between fights, he keeps his training regime and intensifies it when another fight ap

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英语经典译文之双语散文译文:初放的玫瑰 My first roses brought me to my senses. All my furies, I launched them like paper boats in the algaed pond behind my house. 我那些初放的玫瑰,把我带回理智。 一切暴怒,在房

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What does it mean to relax? Despite hearing this term thousands of times during the course of our lives, very few people have deeply considered what it's really about. 放松是什么意思?尽管一生中我们会成千上万次地听到这个词,

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When women cease to handsome, they study to be good. 女人一旦不再漂亮,就会学着向善。 There are no ugly women; there are only women who not know how to look pretty. 世上没有丑陋的女人,只有不知该如何使自己显得漂亮

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Jaguar is an endangered animal. It is said that there are less than 20 jaguars in the world currently, one of which is now living in the national zoo of Peru. In order to protect this jaguar, Peruvians singled out a pitch of land in the zoo for it, w

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There are times when we are faced with illnesses, disorders, disabilities some type of tragedy that causes us to lose contact with ourselves and the world in which we live. Our happiness begins to fade and our heart begins to grow heavy. This affects

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When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.当爱召唤你时,请追随她,尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yi

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