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The Shoes of Marriage 婚 姻 鞋 Marriage is a pair of shoes. 婚姻是一双鞋。 We have feet before we have shoes. The warmth of the sand, the delicious coolness of the grass on our little feet in our childhood, and the free and uninhibited joy of those days would awaken us from our dreams throughout our lives. 先有了脚，然后才有了鞋。幼小的时候光着脚在地上走，感受沙的温热，草的润凉，那种无拘无束的洒脱...

总是要到人生陷入低谷或生命即将幻灭时，我们才去思考应该如何度过这一生。作者Ralph Richmond曾经离死亡很近，当获得重生时，对生命有了新的认识。Ralph以自己的亲身经历告诉我们应该以怎样的态度对待我们的人生余额。 A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a  stethoscope. ' Yes,' he said, ' there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have...

They're both convinced that a sudden passion joined them Such certainty is beautiful but uncertainty is more beautiful still 他们彼此都深信 是瞬间迸发的激情使他们相遇 这种确定是美丽的 然而变幻无常却更为美丽 Since they'd never met before they're sure  that  there'd been nothing between them But what's the word from the street staircase   hallways perhaps they've passed by each other a million times...

你曾真正拥有一位良师吗？ 一位认为你虽然未加雕琢却弥足珍贵的老师，一位视你为珠宝、认为你充满智慧并能打磨出骄傲光芒的老师？如果你足够幸运能找到这样的老师，你将总会找到回来的路。 我的老教授的死亡判决是在1994年的夏天下达的。医生估计他还有两年的时间，而莫里知道他的时日还要更短。但我的老教授作出了一个重大决定，这个决定是在他头顶悬着利剑、走出诊所的那天就开始酝酿的。我就这样枯竭下去直到消亡吗？还是充分利...

On marriage  论婚姻 You were born together 你们一块儿出世 And together you shall be forevermore 也将永远相依 You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days 当死神的白色羽翼驱散你们的日子，你们也应在一起 Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God 的确，你们始终相守，即使在上帝的记忆中 But let there be spaces in your togetherness 但在聚守中你们要保留空间 And let t...

It was New Year’s night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. When he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal—the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brough...

Be the Best Whatever You Are If you can't be a pine  on the top of the hill  如果不能成为山顶的青松 Be a scrub in the valley 就做谷中的一棵矮树 but be the best little scrub  by the side of the rill 但一定是最好的一棵矮树 生长在小溪边 Be a bush if you can't be a tree 如果不能做一棵树就做一株灌木 If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass 如果不能做一株灌木就做一片青草 and some highway some happie...

Every second we have the opportunity  to make the next second  greater than now 每一秒 我们都有机会 让下一秒变得比现在更好 Because  destiny isn't a matter of chance It's a matter of choice 因为真正决定命运的 不是运气 而是选择 So let go  of what others want you to be 所以放下世俗中 别人对你的期望 Change is in all of us 改变在于我们的内心 And the only person  you're destined to become is the person ...

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的一课，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 were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. 我钻进了一辆出租车，出发去中央火车站。我们正行驶在右侧道上，...

Are you the one 你是那个人吗 The traveller in time who has come to heal my wounds to lead me to the sun 进入我生命的陌生人治愈心伤，播撒阳光 To walk this path with me until the end of time 结伴走在生命的小路上 Are you the one 你是那个人吗 Who sparkles in the night like fireflies 萤火虫般流彩的目光 Eternity of evening sky 对视，在永恒的夜空 Facing the morning eye to eye 直至晨曦来将 Are you the one...

本文选自美国作家Jim Willis的畅销书《 Pieces Of  My Heart-----Writings Inspired by Animals and Nature》，该书以自述的形式讲述了一只家犬对昔日主人的真情告白。当年作者用七千美元以全版广告的形式在报纸上刊登了该文章，以一篇文章感动了所有的读者。 When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child, and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdere...

拉迪亚德·吉卜林是十九世纪末英国诗人，于1907年获得诺贝尔文学奖。这首《如果》是拉迪亚德·吉卜林写给即将奔赴一战战场儿子的励志诗，据说迈克尔·杰克逊的妈妈把它刻在儿子的墓碑上。许多人，特别是青少年常以此勉励自己。 If By Rudyard Kipling 　　 If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their do...

The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same And bo...

