英语背诵名篇49 I have a dream

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

英语背诵名篇48 At the edge of the sea

At the Edge of the Sea

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and se a there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive

英语背诵名篇47 Summer

Summer

One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. It is no longer a difference in degrees of maturity, for all the trees have darkened to their final ton

英语背诵名篇46 A wet sunday in a countr inn

A wet Sunday in a country inn! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound.

英语背诵名篇45 New England weather

New England weatherThere is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictl

英语背诵名篇44 The winter of wisconsin

The winter of wisconsin

Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark, that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver

英语背诵名篇43 Art and life

Art and Life

My parents owned six books between them. Two of those were Bibles and the third was a concordance to the Old and New Testaments. The fourth was The House At Pooh Corner. The fifth，Th

英语背诵名篇42 The art of living

The Art of Living

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishm

英语背诵名篇41 The lowest animal

The lowest animal

Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is no

英语背诵名篇40 Three periods of my youth

Three periods of my youthAbout the twelfth year of my age, my father being abroad, my mother reproved me for some misconduct, to which I made an undutiful reply. And The next first-day, as I was with

英语背诵名篇39 The tragedy of old age

What is it like to be old in the United States? What will our own lives be like when we are old? Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by the

英语背诵名篇38 Of studies

Of Study

(Francis Bacon)

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is

英语背诵名篇37 Why I want a life

I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me. I want a wife who will k

英语背诵名篇36 The rewards of living a solitary life

The other day an acquaintance of mine, a gregarious and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and sp

英语背诵名篇35 The English humour

The English humour

Fun seems to be the possession of the English race.Fun is JohnBulll's idea of humour，and there is no intellectualjudgment in fun.Everybody understands it be-cause it is practi

英语背诵名篇34 Golden Fruit

Golden Fruit

Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange.

In the first place it is a perennial----if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocer’s shop. On the days when dessert

英语背诵名篇33 Three days to see

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We sel

英语背诵名篇31 Companionship of books

Companionship of books

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in th

英语背诵名篇30 Advice to Youth

Advice to Youth

　　Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, o

英语背诵名篇28 The Americans

英语背诵名篇32 A tribute to the dog

英语背诵名篇26 The joys of writing

英语背诵名篇29 The English and the Americans

英语背诵名篇23 The study of words

英语背诵名篇27 Three passions