If Music Be The Food Of Love from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 《假如音乐是爱情的粮食》，节选自《第十二夜》，莎士比亚 If music be the food of love, play on; 假如音乐是爱情的食粮，那么奏下去吧； Giv...
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty,and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or an...
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 《多佛海滩》 马修阿诺德 The sea is calm tonight. 今晚，海上风平浪静。 The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; 潮水正满，皎洁的月光洒在海峡上； On the French coast the l...
How did a peddler of cheap shirts and fishing rods become the mightiest corporation in America?The short version of Wal-Marts rise to glory goes something like this:In 1979 it racked up a billion dollars in sales. By 1993 it did that much business in...
All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries,are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books but we must know how to avail ourselves of this treasure and how to get the most from it.Th...
Most Americans have great vigor and enthusiasm.They prefer to discipline themselves rather than be disciplined by others.They pride themselves on their independence, their right to make up their own minds.They are prepared to take the initiative, eve...
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work，a lifes work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit,but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exi...
Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I accept this prize.I am grateful to my wife Rosalynn, to my colleagues at the Carter Center,and to many others wh...
I am not here as a public offcial, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace,freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the r...
Youve had a problem, youve thought about it till you were tired,forgotten it and perhaps slept on it, and then flash!When you werent thinking about it suddenly the answer has come to you, as a gift from thegods. Of course all ideas dont come like tha...
If you change your mind - from pessimism to optimism - you can change your life.Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut, ot upon the hole?Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, as rese...
When A. G. Bell first invented the telephone, it was a communication tool.Little did he know that he had created an object of emotional significance. You know those cute toy telephones with colorful push buttons that make happy noises.Those plastic i...
Research in the field of language indicates that there are many things you can do to become a successful learner.Curiosity about language and culture, daily study, and the commitment to use English in every possible situationwhile in an English-speak...
I look around me and the room has changed imperceptibly and overtly.There are elephants on thin legs lining the walls, the people around me have become giant insects,my watch melts and slowly drips from my wrist.A Dalinian dream? A Kafkaesque nightma...
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it thisway: A man comes to this world with hi...