Reading is not just about learning a certain skill. 读书，不光是去学习一门特定的技能。 Nor is it just about learning how to create prettier combination of words. 也不只是为了学习怎样让文字的组合更优美。 Reading is a form of communication which is in a higher rank than mere conversation. 读书，其实是一种比对话更高级的交流方式。 Many successful people have shared the same kind of wisdom that if you...

When I have fears 每当我害怕 John Keats （1795 – 1821） When I have fears that I may cease to be  每当我害怕生命或许就要止息 Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain 我的笔来不及苦集盈溢的思绪 Before high piled books, in charactery 或把文字变为高高堆起的书籍 Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain 像饱贮的谷仓蓄满成熟的谷米 When I behold, upon the night’s starred face 每当我看见那缀满繁星...

The sun is just rising in the morning of another day.  朝阳又在新的一天中冉冉升起。 What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men but just those few things which in their coming do not stop me but touch me rather as they pass and gather strength. 我期许这一天带给我什么呢？我希望带给我的不是令世界或他人更贫穷的东...

《blowing in the wind》是美国民谣史上最重要的作品之一，作者是 Bob Dylan。 这首歌的歌词于2016年10月13日作为鲍勃·迪伦获得诺贝尔文学奖的获奖作品。 一个人要经历多少苦难才能长大成人，一只白鸽要飞跃几重海洋才能最终安眠，一座山峰要经历多少沧海桑田才能屹立不倒，有些人要守望多久才能获得自由。然而，战争却可以轻易夺走人的生命，夺走白鸽的栖息之地，夺走屹立千年的山峰古堡，夺走一个人苦苦等待的最后希望。 当我们...

I like for you to be still  我喜欢你是寂静的 I like for you to be still， it is as though you were absent,  我喜欢你是寂静的，仿佛你消失了一样， and you hear me from far away， and you voice does not touch you. 你从远处聆听我，我的声音却无法触及你。 It seems as though your eyes had flown away  好像你的双眼已经飞离远去。 and it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth. 如同所有的事物充满了我的灵魂，...

享受语言之美，在清晨的阳光下，在夕阳的斜辉中。遇见隽永的文字，遇见舒缓的声音，遇见更好的自己。

To the Oak Tree 致橡树 By Shu Ting 作者：舒婷 If I love you I will never be a clinging trumpet creeper Using your high boughs  to show off my height 我如果爱你-- 绝不像攀援的凌霄花 借你的高枝炫耀自己 If I love you I will never be a spoony bird Repeating a monotonous song  for green shade 我如果爱你-- 绝不学痴情的鸟儿 为绿荫重复单调的歌曲 Or be a spring Bringing cool solace all year long Or be a st...

True Nobility 真正的高贵 In a calm sea every man is a pilot. 在平静的海面上每个人都可以是领航员。 But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. 但若只有阳光而无阴影，只有快乐没有痛苦，那就不算是人生。 Take the lot of the happiest-it is a tangled yarn. 就拿最快乐的人的命运来说吧——他们的命运就像是一团纠结的纱线。 Bereavements and blessings, one following another, mak...

Anywhere you are, I am near 不管你在哪，我都会与你同在 Anywhere you go, I'll be there 不管你去哪，我都将与你同行 Anytime you whisper my name, you'll see 只要轻唤我的名，你就会看到 How every single promise I keep 我是如何信守对你的每个承诺 Cause what kind of guy would I be 因为若我在你最需要时离开 If I was to leave when you need me most 那样我还算什么男人 What are words 何为承诺 If you really don't...

享受语言之美，在清晨的阳光下，在夕阳的斜辉中。遇见隽永的文字，遇见舒缓的声音，遇见更好的自己。

I like the subtle fresh green budding from the branches of the tree--the herald of spring, ushering in the dawn... 我喜欢看树枝上那淡淡的嫩绿，它是春天的使者，它是一天清晨的开始…… I like the subtle flow of cloud that makes the sky seem even more vast, azure and immense... 我喜欢天空中那淡淡的云，它将天空衬的更高更蓝更宽…… I like the subtle wind. In spring, it steals a kiss on my cheek; in autumn,...

It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived  whom you may know by the name of ANNABEL LEE And this maiden  she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me -------------------------------- I was a child and she was a child In this kingdom by the sea But we loved with a love  that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee With a love that the winge...