日期：2012-12-29 Grandfather was a philosopher, and like a lot of philosophers, I guess, he was a mild-mannered man who was always ready to admit that there are two sides to every question. So when people got to arguing with him, or around him, about things that the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 Before they closed my father's casket（棺材，骨灰盒） , I left him with a gift. After all he had given me, it was the least and best I could do. He passed away the day I got my 1,000th career hit, in the final game of the 2002 season, so at his side... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 I remember the first time I got on a horse. I was two years old and we were watching a friend of the family ride. My mom agreed to let me take a short ride around the arena（舞台，竞技场） with the friend and that was it! I was horse crazy. From the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-29 I never liked being alone. It was too quiet, disconcerting（令人不安的） . Ever since I was a little girl, I felt uncomfortable on my own. Even as an adult I found it distressing. One day my son was off at a friend's house, my daughter was away at h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 From the very beginning, the girls family objected strongly to her dating this guy, saying that it had got to do with family background and that the girl would have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him. Due to familys pressu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 Yes this may be surprising, I was only 13 years old that time. But, don't know how or why it happened to me so early. I fell deeply in love with a guy, who I used to think was annoying 2 months ago. It was 1997, in Chittagong, Bangladesh（孟加拉国）... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-26 On a cold January morning in 1936, George V was given a king's burial. Following his coffin was his eldest son, the handsome, much loved, Prince of Wales. He was about to be proclaimed the next king of England. He was that exceptional thing: a model... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-20 After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading, Drink your juice. S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-20 Three years have passed since I became a college student. I haven't seen many of my classmates after we parted when the college entrance examination was over. So we decided to have a get-together party this summer vacation. As you can imagine, I cou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-20 When my father came home there was laughter, rollicking（申斥，责骂） , rolling laughter. He was strong and handsome; his thick, black, wavy hair fell into his black, laughing eyes. When he kissed me, I pushed his bristled mustache from my tender sk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-11 A good friend of mine was going away on a long trip during the fall. Miriam thought she had given herself plenty of time to do all the things that are required when one goes out of town. I called her the day before her departure to wish her bon voya... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-10 A British man and his Spanish former sweetheart have finally married 16 years after they drifted apart, reunited by a love letter lost behind a fireplace for over a decade, reports said on Monday. Steve Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez, both now 42, fell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-10 As a sophomore, I am feeling the time flies. Recalling about the past one year, so many thoughts are flooding in my mind. At this time, I just can't tell my real idea. The memory is just like so fresh, and all the things happened yesterday! When fir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-07 Do you think a donkey is a romantic present? As Valentine's Day approaches, lovers everywhere are preparing for the most romantic day of the year. On February 14 loving couples exchange cards and gifts while singletons can send anonymous love letter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-07 Awareness of women and men, the men moved to a woman's house, they live together. Woman's house is very old, red brick wall crawling vines, the growth of spring green, autumn red leaves. Male moved, the woman started to become very busy. Each mornin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-29 The situation seemed hopeless. From the first day he entered my junior-high classroom, Willard P. Frank- lin existed in his own world, shutting out his classmates and me, his teacher. My attempts at establishing a friendly relationship with him were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-28 I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the old Texaco service... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-28 Horror gripped the heart of the World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head, the soldier asked his lieutenant if he might go out into the No Man's Land between t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-28 I have a friend who is falling in love. She honestly claims the sky is bluer. Mozart moves her to tears. She has lost 15 pounds and looks like a cover girl. I'm young again! she shouts exuberantly（生气勃勃地） . As my friend raves on about her new... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-28 When I was growing up I do not recall hearing the words I love you from my father. When your father never says them to you when you are a child, it gets tougher and tougher for him to say those words as he gets older. To tell the truth, I could not... 阅读全文>>