For many of us, one Christmas stands out from all the others, the one when the meaning of the day shone clearest. My own "truest" Christmas began on a rainy spring day in the bleakest year of my life.
　　对我们许多人来说，总有某一个圣诞节因为我们充分感受到这一天的意义而显得格外难忘。我自己的“最真实”的圣诞节发生在我一生中最为凄凉的那一年。
Recently divorced, I was in my 20s, had no job and was on my wa

As soon as I walked outside, I was greeted with the shimmering (1) white blanket of cold. Despite the chill overwhelming (2) my skin, inside I was warm. I felt as though I could be giving off (3) heat; I had the desire to stay out in this freeze for hours. It was the type of day that speaks to you through its elements; I took a deep breath to he

  A Cold Day 阴暗的一天（双语）
The day is cold,and dark,and dreary;
It rains,and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

Broken Promises
Lorraine M. Gregoire
"Sheesh! Give me a few points for self control!" I snapped at my cranky husband. I wanted to stop at a sporting goods store "Going Out of Business" sale we passed in the mall. "There's nothing we need", his usual grumpy male comment. "It's all overpriced junk. If they had anything good they w

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Wen and Zhe are pigs. They have known each other and been in love since they were little.
纹和哲是两只猪，从小青梅竹马。

爱就是一切——黛安娜 尽管两人已记不清那段往事，可当黛安娜头一次见到她未来的丈夫时，还只是个孩子。那是在1961年的冬天，当时年仅十二岁的威尔士王储查尔斯正呆在夏丁汉 他母亲的休养所。 英语联盟 www.enun.cn 那时，年轻的查尔斯王子几乎看都没看那个睡在童床里的小不点儿

秦始皇统一中国后，征集了数十万民夫，于公元前214年将秦、燕、赵三国北边的城墙连通、修缮合一，这便是举世闻名的万里长城。孟姜女万里寻夫送寒衣，哭倒长城八百里的传说就发生在那个时候。 
古时候，孟老汉和姜老汉互为邻居，仅一墙之隔。一年春天，孟老汉在自己院中种了一颗葫芦籽，经过浇水、施肥精心培育，葫芦秧长得肥壮、高大，从墙头爬过去，到姜老汉的院里

Are you the one    by   Sharon den Adel / Timo Tolkki
Are you the one
The traveler in time who has come
To heal my wounds to lead me to the sun
To walk this path with me until the end of time
Are you the one
Who sparkles in the night like fireflies
Etern

即使是身处严冬，在她心中，也都春意浓浓。爱人，会从爱的角度来解释它所面对的一切。
　　In the severe cold of winter, her heart is filled with warmth. Lovers see everything through the perspectives of love.
　　倘若失恋，多好的春天，也会黯淡无光。
　　When out of love, the most pleasant spring will lose its luster.
　　初春的时候

All you remember about your child being an infant is the incredible awe you felt about the precious miracle you created. You remember having plenty of time to bestow all your wisdom and knowledge. You thought your child would take all of your advice and make fewer mistakes, and be much smarter than you were. You wished for your chil

      I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and solitude to the comfortable but rather noisy househ

　　portrait, my mother, painted years ago
　　when her forehead was white, and there was no
　　shadow in the dazzling Venetian glass
　　of her gaze. But this other likeness shows
　　the deep trenches across her forehead’s white
　　marble. The rose poem of her youth that
　　her marriage sang is far behind.

经典英文爱情对白 让你的爱情更浪漫
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
哪里有真爱存在，哪里就有奇迹。
Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
爱情就像一只蝴蝶，它喜欢飞到哪里，就把欢乐带到哪里。
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
假如每次想起

The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief; sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.
舞台上的爱情生活比生活中的爱情要美好得多。因为在舞台上，爱情只是喜剧和悲剧的素材，而在人生中，爱情却常常招来不幸。它有时象那位诱惑人的魔女(1)，有时又象那位复仇的女神(2)。
You may observe, that among