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晨讀美文 Alone, we squander life by rejecting its full potential and wasting its remaining promises. Alone, we accept that experiences unshared are barely worthwhile, that sunsets viewed singly are not as spectacular, that time spent apart is fallow and pointless. And so we grow old believing we
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晨讀美文 No young man believes he will ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown—the other half remains in store for us
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晨讀美文 Why does the idea of progress loom so large in the modern world? Surely because progress of a particular kind is actually taking place around us and is becoming more and more manifest. Although mankind has undergone no general improvement in intelligence or morality, it has made extraordinary
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晨讀美文035
晨讀美文 We enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than if they are borrowed. A borrowed book is like a guest in the house; it must be treated with punctiliousness, with a certain considerate formality. You must see that it sustains no damage; it must not suffer while under your roof. But your
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晨讀美文 I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.They say that life is [w]tough[/w] enough.But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time.Every day and on purpose.That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.When I started out
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晨讀美文030
晨讀美文 Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can’t rise to the occasion. Just getting started seems impossible. On blue days you can become
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晨讀美文 One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France than at any other time before or since. Everything in Marseilles and about Marseilles had stared at the fervid sun, and had been stared at in return
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晨讀的美文 A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear
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出了短褲,結果卻發(fā)現(xiàn)我的大腿就像白軟干酪似的。我害怕買游泳衣,由于接二連三令人恐怖和丟面子的情形發(fā)生,使得我總是躲在更衣室里。 甚至我的味蕾也喜歡雨天,外面狂風暴雨時,正是吃熱巧克力或者喝輕柔的棕櫚汁的好時機。人們吞吃著豐盛的熱肉、許多土豆以及風味極佳的調味品。等太陽出來了就不使用這種吃法了,猛然間每個人都吃沙拉以及冰水,認為這就能使人晨讀美文滿意了。 現(xiàn)在我該公開宣布了:我喜歡雨,是它把我的家變成了一個溫暖而舒適的小窩。我可以花整個下午的時間邊做飯邊胡思亂想。似乎沒有其他人愿意承認喜歡雨,但在外面很熱時,也沒有人為加入我的祈雨舞會而感到猶豫。 太陽出來時我一樣會笑臉相迎,把太陽鏡塞進包里,從壁櫥中取出緊身背心。然而我舒適的羊毛衫和溫暖的拖鞋又在召喚我了,讓我期待有雨而寒冷的下午再次到來。雨又回來時我甚至更為高興。我是惟一一個這樣的人嗎? 這篇材料你能聽出多少?點擊這里做聽寫,提高外語水平>>