Reflections of a Mother 慈母心曲 I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you. 我给了你生命，但不能替你生活。 I can teach you things, but I cannot make you i learn. 我能教你知识，但不能强迫你学习。 I can give you d...
American Cook 美式烹饪 At a local superrnarket, two women push half-lilled grocery cart. The ladies are good friends, but they couldn't be more different. One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create culinary masterpieces from scratch. The...
Halloween 万圣节 One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk t...
England's Bar Customs 英国人的酒吧礼仪 Amazingly for the British, who love queues, there is no formal line-up -the bar staff are skilled at knowing whose turn it is. You are permitted to try to attract attention, but there are rules about how...
American's Music Taste 美国人的音乐品味 James Fenimore Cooper, an early American writer, once said, The All1eri-cans are almost ignorant of the art of music. If that was once true, you would never know it today. Most Americans -even those wit...
A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns 我的爱人像朵红红的玫瑰 - Robert Burns O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; 呵，我的爱人像朵红红的玫瑰，六月里迎风初开； O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweet...
Dear God, Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. 亲爱的上帝：如今我不再年轻，一些朋友的母亲已经去世。 I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mother...
Thanksgiving Day 感恩节的由来 Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national holidays in the United Stales and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country. 感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国...
To Autumn - John Keats 秋颂 - John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 雾气洋溢、果实圆熟的秋 Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun 催熟万物，有把你当作挚友的太阳 Conspiring with him how to load and bless 如何把...
Wedding in the United States 美国人的婚礼 Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare; there are weddings on mountaintops with guests barefooted; and there have been weddin...
Sonnets From The Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Brow 葡萄牙人十四行诗 - Elizabeth Barrett Brow How do I love thee? 我究竟怎样爱你？ Let me count the ways. 让我逐一细算。 I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 我爱你直...
If - Rudyard Kipling 假如 - Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 假如你能保持冷静，即使众人都失去理智并且归咎于你; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt...
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud - William Wordsworth 咏水仙 - William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 我孤独地漫游，像一朵云在山丘和谷地上飘荡， When all at once I saw a crowd, A...
The Basis of Love 爱的基础 The following story took place long ago in Israel. One day when government officials were rebuilding a barn, they found a mouse hole in a corner and used smoke to force the mice inside the hole to come out. A while late...
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep - Mary Frye 请不要在我坟前哭泣 - Mary Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not there. I did not sleep. 请不要在我坟前哭泣；我不在那里，我没有长眠。 I am in a thousand winds that...
