日期：2010-07-27 Real men don't cry. We just get something in our eye By Nigel Farndale 'Daddy, you're crying,' say my sons. 'No, boys, I'm man-crying. Very useful skill.' A short walk from my house in Hampshire, on a hill overlooking the heathland（石南灌丛） , is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-27 Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for（渴望） a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end. Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or di... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-27 My grandparents were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word shmily（看我是多么爱你） in a surprise place for the other to find. They took... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-14 I have frequented（常到，常去） the same chat line for more than three years now and have made some wonderful online friendships. However I have become bored with the typical chat and Internet all together. So, I decided to take a break. After about... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-14 He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised but due to being polite, she promise... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-14 My fellow job seekers: I am honored to be among the first to congratulate you on completing your years at North Carolina AT. But all of you should know: as Mother's Day gifts go, this one is going to be tough to beat in the years ahead. The purpose... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-14 I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree（无忧无虑的） kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched（缝纫，装订） the eyeball togeth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-07 These days, there are so many choices to labor through, from the most basic, such as paper or plastic at the grocery（食品杂货店） checkout counter, to the nearly suicide-inducing, such as the friends-and-family plan or unlimited texting. In these t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-07 Plants pursue a never-ending quest for nourishment（食物，营养品） of the liquid and solar variety. Clearly, the very essence of life. But what can our obsession（痴迷，困扰） with plants teach us about our own personal journeys? My aunts, mom and g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 As I sat perched（栖息） in the second-floor window of our brick schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. This was a day I'd looked forward to for weeks: Miss Pace's fourth-grade, end-of-the-year party. Miss... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries（杂货，食品） for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-23 Golden sunlight danced in the treetops, and children's laughter filled the park. The smell of popcorn played on（演奏，发生影响） the breeze, and life seemed good. It was one of the happiest Saturday mornings I had spent with my little daughter, Gig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-18 Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates（阐明，说明） the power that words have to change a life -- a power that lies right in the hands of those reading this article. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the other kids... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn't be sorry! I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. The clothin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 For years I wanted a flower garden. I'd spend hours thinking of different things I could plant that would look nice together. But then we had Matthew. And Marvin. And the twins, Alisa and Alan. And then Helen. Five children. I was too busy raising t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-06-02 It is the true test of how human we really are. How much we can accept in our fellow humans. And really how much we want to accept. If we accept too much does that make us strong. And if we don't accept enough does that make us weak. Or is it the ot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 There's a new student waiting in your room, my principal announced, hurrying past me on the stairs. Name's Mary. I need to talk to you about her. Stop in the office later. I nodded and glanced down（匆匆阅读） at the packs of pink, red and white pap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid（潮湿的，湿润的） summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 黑暗似乎具有能够遮断一切光明的魔力。但是人类对于光明的向往是永远也不可能被阻断的。镜子容易破碎，但是破碎的镜片依然能反射出完好的阳光。是光或者不是光也罢，重要的是要尽自己所能来反射光明，虽然微弱，也能驱走黑暗。 Dr.Papaderos, what is the meaning of l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-05 Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isnt something you buy now and then（偶尔，有时） or pull down from the cupboard, dust off（抹去灰尘） and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard. Abundance is a philosophy（哲学，... 阅读全文>>