英语励志美文精华 28

A sort of unselfish selfishness by WARD GREENE When a man is ten, he has a boy's faith in almost everthing: even Santa Claus is a belief he is not quite ready to give up so long as there is a chance the old gentleman may really live and deliver. When

Where Are the Tallest Buildings in the World?

Skyscrapers look like their name: They are buildings so high; it appears like they are scraping, or touching the sky. With better technology, architects people who design buildings engineers and builders have been able to build buildings higher and h

CNN 2012-06-10

Nice to meet Mr Roger's class first for spelling out today's introduction, I am Carol Aruz, as when you are going with ten minutes' global headlines, we are going to start things off today in Pakistan.That's where a senior AK leader was killed this w

善意，很可能是你最好的投资

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平凡中的伟大英语演讲稿

Since ancient times,a tribute to the poetry of flowers did not cease, the plum blossom is the孤傲poet described the regular, Liu Yuxi, the Dow had a lotus flower Zhuo-Qing Lian without demon. Famous, more next-day Bi endless days, for other red flo

GRE作文北美范文：关于时势造英雄

GRE北美范文对备考GRE写作有一定的指导作用，下面为大家整理了最完整版的GRE北美范文，主要是关于GRE ISSUE作文范文，供大家应用。 Most of the people we consider heroic today were, in fact, very ordinary pe

如何找到“达西先生” 简•奥斯丁的恋爱指南

A lot has changed since Jane Austen wrote about women's quest to find a perfect match in 19th century Britain. 世事变迁，沧海桑田，如今的时代与简奥斯丁所描绘的那个女子们寻觅完美伴侣的19世纪的英国已经大不一样

英语听书《白鲸记》第147期

But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; 但是，面对更大的、精神上的恐怖，他也感到是一种威胁了，因为精力过度

英语听书《白鲸记》第143期

He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary. 他是一个精力充沛的人，像古埃及人那样有感染力。仿佛他会以这副模样永生！ His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with in

外媒质疑冰桶挑战 作秀还是慈善

Facebook has become saturated with videos of people dumping buckets of ice on their heads. Facebook上充斥着人们往自己头上倒冰桶的视频。 Theyre taking the#icebucketchallenge, a viral phenomenon whose ostensible purpose is to raise mo

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南非纪念曼德拉逝世一周年

PRETORIA, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of South Africans on Friday commemorated the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death as the country's Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa urged the whole nation to keep Mandela's legacy alive. Ramaphosa made th

China's table tennis team faces tough draw

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月亮和六便士 第五十五章(7)

At that time there was no rigid sequestration on the islands, and lepers, if they chose, were allowed to go free. 当时在这些岛上还没有实行严格的隔离制度。害麻风病的人如果自己愿意，是可以留在家里的。 I shall g

容易产生混淆的GRE词汇

Exhaustion: extreme weariness Exhaustive: covering all possibilitiesExonerate: 证明无罪 Exorable：可说服的，心软的Fortuitous: accidental Fortitude: strengthForfeit: 丧失 Surfeit：饮食过度 Fomentation：煽动，助长 Fermentation：

英语听书《白鲸记》第345期

And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, 不过,如果他有勇气的话,那种勇气主要的也是一般勇猛的人常见的勇气:通

英语听书《白鲸记》第343期

A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds. 他是个坚定不移的人,他的生活大多是一种充满行动的有声有色的哑剧,而不是一种单调的字面记载。

英语听书《白鲸记》第355期

Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment. So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranqu

美国语文第六册 第126期:伍尔西大主教的垮台(2)

Enter Cromwell, and stands amazed. 克伦威尔上，惊愕地站在那里。 Why, how now, Cromwell! 怎么了，克伦威尔？ Cromwell says: I have no power to speak, sir. 克伦威尔说道：先生，我简直没有说话的力气了。 What, a