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太久没有更新，想念大家了。   It’s been too long since I last updated, and I miss you all. 2017年，我第一次开启了自己的公众号之旅。   In 2017, I embarked on my journey with my public WeChat account for the first time. 直到2022年，一共朗读了400多篇英语美文。   By 2022, I had narrated over 400 English essays and beautiful passages. 刚开始的时候使用的录音设备是手机，后来学会了用Adobe Au...

世界上最昂贵的东西都是免费的。

《The Orange》这首诗，通过描绘买橙子、分橙子以及日常生活中的点滴，展现了平凡事物所带来的幸福与满足，传达出对生活的热爱和对自身存在的庆幸。

一直在路上，从未停止走向世界的脚步。希望有一天能去东非大裂谷看看，爬一爬喜马拉雅山，看看极光，住进阿尔卑斯山的小木屋。等觉得累了，就回到自己温暖的家......

我不能说 I'm particularly rich by societies standards, 依据现有的社会标准，自己是个很富裕的人 but on the front of wealth 但对于另一种财富 measured by experience and valuable lessons, 经验和宝贵的教训积累的财富上 I would consider myself very wealthy. 我认为自己十分富有 On another hand 又或者 I would rather say "grateful". 我应该说自己很感恩 I have almost completely lost interest 对某些事情，我差不...

在我的怀里 在你的眼里 In my arms, and in your eyes 那里春风沉醉 那里绿草如茵 spring breezes and green grasses were intoxicating 月光把爱恋 洒满了湖面 The moonlight full of love was spread upon the lake 两个人的篝火 照亮整个夜晚 The campfire that belonged to us illuminated the whole night 多少年以后 如云般游走 Many years later, we roam like clouds floating in the sky 那变换的脚步 让我们难牵手 Diffe...

Life is so wonderful, never give up. 人生如此精彩，永不轻言放弃。 Not until you realize that life itself is a beautiful thing will you really start to live. Although living combines tragedy with splendor, life is beautiful and even tragedies reflect something engaging. If you were simply to live, do more than that; live beautifully. 只有在你了解了人生的真谛后，才能真正地生活。虽然人生苦忧参半，但...

「 项脊轩志 」 作者 | 归有光 翻译 | 刘士聪 项脊轩，旧南阁子也。室仅方丈，可容一人居。百年老屋，尘泥渗漉，雨泽下注，每移案，顾视无可置者。又北向，不能得日，日过午已昏。 My study Xiangjixuan used to be called South Chamber. It was only ten feet by ten, large enough for one person to live in. As it was nearly one hundred years old, dust and flakes of plaster fell, and the roof let in rain. When...

1/  “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” “获得了阅读习惯，那你就为自己在生活的诸多痛苦之外建造了一处避难处。” 2/ “The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” “生命的巨大悲剧不是人终有一死，而是人会停止爱。” 3/  “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you...

The lives of most men are dete rmined by their environment.  对于大多数人来说，生活是由环境决定的。 They  accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only with resignation but even with good will.  他们在命运的拨弄面前，不仅逆来顺受，甚至还能随遇而安。 They are like streetcars running contentedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flivver that dashes in a...

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 当你辗转难眠的时候， 就该知道自己是陷入热恋了， 因为这一次，现实终于比梦里更美好了。 – Dr. Suess “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my...

我不知道有多少人问过自己受教育的意义是什么？我们为什么要上学？ I wonder if we have ever asked ourselves what education means. Why do we go to school? 为什么要学习各种科目？为什么参加考试，和同学比得分高低？所谓的教育究竟含有什么意义？它涵盖了什么？ Why do we learn various subjects, why do we pass examinations and compete with each other for better grades? What does this so-called ed...

I wonder if you have ever stopped to observe the marvellous glow in the west as the sun sets, with the shy young moon just over the trees? 我不知道你有没有停下来观赏过落日的彩霞，或是斜挂树梢害羞的新月。 Often at that hour the river is very calm, and then everything is reflected on its surface: the bridge, the train that goes over it, the tender moon, and presently, as it grows dark, the...

