英语晨读美文

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  (一)

 英语晨读美文精选

  Look like a million -- without breaking the bank!

  Sure, celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Uma Thurman always look chic and stylish -- they also have

  unlimited clothing budgets that put the latest looks at their fingertips! But you can still look amazing without

  spending lots of money on your wardrobe.

  Simply try these 10 tricks:

  1. Shop seasonal sales. Make seasonal purchases -- winter coats, leather jackets, bathing suits, even

  summer dresses -- at the end of the season. You'll get major discounts, and you'll be stocked up for next year.

  2. Watch your fabrics. Stick to machine-washable materials, and pick dry-clean-only garments carefully.

  3. Invest in wear-with-anything pieces. A great-fitting pair of black trousers and a knee-length skirt go the

  distance, since you can wear them several times a week, paired with different tops.

  4. Check out discount stores for basics. Discount department stores may not be the place to buy an elegant

  evening dress, but they're perfect for snapping up t-shirts, basic stretch pants, and cotton undergarments.

  5. Bump up your accessories. Spend your money on beautiful shoes and a great bag. Rich-looking extras

  make even the simplest outfit look polished.

  6. Take inventory before you shop. Impulse buys can be a waste of money -- especially if you splurge on a

  pair of black pants, only to see your ten other pairs when you get home. Assess your needs before you hit

  the stores so you won't buy pieces similar to those you already have.

  7. Find a great tailor. For pieces that don't quite fit right, a tailor is an asset: He can alter them to fit you

  perfectly. Great-fitting clothes always look better than ill-fitting ones -- regardless of how much they cost.

  8. Look for store labels. Many department stores, such as Saks Fifth Avenue, have a house clothing brand.

  They offer up-to- the minute styles but are much cheaper than big-name brands.

  9. Get a great haircut. When your hair looks fabulous, you look more stylish and fashion-forward than when

  your cut is shaggy or growing out.

  10. Stay away from "outfits." They look too contrived -- and buying separates is much more affordable. The

  only outfit exception: A well-cut suit.

  的确,像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿和乌玛·瑟曼这样的名人总是穿戴得时髦雅致,她们购置服饰也从不用精打细算,只要看看他们手指尖的最新装扮就知道了!不过,你不用花很多钱来充实你的衣柜,照样也可以把自己打扮得光彩照人。试试下面的十条小窍门:

  1.购买换季减价商品。在即将换季的时候去购买衣物,如:冬天的外套、皮夹克、游泳衣、甚至是夏装。你会享受到较大的折扣,而且你也可以为来年备一些衣物。

  2.注意衣服的质地。最好买可以机洗的衣料,并在选择只能干洗的衣物时一定要小心谨慎。

  3.购买易搭配的衣服。很合身的黑色裤子和齐膝的短裙始终不会过时,因为你一周可以穿好几次,与不同的上衣搭配。

  4.光顾打折商店购买必需品。在打折商店也许买不到端庄的晚礼服,但它却是抢购T恤衫、弹力裤和棉质内衣的极佳地方。

  5.多买一些装饰品。买一些漂亮的鞋和手提包。漂亮的饰品甚至会使最简单的装扮看上去熠熠生辉。

  6.购物前拉个清单。即兴购物往往会浪费很多钱。特别是当你花大价钱买了一条黑色裤子时,结果回家后发现自己已经有十条了。在去商店买衣服之前,考虑一下你是否真得需要,这样你就不会买到重样的衣服。

  7.找一个好裁缝。衣服不太合身的时候,有个裁缝很重要。他能把衣服改得非常适合你。不管花多少钱,穿上非常合身的衣服看上去总是比不合身要好看得多。

  8.挑选合适的商店。许多象“Saks Fifth Avenue”这样的服装店都有很好的家用服装品牌。他们有最新的款式,但是价格比一些名牌便宜的多。

  9.理个漂亮的发式。如果发型做的漂亮,整个人看上去要比头发杂乱或参差不齐时更时尚、更前卫。

  10.不买套装。因为套装看上去太做作,分开买更实惠些。但裁剪得体的套装除外。

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  It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels.This is exciting.Yet, on the other hand, competition breeze a pragmatic attitude.People choose to learn things that are useful,and do things that are profitable.Todays' college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism. Many college students choose business nor computing programming as their majors convinced that this professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking a part time jobs as a warming up for the real battle.I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving licence to get a licence. Well, I have nothing against being practical. As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical. However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism is prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation of students' minds,or nurturing of their soul. We will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines.If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mind-forged medicals lost in the money-making ventures;we will see humality lossing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous.I'd like to think society as a courage and people persumed for profit or fame as a horese that pulls the courage.Yet without the driver picking direction the courage would go straight and may even end out in a precarious situation .A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities ,these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way.In today's world, whether highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise , but vision and strategy. Your intellectual quality largely determinds how far you can go in your career.

