Problems in Sharing a House 合住的烦恼 If you like the idea of staying with a family,living in a house might be the answer. 如果你喜欢家庭式的话，就选择和当地人住在一起。 Good landladies-those who are superb cooks and laun...
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. 一位年迈的木匠准备退休了。他告诉他的...
It scares us more than anything except death being alone. 享受独处除了了死亡，我们最害怕的就是孤独。 Our fear of aloneness is so ingrained that given the choice of being by ourselves or being with others we opt for safety in numb...
Roles for the Mechanical Engineer 机械工程师的任务 Do you realize that every time you take a step,the bones in your hip are subjected to forces between four and five times your body weight? 你是否意识到，你每走一步路，你臀部的...
In all one's lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of. 人生在世，和自己相处最多，打交道最多，但是往往悟不透自己。...
How Can We Reverse Aging? 改变心态能否使人变得更年轻？ Imagine that you could rewind the clock 20 years,and you're 20 years younger. 想象一下你能将时钟回拨20年，然后年轻20岁， How do you feel? 你会感觉如何呢？...
Sixteen years ago I learned an important life lesson, in the back of a New York City taxi cab. 16年前我学到了人生中重要一课，那是在纽约市的出租车后座上。 I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We we...
Maybe Geniuses Just Got Lucky 也许是运气造就了天才 Life is unfair, as even the Bible acknowledges. 生活是不公平的，这一点甚至连《圣经》也不加否认。 We can't all hit a baseball like DiMaggio or sing like the Beatles. 不...
Aging Populations 人口老龄化 What is making the world so much older? 是什么让全世界的人口日益老龄化？ There are two long-term causes and a temporary blip that will continue to show up in the figures for the next few decades. 这是...
Human growth is a process of experimentation, trial, and error ultimately leading to wisdom. 人类的成长是一个经历,试验和最终失败而引向智慧的过程。 Each time you choose to trust yourself and take action, you can never quite b...
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. 一位年轻的总裁，...
The Scary New Rich 胆小的新贵 Aristotle believed they were democracy's secret weapon-the protectors of social values,the moderators of political extremism,and believers in a society run by laws instead of by strongmen. 亚里士多德认为，他们...
Two friends and I moved into a house off campus when I was a junior at Iowa State University. 在爱荷华州大学读大三时，我和两个朋友从宿舍搬出来，租了一间房子。 We were all a bit afraid of our landlord, a gruff middle ag...
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her ,She did not know she was going to make it and wantde to give up. 女儿向父亲抱怨她的生活，她觉得凡事都很艰难，不知该怎样面对，想放弃...
Kepler's World 开普勒的世界 Much has been made of the 400th anniversary this year of Galileo pointing a telescope at the moon and jotting down what he saw. 400年前伽利略用望远镜观测月球并简要记录了观测结果，400年后的今...