陋室铭 An Epigraph in Praise of My Humble Home   山不在高，有仙则名。 A mountain needn’t be high; It is famous so long as there is a deity on it.   水不在深，有龙则灵。 A lake needn’t be deep; It has supernatural power so long as there is a dragon in it.   斯是陋室，惟吾德馨。 My home is humble, But it enjoys the fame of virtue so long as I am living in it.   苔痕上阶...

If you woke up this morning 若你早晨醒来 with more health than illness 拥有的健康大于不适 You are more blessed than the 比百万行将就木之人 million who won't survive the week 你更有福气 If you have never experienced 若你从未经历过 the danger of battle 战役的危险 the loneliness of imprisonment 铁窗后的孤寂 the agony of torture or 被凌虐的痛苦，或是 the pangs of starvation 饥饿的折磨 You are ahead of...

Plan for the next day before bed. 睡觉前做好明天的计划。 Wake up early. 早起。 Get enough sleep. 睡足。 Embrace the morning. 拥抱早晨。 Eat your breakfast. 吃早餐。 Exercise. 做运动。 Frame your emotional state in the morning before everything else. 早上第一件事就是整理好情绪。 Do nothing. Spend 10 to 15 minutes a day every morning to breath. 什么都不做。 每天早上花上10到15分钟呼吸训练。 Make a to...

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms numberless times 我好像曾经无数次 以无数种形式爱过你 In life after life in age after age forever 年年岁岁 生生死死 直到永恒 My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs 我用痴迷的心 做成了一串又一串 美妙音韵的项链 That you take as a gift wear round your neck in your many forms 那是送你的礼物 任你所喜欢的样子 环绕在你的香颈 In life after...

I AM VERY UGLY I'm very ugly 我很丑 So don't try to convince me that 所以别试图说服我 I am a very beautiful person 我长得很好看 Because at the end of the day 因为说到底 I hate myself in every single way 我都恨我自己的一切 And I'm not going to lie to myself by saying 而我也不会骗我自己说 There is beauty inside of me that matters 内心的美才是最重要的 So rest assured I will remind myself 所以放心我会...

Similarly, many artistic masterpieces of the world were produced in solitude. 同样，许多艺术上的杰作也是在孤独中诞生的。 Being alone doesn’t have to be lonely – these are two different things. One may feel lonely in 'boisterous social contexts, or be fulfilled in isolated serenity. 独处并不等于孤独；这是两个性质不同的概念。一个人可以在看似热闹的社交中很孤独，也可以在平静的独处中很丰富——从各个方面...

Failure gave me an inner security.  Failure taught me things about myself that I could hav e learned no other way.  失败使我的内心产生一种安全感。 失败让我看清自己，这也是我通过其他方式无法体会的。 I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies. 我发现，我比自己认为的，要...

这是真的。   There was once a daughter of a tolerably well-off family in the country who was very lovely and sought out by many matchmakers, although nothing had come of their efforts. 有个村庄的小康之家的女孩子，生得美，有许多人来做媒，但都没有说成。 That year, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old. One spring evening, she stood by the back door, hands resting on a peach tree, she rememb...

Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to pay off that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. 我们未来的一切似乎都模糊地设定好了，利用贷款上大学，然后为了还债被迫去找一份工作，还要为了买房买车背负更多的债务…… It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no p...

Everyday was a struggle physically. The heat was oppressive in the Summer and the cold was constant in the Winter. 每天的工作都很繁重。夏天异常炎热，冬天持续寒冷。 My back would burn with pain from the constant bending, lifting, and carrying. My feet would ache from standing the entire day. 由于不停地弯腰，抬货、搬货，背部有灼烧般的疼痛。一整天下来我的脚也酸痛不已。 T...

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”  ~Henry David Thoreau 迷失自我，才能发现自我。 ——亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者） Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to pay off that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a c...

What are the most valuable things everyone should know 有哪些最重要的事情是每个人都必须知道的 作者 ｜@Jordan B Peterson Tell the truth. 说实话。 Do not do things that you hate. 不要做自己讨厌的事。 Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. 追寻那些有意义的事，而不是有利益的事。 If you have to choose, be the one who does things, instead of the one who is seen to do things. 如果一定要做的话...