  (三)

  Chinese Undergraduates in the US

  Each year, elite American universities and liberal arts colleges, such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst and Wellesley, offer a number of scholarships to Chinese high school graduates to study in their undergraduate programs. Four years ago, I received such a scholarship from Yale.

  What are these Chinese undergrads like? Most come from middle-class families in the big urban centers of China. The geographical distribution is highly skewed, with Shanghai and Beijing heavily over-represented. Outside the main pool, a number of Yale students come from Changsha and Ningbo,swhereseach year American Yale graduates are sent to teach English.

  The overwhelming majority of Chinese undergraduates in the US major in science, engineering or economics. Many were academic superstars in their high schools - gold medallists in international academic Olympiads or prize winners in national academic contests. Once on US campuses, many of them decide to make research a lifelong commitment.

  Life outside the classroom constitutes an important part of college life. At American universities the average student spends less than thirteen hours a week in class. Many Chinese students use their spare time to pick up some extra pocket money. At Yale, one of the most common campus jobs is washing dishes in the dining halls. Virtually all Chinese undergraduates at Yale work part-time in the dining halls at some point in their college years. As they grow in age and sophistication, they upgrade to better-paying and less stressful positions. The more popular and interesting jobs include working as a computer assistant, math homework grader, investment office assistant and lab or research assistant. The latter three often lead to stimulating summer jobs.

  Student activities are another prominent feature of American college life. Each week there are countless student-organized events of all sorts - athletic, artistic, cultural, political or social (i.e. just for fun). New student organizations are constantly being created, and Chinese undergrads contribute to this ferment. Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China. At Yale, intramural sports from soccer to water polo take place all year long; hence athletic talent is a real social asset. One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago was a versatile sportsman. His athletic talents and enthusiastic participation in sporting events, combined with his other fine qualities, made him a popular figure in his residential college.

  (四)

  It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

  It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

  It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

  It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

  It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

  It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

  It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

  I want to know if you can sit with pain, without moving to hide it

  I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

  I want to know if you can see beauty , if you can source your life from god’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

  (五)

  there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.

  I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her deeply.

  Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.

  It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.

  The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.

  (六)

  To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

  It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

  工作和娱乐

  要想获得真正的快乐与安宁,一个人应该有至少两三种爱好,而且必须是真正的爱好。到晚年才说“我对什么什么有兴趣”是没用的,这只会徒然增添精神负担。一个人可以在自己工作之外的领域获得渊博的知识,不过他可能几乎得不到什么好处或是消遣。做你喜欢的事是没用的,你必须喜欢你所做的事。总的来说,人可以分为三种:劳累而死的、忧虑而死的、和烦恼而死的。对于那些体力劳动者来说,经历了一周精疲力竭的体力劳作,周六下午让他们去踢足球或者打棒球是没有意义的。而对那些政治家、专业人士或者商人来说,他们已经为严肃的事情操劳或烦恼六天了,周末再让他们为琐事劳神也是没有意义的。

  也可以说,那些理性的、勤勉的、有价值的人们可分为两类,一类,他们的工作就是工作,娱乐就是娱乐;而另一类,他们的工作即娱乐。大多数人属于前者,他们得到了相应的补偿。长时间在办公室或工厂里的工作,回报给他们的不仅是维持了生计,还有一种强烈的对娱乐的需求,哪怕是最简单的、最朴实的娱乐。不过,命运的宠儿则属于后者。他们的生活很自然和谐。对他们来说,工作时间永远不嫌长。每天都是假日,而当正常的假日来临时,他们总是埋怨自己所全身心投入的休假被强行中断了。不过,有些事情对两类人是同样至关重要的,那就是转换一下视角、改变一下氛围、将精力转移到别的事情上。确实,对那些工作即是娱乐的人来说,最需要隔一段时间就用某种方式把工作从脑子里面赶出去。

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