16_A Plate of Peas

My grandfather died when I was a small boy, and my grandmother started staying with us for about six months every year. She lived in a room that doubled as my father's office, which we referred to as

04_True Love

True Love An ancient Hebraic text says: love is as strong as death. It seems that not everyone experiences this kind of strong love. The increasing probably,crime and war tells us that the world is in indispensable need of true love. But what is true

05_Dad's Kiss

The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. How embarrassing. I am getting so clumsy in my old age. Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our mo

08_A Business Creed

To respect my work, my associates and myself. To be honest and fair with them as I expect them to be honest and fair with me. To be a man whose word carries weight. To be a 1) booster, not a 2) knocke

09_The Reading Child

To respect my work, my associates and myself. To be honest and fair with them as I expect them to be honest and fair with me. To be a man whose word carries weight. To be a booster, not a knocker; a pusher, not a kicker; a motor, not a clog. To base

19_After A Long Winter

Up earlier than usual. The air is calling. Spring air is different from winter air. Tree branches are serrated with red bud teeth. Later, they grow chartreuse fuzz, making pale green auras in the sun. Summer leaves will be dark, shading, but spring l

14_Run Patti Run

At a young and tender age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor that she was an epileptic. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning jogger. One day she smiled through her braces and said,

散文：忠诚的朋友Part 18

【英文原文】 Everybody went to little Hans' funeral, as he was so popular, and the Miller was the chief mourner. 'As I was his best friend,' said the Miller, 'it is only fair that I should have the best place'; so he walked at the head of the p

散文：忠诚的朋友Part 2

【英文原文】 And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend? asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation. Yes, that is just what I want to know, said the Duck; and she swam

散文：忠诚的朋友Part 10

【英文原文】 'Certainly,' cried little Hans, and he ran into the shed and dragged the plank out. 'It is not a very big plank,' said the Miller, looking at it, 'and I am afraid that after I have mended my barn-roof there won't be any left for yo

散文：Bee! I'm expecting you!

Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due - The Frogs got Home last Week - Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back - The Clover warm and thick - You'll get my Letter by The seventeenth; Reply Or better,

散文：A Bird came down the Walk

A Bird came down the Walk - He did not know I saw - He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass - And then hopped side wise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass - He glanced with rapid eyes That

散文：If you were coming in the Fall

If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, As Housewives do, a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls - And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse - If o

散文：Fame is a bee

Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. A bee can sing a song that makes people happy. A bee has a sting which makes people fear it. A bee has a wing that enables it to fly away from people. Fame is sweet to have, bitt

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For a red rose? They cried: How very ridiculous! and the little lizard, who was something of a cynic ,laughed outright. But the nightingale understood the secret of the students sorrow, and she sat silent in the oak-tree, and thought about the myster

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我是风，轻轻的风；我是云，缓缓的云；我是水，静静的水；我是山，连绵的山 I am the wind， the gentle wind； I am the clouds， the slow， drifting clouds； I am the water， the silent water； I am the mountains，

英译汉散文赏析：信任 Trust

TRUST 信任 Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, Pa., a distance of about eighty miles. It was late. I was late and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving, I'd have to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self－incrimination. Sev

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Love's Witness Slight unpremeditated Words are borne By every common Wind into the Air; Carelessly utter'd, die as soon as born， And in one instant give both Hope and Fear： Breathing all Contraries with the same Wind According to the Caprice of t

触动心灵的英语幸福散文：热爱生活

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. 不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生

经典英语爱情格言美文

1 love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. 爱就像一场战争，开战容易停火难。 2 Love opens your chest and opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. 爱扒开你的胸膛，掏出你的心脏，有人