In ancient times, people who made beer lacked the means to preserve and filter it properly, so the drink was cloudy and turned bad quickly. It was medieval European monks who introduced scientific brewing techniques in an effort to produce a nutritio...
What does it mean to be a lover ? 爱一个人意味着什么？ It is more than just being marriage or making love to someone. 爱一个人，不只是与其结婚或者做爱。 Millions of people are married but few are real lovers. 成千上万的人...
When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. 当爱召唤你时，请追随它，尽管爱之道路艰难险峻。 And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden am...
Learn to Live in the Present Moment 学会活在当下 To a large degree, 很大程度上， the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. 我们内心的平和取决于我们是否活在当下。...
The Bamboo Trees 竹的启示 One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly on the bank. 孩提时最美好的回忆就是河边的堤岸上闲坐。 There I would enjoy the peace and quiet, 在那里我可以享受闲适...
Clouds 飘忽的云 I've opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, 拉开了房间东边电脑上方的窗帘， and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. 感觉自己仿佛身处一个神圣的剧场，天蓝的舞台...
Spring Beauties 春之美神 Ruth Stone 露丝斯通 The abandoned campus, 被摈弃的校园， empty brick buildings and early June 空空的砖瓦房当六月初 when you came to visit me; 你来看望我； crossing the states midway, 穿行于州际...
A Lane in the Rain 雨巷 Dai Wangshu 戴望舒 Alone holding an oil-paper umbrella, 撑着油纸伞，独自 I wander along a long 彷徨在悠长，悠长 Solitary lane in the rain, 又寂寥的雨巷， Hoping to encounter 我希望逢着 A girl l...
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. 快乐就像一块为了激起阵阵涟漪而丢进池塘的小石头。 As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty. 正好史蒂文森所说，快乐...
Song of Nature 自然之歌 by Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫沃尔多爱默生 What without him is summer's pomp， 没有他，怎一番夏日的盛景， Or winter's frozen shade？ 怎一番冬日冰冷的暗影？ I travail in pain for him， 我为...
Happiness is a Journey 幸福是一段旅程 We convince ourselves that life will be better，after we get married, have a baby, then another. 我们总是相信，等我们结了婚，生了一个又一个的孩子之后，生活就会更美好。 T...
How would you like to sip a glass of cold beer while sitting in the shadow of a Chinese pagoda surrounded by English gardens in the middle of a southern German city? It may sound unlikely, but that is what millions of visitors from around the world e...
Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life's goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed. 尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的是要多得多。...
Paradise Lost 失乐园 John Milton 约翰弥尔顿 Nine times the space that measures day and night 依照人间的计算，大约九天九夜， To mortal men, he with his horrid crew 他和他那一伙可怕的徒众 Lay vanquished, rolling in the...
Paradise Lost 失乐园 John Milton 约翰弥尔顿 O how unlike the place from whence they fell! 啊，这里和他所从坠落的地方比起来是何等的不同呀！ There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed 和他一起坠落的伙伴们 Wi...
