Why are so many people so anxious to get away from the small town or village where they brought up,and to make for the big cities? They usually describe their hometown as boring or dead,or the harshest criticism of all asprovincial. If we examine the...
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life wont be perfect, well be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even ifyou are strong enough to persist the obsta...
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples.As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.The k...
When You are Old by W.B YEATS 当你年老时，叶芝 When you are old and grey and full of sleep, 当你年老，鬓斑，睡意昏沉， And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 在炉旁打盹时，取下这本书， And slowly read, and dre...
June 24 If a man is ever going to admit that he belongs to the earth, not the other way round,it probably will be in late June.Then it is that life surpasses mans affairs with incredible urgency and outreaches him in every direction.Even the farmer,...
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell 致羞怯的情人作者：安德鲁?马维尔 Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime. 如果我们的世界够大，时间够多，小姐，这样的羞怯就算不上罪过。 We w...
第 1 页：美文原文 第 2 页：美文翻译 Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition...
From The Princess by Lord Alfred Tennyson 《公主》节选，作者：丁尼生 Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; 深红的花瓣睡着了，然后是白色的； Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; 桕树也不在舞摆于宫苑小径...
There are quite a few questions that are supposed never to be asked about. It is impolite or rude even to mention them in a conversation. These topics include ones age, income, marriage, religious belief and political position as well as any other fi...
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perha...
While popular in the U.S., the April Fools Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries,such as France and Great Britain. Although the roots of the traditional trickings are unclear,the French andthe British both have claims on the orig...
If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect - every action has a consequence.This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this world andthe next. We Chinese have a saying: If...
Conservatism refers to the acceptance of anything familiar and refusal of anything strange or foreign.There are numerous facts that tell the conservatism of the Englishmen. The monarchy as nominal head of the state still exists in the highly develope...
In the future days, which we seek to make secure,we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in h...
What exactly does globalization mean? Concepts related to globalization include internationalization,multidomestic marketing, and multinational or transnational marketing,suggesting that the basic criterion is transactions across national boundaries....
