[00:00.00]Salted Wisdom 盐一样的智慧 [00:04.53]A story tells about a senior villager [00:08.34]who led other villagers carrying salt day and night to a town [00:11.98]in order to trade barley as food for the winter. [00:15.24]One night they camped i...
[00:00.00]My First Poem 我写的第一首诗 [00:05.73]When I was eight, I wrote my first poem. [00:09.01]My mother read the little poem and poured out her praise. [00:12.75]Why, this poem was nothing short of genius! [00:15.80]This evening when my father...
[00:00.00]An overcoat 一件大衣 [00:04.53]My l4-year-old son, John, [00:07.60]and I spotted the coat simultaneously. [00:10.22]It was hanging on a rack [00:12.53]at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, [00:14.92]crammed in with shoddy tre...
[00:00.00]Easter in Jackson 杰克逊的复活节 [00:05.25]The pounding rain began in the middle of the night. [00:09.65]The people of Jackson, [00:11.08]Ohio awoke to the sound then went back to sleep. [00:14.25]But the rain continued. [00:16.75]Statisti...
[00:00.00]Think it over 好好想想 [00:04.55]Today we have higherbuildings and wider highways, [00:09.26]but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; [00:12.75]We spend more, but enjoy less; [00:15.14]We have bigger houses, [00:16.79]but smal...
[00:00.00]The Best Teacher I Ever Had 我遇到的最好的老师 [00:05.41]Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. [00:10.00]On the first day of class, [00:12.09]he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, [00:15.36]an animal that was wipe...
[00:00.00]The Green Banana青香蕉 [00:05.07]My encounter with the green banana started on a steep mountain road in Brazil. [00:11.31]My ancient jeep was zigzagging when the radiator began to leak. [00:16.01]I stopped at the next village, where people...
[00:00.00]World of Smiles 微笑的世界 [00:06.17]About ten years ago [00:09.12]when I was an undergraduate in college, [00:11.42]I was working as an intern at my Universitys Museum of Natural History. [00:15.90]One day while working at the cash regist...
[00:00.00]A Better World 更美的世界 [00:04.66]This is the true joy of life, [00:08.05]being a force of nature to make the world a better place, [00:11.76]instead of a selfish little clot, [00:13.96]complaining that the world will not devote itself t...
[00:00.00]The ant and the grasshopper 蚂蚁和蚱蜢 [00:05.51]Once upon a time, [00:08.89]there lived an ant and a grasshopper. [00:10.97]The grasshopper did nothing else [00:13.61]but jumped around and played. [00:15.46]On the other hand, [00:16.67]th...