英语美文：音乐的语言

The Language of Music 音乐的语言 A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilitie

英语美文：美丽在我心

Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and, shall we say, love. 我住的公寓大楼里的每个人都认得这只丑八怪。丑八

英语美文：栖息之鹰

Hawk Roosting 栖息之鹰 I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. 我栖息在树端，双眼紧闭。 在我如钩般的头与爪之

英语美文：什么才重要?

What will matter? 什么才重要？ 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. 无论是否准

英语美文：简单一小步 丰富每一天

I love to have simple ways to improve my life. Everyday is a chance for improving our life, and it's up to us to best use it. What I want is to have good, balanced progress everyday. 我喜欢用简单的方法提升自己的生活质量。对我们来

英语美文：什么是幸福

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

英语美文：关于美

On beauty 美 Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech? 如果美不以自身为途径，为向导，你们又到哪里

英语美文：旅途

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- 有一天，你终于知道， 什么是你必须得做，并开始去做， 虽然你周围的声音， 一直喊出， 其各种糟糕

英语美文：我笔下的奇异世界

Me and Writing 我笔下的奇异世界 This was the summer that I think I became a writer. I was thirteen years old. I wore steel-rimmed glasses and I was a very solemn boy. Not that I was sad, but I simply was paying attention. I'd been given a typ

英语美文：日出前的一小时

An Hour before Sunrise 日出前的一小时 An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the qui

英语美文：抱负

It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but

英语美文：聪明的计划

There was once a wise old woman who lived back in the hills. All the children used to come back and ask her questions. She always gave the right answers. 从前，有一位博学的老妇人，她住在后山。过去所有的孩子都经常来找她问

英语美文：父亲之间的默契

The Circus Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all

英语美文：写给父亲的信(双语)

英文： Dear Dad, Today I was at the shopping mall and I spent a lot of time reading the Father's Day cards. They all had a special message that in some way or another reflected how I feel about you. Yet as I selected and read, and selected and rea

英语美文：另一种爱

Inside the Russian Embassy in London a KGB colonel puffed a cigarette as he read the handwritten note for the third time. There was no need for the writer to express regret, he though. Correcting this problem would be easy. He would do that in a mome

英语美文：年轻一代生活睿语

Words of Wisdom for the Modern AgeIN This ARTICLE: Wisdom today means something different for the young, modem Western generation. Wisdom of the ancients always served civilisation well. In the age of the TV sitcom , witty New York repartee and the i

英语美文：A Sky Angel

In 1978, I became a flight attendant for a major airline. Earning my wings was the culmination of a childhood dream that I had set for myself after my first plane ride at the age of five. Like so many others before me, I fell in love with the romance

英语美文：你就是个奇迹

A MarvelEach second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach th

英语美文：母爱的真谛

Time is running out1 for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. We're taking a survey,she says, half-joking. Do you think I should have a baby? It will change your life, I

英语美文：我是自然界的奇迹

I am nature's greatest miracle.我是自然界最伟大的奇迹。 Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none