精美英文欣赏:Parenthood为人父母

孩子确实点亮了一个家，他们从未熄灭过一盏灯。 Parenthood If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor! Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you g

回归童真（中英对照）

Peeling Away Artifice For the Pure Original Roy H. Barnacle 回归童真 Sarah came running in.Look what I found. Over the top of the paper I was reading came a crispy, crumbling long object that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin that had been s

双语:潘基文国际地球日致辞

Message on International Mother Earth Day 联合国秘书长潘基文国际地球母亲日致辞 22 April, 2015 2015年4月22日 The word mother holds great power. It evokes memories of the women who gave us life, nurtured us as infants and helped mo

美国偶像 This Woman's Work - Maxwell

Pray God you can cope I'll stand outside This woman's work This woman's world Ooooh it's hard on the man Now his part is over Now starts the craft of the Father I know you've got a little life in you yet I know you've got a lot of strength left I kno

2006年VOA标准英语-S. Africa's Mbeki Visits Italy to Strength

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 21 March 2006 South African President Thabo Mbeki began a three-day state visit to Italy aimed at strengthening relations in order to speed economic growth. His first meeti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Spotify's Unusual IPO Model Will Test The Company's Strength

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Spotify, the music streaming service, is popular and also unprofitable. And now Spotify is planning a very unconventional initial public offering. Embracing its status as an industry disruptor, Spotify's breaking with convention a

英语听力：自然百科 地球力场 Earth's Force Field—4

Scientists believe that the South Atlantic Anomaly, is a sign of a global decline in the magnetic field. Evidence of this comes from a surprising source. Dr. Mimi Hill uses pottery to uncover the secrets of earth's magnetic past. Ancient pots tell us

英语听力：自然百科 地球力场 Earth's Force Field—10

Larry Newitt from the Geological Survey of Canada charts the movement of the magnetic North Pole as it wanders the icy reaches of northern Canada. To determine where the magnetic pole / is, we can't rely on one single observation. What I try to do is

养育孩子的合理预算

We are kicking off a new series called Milestones, says, gonna focus on the major life events that we are all facing, like getting married, buying a home and retirement. Today's milestone is all about

VOA慢速英语20061206a

HEALTH REPORT - Dealing With Children's Bed-WettingBy Caty Weaver Broadcast: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Sleeping child Many parents wish children were

轻博客Tumblr年度最佳金句

Turns out, 2015 has been a year of great advice. 事实证明，2015年带给了我们很多影响深刻的建议。 Thanks to Tumblr, there's a way to catalog some of these amazing quotes, courtesy of everyone from billionaire superstars to teen blo

Writing Strategies

Here are some lessons that might apply to your on-the-job writing. The first six I reported to you in my 100th column. The last three have occurred to me since then. Writing helps clarify your thinking; You don't really know what you think until you

How to Be a Better Person Day by Day

How to Be a Better Person Day by Day Being a better person is a process. No matter how good someone is, he cant be perfect overnight. So the important thing is that you grow every day. Make growing a habit and you will see significant progress when y

A Woman's Tears 女人的眼泪

A Woman's Tears 女人的眼泪 Why are you crying? he asked his Mom. Because I'm a woman. she told him. I don't understand, he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, And you never will Later the little boy asked his father, Why does mother seem to

Man's Youth 青春（双语）

Man's youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he nevr comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow a

孩子真正想要的圣诞礼物你知道吗？

The Christmas list. 圣诞愿望清单。 Theres the request for the Nerf Rhino-Fire Blaster, or the desire for those little Monster High dollies of the night. But pull away from the kids you know and take a look at whats on the Christmas lists that

11 Things You Should Leave in the Past

11 Things You Should Leave in the Past You might not be proud of all the things youve done in the past, but thats okay. The past is not today. Here are 11 things to leave behind and grow beyond: 1. Letting other people write your lifes story. You cou

英语美文：A Woman's Tears 女人的眼泪

Why are you crying? he asked his Mom. Because I'm a woman. she told him. I don't understand, he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, And you never will ... Later the little boy asked his father, Why does mother seem to cry for no reason? All women

英文乡村歌曲：Rodney Atkins - Growing Up Like that

I was 12 years old with some bolts and a wrench, a piece of plywood that was 3/4 inch and daddy said son once your chores are one I'll give you one of them gris old barn poles. I went out in the pasture with no cow patties, got some post hole diggers

2015年CRI China's V-day Parade Shows Both Strength and Peace: US Expert

Jeffrey Kinkley is a history professor at St. John's University. The military parade itself of course conveyed an image of China's strength and modernization. President Xi Jinping's announcement he will be cutting the size of Chinese military by 300-